Jon Bischke is a co-founder of eduFire, a tutoring resource for users who need access to educational platforms via the web. Bischke talks about the direction his company is headed and why classic marketing techniques are not necessary for his company.
There's a right way and a wrong way to conduct corporate research. As companies like Hewlett Packard, Procter & Gamble, and SAP have learned, doing it the wrong way can be costly — and embarrassing. Pretexting What It Is: Approaching a source for...
Three senior managers use David Allen’s personal-productivity system to get the most out of their teams. Making GTD a Team Sport Who: Steve Kowalski, Director of Learning & Development Where: Genentech When: Started GTD in 2002...
Last week, scientists issued their latest, grim assessment of the world's coral reefs. But as Steve Connor reports from Florida, extraordinary new ocean 'reseeding' techniques mean there may still be time to halt - or even reverse - the destruction of mother nature's marine marvels Coral reefs...
ATLANTA -- The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques. A bigger surprise: The low-carb...
DIAGNOS inc. ("DIAGNOS" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE: ADK), a leader in the use of artificial intelligence and advanced knowledge extraction techniques, and First Source Resources Inc. ("First Source") (TSX VENTURE: FSR) announced today that they have entered into a service agreement to explore an area covering approximately 37,000,000 acres...
Search and Data Aggregation Gurus Jim Snyder and Brian Baker Revealed as Key Architects for Flagship Product AUSTIN, Texas -- On the heels of emergence from stealth mode, Hyper9, Inc., the leader in search-based software for managing the dynamic nature of virtual environments, today revealed the identities of...
ENCINO, Calif. -- Ionic Media, the leading marketing and media specialists, today unveiled www.IonicMedia.com, the latest version of their corporate website designed to showcase their marketing services and educate marketers about best practice media techniques. The site demonstrates the capabilities provided by Ionic Media, including Online, Direct and...
INTERMEZZO CHAMBER SERIES, Vieve Gore Concert Hall, Westminster College, Monday Music by members of the Second Viennese School (Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern) has been a staple of the Intermezzo Chamber Music Series since its inception. The works of these composers don't...
Cy Twombly (TATE MODERN, LONDON) An overview of the past 50 years for an old American artist doing romantic gestural painting: burning colours, gnarled splurges, shimmering streaks, mythic resonance. (020-7887 8888) to 14 Sept Radical Light ...
"FISH WITHOUT A DOUBT," by Rick Moonen and Roy Finamore, Houghton Mifflin, 448 pages, $35 Cookbooks that dub themselves "essential" usually aren't. But Rick Moonen and Roy Finamore's "Fish Without a Doubt" is a splendid exception. That's because the authors have managed to produce...
Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader incarrier-grade messaging security, today released a list of commontechniques now being employed by email spammers, based on analysis of thebillions of messages that Cloudmark scans each day. Spam now constitutes between 90 to 95 percent of all email traffic in theU.S., and in an effort...
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer (NYSE: ERJ) (Bovespa: EMBR3) has chosen a new service parts management solution which is expected to accelerate deliveries of spare parts and reduce associated costs. The system will be provided by Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Servigistics....
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a5bec8/china_gbl_gammab) has announced the addition of the "China GBL (Gamma-butyrolactone) Market Report, 2008" report to their offering. GBL (gamma-butyrolactone) is an excellent high boiling solvent and important organic synthesis midbody. It has high solubility and good electrical properties and stability. And it...
Top Employee Communications and Human Resource Experts Plus "Fired Up or Burned Out" Author Converging To Better Understand Employee Motivation and Communication Best Practices at Communitelligence Innovating Employee Engagement Conference in Chicago. CHICAGO -- Employee engagement -- the heightened emotional connection that employees feel for their organization that...
RESTON, Va. -- Learning Tree International (NASDAQ NM:LTRE) today announced the introduction of a new 4-day course to its SQL Server-related offerings. Entitled SQL Server Analysis Services: Hands-On, the course consists of practical exercises--led by an expert instructor--which are designed to provide hands-on experience in employing SQL Server Analysis Services....
Off Madison Ave provides attendees with access to theagency's innovative strategies, solutions and insider tips, free of charge,through its new Webinar series. The Webinar series covers marketingstrategies currently in use by the agency and gives attendees abehind-the-scenes look into how integrated marketing initiatives aresuccessfully executed. Strategies once closely guarded...
A Live Demonstration Offering Restaurateurs Tips On How to Market Themselves From The Table to the Television ... NORWALK, Conn., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Attendees to the 2008 Western Foodservice & Hospitality Expo will have the chance to meet Food Network Star, Guy Fieri, at 12:00 pm...
A new imaging technique, based on an engineered version of the common cold virus, may help doctors detect the spread of prostate cancer to the lymph nodes earlier. This, in turn, could help guide more effective treatment decisions, said the authors of a study published in the July 11...
Nikon's New Dynamic Auto-Focus Unit Delivers Fast, Versatile Auto-Focus Using Novel Hybrid Auto-Focus System MELVILLE, N.Y., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Nikon Instruments Inc. (http://www.nikoninstruments.com/) announced its new Dynamic Auto-Focus unit, the LV-DAF, bringing fast, versatile auto-focus to the Eclipse LV semiconductor inspection microscope series and OEM applications....
