Charleston, WV - As part of an open-book accountability inititaive, WV’s State Auditor Glen Gainer III’s office has posted the salaries of more than 65,000 state employees on its Web site (www.wvsao.gov).
The report lists all state employees’ salaries for 2006, including part-time workers. Here is the link to download the full 2006 WV State Employees Total Compensation Report.
WV Inc Magazine reports on the five distinguished individuals who’s careers have warranted distinctive recognition from Marshall University’s Lewis College of Business Hall of Fame
Full profiles are provided on the following five award winners:
As many of you know, in 2007, we will be focusing much more of our time on developing our portfolio companies and helping them expand nationwide. Premier will still maintain some select few consulting relationships with clients in the areas of internet marketing - but most of our energy will be directed towards these new initiatives such as www.statenewslines.com.
We’ll be announcing our expansion into several other states very soon. This week we’re bringing online the national website which allows you to visit any single state’s news aggregation site. We’ll be setting up a new email newsletter to keep you updated from time to time on the progress of the national rollout.
We’ve added an additional 20 news sources, including daily feeds for updated legislative news as well as additional sports news. Readership is surging each month and for members - you now have an incredible drag and drop personalization screen that lets you organize where each news source is placed on your screen. Also the daily headline clipping service everyone is excited to have available will be online soon.
Beginning again in February - the iPod contest will return after much request! Be sure to visit the site and enjoy having all of your West Virginia news headlines and article links on one easy-to-use web page!
Thank you so much for your feedback and comments on the WVNewsline launch. We’ve received hundreds of emails, comments, ideas and suggestions and appreciate every one of them. The primary reason we wrote the software to aggregate online news headlines was simply to SAVE TIME reading multiple news sites each day. It’s just that simple… One page - for all your WV News... And in that regard, from all of your feedback - we have hit a home run!
Already we’ve had more than ten thousand readers visit the site to scan headlines and click to read news you want. You’re bookmarking the site, coming back daily and personalizing the news page to show the sources you want to see! It’s always fresh, updating hourly and already we’re aggregating for you more than 500+ new WV news headlines each day. We thank you for letting WVNewsline.com become part of your daily news experience. We will do everything possible to continue to listen to you and help you get all the news you want - the way you want it.
Here is a preview of the three initial WVNewsline.com postcard mailings going out to business owners, executives, CEO's, industry professionals and WV leaders statewide.
Our most exciting announcement this issue - we've been working the past three months to create WV's most comprehensive news headline aggregation site. We're launching this nationally in all 50 states - beginning right here in our home state of West Virginia!
The website puts all the headline links from most every WV news source on one page. This saves you time each day by helping you quickly find the news you want to read.
WVNewsline.com automatically aggregates headlines and links to every news article published online in West Virginia. The site is currently tracking over 30 news sources and updating hourly. 10-20 additional news sections are coming soon!
Please take a quick moment to visit the site and see if it might be a useful tool for your own daily news experience. And most of all, please let us know what you think and how we can improve it and make it even better!
The Advantage Valley ELS is seeking experienced entrepreneurs who have the ability and desire to coach other entrepreneurs. Join the Advantage Valley ELS which is an innovative coaching program in the Advantage Valley region and help develop the region’s pipeline of skilled entrepreneurs. Currently the program serves more than 70 entrepreneurs. Click below to learn more how you can help.
Innova strives to connect entrepreneurs to the best resources available to help their businesses succeed. FastTrac accomplishes this through a series of educational experiences and products. Here is their outline of training for this fall and for the courses next year.
Citynet Digital Phone Service is now available for the low price of $24.95 a month - giving you unlimited calls anywhere in the US. They just had an open house in Charleston and the service is pretty incredible. They have an excellent product/service offering that has every feature you could want. All you need is a cable or DSL connection to the Internet. There are no contracts, they provide the hardware, you keep your phone number and setup is easy. The service includes real time online account management and 24/7/365 access to customer support.
… invite you to take a seat at the table as they listen to your ideas for West Virginia's future. May 31st, 630pm-8:30pm.
Here is a example of how easy it is to upload and share a video using YouTube. This is a one and a half minute video clip of the WOWK news story covering the awards ceremony and the back story of Paul's receiving this award.
As many West Virginians know, Fibernet has really developd a leading role in voice and data communications in the state.
Since the begining of this year there has been some big news with some major acquisitions. Here are the press releases.
FiberNet (www.wvfibernet.net ) has experienced tremendous success and growth since 1997. With over 180 employees and over $50 million invested, it has created a 1,746 mile state-of-the-art fiber optic network circling West Virginia and connecting the state to the world with the highest speed telecommunications systems available.
If you're wondering what your real estate or personal property values have been assessed at - you can find out in 5 seconds now.
This is also pretty helpful if you are considering purchasing or buying a parcel of land - letting you do your homework very quickly.
Each year WV Executive Magazine honors a select few young business leaders.
On a personal note, it was an honor to be recognized in 2000 as one of WV's young business leaders.
Here is a complete profile of the twenty-five individuals recognized in 2006 and 2005:
Note that nominations are open now for 2007 Young Guns.
WV Executive Magazine (COMAR) launches a new statewide business resource
This is one of the first really solid online commercial business directories to be established.
Albert Hendershot is the CEO and Publisher of COMAR. He is a good friend, a fantastic business professional and has a passion for West Virginia that is second to none. Here is a profile of Albert Hendershot.
Check out a great resource for entrepreneurs who would like to be coached and mentored in growing their business.
This is a fantastic initiative to help West Virginia entrepreneurs in the Advantage Valley region successfully create wealth and jobs through growing their business. 
On a personal note, my very good friend Mark Burdette is the General Manager of this project. Mark is a seasoned entrepreneur himself and was my business partner and co-founder of Citynet Corporation, WV's first and largest commercial Internet service provider. I had the privilege of serving as the President of the company and Mark served as Vice President. Together, with a great team of employees, we worked closely together to start and grow the business from idea, inception, startup, venture capital funding through our partners at Fourth Venture Investment Group, to a successful sale to a $3.4 billion dollar bank holding company (CHCO). Mark's insight from this experience equips him very well to help other entrepreneurs start and grow the business of their dreams.
Everyone is doing it! Blogging that is. And as I have come to learn over the past few months - running a blog is one of the very best ways to share dynamic, up-to-date information with clients, colleagues, and friends.
At the same time the information shared is syndicated to millions of servers worldwide and a real contribution can be made by the sharing of knowledge through a blog. Since our newest member of the company is an absolute technical wizard (thanks to Paul McNeely) it is now so much easier to post current content every couple days vs publishing it on our website or putting everything into an e-newsletter.
Now we can just send out summary emails that highlight topics and articles - and more simply share the links to that content vs putting it all into an email. This makes the e-newsletter updates much easier to quickly scan and get to specific articles / updates that you find of interest and value.
Thanks again for your readership, interest and most of all your personal and professional relationship. I look forward to sharing some great information on how to profitably grow your business and reach your personal and professional goals.
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