Drownproofing was developed by swimming coach Fred Lanoue, known to students as Crankshaft because of his limping gait. It was first taught in 1940.[1] His method was so successful that it gained national recognition,[2] and Georgia Tech soon made it a requirement for graduation, until 1988.[3] … It is claimed that during Lanoue’s time teaching at Tech from 1936 to 1964, he taught drownproofing to some 20,000 students.
Once they had mastered the Drownproofing technique, students learned how to stay afloat with their wrists and ankles bound, swim 50 yards (46 m) underwater, and retrieve diving rings from the bottom of the pool using their teeth.
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Twitpay was founded by Don Brown and Michael Ivey in 2008. The group brought the idea to Atlanta Startup Weekend in 2008, an event organized by Lance Weatherby at ATDC, where a team of developers signed on for a slice of the pie. Weatherby joined as well, and the team had a workable prototype by the end of the weekend.
That weekend’s event was part of a new openness at ATDC driven by Weatherby. He had learned startups at MindSpring doing business development, eventually becoming executive vice president of Earthlink and later chief marketing officer of Ciphertrust. As a Startup Catalyst, he worked with Stephen Fleming, Michael Mealling and Jeff Haynie to bring BarCamp and other events to Atlanta, hosted at 75 Fifth St, NW. Weatherby marketed ATDC to a new generation of entrepreneurs in Atlanta’s growing startup community. Before this, few entrepreneurs under 30 in Atlanta knew what ATDC was. As a result of Weatherby’s programs, ATDC became the center of a rapidly growing community. The second Atlanta Startup Weekend in 2008 was a part of that. Read More…
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Technology attorney John Yates recently interviewed Bill Hiller, one of Atlanta’s long time technology executives and entrepreneurs who helped build the Atlanta technology community. Hiller was a senior executive at Alpharetta-based Digital Communications Associates (DCA), a tech leader and NYSE company in the 1980s. At its height, DCA was the world’s leader in communications products with its flagship product, the IRMA Board, a 3270 emulation circuit board. In simple terms, the IRMA Board allowed the IBM PC (introduced in 1982) to connect to an IBM mainframe. It wasn’t rocket science, but it was big business when you consider that every PC needed an IRMA board to talk to the mainframe. Enjoy Bill Hiller and his recollections of Atlanta’s leadership role in the communications industry.
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Brent Oxley of HostGator based in Houston, Texas is acquiring full ownership of A Small Orange’s web hosting service founded by Tim Dorr. This is not a merger and A Small Orange will not become a subsidiary of HostGator. The two will exist as entirely separate entities and will focus on the markets they serve best.
ASO is known for its developer friendliness and excellent customer service which is what attracted Oxley to the deal. ASO’s existing employees are staying put and everything else will remain pretty much the same. What will change is better pricing for ASO customers and some revamped product lines making use of the excellent vendor relationships Oxley and HostGator have in place. In addition, HostGator’s Customer Service Manager Doug Hanna will run operations. Hanna is intensely focused on customer service which is why HostGator has received extraordinarily high marks in this arena and why customers can expect ASO’s already awesome customer service to meet and exceed their already high standards.
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In the last interview segment with Lenny Stern of SS+K, it was important to get his perspective on what makes a successful career and firm. The people who I had in mind for this question were entrepreneurs with startups, and marketing, business and technology research majors at some of the 75+ colleges and universities in Georgia including the University of Georgia, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, Read More…
The Georgia Nonprofit Summit + The Nonprofit Technology Conference = ONE GREAT OPPORTUNITY
When? April 8 – 10, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia at the beautiful Omni Hotel @ CNN Center.
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