Skilled Jobs Direct launches a website (http://www.SkilledJobsDirect.com) focused on directly matching skilled crafts men and women to jobs that best fit them -- based on trades, skills, preferences and other factors. The Skilled Jobs Direct website will go beyond other websites that market to this niche in that jobs will be matched directly to the worker. The Skilled Jobs Direct process differs from other websites in that the skilled craft worker fills out a profile outlining their trade, skills, professional experience, educational history, preferences and other information ...

Coats and Bennett, PLLC (http://www.coatsandbennett.com), an intellectual property law firm, has announced that Letao Qin, an associate attorney with the firm, has been named vice president of the North Carolina Chinese Business Association (NCCBA). The NCCBA is a non-profit association made up of China-focused professionals and businesses. The organization serves as a forum for networking, creating and maintaining successful businesses, and encouraging and facilitating coaching and consultation among its members. The NCCBA serves as a major catalyst in bridging the China-North ...

Dakota Dental, a well known and well respected family dentistry center in Apple Valley, Minnesota, has introduced a redesigned website. Known for its comfortable office environment and excellent customer service, the website redesign now makes browsing http://www.DakotaDental.com as inviting as an in-person visit to the Apple Valley dental clinic. With plenty of white space, brightly colored photographs, and soft green and blue accent colors, the Dakota Dental website is pleasing to readers' eyes. But beyond appearances, the website features simple navigation, informative ...

Eleven year old, Abe Benkhaled, a sixth grade student at Piney Grove Middle School has been asked to speak at the Forsyth County Board Of Commissioners Meeting on April 5, 2013 at 110 East Main Street, Cumming GA 30040 in Suite 220 about his book, The Greatest Country and present the Commission with a copy of the book. Abe wrote the book with his father, BK. The Greatest Country is an inspirational children's book that tells why America is the greatest country in the world. It highlights America's diversity, free enterprise system, rights and liberty, military, and everything ...

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 ...