Category: Articles
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Startup Alert: GoBackz
Struggle to find time to return packages? A WV entrepreneur and his team built an app to pay contractors to pick up your returns from your door for you. Works similarly to food delivery apps where users may become drivers to earn cash returning everyone’s packages. Just released and hit the mobile app stores, so…
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WVU Forward finalizes a blueprint for economic growth
Overview The West Virginia Forward collaborative is a pioneering initiative, jointly executed by West Virginia University (WVU) and the State of West Virginia. With a focus on diversifying and fortifying West Virginia’s economy, this report is not just an analysis but a blueprint for the State’s economic evolution. About the WVU Forward Collaborative West Virginia…
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TippEd(ucation)
Public K-12 education “tipped” this legislative session, an “idea has crossed a threshold, started to tip and begun to spread.” Many of you recognize this reference to Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point and how it applies to what we have been discussing. The idea that reached a boiling point this spring was that for all of…
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Disrupt ED
I have been listening, talking, reading and writing…with the State Dept. of Education about the Innovation Zone legislation we anticipate being introduced during the 2009 legislativev session. I thought that you might be interested in the lastest draft of the legislation and some comments from Dr. Johnson regarding the draft. Download Innovationzonedraft2 Download Draft2Comments Recently,…
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President-Elect Obama, West Virginia, and Opportunity
Regardless of where your politics sits or how your candidate came out of last night’s election, we all have to take a moment to ponder the historic significance of electing a person with a new skin tone and a completely unique name. Who, just a couple of years ago, would have predicted President-Elect Barack Obama?…
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Scenes from Create WV 2008
We wanted to share the success of the 2008 Create WV Conference with those who could not attend in hopes you can join us next year. PDF and PowerPoint files will be found on www.createwv.com/conference shortly, but for now here are some fun sights from the conference: Reverend Matthew Watts of Charleston Keynote presentation in…
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Mission WV Continues to Build West Virginia Tech Literacy
An exciting announcement was made at the Create WV conference last week in Snowshoe – Microsoft awarded their third grant of $625,000 in cash and software to Mission WV, a non-profit organization dedicated to delivery a number of social services to West Virginians, not least of which is hands-on PC technology training. Microsoft was also a…
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Where Do Candidates Stand on the Arts?
This year Arts Advocacy of West Virginia conducted its first candidate survey with very positive results. The survey was designed to increase awareness of the arts as a legislative issue and to place major issues confronting the arts industry in the front of candidates’ minds. A resounding 93.5% responded that they believed that the arts…
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How Quickly Lists Change
For several years, West Virginians have lamented the steady flow of “first on bad lists, last on good lists” syndrome. Some people dismissed the lists as biased, others just shrugged and figured that’s where West Virginia will most likely be for some time. However, the misfortunes of the rest of the country and the relative…
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Creative Cone Awards Announced
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