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.

This article appears in Sep 17-23, 2008.

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 Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s...