Matt Webb

Salt Lake City

General Manager at KLO-AM (Salt Lake City, UT)

General Manager at KBZN-FM (Salt Lake City, UT)

Articles

Powering Up: Business leaders overwhelmingly back a rapid transition to renewable power

3 weeks ago | e3g.org | Anusha Mata |Pieter de Pous |Suzie Marshall |Samora Levy |Matt Webb |Katrine Tilgaard Petersen | +1 more

Business voices have expressed overwhelming support for the transition to renewable electricity. They have backed moving away from fossil fuels and are calling on governments to remove the barriers to achieving a rapid transition. Business leaders globally recognise that energy security, economic growth, and long-term competitiveness depend on a renewables based power system.
Matt Webb’s interesting observations on running his first ma...

4 weeks ago | kottke.org | Matt Webb

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Between Memory and Geography: Julie Brill’s Hidden in Plain Sight

1 month ago | panoramajournal.org | Matt Webb

A few words by the author: Brill’s Hidden in Plain Sight is not a conventional Holocaust memoir; rather, it is an act of literary cartography – mapping the landscapes of exile, inherited trauma, and historical erasure. She takes readers on a journey through Belgrade, where her family’s history is embedded in its streets and architecture, and where memory itself is both visible and hidden in the spaces between past and present.
Reflections on 25 years of Interconnected. Big congratulatio...

2 months ago | kottke.org | Matt Webb

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Unlocking career opportunities: Why apprenticeships are not just for school leavers

Feb 13, 2025 | uknewsgroup.co.uk | Matt Webb

By: Matt Webb, CEO, Mentor Group. As we head into National Apprenticeship Week, sales training company Mentor Group takes a look at the value of apprenticeships in the sales profession to understand how they can support continual learning and the opportunity to pursue a career in sales later in life. The national pictureTypically, the recruitment of apprentices focuses on the younger generation.
This post by Matt Webb on “a bunch of stuff that happened” w...

Jan 24, 2025 | kottke.org | Matt Webb

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Every webpage deserves to be a place. Matt Webb’s cursor par...

Sep 18, 2024 | kottke.org | Matt Webb

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How to train the next generation of sales leaders

Aug 23, 2024 | thehrdirector.com | Matt Webb

In today’s sales environment, emotional intelligence (EQ) is as important as traditional sales skills. The modern buyer seeks genuine connections and personalised interactions, making EQ indispensable. It’s vital that current sales leaders understand the importance of EQ and relationship building, as training those entering the sales force in these skills can bring a wealth of business benefits.
Pressured sales staff's mental fitness under increased stress

Jun 8, 2024 | thehrdirector.com | Matt Webb

The modern sales professional faces numerous challenges in their line of work but there is no larger contributor to lost revenue and declining revenue performance than mental fitness. Research has found that mental health problems cost the UK economy a staggering £117.9 billion every year and almost three-quarters of the cost (72%) is due to lost productivity.
Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code

Jun 4, 2024 | blog.partykit.io | Matt Webb

The tl;dr is that search got really good suddenly and really easy to build because of AI. For instance, this is the search experience I recently made for my side project website Braggoscope. Braggoscope is my unofficial directory of BBC Radio 4’s show In Our Time. There are over 1,000 episodes on all kinds of topics, like the Greek Myths or the Evolution of Teeth or Romeo & Juliet. It’s a static site built on GitHub Pages. I can search for “Jupiter” and the episode about Jupiter comes back back.