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From John Ettorre’s blog:

If you’re a Northeast Ohioan, I hope you’ll consider taking in at least part of the COSE small business conference in three weeks. By all accounts, it gets bigger and better each year. This year, I’ll be on a panel talking about blogging and Web 2.0, and how people in business and the arts can better harness the tools to connect to more and better opportunities. But I’ll let my friend Roxanne, who I mentioned briefly last year, tell you first-hand about its benefits. In this brief video, she talks about the energy boost she got from attending last year’s conference…

Please click thru to WWW for the links. I’ll be there moderating the panel.

Working With Words

I should have blogged about this early, but here’s a link to the Tech Czar post instead:

As always I am trying to bring all my peeps together for a good morning meeting. So please join me at the Cleveland Social Media Club meeting on September 24th, 2008 @ 8am. The Social Media Club (www.socialmediaclub.com) is being organized for the purpose of sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy around the emerging area of social media.

For stimulating conversation (and so early in the morn), interesting people (this I can guarantee) and to learn more about what Cleveland SMC has to offer please attend its first meeting again on September 24th, 2008 @ 8am…

Hope you can join us!

Cleveland Social Media Club « Tech Czar Notes

Full disclosure: I’m friends with several of the people working on this, and I really want to see it succeed:

Joe Roman, president and chief executive officer of the GCP said, “We wanted to partner with 10,000 Little (micro) Ideas to bring Cleveland this exciting and fun afternoon of activities presenting all the projects that are building positive momentum in Cleveland. 10,000 is an organization of enthusiastic and committed grassroots leaders who are working to strengthen this region. This event provides a great opportunity for us to showcase the business community’s economic development initiatives, and we in turn, can hear from you about your 10,000 visions of Cleveland.”

The event is Sat 9/6 from 11AM-4PM at the Galleria. The goal is to have 10K people there.

Greater Cleveland Partnership

Learned about the Hello Cleveland series last night in our Midtown Brews session with Cindy Barber. Hello Cleveland III is tomorrow night (8/9) at 9PM:

Helllllloooo Cleveland. We’re a rock town with a rich and varied music scene so we decided to showcase this for you with some free summer shows. Stop in at the third Hello Cleveland to catch some of Cleveland’s finest including:

Mr. Gnome
JJ MAgazine
Devil Moto
Suede Brothers
Jakeway
Black Girls
Adam Heart

This sound like a good time:

It’s getting harder and harder to turn around these days without hearing about local produce, reducing one’s carbon footprint, etc. Grovewood is proud to have partnered with Fresh Fork Market, a local start-up company that teams farmers with local restaurants.

Most produce grown in the United States travels an average of 1,500 miles before it gets sold. We have grown accustomed to the convenience of year-round strawberries, tomatoes, and melons. We settle for food that is picked unriped and shipped halfway around the globe so that we can “enjoy” a caprese salad in February.

Transporting food from around the country and the planet has environmental costs and public health costs. The way we eat has an enormous impact on the health of the planet. By focusing on local produce, we can curb global warming and air pollution, avoid toxic pesticides, support local farmers and enjoy fresh, tasty food.

Food tourists, grab your passports and join us on a visit to our own backyard. Bob Gavlak of Fresh Fork Market and Tricia Phelan of Vintage Wine Distributor will make brief presentations. We are featuring local produce paired with local wines, in a specially designed menu from Grovewood’s award-winning kitchen. A complimentary recipe book of the dishes served (but adapted for the home kitchen) will be presented.

Wine Dinner

Just got an email from fest organizer Debra Weaver complete with sponsor info. I’d be happy to send it to you if you’re interested:

On September 13, Wick Park will be transformed into a “green world” that will include environmentally oriented businesses, community organizations, and local and regional agencies. Throughout the park, there will be workshops, displays, demonstrations, entertainment, food, and “green” merchandise vendors. The Festival itself will be put together with an emphasis on sustainable practices – minimal energy and resource consumption, maximum recycling and waste reduction…

Youngstown Moxie II: The Grey to Green Festival :Youngstown, Ohio

Great post from Tyler Clark (that links to a BFD must read NYT article). As I’m reading it over, I’m looking for possible questions for Saturday’s Thinkrs & Drinkrs to be held at Cedar’s Cafe starting 6PM. I’m going to try to get there on time, but may be a bit late due to the Waterloo Arts Festival.

Since there isn’t a bloggapalooza planned for this year, I’d like to invite you to join Jack and I in Youngstown, where I’m sure will talk for a bit about “Instructions from the Cook”.

Youngstown Renaissance: A Youngstown grads want to keep?

I hope you’ll be supporting ArtsCollinwood. The Waterloo Arts Fest Sneak Peek event is July 31st at 6PM. You’d be surprised at all of the changes that have taken place in the Waterloo District in the past year!

I’m selling tickets, so please email me if you’d like to support a stimulating arts environment and to encourage continuing education in the arts. Click on the image below for a full size view of the postcard:

I’m really looking forward to it. Last year’s event was a ton of fun, and a great way to meet the cool people in my neighborhood. Hope to see you there!

ArtsCollinwood is seeking sponsors for this year’s Waterloo Arts Fest. In it’s sixth year, the fest is a vibrant and lively day of music, art and demonstrations that grows bigger and more exciting each year. With over 3,500 visitors expected to wander through downtown Waterloo, there will be something to catch every eye, from family friendly hands-on activities to dazzling street performers to live music. With some of the city’s best music close at hand, and great food to sample from local restaurants, the event caters to diverse tastes, and lets residents and visitors explore an eclectic array of buyable and unusual art.

Help support the arts scene in Cleveland. Details available in this Waterloo Arts Fest Sponsor PDF. There’s still time to be included in our Cleve Scene and Free Times ads!

I’ve been talking with my friend Rich for a while re: blogging, and it looks like he’s off to a great start:

The technology exhibit “Atlas in Silico” at this year’s Ingenuity Festival could help us understand “metagenomics”–and in doing so, gain an insight into both ourselves and one of our major contributions to the global economy. Gene research…!

Looking forward to reading more about this year’s Ing Fest.

Silico, at Last! « Cleveland ex Machina