Entrepreneurs Share Your Start-up Ideas in Healthcare, Education and Clean Energy

Entrepreneurs in healthcare IT, learning technologies and clean energy are asked to submit ideas on knocking down barriers to innovation in your businesses. Startup America is the White House initiative to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation. The administration wants to translate the best ideas into policy proposals (which will be shared with the Cabinet secretaries in Health and Human Services, Education and Energy), in five key areas.

1. Unlocking access to capital for high-growth companies;
2. Connecting mentors to entrepreneurs;
3. Reducing barriers and making government work for entrepreneurs;
4. Accelerating innovation from lab to market for federally funded R&D; and
5. Unleashing market opportunities in industries like healthcare IT, clean energy, and learning technologies.

For more information about Startup America, visit whitehouse.gov/startupamerica. Deadline for submissions is May 31.

Massachusetts Attorney General Embracing Social Media

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is embracing social media as a way to be "more transparent in government," according to a statement on the AG's web site, and for outreach, education and information. The web communications tools being used to date include:

A blog: At Issue & In Focus
A Twitter page - MassAGO
An e-newsletter - Building Better Communities
A YouTube Channel - MassAttorneyGeneral

For more information, see the Web Communications Policies page on the AG's web site.