The sixth annual Rural Business Conference continues today at Utah State University's Taggart Student Center, featuring presentations by Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, and Steven C. Preston, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, plus breakout sessions and a business expo.
The breakout sessions feature discussions about blogging, entrepreneurial agriculture, digital information, brand awareness, farm revenue diversification, personal and team productivity, marketing techniques, work force issues and small-business financing.
Conference registration is $25. Details are at www.ruralutah.com.
Consumer confidence
A better hiring outlook and lower gas prices pushed a measure of U.S. consumer confidence to its highest level in four and a half years.
5th iPhone app
Clayton Ward, a 10th-grader from West Jordan,has created five apps for the Apple operating systems.
poorer people charitable
A 2009 study showed the poor give a higher percentage of their income to charity than rich people.
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