http://www.stuartmease.com Providing a bridge for young adults in the Roanoke & New River Valleys of Virginia Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:41:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en typepad/connectingpeoplehttp://feedburner.google.com Kudos to Aric Bopp and the New River Economic Alliance for this great video highlighting the NRV. It's outstanding and a much watch. http://www.stuartmease.com/?p=797 This evening I am speaking to the annual Roanoke CPAs event for local college students. I am planning to break it up into two sections - one for the job seeker and the other for companies. We must have these groups understand the needs of each other. It is clearly not ... http://www.stuartmease.com/?p=794 August JobQuest from Carol Jennings on Vimeo. Another episode in a year-long series of Blue Ridge PBS wildly successful JobQuest will air LIVE Tuesday night at 7 pm hosted by Julie Newman. Please tell your friends, DVR or tune in yourself. Above is last month's episode. http://www.stuartmease.com/?p=792 The Heart of Roanoke; urban design and photography tour; August 29 2009 from river laker on Vimeo. Eldon Karr, Dan Smith, River Laker and Hank Bostwick all created an outstanding video highlighitng the efforts of Eldon and the Henry Streeet portion of downtown Roanoke. I visited with Eldon several months ... http://www.stuartmease.com/?p=790 Cory Donovan and the NCTC are really doing great things for the RNR. He came up with a neat way to promote Demo Day on Sept 18 in Roanoke using Twitter (It's gonna bea like a grown up Science Fair!). This is a contest that encourages people to tweet and retweet ... http://www.stuartmease.com/?p=788 Any who have followed this blog over the years know it has focused on helping people in the RNR get connected to each other and the region whether through things to do, jobs/career assitance or general information. Ironically, Pat Matthews who owned a little company called Webmail.us suggested I start blogging ... http://www.stuartmease.com/?p=786