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CBIA radio interviews on a variety of business issues can be heard on the Connecticut radio stations below:

 

Topic

CBIA/Blum Shapiro 2008 Survey of Connecticut Busineses

Guest

Jay Satler, partner, CPA, Blum Shapiro

Date

Septmeber 8, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site www.cbia.com

 

Topic

Employer and Employee Transportation Issues

Guest

Eric Brown, associate counsel, CBIA

Date

Septmeber 1, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site www.cbia.com www.ct.gov/dot/

 

Topic

New personal information and confidentiality law

Guest

Chuck Stohler, partner, Carmody & Torrance LLP

Date

August 25, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site www.carmodylaw.com

 

Topic

Mailroom and postal solutions for business

Part 1 & Part 2

Guest

Stewart Cublinski, director of sales and marketing, The Carrington Company

Date

August 11, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
  CBIA Business Minute 6
  CBIA Business Minute 7
  CBIA Business Minute 8
  CBIA Business Minute 9
  CBIA Business Minute 10
Web site

www.carringtoncompany.com

 

 

Topic

Connecticut Energy Information

Guest

Art Marcelynas, lead rate specialist, Department of Public Utility Control

Date

August 4, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site www.ctenergyinfo.com

 

Topic

Workplace Wisdom: Lessons from our mothers

Guest

Michelle Yozzo Drake, author and CEO, The Cove Group

Date

July 28, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site www.michelleydrake.com

 

Topic

Generations in the Workplace

Guest

Kenneth Gronbach, author and principal, KGC Direct

Date

July 21, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site www.kgcdirect.com

 

Topic

Performance Reviews

Guest

Robert DeLisa, principal and lead consultant, The DeLisaGroup

Date

July 14, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site www.delisagroup.com

 

Topic

Energy in Connecticut

Part 1 & Part 2

Guest

Donald Downes, commissioner, Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control

Date

June 30, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
  CBIA Business Minute 6
  CBIA Business Minute 7
  CBIA Business Minute 8
  CBIA Business Minute 9
  CBIA Business Minute 10
Web site www.ct.gov/dpuc

 

Topic

Business Sustainability

Guest

Andy Savitz, senior consultant, Sustainable Business Strategies

Date

June 23, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site  

 

Topic

Payment Fraud

Guest

Arlene Chapman, senior consultant, Association for Financial Professionals

Date

June 16, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site  

 

Topic

Hiring and retaining older workers

Guest

Bob Skladany, vice president of research, retirementjobs.com

Date

June 9, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site www.retirementjobs.com

 

Topic

Leadership, Communications and Presentations

Guest

Bill Lane, author and former General Electric speechwriter

Date

June 2, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site  

 

Topic

Myth vs. Fact Report

Part 1 & Part 2

Guest

Peter Gioia, CBIA vice president and economist

Date

May 19, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
  CBIA Business Minute 6
  CBIA Business Minute 7
  CBIA Business Minute 8
  CBIA Business Minute 9
  CBIA Business Minute 10
Web site www.cbia.com

 

Topic

Web Site Design for Businesses

Guest

Matt Ward, president and CEO, Central Mass Web Design

Date

May 12, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site www.centralmasswebdesign.com

 

Topic

CBIA's Project Opening Doors

Part 1 & Part 2

Guest

Cam Vautour, president, CBIA Project Opening Doors

Date

April 29, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
  CBIA Business Minute 6
  CBIA Business Minute 7
  CBIA Business Minute 8
  CBIA Business Minute 9
  CBIA Business Minute 10
Web site www.cbia.com/pod

 

Topic

Corporate Wellness

Guest

Dr. Amy Khan, medical director, Wellness Total Care, Concentra

Date

April 21, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site  

 

Topic

Hiring Disabled Workers

Guest

Amy Porter, project director, Connect-ability

Date

April 14, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site www.connect-ability.com

 

Topic

Data Recovery

Guest

Dan Weinstein, president, Technology Partners

Date

April 7, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site www.tpartners.com

 

Topic

Marketing to Connecticut's Latino population

Guest

Debra Gould, president, Latino Expo

Date

March 31, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site www.latinoexpoinfo.com

 

Topic

Urbank- Small Business Financing

Guest

Marie O'Brien, president, Connecticut Development Authority

Date

March 24, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
Web site www.ctcda.com

 

Topic

FIRST Robotics Competition

Guest

Michael Sperber, chairman, FIRST Robotics Connecticut Regional Competition

Date

March 17, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5

 

Topic

Skilled Workers Survey

Guest

Lauren Weisberg Kaufman, CBIA vice president of education and job training and executive director of the CBIA Education Foundation

Date

March 10, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5

 

Topic

Survey of Eastern Connecticut Businesses

Guest

Chandler Howard, president and CEO, Liberty Bank

Date

March 3, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5

 

Topic

Green Business Practices

Guest

Don Droppo Jr., senior vice president, marketing & sales, Curtis Packaging

Date

Feb. 25, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5

 

Topic

High School Reform in Connecticut

Part 1 & Part 2

Guest

Mark McQuillan, commissioner, Connecticut Department of Education

Date

Feb. 11, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
  CBIA Business Minute 6
  CBIA Business Minute 7
  CBIA Business Minute 8
  CBIA Business Minute 9
  CBIA Business Minute 10

 

Topic

Business Priorities for the 2008 Connecticut General Assembly Part 1 & Part 2

Guest

Bonnie Stewart, CBIA vice president of government affairs

Date

Jan. 28, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5
  CBIA Business Minute 6
  CBIA Business Minute 7
  CBIA Business Minute 8
  CBIA Business Minute 9
  CBIA Business Minute 10

 

Topic

Business Valuation

Guest

George Thomson, CPA, head of the Business Valuation Practice at Filomeno & Co., P.C

Date

Jan. 21, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5

 

Topic

Business Banking

Guest

Richard Barry, president and CEO, Citizens Bank, Connecticut

Date

Jan. 14, 2008

Business Minute Clips CBIA Business Minute 1
  CBIA Business Minute 2
  CBIA Business Minute 3
  CBIA Business Minute 4
  CBIA Business Minute 5

 

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