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Here's the first of my useful lists, a list of websites that offer Business news for Utah. The truth is there is a ton of Utah business news that flies under the radar, but a few good sites are cropping up that will help catch some of the news in a more timely manner than the business magazines. The Utah business magazines tend to feature the same writers and kind of the same old stories year after year anyway. That's the beauty of the web, you get a lot more of the cool and exciting stuff, but you've got to know where to look for Utah news about business. So, without further ado, the list of Utah Business News websites:

• * Utah Business Magazine - the old standby for Utah business mags, their site leaves something to be desired, but they do include current Utah news items in their daily briefing section on the homepage.
  
• * Watatch Digital IQ - this one is actually owned by Utah Business, but they focus more on tech, and will often have different news items in their daily IQ email than what Utah Business has.
  
• * Business sections of the local Utah newspapers, including Deseret News, Salt Lake Tribune, Provo Daily Herald, and for our southern Utah reader(s), there's The Spectrum
  
• * Utah business news on Utah TV stations including KSL, ABC 4, KUTV 2
  
• * Connect Magazine - newish business magazine (a couple years old), has some good articles and some news items.
  
• * Utah Monitor - new site from the geeks over at Provo Labs, looks promising.
  
• * Utah Valley Business Q - their print magazine is good, but their site is useless. Hopefully someday they'll get a clue and and least improve to the same standards as Utah Business, which still has a lot of room to improve.
  
• * Salt Lake Enterprise - another company that does a decent job in print, but is completely clueless about the web.
  
• And of course, you can always dig up some good news on Utah companies with the biggies like Google News, Yahoo News, or Topix.net
  
• * And sometimes you can find gems on press release sites like eMediaWire, but you'll have to wade through a lot of junk.
  
• * To get the real current happenings on the web, you've got to subscribe to RSS feeds of bloggers in the know like Paul Allen or Phil Windley... Or you can always search current blog posts with tools like DayPop, Technorati, IceRocket, or Google Blog Search.
  

Basically there's a lot of business news going on all the time here in Utah, you just might have to dig a little bit to find it.

Also, one last quick tip if you don't want to visit every site to see if they have any good news, you can subscribe to all the RSS feeds and for the sites that don't provide an RSS feed, you can use FeedYes.com to generate an RSS feed for any site. How's that for a time saver, eh?