Cheers to 2023 from SourceLink!
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2023 has been a year of change and growth, and we are grateful to work with such an amazing community of champions for entrepreneurs. Thank you for all of the hard work you do to advance entrepreneurship-led economic development in your own communities.
We wish everyone a healthy and happy holiday season and a prosperous 2024!
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National Experts Share Experiences with Measuring Entrepreneurship Impact
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As part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week festivities, we invited Maria Meyers (UMKC Innovation Center and SourceLink), Dr. Lomax R. Campbell, (Third Eye Network, LLC, REDCO and Nexusi90) Cameron Cushman, (HSC Forth Worth and Sparkyard) and Tom Chapman (Chapman & Company) to share their experiences on measuring impact and effective storytelling. If you missed out, we have you covered. Check out our recap blog to view the entire webinar.
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Artificial Intelligence was the Main Focus on SourceLink's Last Affiliate Quarterly Conversation of 2023
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With 2023 winding down, we welcomed the close of the year with our final quarterly conversation with SourceLink affiliates. We welcomed new faces and reminisced over this year’s successes, including our platforms achieving more than one million pageviews. The primary focus of the conversation centered on how AI is helping to expand our work. We heard advice and lessons learned from IASourceLink, ChiBizHub and KCSourceLink on how they are using AI and reviewed SourceLink plans to enhance currently available AI technologies.
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SourceLink Affiliate & Partner Updates |
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Klamath IDEA Welcomes New Director |
Congratulations and welcome to Darin Rutledge, Klamath IDEA’s new first full-time director. Darin will help guide the organization into its next phase of development.
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WNY Be in Business Overview Video |
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Farewell to NBDC's Cathy Lang |
Congratulations to Nebraska Business Development Center’s outgoing Executive Director Cathy Lang for being awarded the University of Nebraska at Omaha Chancellor’s Medal. Cathy was instrumental in creating SourceLink Nebraska and is retiring this year from the Nebraska Business Development Center.
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New Leadership with Sparkyard in Fort Worth, Texas |
UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth announced last month that they will be handing over operations of its Sparkyard platform to Tamara Payne, CEO and co-founder of Ensemble Coworking, after four years of successful implementation. We are excited for Tamara to take the helm and contribute her own entrepreneurial success to the initiative.
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- New Year’s Day, January 1
- National Thank Your Customers week, January 7
- United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) Annual Conference, January 9 - 14
- CECD Exam Essentials Workshop, January 9
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 15
- World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, January 15 – 19
- IEDC’s Economic Development Credit Analysis, January 16
- U.S. Conference of Mayors 92nd Winter Meeting, January 17 – 19
- AACC’s Workforce Development Institute 2024, January 24 – 26
- IEDC’s 2024 Leadership Summit, February 4
Visit our Calendar of Entrepreneurship & Economic Development Events to discover more information on these events and other conversations just on the horizon.
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