Steelhenge Consulting, a leading provider of crisis response exercises and crisis communications training, has reported a significant increase in the number of companies requesting a specialised social media component in their crisis response training. With the growing use and influence of social media and sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube changing the speed at which breaking news can travel around the world, the use of social media can play a significant role in the evolution of a crisis. Forward thinking companies are increasingly aware of this and requesting ...

Word Awareness, Inc., a network of professional translators established in California, implemented earlier this month a new project management platform called ManyMoon to streamline translation tasks among different team members. With ManyMoon, the Word Awareness team is able to have a centralized location to manage each project and all related tasks, including file conversion, translation, proofreading, and desktop publishing. "It was the best option for us because it integrates many of the tools we were already implementing," says Vince Lombardino, Word Awareness ...

This is the fifth year for the series that features four award winning documentaries that highlight environmental and agricultural issues facing our planet. Each screening will take place at the Upcountry History Museum and refreshments will be provided prior to the show. Addison Homes will sponsor the fourth film in the series titled The End of the Line on February 22, 2011 from 5:30-8:30. Food will be provided by American Grocery. This documentary had its world premier at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and is the first major feature documentary to reveal the impact ...

Recent news reports have stated that inflation in the UK reached a high of 3.7% in December 2010, the highest level seen for the previous eight months*. This could invariably impact the cost of goods and services, increasing the need to be able to budget effectively. A prepaid credit card offers a cheap and convenient method of managing monthly outgoings to ensure that people can set budgets and then help them stick to it. The very nature of prepaid cards lend themselves to good budget management; funds have to be preloaded to a card. When the money is used up, extra ...

Children's author Michelle Hall is being showcased the entire month of February at the National Writing for Children Center. Part of this showcase includes a 6-day virtual book tour. Join Suzanne Lieurance, founder and director of the National Writing for Children Center, and the virtual book tour hosts as they welcome Michelle Hall for her exclusive tour that starts Monday, February 14. Michelle Antoinette Hall, nee Grogan, was born in Barbados in the Caribbean, to Mr. and Mrs. Rudol Grogan. The younger of two children, Michelle left her island home and migrated to ...

VeriTweet is a new microblogging service thatÿs synchronized with Twitter. VeriTweet allows its users to watch videos and view images on the fly, and has some more visual enhancements that add features to Twitterÿs own functionality. However, the most important feature that sets VeriTweet apart from other micro-blogging tools is the Verification bar, which each verified account has. Yes, Twitter has verified accounts, but theyÿre mostly reserved for celebrities and for special occasions where heads of state, or celebrities, give Twitter worldwide exposure. The ...

Our ethos is to have a community based event that not only raises valuable funds for Claire House Children's Hospice but also helps local community groups to raise awareness and funds for their own cause. We are also inviting local craft artisans and food producers to come along and participate. With stalls priced from GBP30 for the weekend we have already had a great response. It is shaping up to be a wonderful local Farmers Market and Craft Fair with a unique and high quality range of food stuffs, crafts and gifts. It will be a family orientated event with fairground ...

Buissy.com, the Software Directory for Business Software, has released version 0.5 of the website. Version 0.5 includes functionality to increase quality of the leads that are sent to the software vendors, as well as making it possible for software purchasers to find software and evaluate the software already at Buissy.com. Every product at Buissy.com has its own product information page, now including extensive information about the product. As a software vendor you are now able to include into the product information: • Long description of the product • Logo • Category ...

An exciting new product, Microsoft Lync Server, offers businesses the most seamless integration of communications technology solutions ever presented, including enterprise voice, conferencing, and instant messaging. Microsoft Lync may well revolutionize the way your employees communicate with each other. Sudden Communications (www.suddencommunications.ca) is working with clients throughout Vancouver to integrate this technology into their existing infrastructure. Managing multiple platforms for multiple communications solutions has always been a frustrating and cumbersome ...

Rock 'n Retail, LLC (a.k.a. Rock and Retail) is proud to be celebrating its 20th year anniversary of providing innovative, low cost and high ROI services marketing tangible products to retail, and at retail consumers. In celebration of the milestone anniversary, the company has re-designed its image via new logos and a brand new website. In the past few years as the economic and online landscape shifted, what was traditionally a music marketing business (Rock 'n Retail has marketed over 250 major and independent releases to record stores/consumers) has expanded to market ...

A wildly popular book that explains the Gospel in "Wal-Mart English" has been re-released with new tools designed to help people who want to explore the basics of Christianity but don't know much about the Bible. More than 500,000 copies of An Anchor for the Soul: Help for the Present, Hope for the Future have been distributed worldwide in several languages. Written back in 2000 by Dr. Ray Pritchard, president of Keep Believing Ministries and author of 27 books, An Anchor for the Soul is now widely used around the globe by churches, prison ministries, crisis pregnancy ...

The band, whose works include the platinum selling The Wombats Proudly Present: A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation, will take to the stage at the nightclub and live music venue on 11th March 2011, with their own brand of energetic live performance, which has been honed since their first meeting as students at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. Tickets for the Dundee date, one of only a few planned live performances by this award-winning band who have received accolades from industry icon NME, are on sale now at GBP13 (plus booking fee) through seetickets.com ...

Love is in the air! What a load of crap! Just because it is February, and just because Valentine's Day just happened does not mean that your potential date, mate, or lifelong companion is going to simply float by on air. And lets be honest, anything that comes that easy is usually not really that worth while anyhow. OK, yes, I know that the phrase 'love is in the air' was not meant literally, however too many people out there are expecting the love of their lives to simply fall out of thin air. That's not how it works, not by a long shot. There are some ways to ease the ...

This Foreign Translations, Inc. state-of-the-art website is completely modernized to offer a new look and feel, making it easier and faster for visitors to find the information needed. A clear navigation menu provides information about translation services, languages, and even tailored information for various industries. Customers and Partners will find sections specific to their needs that supply the relevant and vital information about Foreign Translations, Inc.'s quality processes and services. According to CEO, Ken Zwerdling, "Our new site (www.foreigntranslations.com) ...

These designer properties are available as of today for daily and weekly rent, and can be booked on the company's newly-designed website. The incorporation of these fifteen luxurious properties in Valencia's city center, are representative of Spain Select's ongoing plans to increase its portfolio of top-of-the-line properties throughout Spain. Aimed at the business professional and the individual or family in search of an alternative to a hotel, the strategic increase in Spain Select's supply of apartment rentals in Valencia reflects the increasing attractiveness of ...

ThinkHR Corporation, the largest national HR firm specializing in wholesale insurance broker distribution, today announced the appointed of Dan Riordan as Chief Operating Officer. Effective immediately, Mr. Riordan will be responsible for the day-to-day operations management of ThinkHR including driving activities to increase operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and financial results. Mr. Riordan joins ThinkHR with over 25 years of senior management and sales experience at leading technology start-up companies. Most recently, he was at ...

Providers report a demonstrable return on their speech recognition dollars, according to a new report from KLAS. "Speech Recognition 2010: Vocalizing Benefits" includes feedback from 355 providers and covers both back-end and front-end speech-recognition technology. Participants of the study indicated benefits of speech recognition such as staff reductions, improved report turnaround times, and increased physician satisfaction, among others. "The speech recognition market is ripe for healthy growth," said Ben Brown, report author. "Currently, less than one in four hospitals ...

The Magellan Group, a leading Southern California real estate investment and development firm, has refinanced its Grace Place industrial/office buildings in Los Angeles with a $34.5 million loan from Morgan Stanley. The Magellan Group obtained the 10-year loan with a fixed interest rate of 5.86% to retire existing short-term and mezzanine debt one year prior to maturity and to capitalize on the favorable interest rate environment and the recovering CMBS market. Located at 5556 and 5650 Grace Place in the City of Commerce, Calif., the fully leased properties consist ...

CloudTrigger LLC, a leading cloud-strategy consulting firm providing professional services and cloud-based solutions, today announced that it is participating in the IBM Cloud Computing Specialty as a cloud application provider delivering SaaS applications through the cloud. The IBM Cloud Computing Specialty is designed to help IBM business partners engage more closely with each other and with the full breadth of IBM's cloud capabilities, including software, systems, and services. Cloud computing is a rapidly growing market opportunity expected to more than double from ...

Regulators of the Arizona auto insurance market have updated the monetary thresholds that policyholders' property damage claims records must meet in order for an insurer to legally non-renew their policies. The new threshold is $2,400 per claim, up from $2,360 in 2010. In Arizona, as in most states, insurers are allowed to raise rates on drivers who display that they may be high risk car insurance liabilities--meaning that they have established a track record of racking up large numbers of tickets or at-fault accidents. Some drivers, though, will get so many tickets ...

Ve Interactive was a recent finalist in the UK's Digital Entrepreneur Awards and its flagship shopping cart abandonment software 'VeCapture' is already being used by scores of online merchants across the UK and Europe. VeCapture recovers 'anonymous' abandoned transactional data that would be otherwise lost in normal web site traffic churn. This data can then be used for remarketing purposes to re-engage and convert those consumers to sales. Uplifts to date have been as high as 40%. "I am delighted to announce Ve Interactive's roll out into North America, the first of ...

The researcher heading up the study says "meeting singles online has become the norm". Online dating is by no means a new way to date, websites like Match and eHarmony have been around since the 1990s, and have seen activity surge in recent times. According to the Nielson Company, throughout December 2010, fifteen percent of all Internet usage targeted online dating sites which amounts to twenty four million people in the month of December alone. Industry experts maintain the reasoning behind the online dating boom lies with the convenience associated with meeting ...

Marva Goldsmith, personal brand strategist and career coach for baby boomers will present a personal branding workshop on February 17 at the Easter Seals conference for its Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) employees. The SCSEP is a skill building and job training program that assists quality older workers in finding jobs with employers who value what they have to offer. By providing hands-on job training to individuals age 55 and over, Easter Seals SCSEP helps older job seekers bridge skill gaps needed to add value to any workplace environment. Goldsmith ...

Lakeview Pharmacy, a privately owned pharmacy in Racine, Wisconsin, employs the Eyecon tabletop automation solution by Avery Weigh-Tronix to fill prescriptions at high speed--and with high accuracy. Eyecon is a prescription validation, counting and filling system designed to improve filling accuracy, customer safety and inventory management. "Prior to Eyecon, we would hand-count all prescriptions, which can be time-consuming for large orders," said Tiffany McWhorter, pharmacy technician at Lakeview. "Eyecon has expedited and improved the accuracy of our fill counts, ...

In the two weeks since its launch, PlayScreen LLC's Bocce-Ball has become a runaway success with over three-quarters of a million downloads and top ranking in the USA, Italy and other markets. This free app has climbed to top ranking in several categories, even enjoying a 4 day stretch as the #1 Free App in the Italy App Store. Bocce-Ball is categorized in the Apple App Store as Games, Arcade Games, and Sports Games. It has reached #1 in Free Sports Games, #2 in Free Arcade Games, #4 in all Free Games, and #6 in all Free Apps ... as ranked in the USA App Store. John ...