Southwest Applied Technology College is offering community members a chance to improve their computer skills for free at a series of evening workshops in May and June. The four topics focus on providing computer literacy and fundamentals like basic word processing, introduction to spreadsheets, enhancing digital photographs, introduction to computers and the internet. The sessions will be Tuesday and Thursd ...

Community Partners Sponsor Professional Development Workshops Focused on Business & Event Marketing Strategies  Cedar City, UT – The Cedar City – Brian Head Tourism Bureau, SUU Small Business Development Center, and other community partners are sponsoring a series of professional development training sessions designed to assist business owners, event planners, community activists and anyone wishing to e ...

So, Start Up Weekend is a mad dash to the business finish line. For 54 hours several entrepeneurs will attempt to build a brand new business and then present their business to a panel of judges and investors to win awards and funding. Now you can take a peek into the behind the scenes process. Start Up Weekend has agreed to let us run their live feed on Alive! Utah. That means you can come watch anytime bet ...

CEDAR CITY, UT ­– Entrepreneurs and business experts are traveling from California, Nevada, and other parts of Utah to participate in Startup Weekend Cedar City on April 11- 13, 2013.  Startup Weekend is an event in which business ideas are developed, pitched, and launched, in a whirlwind 54-hour event. At Startup Weekend events held throughout the world, as many as a hundred experienced and aspiring entrep ...

Spring is almost here! It’s almost that time to clean your apartment / house, car and office. This year, people need to tidy up their digital life. With so many apps, photos and digital material smart phones, tablets and laptops have become overwhelmed with clutter. Here are 5 apps and platforms that can help users feel like new when it comes to their digital content. Clipix – Organize Bookmarks  Clipix is ...

By: Paul Hill   15 free & easy apps to use at work In the last three years over 300,000 mobile apps have been created. Recently, Apple’s App Store passed 25 billion downloads. The majority of consumers in the U.S. favor mobile apps for such activities as: games, maps, music, banking, travel, shopping, local info, news, video, sports and social networking. More people are now accessing the Internet ...

By: Derek Morton Not sure who decided to wire us with insecurities. But they tend to make it difficult to have the confidence enough to put ourselves out there. That's why we should always be grateful for those people that are willing to give us the push needed to get us to do what we know we should do. This video is a great example of just such an occurrence. It appeared on Britain's Got Talent. Click Here ...

By: Paul Hill You have just created a Facebook Page for your business, congratulations! With 20 or so friends, some contact information, and a simple profile picture you’re looking like pretty much everyone else. So now what? Like most businesses, you’re in this for the money; you want to draw in customers…but slow down, social media is a marathon, not a sprint. If you begin by investing the time up front t ...

By: Derek Morton The Balance Between Now and Then Let's cut to the chase, we live in a world that is becoming more enamored with short term thinking. Our attention spans are 9 seconds, corporate values rise and fall with the latest quarterly report, coaches are fired after their first sub par season, we have a government that taxes bases it's tax system on spending instead of saving. All give us short term ...

By: Paul Hill By now you’ve probably heard of Pinterest. If not, where have you been? With nearly 12 million global users spending an average of 98 minutes each month on the site, it is the newest place to be. Pinterest hasn’t reached the popularity of Facebook…yet. However, visits to Pinterest have grown 4000 percent in the past six months making this an opportune time to become an early adopter and start ...