Places to Go, People to Meet

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

I’m pleased with how much opportunity for personal development and professional networking there is in Utah. Yes, I do want to see it grow even more, but it’s nice have more good options than I could possibly attend.
Tonight for example, the Utah Tech Events and Utah Business Events calendars show four events in which I [...]

BYU Web Startup Group

Monday, November 10th, 2008

I just added the BYU Web Startup Group to my comprehensive list of Utah Tech Groups.
From their website:
The Web Startup group was founded to bring together people interested in creating new sites and services online. Group members include web developers (programmers and designers), marketing and business-minded individuals, creative idea people, and others with technology related [...]

Utah Mobile Developers First Meeting is Tonight

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Don’t forget about the inaugural meeting of Utah Mobile Developers Group tonight.  They’ll be discussing both iPhone and Android development and handing out some O’Reilly iPhone books.
I have a feeling that this group is going to be awesome. At least it will be for me; it’s right up the alley of what my new business [...]

Utah Mobile Developers Group

Monday, October 6th, 2008

I’m way excited about the Utah Mobile Developers user group that is forming. Their first activity is on the schedule for Wednesday, October 29 and will discuss both iPhone and Android development. Here’s the agenda and RVSP:
6:00pm Doors open, pizza, networking
6:30 Opening, recognize sponsors, review agenda, [...]

UTOSC 2008 and Utah Business Search Trends

Monday, August 25th, 2008

My brother Gabe wrote an interesting post highlighting how Google Trends searches show that Utah is a hotbed of Open Source. It reminded me that I haven’t plugged the Utah Open Source Conference that’s happening this week. This conference is something you don’t want to miss.  I think you can still get tickets.
If your business [...]

Utah Open Source Conference Starts Tomorrow (Thursday)

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

My friend Clint Savage (aka Herlo) has lead a team of volunteers in planning the first ever Utah Open Source Conference, which has come together quite nicely (especially for the first year).
News and updates on the conference have been plastered all over Gabe’s excellent Utah Open Source Planet, but I thought I’d post a reminder [...]

Geni Is Sweet Viral Marketing

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Today’s my little brother Aaron’s birthday, a point that had eluded me until Geni notified me via email:
Dear Jordan Gunderson,
Aaron Gunderson, your brother, has a birthday today.
Click the link below to enter a birthday greeting for Aaron and we’ll deliver it today.
- The Geni Team
Short, simple, useful, and driven by info that I didn’t enter [...]

UtahInventor Wants You

Friday, May 25th, 2007

I don’t really consider myself an inventor per se, but I was impressed by the Utah Inventors‘ inaugural meeting I mentioned earlier and have been wanting to report on it ever since.
The presenters (including Dr. Dinesh Patel) were stellar, and the meeting was well attended (especially for a first go); but I was surprised at [...]

Utah Inventors’ Organizational Meeting

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

UtahInventor.org is having its organizational meeting this Saturday.  From the website, it  looks like it could be a cool group.  Here’s the meeting synopsis:
Utah Inventor of the Year for 2006, Dr. Dinesh Patel and other key leaders are scheduled to address an audience comprised of corporate and academic inventors, along with independent inventors from throughout the [...]

CTO Breakfast: October 2006

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Utah Job Market, Collaboration, Product Life Cycles, and More (Oh my!)
I had a great time at the Phil Windley’s CTO breakfast this morning. (I’ve actually been anxious to go for months, but just haven’t gotten around to it until today.) It was fun to mingle, see old acquaintances, talk about current tech issues, etc. It [...]