Art in the Park will be here tomorrow. This is one of Appleton's great traditions. Held in beautiful City Park, Art in the Park brings hundreds of artists into Appleton to showcase their work. I'll be there tomorrow afternoon. Enjoy!

Looking for a place to rent audio visual equipment like projectors? I just had an emergency need for a projector for a PowerPoint presentation, and was able to find one right away in the Fox Valley at Presentation Rentals in Greenville (www.presentationrentals.net). The owners (the Ales family) proved to be very flexible and helpful in solving my problem. They offer a variety of LCD projectors and other items to help with your business meeting or other presentation, and will even come to your site to set up and take down the equipment. Nice resource to know about.

"K-C Watch: Consulting works for former Kimberly-Clark exec Perkins " is a story in today's Post-Crescent about a former senior executive of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Cheryl Perkins (as Chief Innovation Officer, she was over the intellectual property and innovation area where I work). Cheryl has started her own innovation consulting business, Innovation Edge, a new firm in the Valley aiming to help inventors bring their products to market and to help companies that need to strengthen their innovation system.

While there are dozens of innovation companies in the world, Innovation Edge has the advantage of having a CEO who is incredibly well connected with a lot of expeience in innovation and IP strategy. People in the Valley know Cheryl as a very visible force locally, but many don't realize that Business Week named her as one of the World's Top 25 Champions of Innovation in 2006, and many don't realize that her connections with innovators around the world has led to the honor of being the lead organizer for the "CoDev 2008" international conference on open innovation. What that means for inventors and companies is that Cheryl can quickly make key connections that can increase the chances of success. Innovation Edge looks like an interesting addition to the Fox Valley. Best of luck, Cheryl!