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Posted by Kimberly

From the goals of Google’s computer speech research and a Tuesday double feature—JFK’s energy revolution speech along with Wired’s look at a potential new clean energy source—to the role of technology in emerging countries, amazing new spy tools for everyone as the new 007 movie hits the big screen, and a music video technology review of 2008, a new show is launched every day on WebVisions: a TAG TV compilation of clips from various popular Internet video sites.

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Monday: Google Technology Round Table, Computer Speech Research
Human language technology experts at Google discuss their research in computer translation and speech technology to organize all the worlds information, provide a simpler speech option for tiny new devices and translate all the world knowledge!  28 minutes

Tuesday Double Feature: JFK Energy Revolution Speech
“Hollow words and spineless resolution have failed us—now is the time for an energy revolution,” according to former President John F. Kennedy many years ago.  Are we still seeking the revolution?  2 minutes

Tuesday Double Feature: Tomorrow’s Potential Clean Source of Energy
Wired Science heads to the National Ignition Facility where an enormous 192-beam laser bay may become capable of fusing hydrogen atoms into helium—creating an endless, clean source of energy.  5 minutes

Wednesday: Exploring the Role of Technology in Emerging Countries
A Dell keynote speech at GiTEX Technology Week recognizes technology as driving growth and prosperity and, with only 20 percent of technology opportunities implemented in emerging countries, what can be done to inspire digital literacy.  10 minutes

Thursday: Amazing Spy Tools For Anyone, Not Just 007
As Quantum of Solace hits the big screen, Megawhat TV checks out the gadgets that can make anyone a 007 in their home and beyond a Big Brother radio with a hidden cam to watch from your cell phone, a recording device in a home decoration basket and more.  9 minutes

Friday: 2008 Technology Year in Review
TGIF: The year is not over yet, but a music video reviews the highlights of 2008.  Where have we been and where could we be heading with technology? 3 minutes

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Other TAG TV Features: Tech Talk on TAG Radio
TAG President Tino Mantella interviews Atlanta’s top executives, with a new show launching every Tuesday afternoon. Click to listen to Tino’s latest interview!

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Posted by Kimberly

From a Tech Week video review of last week’s news and the response to speech commands by virtual assistant Nichole to the evolution of the massively multiplayer game PlaneShift, the future of technology according to Google’s CEO and a humorist’s look at our place in the universe, a new show is featured every day on WebVisions: a TAG TV compilation of clips from various popular Internet video sites.

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Monday: Tech Week 10/24/08 in Review
Get the low down on all the latest news and tech rumors from the past week.  After a brief chat about the dollar and pound exchange, learn news about Motorola’s introduction of a $2000 phone, “Hacintosh” rumors and more.  6 minutes

Tuesday: Virtual Assistant Nicole Responds to Speech Commands
Virtual Nicole from Guile3D is used for a Massey University Smart-House experiment, as she searches the Internet via speech commands and more.  4 minutes

Wednesday: How a Massively Multiplayer Open Source Game Develops
Tech Talks explores the MMO PlaneShift game project development since 2001 and how the design was influenced by the strengths and weaknesses of the team structure and the community.  59 minutes

Thursday: The Future of Technology
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, speaks at Bloomberg headquarters on October 20, 2008 in New York City about the amazing technologies of now and the future of technology.  58 minutes

Friday: TGIF, Our Place in the Universe?
Humorist John Hodgman rambles through a story on TedTalks about aliens, physics, time, science, space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfect memory of falling in love. 18 minutes

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Other TAG TV Features: Tech Talk on TAG Radio
TAG President Tino Mantella interviews Atlanta’s top executives, with a new show launching every Tuesday afternoon. Click to listen to Tino’s latest interview!

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Posted by Kimberly

From the story behind the new Macbook and Paula Abdul’s celebrity home technology makeover to some of Gartner’s top 10 strategic technology picks, how to be a Twitter super star and a funny Friday look at trailer park “technologies,” a new show is featured every day on WebVisions: a TAG TV compilation of clips from various popular Internet video sites.

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Monday: The Technology and Design of the New Macbook
The process of turning a chunk of aluminum into a powerful computer is documented, including the technology and design behind the new Macbook.  8 minutes

Tuesday: A Celebrity Home Technology Makeover
American Idols Paula Abdul gets a home technology makeover on pc.com.  5 minutes

Wednesday: Gartner’s Top Strategic Technologies
What are some of the top 10 strategic technologies for companies presented at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2008? 3 minutes

Thursday: How to be a Twitter Super Star
EPIC FU (Where tech and culture get it on) gives a run down on all the Twitter social networking tools needed to be a pro.  10 minutes

Friday: Kozy Corner Trailer Park Technologies
TGIF: The trailer park pastor and the city slicker compare technologies.  4 minutes

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Other TAG TV Features: Tech Talk on TAG Radio
TAG President Tino Mantella interviews Atlanta’s top executives, with a new show launching every Tuesday afternoon. Click to listen to Tino’s latest interview!

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Posted by Kimberly

TAG/ATDC Entrepreneurs held their most recent meeting on October 2^nd. Mike Eckert, former CEO of The Weather Channel and Pathfire, Inc., presented on the rols trends play in business planning. Too often technology start-ups fall into the trap of becoming “technologies chasing a market” and evolve into unsuccessful business endeavors. In today’s complex world, as entrepreneurs plan their technology start-ups, beyond only considering technology trends or their own assumptions, they must also consider other types of trends (aging population, mercurial economy, terrorism), or they run the risk of missing potential opportunities. As importantly, they also run the risk of missing business risks and threats.

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Posted by Kimberly

From a virtual tour of the futuristic technologies built into the Bill Gates house and the Blackberry Storm features that may challenge the iPhone to “Laura,” the prototype robotic receptionist working at Microsoft, Discovery Channel’s look at the impact of technology on humans, and a funny TGIF look at grandma preparing for digital TV, a new show is featured every day on WebVisions: a TAG TV compilation of clips from various popular Internet video sites.

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Monday: A Tour of the Bill Gates Home Technologies
A virtual tour of the Bill Gates home, created by the architects of the house, detail the incredible technologies built in that may someday be found in your home.  3 minutes

Tuesday: The New Blackberry Storm Revealed
MegWhat Tech Week in View for 10/10/08 reveals the features of the Blackberry Storm, the new ultimate-in-one-package device, that may challenge the iPhone. 2 minutes

Wednesday: Meet “Laura,” the Robotic Receptionist
Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie says the industry is on the “cusp” of making computing more “humanistic.” To demonstrate, he shares video of a prototype robotic receptionist at work at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. 2 minutes

Thursday: Discovery Channel, Next World
What is the impact of technology on the future of humans?  Are we becoming machines?  Where do we end and the technology end?  The Discovery Channel explores.  10 minutes

Friday: TGIF, Grandma Prepares for Digital TV
Watch a funny technology-vs-the-older-generation PSA about Grandma retrofitting her TV for the digital switch in early 2009.  Preparing the remote control in the microwave?  2 minutes

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Other TAG TV Features: Tech Talk on TAG Radio
TAG President Tino Mantella interviews Atlanta’s top executives, with a new show launching every Tuesday afternoon. Click to listen to Tino’s latest interview!

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Posted by Tino

Since I am President of a technology association I often “dip my tow in the water” in respect to participating in some of the web 2.0 tools.  I first became aware of Twitter about 6 months ago when I learned that someone was “following me”.  My first reaction was to ask myself why is someone following me...are they some kind of stalker?  Well; that wasn’t quite my reaction, but I suppose it could have been.  Since then I have done an occasional twit, and actually follow a few people. 
I am sure, with ample research, I could understand the original intent of Twitter, or someone may want to respond to my blog who is more in the know.  If I had any say as to how it should work it would be more along the lines of people conveying information that is actually important.  Maybe it’s just that I see myself as all business about business, but I don’t really need to know if you went out and bought an ice cream for lunch or if your washing machine broke down.  This really could be a good tool if everyone could just agree to talk about things that make a difference. 
Wouldn’t this be a good topic for Andy Rooney to discuss on 60 minutes? 

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When considering who are Georgia’s top, active, serial entrepreneurs, I would suggest that Tripp Rackley be given some consideration.  Come hear his story firsthand at the next TAG/ATDC Entrepreneur Society meeting. 

More about Tripp…
Each year, nearly 600,000 businesses are launched in the United States. Many will succeed, while others fail. How can you be sure that your start-up will be one of the lucky ones? Aside from being consumed with your budding idea and pulling long hours at the kitchen table trying to get it off the ground, what else can you expect as an entrepreneur and what are the secrets to building a successful business?

In his 13 year career, “serial entrepreneur” and Firethorn Chief Executive Officer Tripp Rackley has built two companies from the ground up, leading both to successful, profitable acquisitions.

His first venture, nFront, was an Internet banking solutions provider for financial institutions and was sold to Digital Insight (now an Intuit company), giving $750 million in value back to the nFront shareholders. Digital Insight’s acquisition of nFront brought together two of the leaders in Internet banking technology and ushered in a new era of e-commerce.

His latest venture, mobile financial services provider Firethorn, is poised to forever change the way consumers use their cell phones. The company allows consumers to perform banking transactions on their mobile devices with ease and convenience. Only in its second year since its public launch, Firethorn has already signed partnerships with more top financial institutions and wireless carriers and is certified on more handsets and platforms than any other provider in the industry. In 2007, Rackley led Firethorn to a $210 million sale to Qualcomm, Inc.

Join Rackley as he shares insight into building a successful start-up venture, avoiding the pitfalls along the way and increasing your odds of success.

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Posted by Kimberly

From CIO interviews at the recent Information Week 500 Conference and how to get press coverage for your technology company to the state of Connecticut’s Tech Council’s award similar to TAG’s Excalibur and Geek Pad, the new Comedy.com series for this week’s TGIF entry, a new show is featured every day on WebVisions: a TAG TV compilation of clips from various popular Internet video sites.

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Monday: The Most Important Skills for a Business-Technology Manager
TechWebTV spoke with a few CIOs at the recent InformationWeek 500 Conference about the most important skills for business technology executives to possess.  4 minutes

Tuesday: What are the Most Overrated Technologies?
Continuing with interviews from the Information Week 500 Conference, TechWebTV asked IT executives what are the most overrated technologies.  What’s yours?  3 minutes

Wednesday: How to Get Press Coverage for Your Tech Company
Joe Connolly, Wall Street Journal Business Correspondent for WCBS News Radio 880 shares his view on what it takes to capture the ear of a reporter so they will share your story with the world for free. 5 minutes

Thursday: Another State’s Tech Award, Compare it to TAG’s Excalibur Award!
In honor of tomorrow’s Excalibur Awards program, look at one of the Connecticut Technology Council’s 2008 awards to a manufacturing company that used technology to create a state-of-the-art facilty and product, then compare Excalibur’s winners!  2 minutes

Friday: Geek Pad, a New Series from Comedy.com
TGIF: Enjoy the debut episode of Geek Pad, Comedy.com’s new technology and gadget series. In this episode, the kissable robot, Facebook for sale, the weighing seat, and a new service called Get Me Out Of Here.  38,000+ views in 5 days! 3 minutes

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Other TAG TV Features: TAG Radio
TAG President Tino Mantella interviews Atlanta’s top executives, with a new show launching every Tuesday afternoon. Click to listen to Tino’s latest interview!

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Posted by Amanda

TechJournal South is looking for nominations of some of the most influential people in the Southeast technology community.

They might be CEOs, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, leaders of tech-related organizations, or behind the scenes folks not everyone knows about.

They should be people who have deep influence in a given market (Atlanta, Northern Virginia, Florida’s high tech corridor, NC’s Research Triangle) or are influential throughout the region.

The nominations must be received by Oct. 15. Send replies to TechJournal South Editor Allan Maurer at .

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Posted by Tino

We, at TAG, felt it was high time to take real estate on Wikipedia for TAG.  Thanks to the work of Kim Wood, on the TAG team, we are up and running.  Check us out on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_Association_of_Georgia.
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TAG and GCLA will host a second Connecting Georgia’s Companies event in November and are now requesting information from companies interested in presenting to the audience of CIOs and other tech leaders. Georgia-based vendors who have innovative solutions to the “focus areas” selected by GCLA’s members are asked to complete the online request and submit it no later than October 13th. Web 2.0 and Mobility, Cloud/XaaS, and Security/Compliance were recently selected as some of the biggest challenges for Georgia’s CIOs. Those companies whose RFIs are selected will have the opportunity to present on November 11th and will have their company’s information displayed online.

TAG and GCLA will accept up to four TAG-member companies from each category to present their solutions to a prestigious group of Georgia CIOs, CTOs and other leaders. Prior to the program, the selected companies will be given support and counsel on their presentations by the staff of Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC). At the event, presentations will be limited to just five minutes and will be followed by five minutes of Q&A. The event will also include a panel discussion, networking reception, and sponsor exhibit booths. For additional information on the event and/or how to submit an RFI please visit http://www.tagonline.org/ConnectGA.php. The deadline for submitting an RFI is 5 p.m. October 13.

Connecting Georgia’s Companies is the result of a partnership between the Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA) and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). For the participating CIOs it is a unique opportunity to hear from TAG-Member vendor companies based here in Georgia.

Program information can be found online at http://www.tagonline.org/connectga.php Questions should be directed to Amanda Shook at or 404-920-2023.

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Posted by Kimberly

From Chinese space technologies and targeting “The Long Tail” for success to cloud computing, the future of computing in emerging economies and the TGIF episode of a cat vs. a printer viewed by three million YouTubers in three weeks(!), a new show is featured every day on WebVisions: a TAG TV compilation of clips from various popular Internet video sites.

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Monday: Chinese Space Technology
A visit to the Chinese Space Center Academy and the history of Chinese space accomplishments from the first satellite launched in 1970 to current efforts for sending man into space. 4 minutes

Tuesday: Targeting to “The Long Tail” for Success
Chris Anderson, author of “The Long Tail,” and Editor-in-Chief of “Wired,” delivers a keynote at DigitalNow 2008 using media as an example of the importance of delivering business value today by segmenation not mass commonalities.  9 minutes

Wednesday: Cloud Computing Hype or Not?
Providing enormous power to large and small organizations, the hype around the cloud trend is over blown, says Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Frank Gillett.  He also describes “cloud envy,” “cloud washing” and “cloud spray.” 4 minutes

Thursday: The Future of Computing in Emerging Economies
According to Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer in an interview with Beet.TV, computing in the emerging economies fosters alternative forms of computing including a media-rich Web and applications displayed in 3D.  4 minutes

Friday: Cat vs Printer, Who Wins?
TGIF: More than 3 million views in the last three weeks on YouTube…! 1 minute

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Other TAG TV Features: TAG Radio

TAG President Tino Mantella interviews Atlanta’s top executives, with a new show launching every Tuesday afternoon. Click to listen to Tino’s latest interview!

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Posted by Amanda

On September 25th, TAG Healthcare Society partnered with the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine to host an outstanding lineup of speakers that examined how healthy workforces impact healthcare cost, productivity and profits.  The event, titled “Building and Measuring the Return on Healthy Workforces”, was chaired by Steve Reeves with TAG Healthcare, and included talks by globally noted experts who discussed how corporations are creating and realizing the benefits of healthy workforces.

Dr. Satcher, whose past leadership roles include 16th Surgeon General of the U.S. and Director of the CDC, served as keynote for the event. Dr. Satcher discussed the many different initiatives including the reduction of tobacco use, reduction of obesity and overweight, increasing Mental Health support, creating healthier lifestyles and the Institute’s Healthy People 2010 initiative.

Speakers included:
• Mr. Ahmad Amer, Verizon Wireless Data Solutions Manager discussed how mobile devices are being used to create healthy workforces.
• Mr. Michael Williamson, Executive Vice President and COO of Horizon Software International, LLC spoke about obesity and nutrition monitoring, and solutions his company offers for educational, healthcare and corporate dining.
• Ms. Maria T. Norman, CEBS, Northrop Grumman’s Director of Benefits, Strategy and Design talked about different initiatives that her company is using to create healthy lifestyles.
• Dr. Donald Fetterolf, M.D.,M.B.A.,FACP, Alere spoke about the challenges and opportunities of disease management programs, and the impact on productivity and profit.
• Mr. Wayne Oliver, The Center for Health Transformation” spoke about the purpose of the Center along with the health transformation initiatives that return the individual to the center of the health system using “Health-Based” reform.

-Alan W. Urech, Stoney River Capital Partners

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From exploring water fuel technology for cars and the iPod Touch Second Gen to the movement of games into mainstream communication and a TGIF look at the Bill Gates Microsoft Shoe Circus ad with Jerry Seinfeld, a new show is featured every day on WebVisions: a TAG TV compilation of clips from various popular Internet video sites.

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Monday: Part 1, Water Fuel for Cars?
People are claiming they have made the technology to build a water-burning hybrid car that is easy and affordable.  Really?  2 minutes

Tuesday: Part 2, Another Look at Water As Fuel
A West Palm Beach TV station reports on a specific water fuel technology product and conducts a test to see if water works as auto fuel and whether using water technology improves gas miles-per-gallon usage.  The results?  4 minutes

Wednesday: iPod Touch Second Gen Guided Tour
See a demonstration of the second generation iPod Touch by Apple.  Will the competition rise up to offer you options? 4 minutes

Thursday: Games, Moving Beyond Entertainment to Mainstream
Games are fast becoming a major medium in education, editorial news commentary and expressing public policy. Learn about the role of artificial intelligence research to support games in becoming mainstream for societal discourse. 60 minutes

Friday: Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld Shoe Circus Ad
TGIF:  Here’s another commercial in the Microsoft Vista series, this time featuring the duo at Shoe Circus.  2 minutes

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Other TAG TV Features: TAG Radio

TAG President Tino Mantella interviews Atlanta’s top executives, with a new show launching every Tuesday afternoon. Click to listen to Tino’s latest interview!

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Posted by Amanda

Over 60 Atlanta Marketing professionals met on Thursday, September 18th to hear from four experienced Marketing executives on the topic of using viral and guerrilla marketing techniques to build marketing communities.  Marketing veterans Steve Roth from Mfg.com, Paul McKeon from The Content Factory, Steve McHugh of Business Objects and Tobi North from Sage Software discussed both the advantages and challenges of implementing social networking tools, blogs and other non-traditional Marketing tactics to build strong and lasting connections between Marketing organizations, customers and prospects.  The panel offered the group advice on how to implement community building marketing, how to measure and build a business case for these non-traditional approaches and what to watch for as these techniques are rolled out.

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