Dedicated e-learning company Chalksy have launched a teacher-to-student marketplace that enables millions of users to teach, learn and earn online. Founded in November 2012 by two young British entrepreneurs, the startup focuses on making online teaching and learning interactive and fun by meeting the 3A's - anytime, anywhere, anyone. Because e-learning has traditionally rested upon a one-way model of communication, educationalists have often assumed a skeptical approach towards e-education, deeming it inadequate to cope with the differentiated needs of students. ...

Orange County residents are lacing up their shoes to be a part of the fourth annual Walk4Water that will take place at Mile Square Regional Park on April 13 from 9 - 11am. This event provides people with the opportunity to walk in the footsteps of children who log countless miles each day to collect dirty drinking water in Uganda. The Walk sponsored by Starbucks and Hurley is a fundraising effort to build a well to provide clean water for a Ugandan orphanage. "When I heard that most children in Uganda rarely live past the age of five due to the contaminated and ...

Blue Robin announced today that the Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, Mass., has selected Blue Robin to build, host and support the library's web infrastructure. Blue Robin has built and implemented a web infrastructure that provides the library a predictable, scalable and secure web platform for their online presence. Library Director Karen Stembridge says, "The infrastructure they have built meets today's needs and accommodates our future requirements. Blue Robin is doing a great job transitioning the library from its current host to the new platform and our ...

West Michigan Symphony will feature music inspired by women as special guests Teresa Cheung and Elena Urioste take the stage for Masterworks concerts on April 19 and 20. The "Women as Muses" performance will feature guest conductor Teresa Cheung: George Tsontakis' "Clair de Lune;" the composer will join the Symphony for rehearsals and the performances Felix Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin, Op. 64 in E minor with violinist Elena Urioste Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 2, Op. 61, in C Major More information, as well as expanded program notes ...

L.A. Management Company, a strategic marketing firm specializing in website development, online marketing, social media management and video production, produced a viral April Fool's video for SAKRETE , a leader in concrete and concrete-related products, that highlighted a new product for the company - SAKRETE Soft-Crete, the world's first soft and flexible concrete. Sounds smart, right? And fills a need by preventing breakage when valuable items are dropped - brilliant! The video, complete with product managers showcasing the product in the SAKRETE lab, highlights ...

International SOS, the world's leading medical and security services provider, and IDV Solutions, the leading physical security and risk visualization software company, today announce an exclusive, long-term commercial and technological partnership that offers their customers an extended range of options for tracking and protecting travelers, expatriates, employees and assets. International SOS' TravelTracker and IDV Solutions' Visual Command Center provide two distinct, yet complementary solutions to navigate some of the most challenging business environments. Used ...

Southern Self Storage is expanding its regional locations with the latest acquisition in Port Richey, FL. Formerly Embassy One U-Store, this newest facility brings the Southern Self Storage group to 21 stores in the state of Florida. With over 52,000 sq. ft. of rentable space, the location boasts both indoor and outdoor units on enclosed grounds accessible by a digital gate system. "This facility has many of the qualities that we look for" says Regional Manager Donald Toler. "It's centrally located and already has a great tenant base that we can build on. ...

Hill, Chesson & Woody (HCW) (http://www.hcwbenefits.com), a health and welfare benefits brokerage and consulting firm that designs, manages and implements employee benefit programs, has announced that the firm has hired Nathaniel Banks as a business development associate. In this position, Banks works closely with the marketing and sales teams to implement business development initiatives by identifying and building relationships with potential clients. Prior to joining HCW, Banks worked as a legal assistant at Nodell, Glass, & Haskell, LLC in Raleigh. He received ...

Stream Energy, one of the largest network marketing companies in the world, announced today that it has established a relationship with a non-profit organization called Ragan's HOPE. Ragan's HOPE is focused on helping families contend with the many financial and emotional challenges that emerge when a child struggles with a catastrophic illness or injury. "Stream Energy has been a committed corporate supporter of family-focused charities these past several years," said Stream Energy Chairman Rob Snyder. "The work being done by Ragan's HOPE for suffering ...

GoECart, the leading provider of multi-channel commerce solutions delivered via the cloud today announced that its GoECart 360 ecommerce suite was named a finalist in the 2013 SIIA Software CODiE Awards for Best Commerce Solution. The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier award for the software and information industries, and have been recognizing product excellence for 27 years. The awards have over 75 categories and are organized by industry focus of Content, Education and Software. This year there were 27 software categories, including twelve new and updated categories ...

Fuentek, LLC (http://www.fuentek.com/), a local consulting firm that provides intellectual property (IP) and technology transfer services, has announced that President Laura Schoppe will serve as a panelist for a webinar hosted by Technology Transfer Tactics on Open Innovation Best Practices For University Tech Transfer on Friday, April 19 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. Schoppe, together with Charles Johnson-Bey, Ph.D., corporate open innovation program manager for Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Kevin Wozniak, executive director of the Office of Industry Engagement at Georgia Institute ...

This year it is expected that more women will become business owners than ever before. In a study conducted by the National Association of Women Business Owners it is predicted that there will be more entrepreneurial activity this year than was experienced in 2012. According to the study just released, women are joining male dominated industries and new opportunities are more readily available that did not previously exist. Unemployment numbers have aided in the increase of entrepreneurship as more women are looking for alternatives to a corporate lifestyle. The Kelly ...

Join 7Search at Moscone Center West in San Francisco next week April 9 and 10. 7Search will be exhibiting at AdTech San Francisco, a digital marketing and technology conference exposition with 9 shows in 7 countries in 2013. Our team will be manning booth #2717 in the expo hall and team members will be talking 7Search PPC and Display products, giving product demos and being all around helpful guys. When visiting our booth, be sure to enter our Apple Gift Card giveaway valued at $200. Simply drop a business card into the fishbowl and be entered into the drawing. The ...

GreenLeaf Media Group has purchased 11 RECs (11,000 kWh). This purchase will cover the energy used to run eight websites, designed and supported internally, over a 12 month period. An average website uses approximately 108 kWh to run per month, which comes out to 10,368 kWh per year. This purchase of the environmental attributes for 11 megawatt hours of renewable energy generation equates to 12,307 pounds of CO2 NOT being produced. 12,307 pounds of CO2 or 11 RECs is equivalent to: • the emissions from 626 gallons of gasoline consumed • the emissions from 233 ...

Adventure travel gear maker Travelpro, is teaming up with The Global Scavenger Hunt to outfit this year's participants who will be competing in the 9th annual around-the-world travel adventure competition that will crown The World's Greatest Travelers. The Global Scavenger Hunt's event will take place over 23-days between April 12th and May 4th, 2013. Teams of two will be competing in this annual travel adventure and cultural immersion that will travel from Los Angeles to Toronto—the long way! Intrepid Indiana Jone's (and Jane's) will be taking A Blind Date With The ...

Fairfield Harbour (http://www.fhpoa.com), a residential boating and golf community located 15 minutes from historic New Bern, has announced that the community's property owners association (POA) office will be collecting nonperishable food items for the Religious Community Services (RCS) Food Drive through Friday, April 5. RCS is a community-based organization of unified churches that works to help meet the basic or emergency needs of individuals and families in the New Bern area by reaching out to support those in need. Fairfield Harbor will be helping restock the RCS ...

As easy as uno, dos, tres, Monarca Language aims to give children the proper educational resources to learn Spanish at a young age through inspiring and stimulating learning materials. Parents, teachers and schools can now work collaboratively toward the shared goal of promoting increased Spanish fluency among preschoolers through this collection of enriching worksheets and curriculum that contributes to cultural awareness and linguistic abilities. Through handcrafted and teacher-tested curriculum, Monarca Language supplies the necessary tools for preschool and kindergarten ...

Innovative-e, Inc., a business consulting and technology solutions company that helps enterprise clients turn project management chaos into success, is a premier partner sponsoring the SHARE 2013 conference, the SharePoint conference for business users. SHARE 2013 will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis April 10-12, 2013. During the event, Innovative-e managing partner, Dux Raymond Sy, will be facilitating a one-day Deliver SharePoint Success Workshop, titled: "How to Drive Sustainable Adoption in Your Organization." The workshop ...

Access to maternal, newborn and child health care is a growing global health and human rights concern. CPAR's World Health Day challenge is an annual event that provides physicians with the means to demonstrate their commitment to global health beyond the boundaries of their community. This year's campaign will be on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Tanzania, where every day 23 women die in child birth. Their support builds on the efforts of the project that launched in 2012. On World Health Day, April 7th, we are challenging Canadian Physicians to rally in support ...

The Optoelectronics Company, a leading global supplier and manufacturer of innovative optoelectronic components including Opnext (OCLARO) laser diodes and Panasonic lenses, has introduced a range of tiny laser diode collimators with high alignment accuracy specifically aimed at OEMs and system integrators using laser based technology in their products. Laser diode collimators are used to collimate the highly divergent beam that is emitted by a laser diode. They consist of a laser diode, a laser diode holder, a collimating lens holder and a high numerical aperture (NA) ...

Career Step, an online school offering career-focused education, has announced that all new Medical Coding and Billing students will now also receive a free enrollment in the school's ICD-10 FastTrack course, which will be released this summer. "Our primary goal is to ensure our students graduate with the skills required to begin working in their chosen field immediately following the completion of their program," said Career Step CEO Steve Tober. "To that end, we will continue training Medical Coding students on the ICD-9 code set as these students will ...

Advanced Networks (www.a-networks.com) creates IT infrastructure for multi-channel news network NewsMax Media's first New York City location. West Palm Beach-based news media company NewsMax has established a presence in New York City with a 5,000 square foot office space on West 40th Street, directly overlooking Bryant Park. The new office fills an entire floor and has space for up to thirty employees. Also included is a hi-tech television studio where video production for the company's NewsMaxTV and MoneyNews websites will take place. "NewsMax is expanding ...

The Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women (IEEW) (http://ieew.org), a nonprofit organization that encourages women's leadership and entrepreneurship through education and mentoring initiatives, has announced that CEO Dr. Terry Neese has earned the 2014 Enterprising Women Legacy Award by Enterprising Women magazine. Neese will receive the honor during the 11th annual Enterprising Women of the Year Awards Celebration on Thursday, April 4 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Enterprising Women Legacy Award seeks to recognize women in the Enterprising Women community who have ...

Citybuzz Marketing have been enduring the freeze along with the rest of Britain and hear that the Federation of Small Businesses have just announced that members were "particularly hard-hit" in March. Businesses where cash flow is vital, such as restaurants and bars, are really suffering, it said. Estimates vary widely about the full extent of the overall cost to the UK economy of the cold weather but approximations suggest that one-fifth of the economy has been affected, costing about GBP1bn every day. Some industries will suffer a temporary hit, analysts ...

The top executives for global timeshare exchange company Dial An Exchange (DAE) will be leaving their corporate headquarters to attend the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) World Convention, to be held April 8-10 at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood, FL. Billed as the largest timeshare industry convention in the world, nearly 3,000 professionals are expected to gather for three days of meetings and sessions to discuss the state of the vacation ownership industry and trends which will affect the growth of the industry going forward. Fermin ...