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Best practices for changing a culture (access required)

by Wendy Mack Published: July 8,2011

Tags: Culture, Leadership, Mack, Small Business Enterprise

If you have moved from one organization to another anytime in your career, you know that every company has its own unique culture. Culture is defined as the beliefs, values, norms, and attitudes that form a group’s patterns of thought and action. Put another way, culture can be thought of as “unwritten rules about the [...] [...]

Springs on fittest list – but not smartest list (access required)

by Staff Writer Published: February 12,2008

Tags: Culture

Colorado Springs may have topped Men’s Fitness magazine’s fittest cities in America list, but it didn’t even make it onto Forbes 25 smartest cities in America list, released this week. Nope, not even Denver or Pubelo made Forbes’ list, but Boulder, however, was No. 1 for the second consecutive year. The ratings are based [...] [...]

Starbucks to offer some free wireless service (access required)

by Staff Writer Published: February 11,2008

Tags: Culture, Internet

The Associated Press SEATTLE _ Starbucks Corp. is teaming up with AT&T Inc. and will start offering a mix of free and paid wireless Internet service in many of its U.S. coffee shops, beginning this spring. The world’s largest specialty coffee retailer’s move ends a six-year partnership T-Mobile, which did not include [...] [...]

COPPeR, Experience Springs win state grant (access required)

by Staff Writer Published: February 7,2008

Tags: Community, Culture, Internet

Two Colorado Springs organizations that promote tourism earned a matching grant of $15,000 from the Colorado Tourism Office. Experience Colorado Springs at Pikes Peak, the convention and visitors’ bureau, and the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, or COPPeR, will use the shared grant money to enhance PeakRadar.com, a cultural activities [...] [...]

Mash still trumps Super Bowl (access required)

by Staff Writer Published: February 5,2008

Tags: Culture, Sports

The Associated Press NEW YORK _ The 97.5 million viewers who saw the New York Giants’ last-minute win over the New England Patriots made it the most-watched Super Bowl ever and second biggest event in American television history. Only the “MASH” series finale in 1983, with 106 million viewers, was seen by [...] [...]

Super Bowl might be most watched program ever (access required)

by Staff Writer Published: February 4,2008

Tags: Culture, Sports

The Associated Press NEW YORK_Very preliminary findings from 49 of the nation’s biggest markets showed that ratings for this year’s Super Bowl, with the New York Giants’ thrilling win over the New England Patriots, were up 6 percent over last year’s big game, according to Nielsen Media Research on Monday. Experts say those [...] [...]

City receiving $120,000 for destination skate park (access required)

by Staff Writer Published: January 29,2008

Tags: Community, Culture, Downtown

The City of Colorado Springs Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services will receive a $120,000 grant from the Phil Long Community Fund and Denver Broncos Charities to help build its destination skate park in Memorial Park. The new facility, which will be just north of the Sertich Ice Center, will be designed to accommodate [...] [...]

CU won’t flush away $25k (access required)

by Staff Writer Published: January 25,2008

Tags: Community, Culture, Education, State

Boulder venture capitalist Brad Feld has donated $25,000 to the University of Colorado for naming rights and a plaque on the second-floor men’s bathroom in the campus’ newly constructed technology hub. It’s an offer that was flushed away by Feld’s alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but C.U. officials took [...] [...]

Company creates Dog I.Q. Web site (access required)

by Staff Writer Published: January 24,2008

Tags: Culture

Everyone thinks their dog is bright, but one company has designed a way to test whether your pooch is a true genius. The PoochIQ.com Dog Intelligence Kit tests a dog’s memory, persistence, problem solving and reasoning skills. After completing 15 exercises, dogs are given an intelligence score between 55 and 150. After the [...] [...]

Students sought to make drunk-driving awareness video (access required)

by Staff Writer Published: January 23,2008

Tags: Community, Culture

A Colorado Springs law firm is working to help high school students produce public service announcements about underage drinking and driving. McDivitt Law Firm is working with the “My PSA” contest to ask students in grades nine through 12 to produce a 30-second commercial to discuss thoughts about the dangers of [...] [...]

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