The continued success of the Central Iowa Bloggers continues to amaze me. This week both Timothy Johnson of Carpe Factum and Matt and Nathan Owen of U.S. Rodeo Supply were featured in Des Moines Register articles. That means, according to my recollection, at least 11 Central Iowa Bloggers have been featured in either the Des
It’s Raining Iowa Law Blogs
Ordinarily people say only two things are certain – death and taxes. Well, there is one other thing. If I schedule a baseball practice for my little league teams it will rain.
But it’s also raining law blogs in Iowa. The law firm of Huber Book Cortese Happe and Lanz has four new law blogs
Bad Lawsuits Just Tick People Off
Brett Rogers of Beat Canvas had an angry post entitled "What is Wrong with America". Brett is disgusted with a justice system that allows a lawyer (and administrative law judge) to sue his dry cleaner for $67 million in damages for a lost pair of pants.
It’s cases like this one that upset
New Iowa Business Blog Launches Today
Today is the official launch of Iowabiz.com–a content rich, very focused site with amazing Iowa business bloggers all focused on helping your business grow. The site is sponsored by Professional Solutions Insurance Services.
I am excited to be a part of Iowabiz.com as a contributing author. The other authors include:
Hiring Talented People
One of the biggest challenges for my clients is hiring and retaining talented employees. David Maister has an excellent post on hiring talented people. In his post David expands on the War for Talent is Back by Bob Sutton of Harvard Business Online.
Thanks to Kevin O’Keefe for pointing out the posts. Kevin runs an
Trout Hosts Blawg Review
Be sure to catch Des Moines, Iowa patent attorney Brett Trout’s blog this week as he takes center stage among law blogs by hosting Blawg Review.
As pointed out by the editor at Blawg Review, Brett’s blog is worth reading often and adding to your blogrolls and feed readers if you have not already
Des Moines Business Accelerator – Podcast No. 5 Interview with Mike Colwell
Rush on Business Podcast No. 5 is an interview with Mike Colwell. Mike is the Executive Director of the Business Innovation Zone of Central Iowa (BIZ). BIZ is a new regional business accelerator through the Greater Des Moines Partnership. If you are an entrepreneur in Central Iowa you won’t want to
Des Moines Partnership Business Accelerator Podcast
Tomorrow I have a podcast interview with Mike Colwell on my BlogTalkRadio channel page. Mike is the Executive Director of the Des Moines Partnership’s new business accelerator, BIZ. The live interview is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. and will be also be available in podcast format on this blog.
Hope you will listen. If you
Iowa-Microsoft Settlement Receives Preliminary Approval
Judge Rosenberg gave preliminary approval today of a $179.95 million dollar settlement in the Iowa consumer class action against Microsoft. Unlike other settlements across the country, Microsoft has agreed to pay cash to consumers as opposed to vouchers for future purchases of software. As I predicted, the settlement is substantial and actually in line
Trout on Tech for the Non-Tech Lawyer
Brett Trout had an interesting post today on the Top Ten Technologies for the Non-Tech Lawyer. In my humble opinion the number one opportunity for the non-tech lawyer is reading feeds. The amount of information available today with nearly one click of the mouse is incredible.
Why should lawyers care? This post