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Creative Community Shines in Third Annual All Together Arts Week
All Together Arts Week, a celebration of the arts community in Mercer County, will take place March 26-April 2. Now in its third edition, the annual event features a variety of cultural activities at venues all over the county. The week begins with a Kick-Off event on March 26 at The Turnaround in downtown Princeton,…
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A Beautiful Documentary on the “Old” New River Gorge
This is just a beautiful documentary on the New River Gorge region of West Virginia, one of the most amazing yet under-appreciated natural regions in the country. However, that might change as hundreds of thousands of visitors discover it while visiting the new Summit Bechtel Reserve scouting center (http://summit.scouting.org) due to open in 2013. There…
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Support the Creative Communities Bill! SB227
This is the third year we’ve attempted to help West Virginia adopt a modern, entrepreneurial approach to economic development by emphasizing the growth of our “new” economy based on innovation. The Creative Communities Pilot Program, Senate Bill 227, is now being considered by the WV Legislature. It requires the WV Commerce Development Office to manage…
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Building Biz in WV: Magnets, Money and More Entrepreneurs
According to the Kauffman Foundation and other leading experts, a healthy job market is highly correlated with a high level of entrepreneurship in a region. In fact, most net new jobs are created by start-up companies, not larger employers. A special keynote session at the 2010 Create WV Conference will focus on how to build an…
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WV-OH-PA Regional Sustainable Innovation Summit Coming Up @ Create WV Conference
Got a business idea you think is sustainable? Kicking around an idea for a new product? Then make plans to join fellow innovators and entrepreneurs at the region’s first Sustainable Innovation Summit, Sunday, October 17, at Wilson Lodge, Oglebay Park in Wheeling, WV. Inventors, investors, researchers, academics, and fans of sustainability will convene for the…
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Creating a New WV Stereotype 1 Small Step at a Time
One of the most prescient ideas I have ever heard about West Virginia came from Don Rigby at RED a few years ago. To paraphrase: West Virginia’s biggest identity issue was not a negative one held by outsiders, but rather that to many people across the US and world, there is none at all. This blew…
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Turn Your Ideas Into Action with StartUP52 @ Create WV Conference
Do you have an idea for a business or new project on which you would like feedback or help? As part of the Create WV Conference in Wheeling, WV, a “business activation” team will be available during the conference to provide feedback to you and/or your team – facilitating and enabling you, the founder or…
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Are You West Virginia Made? Trade Group Forming Now
There will be an organizational meeting for the West Virginia Made Association on Friday evening, Sept 10, 2010 at Lakeview Resort, Morgantown from 6:30-7:30 following the first day of the WV Made Trade Show. All interested persons are invited to attend. (Lakeview Resort is located a few miles east of Morgantown off Exit 10, I-79) The WV Made Association…
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Make No Small Plans
Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical plan once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.…
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Community Resources Track Sessions Announced for Create WV 2010 Conference
So much of what we all desire as citizens centers on the community we live in. Our friends, our schools, our jobs, our parks, where we shop…Why do some communities thrive while others struggle? What tangible and intangible characteristics make up a “creative community” that delivers opportunities and quality of life for all citizens? The Community Resources…