NEW ORLEANS – WAEM WIRED unveiled its upgraded and updated MyBiz.am website Thursday at Workforce Innovations 2008. “Asked by the U.S. Department of Labor to demonstrate our innovative MyBiz web tool at Innovations, we decided this would be a great time to unveil our many improvements,” said Bill Crawford, director of the West...
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Many small towns in West Alabama and East Mississippi face uncertain futures. Building better futures for these towns is no quick or easy chore. It takes a plan…at least that is what “Your Town Alabama” emphasizes. “A community with a plan is more competitive,” says Cheryl Morgan, one of the principals in Your Town...
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PHILADELPHIA – - A Mississippi champion for the MyBiz Entrepreneur Network paid attention to a community champion for entrepreneurs. On June 12, 2008, Gray Swoope, executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority – who provided substantial funding for Mississippi’s MyBiz program – visited the new Neshoba Business Enterprise Center. A model of community, community...
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MERIDIAN – - In an effort to create a focused push toward regional tourism, Chamber of Commerce, economic development, and tourism professionals from Alabama and Mississippi met with representatives of the West Alabama – East Mississippi (WAEM) WIRED Initiative on June 3, 2008, to discuss joining forces to form a WAEM Regional Tourism Panel....
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Penny Hawks Frazier, owner of Penny’s Pantry in Senatobia, could have benefited from a program like MyBiz, she said in a presentation on April 22 at the Haraway Center at Northwest Mississippi Community College. Frazier and about 25 others, including city and county officials and economic development officials, heard a presentation on MyBiz and...
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LOUISVILLE– Innovative access works. Innovative web-based access to advanced manufacturing training is benefitting Taylor Machine Works. More employees want to be and will be trained using the innovative “anytime, anywhere” advanced training system developed by the WAEM Initiative and announced by Gov. Haley Barbour last October. The “anytime, anywhere” system provides access to over...
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MAYHEW – - Second chances do happen at East Mississippi Community College. But, so do first chances. The college’s workforce development team has enlisted the help of prisoners from Noxubee County to build a new center to help entrepreneurs start businesses. “Utilizing prisoners for construction projects is a win-win,” said Bruce Hanson, Community Development...
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On March 17, 2008, the West Alabama – East Mississippi (WAEM) Alliance announced the creation of national skills based M3 Credentials, a cornerstone strategy of the WAEM Initiative sponsored by Governors Bob Riley and Haley Barbour. Today the Alliance announces a re-design of these innovative credentials to better meet skill and training needs in...
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