Nashville Technology Council

Since tonight is our Winter Holiday Party, we thought it would be a good time to share our “Top 5″ Holiday Wish List. Feel free to let us know what is on your wish list this season!

Liza’s Wish List:

1.  A Nissan Leaf donated to the NTC with a charging station outside our offices!

2.  Luna the Robot by RoboDynamics – to do all those pesky household chores.

3.  A Wellsian Time Machine to fix a few things in the past and get some ideas about the future.

4.  Snow goggles with built in video camera – so I can record the family while on the slopes since I’m too clumsy to snowboard and hold the video camera at the same time.

5.  Nothing that begins with an “i” since I prefer Android!

Leah’s Wish List:

1. http://jawbone.com/up because you know I’m always looking for new ways to stay fit and this makes exercise, nutrition and wellness very easy.

2. HP Envy with 3D and cool glasses

3. https://www.lytro.com/mobile/camera- this is so cool and I love the shape

4. http://www.columbia.com/Omni-Heat/Science_Omni-Heat,default,pg.html I’m getting one of these for our trip to Boston

5. My last choice is not really a gadget but I would love to have two roundtrip plane tickets and passes to Burning Man

Mollie’s Wish List:

1. Roku

2. Helo TC Helicopter (uh, why not??)

3. Verizon 4G LTE

4. New-Fangled Digital Measuring Cup (the baker in me absolutely needs this!)

5. Kinect (I’m itching to play that bowling game again!)

 

 

Jessica’s Wish List:

1. MakerBot Thing-O-Matic The Thing-O-Matic is a 3D printer, which I
think would just be super fun! It’s like a standard printer- it connects to a
computer through a USB port, but has a SD card slot for uploading and
printing a 3D models.

 

2. Mini Robot Vaccum Anyone who knows me knows that I am usually eating at my desk… and it gets messy.

3. Darth Vader 4 port USB Hub I don’t have to explain why I want this, do I?!

4. Necono Digital Camera Cat It’s a cat… and a camera! The lens is hidden in it’s eye, so you can take sneaky pictures!

5. iPad 2 Of course I want one. Who doesn’t?

My Day at the Williamson County Career Fair
By Mollie McCormick

I’m going to be honest—when I woke up yesterday morning, I was a little less than excited to be spending my afternoon at the Williamson County Career
Fair, handing out flyers on information that I didn’t think these kids would care one bit about.  I had too many emails and too many tasks that needed to
be done.  But fast forward to 3 hours later when I left the building with a big smile on my face, a sense of new motivation, and grateful for a job that
allows me to be around, and potentially influence the minds of our young, future leaders.

I met kid after kid that didn’t associate graphic or web design with the technology industry, or had no idea that they could, in fact, be the ones creating the next Angry Birds or Kinect.  They just simply didn’t know it was an option.  My answer?  I handed them a techville.us map (ok, ok kids love posters…I get it!) and told them to study those companies, because there is a good chance you may work for, or even lead, one of them someday.  Plus, you get to wear jeans more often than not in this field.

So let’s change the way these kids think about their future.  Everything uses technology and the more we are able to transform our approach on that and show how it infiltrates our world, maybe we can get these kids excited about a career in this ever-changing field.  It’s certainly never boring.  All in favor, say “technology.”

We really had a great time at the 2011 Technology Awards Gala… and we wanted to share some pictures with you!

Here are pictures of all the awards winners. If you would like to see more pictures from the evening, you
can view them here.
Thanks again for making this such a fun event and a wonderful evening.

We want to congratulate the NTC Members who were named in the Nashville Post’s TECH 25 issue.

The Nashville Post Tech 25 issue features some of the most innovative technology companies in Nashville.
They take a look at who is breaking in to new markets, which companies are creating new products and
who is leading the technology charge.

The Nashville Post Tech 25 are as follows (NTC members are shown in red):

American Hometown Media

Belmont Software Services

Capital Confirmation

Consensus Point

Cybera

Document Solutions

Edo Interactive

Emdeon

eMids

Emma

Griffin Technology

HCA Information Technology & Services

Healthcare Management Systems

HealthStream

Informatics Corp. of America

InQuicker

Metova

MissionPoint Health Partners

MyWerx

OnFocus Health Care

PureSafety

Qualifacts

Shareable Ink

Splother

Vextec

We at the Nashville Technology Council already know how much local talent we have. Our members consist of Middle
Tennessee’sbest technology companies, leaders and innovators. We thank you all for being members and helping
our community succeed.

We are looking forward to this holiday season and are excited for the new year ahead. We hope you will help us
encourage others to join the Nashville Technology Council to help us continue to grow. Our Council –
members, staff, and board – provide a common voice for technology trends, issues, and opportunities in our region,
state, and nation.

Through our collective efforts, we can positively influence and impact tech-related initiatives, attract tech-oriented
businesses to our city, and grow technology jobs. The NTC is one voice for technology.

Congressman Blackburn Conducting Privacy Roundtable

NTC Co-hosting 4^th Roundtable to Discuss Privacy Issues with Local Leaders

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – November 9, 2011 – The Nashville Technology Council is co-hosting Congressman Marsha Blackburn’s Privacy Roundtable at their downtown offices in Nashville’s Entrepreneur Center on Thursday, November 10, 2011.  The event, announced recently by Congressman Blackburn, is the fourth in a series of roundtables being held around the country.  NTC assisted Congressman Blackburn with identifying a diverse list of participants whose companies are significantly impacted by government regulation of privacy and data security.

Nashville’s Privacy Roundtable will include representatives from a number of NTC member companies including AT&T, Baker Donelson, C3 Consulting, Emdeon, MoonToast, and Belmont and Vanderbilt Universities.

“I am pleased that NTC can assist Congressman Blackburn in conducting this very timely and relevant roundtable in Nashville.  Given the prevalence of industries in Middle Tennessee that are impacted by government regulation including health care, music, telecommunications, and digital media, Congressman Blackburn’s leadership in this area and eagerness to discuss this topic with us is both important and refreshing,” commented Liza Lowery Massey, President and CEO of the Nashville Technology Council.

We want to thank everyone for attending the 2011 “Feel The Beat” Awards Gala last night. We hope you all had as much fun as we did! We want to once again congratulate all our Nominees and Winners. Thank you again to all the sponsors and volunteers who helped make this such a wonderful event and memorable evening.

And the winners are…

Additional “Feel the Beat” Technology Awards Gala seating added

Due to high demand, we have opened up registration for BALCONY SEATING ONLY until Monday, October 24th at 10:00 a.m.

This includes entry into the event, light appetizers and desserts, and a drink ticket to the after party.  Please note that this does not include a seated dinner on the main floor, and seats in the balcony are first come, first serve.  You must check in at Balcony Seating upon arrival.

Click here to register.

We hope that you are getting excited for the “Feel The Beat” Technology Awards Gala next week! We are all looking forward to a great night with our friends and peers.

In honor of this event, we thought it would be fun to have some Awards Gala Trivia.

Check the Awards Gala Trivia page each day leading up to the event and you could win a great prize from Griffin Technology.

We look forward to seeing you all at the Gala where Mark Rowan, President of Griffin Technology, will be the keynote speaker.

We want to thank everyone again for joining the NTC at our Fall Golf Outing yesterday. Thankfully, the weather didn’t dampen our spirits and we all had a great time. We want to thank all our Sponsors and Members who joined us once more and post the top 3 teams. We look forward to seeing you on the golf course next year! Pictures will be posted soon.

FIRST PLACE
Score: 57
Ryan Murphy, Brad Meibers, Trevor Jurgenson and Ben Pyle

SECOND PLACE
Score: 59
Jim Bray, Jeff Bogard, Joe West and Jason Butler

THIRD PLACE
Score: 60
Mark Bledsoe, Jake Neu, Scott Lenz and Jeff Buschmann

This week, we had the pleasure of hearing pitches from Belmont students for a new Social Media plan for the NTC initiative “Nashville is Hiring”, aka “Nash Hire”. NTC Member Steve Chandler and co-teacher Jason Elkins began the Social Media class to teach the fundamentals of social media marketing, what works and what doesn’t.

This is a new class, and “Nash Hire” was glad to be their first client! Students had to present us with a Social Media plan for Nash Hire that could be put to use by the NTC. The class was divided into teams of 4. Each team presented us with a detailed plan for “Nash Hire” with areas that included Linked-In, Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, Press Releases and Metrics… to name a few.

Each team was truly thoughtful and engaging. They all took the time to get to know our brand and objectives. We are going to have a difficult time choosing the winner, but we really enjoyed hearing all the pitches. We just wanted to share a few pictures with you so you can see what fun we had. These students clearly have a bright future ahead of them.

Be sure to check back to see the winner. You will also get to see them at the 2011 Technology Awards Gala. The winning team gets a table at the event as our special guests!