11/22/2004 - Learn eBusiness From Home or Work
eBizITPA at Knowledge Park is introducing a new web-based format for training courses which operates through a standard browser and requires no additional software.

11/22/2004 - Learn Effective Document Management
eBizITPA at Knowledge Park is offering a new training course, "Introduction to Electronic Document Management", to be taught by industry analyst and long-time editor of Document Imaging Report, Ralph Gammon.

11/9/2004 - eBizITPA Develops Online Tool to Promote Events
eBizITPA has launched a new event listing application on the website www.ebizitpa.org. The Event Posting tool provides a convenient online location for publicizing important upcoming business or technology-related events. Created as an interactive resource, it allows businesses and organizations to post their own upcoming events on the Events page of the eBizITPA website.

11/9/2004 - eBizITPA Announces New Hires
The Center for eBusiness and Advanced Information Technology (eBizITPA) announces the addition of four employees: Ron May, Marty Barclay, Doug Luthringer and Gerry Schneggenburger.

10/08/2004 - Researchers Studying Radar Security for Great Lakes
The Center for eBusiness & Advanced IT (eBizITPA) announced that it is coordinating a research initiative to increase surveillance on the Great Lakes that will uniquely combine expertise from Penn State Erie and Mercyhurst College. The initial project will involve technology research by Penn State Erie's Center for Navigation, Communication and Information Systems (CNCIS) led by Dr. Robert Gray into the capacity of existing radar equipment to track vessel movement on Lake Erie. The results will be paired with analysis by the Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies (MCIIS) led by Mr. Robert Heibel on information requirements for border control, vessel identification and rescue, emergency management and agency coordination and response.

7/15/2004 - Internet Pioneer, A.J. Miceli to Teach eMarketing Class for eBizITPA
eBizITPA at Knowledge Park is offering a new training course, "Internet Marketing and Sales Strategies" to be taught by A.J. Miceli, a Communications professor at Gannon University, former founder of Erie.net and current Marketing Director of Fishusa.com.

5/13/2004 - EBizITPA Unveils Pilot On-line Course
Demonstrating the power of technology, eBizITPA is now offering its first on-line course, Reverse Auctions: Buyer Strategy. The self-paced course costs less and takes less time than the instructor-based live version of the same class.

5/06/2004 - IT Kickstart Grants Drive $800,000 in Regional IT Investment
A pilot program designed to help small- and medium-sized companies make critical advances in information technology is turning $100,000 in state funding into nearly $1 million in IT investments in northwest Pennsylvania.

1/27/2004 - eBizITPA Pilots New Program to Help Businesses Kickstart IT Projects
Today the Center for eBusiness and Advanced Information Technology (eBizITPA) together with the Northwest Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center (NWIRC) introduced a new pilot program called IT Kickstart. The program is designed to help small and medium size Northwest PA businesses use information technology to improve business processes through competitive grants to help fund their IT projects.

1/5/2004 - eBizITPA Gives Area Businesses a KICK into the World of IT
The Center for eBusiness and Advanced Information Technology (eBizITPA) is holding a series of KICK-OFF events to announce its newest program-- IT Kickstart. eBizITPA and the Northwest Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center (NWIRC) hope to accelerate the use of e-business and information technology (IT) for small and medium sized Northwest PA companies by providing grants to fund IT projects as well as expertise to get the projects moving.