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Local Launch of Comcast Internet Essentials Program at Griffin Middle School

Submitted by JStamm on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 14:21

TalTech Alliance Corporate Member Comcast will launch its Internet Essentials Program to students who are eligible for the free lunch program. Parents will be able to purchase internet service for their children for as little as $9.99 per month! In addition to this, computers and laptops will also be available for purchase at a reduced price. The local launch will be held at Griffin Middle School on Thursday, October 27, 2011, at 2:30 p.m., in Griffin’s newly renovated Media Center as Senator Bill Nelson and Comcast kick off an initiative that will help bridge the digital divide.

TalTech's First Golf Tournament A Success

Submitted by jpt on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 23:00

I want to thank everyone who assisted in preparing for and running our first ever TalTech Alliance Golf Tournament, as well as those who participated. Thanks to you, we had a very successful tournament on Monday. We hope to have some pictures posted soon.

Registration went pretty smoothly, apart from some minor mistakes I made in getting some of the comps and last minutes registrations on the list (Sorry Chris!) We ended up with 14 teams, 56 players. A very respectable turnout.

Five Exabytes & Forty Bits

Submitted by jpt on Sat, 05/07/2011 - 21:56

Five exabytes. How much data is that? In nearly two decades of working in the computer industry, I had never paid much attention to a unit of measurement larger than a terabyte. Well, according to Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, five exabytes of data is approximately the sum total of all the information produced by humankind from the dawn of time through the year 2003.

Five exabytes also happens to be the approximate amount of information that the human race now generates every two days. Twitter alone produces the equivalent of Tolstoy’s War and Peace every two minutes.

Ten Years of TalTech - Message from the Chair - December 2010

Submitted by jpt on Fri, 12/10/2010 - 14:39

Ten years of TalTech. Yes, in Spring of 2011 it will be ten years ago that a very successful Chamber-sponsored business technology summit inspired a few local visionaries to form TalTech Alliance. If you were to speak with one of them today, they would likely admit that TalTech has grown in ways that might not exactly match their original vision. That's one challenge with being visionary, I suppose.

Message from the Chair - November 2010

Submitted by jpt on Sun, 11/21/2010 - 21:45

Dear Members of TalTech Alliance:

The first thing I'd like to do as Chair of TalTech Alliance is to thank our outgoing Chair, Chet Hall, whose leadership in increasing our effectiveness and relevance over the last 2 years has prepared our organization for great things to come. I'd also like to thank our Board Members for the leadership and guidance they provided during that same time.

UGly Night Was a Beautiful Night

Submitted by jpt on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 09:48

Fellow Tech Enthusiasts:

Thanks to all of you for making this year's UGly Night such a success. It was great to see everyone learning and networking. I met several interesting new people myself, and, if I'm not mistaken, I think at least one person might even have come away from that meeting with a new job prospect.

TechExpo 2010 - Definitely a "10"

Submitted by jpt on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 20:09

As we who were part of the TechExpo 2010 team breath a collective sigh of relief, I have to raise a virtual glass and toast everyone for a job well done. All of us, our intrepid interns and student assistants, our speakers and exhibitors, our board members and committee chairs, our tireless Expo chair, Jason Stamm -- all of us -- put together a brilliant conference.

Tallahassee Preps Nation's First Smart Grid That Fuses Electricity, Gas and Water Utilities

Submitted by Chris086 on Sat, 04/03/2010 - 13:05

Of all the smart electricity grids rolling out locally across the country, Tallahassee's forthcoming advanced metering system might be the smartest.

Apply now for the 2010 Commercialization Technology Grant

Submitted by Chris086 on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 14:27

The Leon County Research and Development Authority is accepting applications for the annual Innovation Park Technology Commercialization Grant program. Entrepreneurs developing technology-related products and services can receive up to $15,000. The grants will be awarded to individuals from local businesses, universities and research labs on a competitive award basis.

The deadline to submit an application is Wednesday, March 31, 2010 no later than 1 p.m.

College of Communication and Information at FSU Career Day

Submitted by Chris086 on Sat, 03/06/2010 - 11:03

The College of Communication and Information at Florida State University is inviting you to participate at our annual career day Monday, April 5, 2010 from 1:00-4:00pm. This is a unique opportunity to meet undergraduate and graduate students from the College of Communication and Information whom are interested in an internship or employment.

We have invited you in the past and we have had many of our students currently employed or interning with you. In our past Career Day (Last Fall), we had 27 companies participate and 297 students attend. 50+ students ended up interning and some later being employed with the same company; in addition, 14 received job offers.

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