Future Proofing Southern Oregon
Jim Teece first used the phrase “Future Proofing Oregon” during a talk he gave over 10 years ago. He has since started focusing on Future Proofing Southern Oregon businesses, economy, and communities. Like his talks, his articles are provocative, inspiring and funny.
Ashland Company Opens New Possibilities for Solar Energy
Strackers Provide Maximum Solar Energy with the Smallest Footprint By Chris Cook, Capiche, capiche.us Southern Oregon has vast solar energy potential, and an Ashland-based company is leading the way with an innovative high-tech solution. With an average of nearly 200 days of annual sunshine and high irradiation levels, the climate…
Read MoreBuy Local : Online
This year I’m encouraging you to order all your gifts online, but do it from a local company instead of Amazon. It’s convenient, fun and you will be helping a great local artist or craftsperson and entrepreneur. Be a local hero and follow them on social, share their site with…
Read MoreFiber Optic Internet : A Conduit for Economic Transformation
By Bruce Arnold Who Will Stay? That’s a common refrain when parents, educators, employers and regional officials discuss the future of young people growing up in Southern Oregon. Increasingly, rural areas are losing young, talented people in search of opportunity and better employment prospects. The current reality is that 55…
Read MoreHunter Communications Awarded $19.2 Million in FCC Rural Digital Opportunity Funding to Boost Broadband Services in Oregon and California
Hunter to provide up to 1 Gbps symmetrical fiber broadband internet Hunter Communications (Hunter), the premier fiber-optic communications services provider in southern Oregon and northern California, has been awarded $19.2 million through the Federal Communication Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I auction. Hunter will deploy 100% fiber-optic broadband networks to offer up to 1…
Read MoreArcimoto Announces Latest Milestone in Nationwide Expansion Plan
By Megan Kathman Arcimoto PR Arcimoto, Inc.® (NASDAQ: FUV), makers of affordable, practical, and joyful pure electric vehicles for everyday commuters and fleets, today announced the next step in its nationwide expansion plan by opening the state of Florida for customer reservations. Today, Arcimoto began reaching out to early preorder…
Read MoreSouthern Oregon Business Awards for 2020
By Jim Teece Publisher – SouthernOregonBusiness.com What a crazy year. From Pandemic shut downs to fires that wiped out entire communities in Southern Oregon, 2020 is a year that will never be forgotten, yet will want to be forgotten by many. During this year I directly witnessed great leadership and…
Read MoreA crazy year in Review – Top 10 articles of 2020
By Jim TeecePublisher – SouthernOregonBusiness.com I am able to tell many things about the people that come to our website and what they do once they are on it because we use Google Analytics on the site. It’s a free and great tool for marketing but also looking back and…
Read MoreAshland Chamber launches new eCommerce site for all Brick and Mortar stores in Ashland
Like the rest of us, the Ashland Chamber of Commerce has been hard at work pivoting to stay alive while continuing to reach out and help Ashland’s small business economy in every way it can, since the shutdowns started in March. Thanks to a Grant from Business Oregon, and a…
Read MoreAshland community launches new site to attract the next generation of workers and employers to town
When the pandemic sent us all working from home, many of the high tech workers in the big cities realized that they could work from anywhere and many started looking. A group of folks came together in Ashland to create a video series that told the story of living and…
Read MoreHunter Gets Bought, and a New CEO, Wins Awards and Launches Fiber to the Home in Medford. All since April.
by Jim Teece Via Press Releases and an Interview Big things are happening at Hunter Communications (Medford, Jackson County) during the Pandemic. They were purchased by Grain. They hired a new CEO. They received an award for the fastest internet in Oregon They are going to roll out affordable and fast…
Read MoreThe Oregon Connections Telecommunications Conference is coming to Ashland – Oct. 24-25
The Oregon Connections Telecommunications Conference draws attendees from all regions of the state to share ideas, experiences and knowledge about broadband telecommunications. In its twenty-fourth year, the conference will be exploring Smart Communities: strategies, applications, enabling technologies and Oregon initiatives. Oregon Connections is a grass roots conference first held in Bend and hosted…
Read MoreMeet Mark and Maddy DiRienzo
Self Storage and Commercial Real Estate Developers & Operators and Good People. By Jim Teece I have admired Mark and Maddy for years. They are good people that have developed commercial spaces for small business owners to thrive. They are also caring community leaders and a successful husband and…
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