The name of the game in remote demonstrations is interactivity! Your ability to attract and compel your audience's attention is your recipe for success. How many times have you been on the receiving end of a web-based remote demonstration and found your attention wandering? Worse, do you find yourself flipping...
In this tongue-in-cheek demonstration, Dr. E.L. Kersten of Despair, Inc. explains how a traditional organization chart is deceptive and why a salary-sensitive chart makes more sense.
Software demonstrations aren't known for their entertainment value, but they don't have to be boring. Great Demos! can show you how to put the "Wow!" into your demos, making the experience effective, crisp and compelling. Join us for a Webcast to learn how Great Demos! can turn...
The paper provides information on a new Medicaid section 1115 demonstration initiative called Pharmacy Plus, intended to allow states to cover prescription drugs for seniors not otherwise eligible for Medicaid. It reviews the approval status of state proposals, extent to which HHS ensured that demonstrations are budget neutral, basis for...
In the trade show world of face-to-face selling, nothing turns a show-me skeptic into a believer faster than a convincing demonstration. Presentations only tell a story. Demonstrations prove a point. The difference is worlds apart in style, technique, and credibility. Presentations often are theatrical, fun, even interactive and engaging. They...
This paper is designed to continue the work that was instigated with the installation of a wood combustion system at a school. The purpose of the demonstration was to assist Talbott's heating to develop and demonstrate new technology in respect of automated wood handling equipment. The key issue that emerged...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Qponix Unveils Combo WidgetC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Qponix launched its widget-based network that connects brands, promotions and coupons directly with consumers as they shop online. The new solution offers retailers and manufacturers the opportunity to engage consumers...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-McDonald's Offers DreamWorks' 'Kung Fu Panda' Global Happy MealC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Celebrating the debut of McDonald's "Kung Fu Panda" Happy Meal promotion, McDonald's, DreamWorks Animation SKG and Conservation International are creating Panda-mania by inviting kids and families to...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Maui Wowi Hawaiian Inks New Master Franchise Pact with Dubai EnterprisesC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Maui Wowi Hawaiian, a destination for authentic Hawaiian products on the mainland, announced it has expanded its worldwide corporate ohana to the...
CAREER ENDEAVOUR: PURSUING A CROSS-CULTURAL LIFE TRANSITION Charles P. Chen, hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006, 164pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-4621-1 Charles Chen states that the purpose of this book is to illustrate the complexity of life career transition in the context of cross-cultural adjustment. To...
WHEN THE PHILLIES VISITED Coors Field earlier this season, Chase Utley homered off Rockies lefthander Mark Redman in the series opener. Colorado's Matt Holliday, a slugger whose grip-and-rip approach at the plate helped him hit 36 home runs while leading the league in runs batted in last season,...
The purpose of this study was to explore implicit attitudes towards members of social fraternities and sororities. Participants completed both an explicit rating scale and an implicit (Implicit Associations Test, or IAT) measure of attitudes toward members of social fraternities/sororities. Results show a positive correlation between the explicit and implicit...
Stereotype threat has been demonstrated to reduce the performance of stereotyped individuals in the threatened domain (Steele & Aronson, 1995). This study attempted to replicate the finding that stereotype threat instruction can erase the performance deficit women experience in math performance (Johns, Schmader, & Martens, 2005) and to further evaluate...
Numerous studies have explored the relationship between marketing efforts and firm financial performance. Studies have looked at potential lifetime value of customers, to demonstrate the value of keeping customers. Various other studies have looked at the relationship between customer satisfaction and firm performance. However, few studies have looked specifically at...
Students' interactions with student affairs personnel should provide opportunities for students to reinforce their global citizenship, since many opportunities to practice such citizenship are provided in the co-curricular (e.g., service learning, leadership development, negotiation of differences). As such, student affairs personnel need to be able to demonstrate their own global...
Inc. magazine ranked Nimsoft, Inc. as the36th Fastest Growing Software Company with a 534-percent revenue growthover a three-year period. The company's growth demonstrates the worldwidemarket demand for a leading, next generation performance and availabilitymonitoring solution that protects business services from downtime. Lastyear, Nimsoft was ranked as the 49th Fastest...
Peru is considering sending in its army to break up protests by Amazonian Indians who claim the government is preparing a massive land-grab in the country's remote jungles. Indigenous groups have blockaded roads and a river and set up pickets at energy installations to protest against changes...
Last Night's TV BLOOD AND GUTS: A HISTORY OF SURGERY BBC4 TRAWLERMEN BBC1 Surgery remains the most gloriously B-movie of medical specialities, a field in which the phrase "cutting-edge science" repudiates the usually bloodless nature of the cliche. Other fields of medicine...
Pentaho, the commercial open source alternativefor business intelligence BI, andOpen Medical Record System OpenMRS , a community-developed open sourceenterprise electronic medical record system, today announced collaborationto enhance integration between the OpenMRS system and Pentaho's open source BI suite . Theintegrated system demonstrates the power of...
BEIJING -- Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday. Police later squelched a pro-Tibet demonstration. The women were still at home three days after being officially notified...