Category Archives: community


Impact of the Chip-In Widget

In May Phil Burn’s daughter, Serenity, was diagnosed with leukemia . Phil Burns is a local entrepreneur, blogger, and technologist and well known in the local technology scene. With the announcement of the news, fellow bloggers immediately responded by distributing the Chip In Widget (created by Jesse Stay) amongst their online presence and pitching [...]

Another Way to Help Serenity

Numerous posts and tweets have been hitting the Utah scene lately concerning Phil Burn’s daughter, Serenity, being diagnosed with Leukemia. I blogged a couple days ago about the new Chip In Widget, created by Jesse Stay, that thankfully has been distributed amongst a handful of bloggers and is seeing a good up-tick in donations.
However, [...]

Supporting Local Entrepreneurs….. and their Families.

As many of you local readers and twitter-ers already know, one of the fellow technologist in the area, Phil Burns, learned this past week that his 22-month-old daughter, Serenity, has leukemia. Incredibly heart breaking news, but with the upside that she has immediately started chemotherapy and should be able to survive. His previous [...]

Utah Fund of Funds Event

I just wanted to throw up a quick post for the Utah Fund of Funds who will be hosting an entrepreneurial event with Tim Hunt, founder of Lingotek. The event will be held at the Provo City Library (located at 550 North University Ave) tomorrow, April 10th, from 11:30 - 1. The event [...]

SXSW 03/07/08

My new friend Shawn did a day by day recap of SXSW. Great idea! Since these are late writeups (I am actually now home from SXSW), some of the details might have already been forgotten, especially because the whole SXSW experience is one big blur.
Friday was the first day of SXSW so the lineup [...]

KCPW Fall Fundraising Drive

The semi-annual KCPW Pledge drive is underway. Please take the time to pledge your support by calling 801-359-5279 or visiting their site. Being a phone volunteer for this event is actually one of my favorite volunteer opportunities due to the interesting people involved with the drive. If interested in volunteering in the future, fill [...]