Memphis has never seen as much grassroots leadership as it has today. From improving neighborhoods, creating charter schools, and advocating for bike lanes and Overton Square, Memphians are engaged in an array of activities to improve their city. Because of it, you may be interested in this post from the Knight Foundation blog about the [...]
Syndicated columnist Neal Peirce is one of the most respected observers of urban trends in the U.S., and he spotlighted recently how “smarter cities” are using technology to become more efficient and targeted in their work. While writing that more than 2,000 cities are acting smarter, he named only two – Rio de Janeiro and [...]
City Auto hosted a city-wide blood drive at its Covington Pike dealership, 4932 Elmore Road, on Friday, December 30 in response to the community’s blood supply shortage. Citizens, employees and customers alike gathered to give in Lifeblood’s last blood drive of 2011. “During the holidays, it’s especially important to give to others, and we couldn’t [...]
Last week, I wrote about Obsidian Public Relations’ unique concept to support the Mid-South community — the PR 180° Project. We invited the public to vote for one of 25 Mid-South nonprofits to receive six months of free public relations services next year, courtesy of Obsidian. It was a great success, and more than 6,000 [...]
Seed Hatchery is looking for bold, audacious ideas. Like yours. Memphis has a proud history of iconic entrepreneurs like Sam Phillips, Fred Smith and Kemmons Wilson. People who saw beyond what was, and envisioned what could be. People who took risks, and didn’t let their critics back them down. Our city is renewing that tradition- [...]
The Memphis Regional Design Center has been a long time supporter of the right kind of redevelopment of Overton Square. Loeb Properties’ plans are what we need to see a revitalized Overton Square. Please show your support by clicking on the link to sign a petition to Mayor Wharton and the Memphis City Council: thepetitionsite.com/1/SupportOvertonSquare Memphis City Council will [...]
Glass Seating and Mobility recently won the 2011 Home Medical Equipment (HME) Excellence Award for Best Rehab Technology Provider. The HME Excellence Awards seek to identify the nation’s premier providers of home medical equipment, home respiratory therapy and rehab supplies. The awards include three categories: Best HME Provider, Best Home Respiratory Provider and Best Rehab [...]
Seed Hatchery is Memphis’ mentorship-driven seed stage accelerator, providing the resources needed to develop great founders, and successfully convert concepts into startups: An intense 90-day program- called ‘bootcamp’ for a reason- that pushes entrepreneurs through the discovery process, to scaling and pitch perfecting; Mentors representing a wide array of backgrounds that provide business and industry [...]
Memphis-based custom software development company, Mind Over Data, helped develop a new Android customer loyalty app for local startup, stiQRd. The stiQRd application, which launched November 15, uses an interactive map to allow consumers to locate participating businesses based on the consumers’ current location. Consumers can then scan a QR (Quick Response) code in the [...]
For the past few months, the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau (aka, the place where I work) has been working on an iPhone app that makes it easy to find all of the great things in Memphis. I’m really excited to announce that it’s finally done. The app features an event calendar loaded with things [...]
