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The 10th annual Open Source Conference (OSCON) is taking place in Portland this week and Clarity Innovations is one of the sponsors of the Drupal Community Welcome Social on Wednesday (7/23).  There, we will enjoy many local treats (food and beverage) and swap stories with our compatriots. Read more about the free, open, and public event. We hope to see you there!

Thor Prichard, President & CEO, will be attending the 2008 Internet Strategy Forum Summit taking place this week in Portland, Oregon. The Summit gives Clarity a chance to share insights and ideas about the role and affect of ubiquitous networking and computing on our society with others from Forrester Research, Disney, Nike, Intel, IBM, WebTrends and Fandango. Clarity plays an important role at the Summit, bringing its hybrid perspective of education and technology to the table.

Join Thor Prichard and Steven Burt at the National Education Computing Conference (NECC) June 30th through July 2nd in San Antonio, Texas. Find us contributing to the discussion at many of the Web 2.0 related sessions and the discussion on Twitter.

]Several of our staff will be attending sessions and sharing ideas with colleagues at WebVisions. The annual event, taking place later this week over at the Oregon Convention Center, explores the future of design, content creation, user experience and business strategy to uncover the trends and agents of change that force everyone to rethink their assumptions about the Web.

Come meet us at the next meeting of the NW Education Cluster, April 17th.  At the meeting will be a presentation from Accelerate Oregon, a group that's trying to leverage public and private commitment to Oregon's K12 education system to improve teaching and learning through the integration of technology.  For more information about the meeting, contact us. 

After much effort working to identify a potential content management system to power their Web site, Bellingham Public Schools selected Clarity Innovations to contribute the expertise necessary to catalyze action.  We were asked to perform an independent assessment of the requirements for their Web presence, evaluate potential candidate solutions and provide a concrete roadmap for implementation. Much of the work has lead to a better understanding of the role strategy plays in determining how best to achieve desired results.  And the answer wasn't one solution for all needs. Contact us to learn more.

In case you haven't noticed recently, we've been expanding our team of hybrid expertise in education and technology.  This is due in part to expanded engagements and services in the field of education content development.  For example, we're developing new curriculum for helping educators make effective use of laptops now increasingly being deployed through 1:1 initiatives.  We're also working on materials for a client to help leaders in education champion professional development in technology integration.  It's going to be a busy spring here at Clarity Innovations.