We’ve been thinking about starting a Vermont 3.0 blog ever since we held the first Vermont 3.0 Creative/Tech Career Jam last January. It just seemed like a logical extension of the networking that was happening that day.

Our goal is to make this blog a place where businesspeople, students, geeks and creative types can connect and exchange ideas — while waiting for the next Vermont 3.0 event, where they can meet and talk face-to-face.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at...