Wanted to pass along an update from e426's Founder, Sandy Kearney's blog: Using innovation e426.org is making business, education a research a work of art. There will be more on the specific activities of e426.org as the next 2010 days unfold. See her entire post HERE.

e426.org  Attends the 4th Annual Alliance Baltimore Small Business Procurement Fair e426.org is dedicated to offering assistance where our innovative skills are needed and can benefit others.  Therefore, we are always looking for business development opportunities where we can find synergies with other companies who share a common goal. On November 12, 2009, Sandy Kearney, President and Priscilla Rabb Ayres, Senior Vice President attended the 4th Annual Alliance Baltimore Small Business Procurement Fair at the Baltimore, MD Convention Center.  This is a MatchMaking event where regional small businesses will meet with 50 plus agencies and contractors.  Each event around the ...

e426.org Founder Sandy Kearney spoke a week or so ago at MIT's EMTECH conference. We wanted to share a video of the presentation with you from Technology Review. The video is HERE. More information about EMTECH in general HERE.

e426.org Founder, Sandy Kearney, was a presenter last week at MIT's EMTech Conference. Her thoughts: EmTech was a gathering of a very eclectic, brilliant thinkers ...

e426.org President Sandy Kearney is part of a panel discussion at this week's EMTECH@MIT. The session is part of the "Serious Games, Serious Standards" breakout at EMTECH, and will focus on the role game and simulation technologies are playing an in training and learning in commercial, military, and academic settings. Sandy will be joined on this panel, which will be moderated by John Harauz, Independent Consultant and Vice President, Computer Society Standards Activities, by Jay Iorio, Technical Advisor, IEEE Standards Association and Kyle Nikolich, Technical Activities Design Specialist, IEEE. More information about the session can be found HERE.

The whirlwind of activities leading up to our launch left us rather breathless. We were fortunate to be able to stand back and take a good look at where we are and what we need to do. First things were, of course, to correct any bad links that may have crept in to our site. Naturally, everyone went over the site with a fine-toothed comb as matter of course prior to launch, but every silver lining and all. So, while there were a few things to sweep up, we are all-in-all ...

It's barely been a month, and there has been a lot of work by a lot of people. The real value of what e426 will be to the world has been seen in how we - volunteers all - have pulled together as a team. This is the new world, folks, where you hope to actually meet someone someday, while you work with them, bond with them, make that magic with them where your skills mesh to make something more than you can do separately. The virtual environment allows people to come together across the ...

Sandy Kearney, e426.org's volunteer president, can be heard on the current "Dogear Nation" podcast. Check out Sandy's take on the state of the economy, the 3D internet, what e426 is all about and - naturally - her own Dogears (links). Check out the podcast here.

Big news in the Twitterverse .... You can now follow e426.org on Twitter at twitter.com/e426. See you over in Tweetville!

Some good questions have been asked ... One, what is "e426" supposed to mean, and how does that resonate with our target audiences? Well, ok, it IS kind of an in-joke. So, "e" = "Ex", and you and your telephone should be able to make out the rest. What about the leaf symbol. The image here came up after a number of conversations, a "new start", if you will; "turning over a new leaf" was another line. Growth, grassroots, insulated in that we are not looking to build a replacement for any one company or resource, ...