Discovering My Indianapolis: The Xtern Experience

Community: a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals. It may not be fair for me to say that Indianapolis was my first community experience. It might be more reasonable to say that Indy gave me the first sense of a truly tangible community, one whose benefits […]

6 reasons to go to Midwest user experience conference

Midwest UX is a conference geared toward user experience designers, but also covers topics relevant to developers, content strategists, marketers, entrepreneurs, and more. It’s a non-profit enterprise, and the user experience conference organizers and producers are all volunteers each year. This is the fourth year for the conference. It moves to different locations each year to […]

hc1.com needs your ‘applause’ for Harvard Health Acceleration Challenge

“What proven innovation have you created that would enhance health care value in the U.S. if broadly disseminated?” That is THE question driving the Harvard Business School Healthcare Innovation Challenge, an open forum competition held jointly with Harvard Medical School that is seeking healthcare innovations like health information technology that are ready to scale up […]

Entrepreneur boot camp takeaways could help your startup take off

The most important thing about any startup event like an entrepreneur boot camp is always the takeaways — those nuggets of wisdom and tips for “how to” can make a big difference. Sometimes just hearing stories from people who have “been there and done that” can help lift the fog over what’s next on your […]

How to stay ahead of the digital criminals, avoid a data breach

The Internet has changed the world in so many ways for the better. We can’t ignore, however, that companies around the world spent $67 billion on security measures last year and that the annual global cost of digital crime is estimated to be $445 billion, according to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). […]