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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California Signs Bill That Bans Mercury in Pediatric Vaccines -Parents Applaud Action

Cursed And Frightened, But Mya Is Not Scared

Award winning singer and actress Mya is nominated for a 2005 MTV Movie Award in the category of “Best Frightened Performance” for the movie Cursed as the role of Jenny. The MTV Movie Awards film June 4, 2005 in California and will air on MTV June 9, 2005 at 8:30pm ET/PT. Cursed is a Wes Craven horror film about a werewolf in Los Angeles, California and a trail of teenagers and events connected to this werewolf. Mya ‘s role is Jenny, a best friend of Becky (played by Shannon Elizabeth). The two girls go to a carnival, encounter a fortune teller and the rest…well, the rest is why Mya is a nomination for “best frightened performance!”... (Continue reading)

Involver Founders Rahim Fazal and Noah Horton Named Two of America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs by Inc Magazine's Annual 30 Under 30 List

Involver today announced CEO Rahim Fazal and CTO Noah Horton were included as two of "America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs" by Inc Magazine in its prestigious 30 Under 30 List. The duo's innovative new company is the latest of their entrepreneurial endeavors and has received significant acclaim within its first year of operation.

Fazal and Horton developed the Involver video marketing platform, allowing companies to easily build and distribute video campaigns to audiences on social networks, like Facebook and MySpace. Involver's technology gives companies the tools to increase customer engagement by having them interact with the video campaign, rather than be passive viewers.... (Continue reading)

ActiveAuthors.com Offers Reprintable Articles and Content

Both publishers seeking free reprint articles and website owners seeking ways to boost sales can add a new resource to their marketing arsenal: ActiveAuthors.com, a new article submission database of free content and reprint articles, located at http://www.ActiveAuthors.com

ActiveAuthors.com lets authors -- writers, marketers, entrepreneurs, and business-savvy people -- submit articles with their own bio. and resource box, and lets publishers and website owners reprint them immediately.

"Every business-savvy person knows that having others reprint their articles in which they subtly advertise their services or products is the most popular and best result-yielding viral marketing technique used by amateurs and pros today," according to Brian Konradt, owner of ActiveAuthors.com. "When you offer a single article for reprint, you invite hundreds -- even thousands -- of publishers and website owners to publish your material throughout the Internet and across different media. The end result is global publicity, an increase in traffic, and a boost in sales, all which costs you nothing!"... (Continue reading)

eComXpo Brings the Tradeshow to You

Catch the red-eye flight, check into the hotel, take a cab to the tradeshow, spend all day trying to find your colleagues, affiliates and the press, run to sit-in on a few presentations, fight the crowd to do some networking, take a cab back to the hotel, order room-service and soak your sore feet -- sound like the last tradeshow you attended? Savvy business professionals are turning to online tradeshows and the one everyones been talking about is eComXpo, the premier virtual tradeshow for eCommerce marketers, taking place from Oct. 6-8, 2005. The location? Your very own home or office PC.... (Continue reading)

Society for New Communications Research Seeks Participants for Study on New Media, New Influencers and Implications for Public Relations Research Funded by Institute for Public Relations and Wieck Media

The Society for New Communications Research (SNCR, http://www.sncr.org) has been awarded a research grant from the Institute for Public Relations (www.instituteforpr.org) and Wieck Media (http://www.wieck.com). The research study titled "New Media, New Influencers and Implications for the PR Profession," will explore the impact of Web 2.0 and social media tools on communications and the public relations profession.

The study is being conducted by a team of SNCR Fellows comprising seasoned PR professionals, journalists and academics, including Joseph Carrabis, John Cass, Paul Gillin, Richard Nacht, Greg Peverill-Conti and SNCR research assistant Myungshin Shayna Kim. Through surveys and case studies, the research team will investigate how our conceptions of media and influence are evolving, how the role of PR is being redefined and what new skills are needed.... (Continue reading)

Winning Artists From the myartspace / Bridge Art Fair Miami Competition Announced

myartspace.com, the premier online venue for contemporary art, concluded the Bridge Art Fair Miami competition on November 19, 2008. After careful deliberation, the jury panel selected 3 winners and 50 finalists. The three winners were Jonathan Brilliant, Beatrix Reinhardt and Douglas Ljungkvist. The four-person jury panel consisted of Elisabeth Sussman, senior Curator of the Whitney Museum, Janet Bishop, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, JoAnne Northrop, senior curator of the San Jose Museum of Art, and Michael Workman, Founder of the Bridge Art Fair.... (Continue reading)

Acquity Group Customers Experience Record Sales and Reliable Online Service on Black Friday

Acquity Group, a leading services firm that focuses on digital solutions, has announced that many of its clients saw significant year-over-year growth in revenue and order size on Black Friday, while experiencing solid Web site reliability during this important holiday season.

The critical shopping day requires that online systems remain responsive and provide seamless sales transactions for the tens of thousands of holiday shoppers. Acquity Group consistently offers a holistic approach that merges strategy, technology, and creative design to make such online experiences user-friendly and aesthetically pleasing. Many Acquity Group customers credited their strong Black Friday sales growth to Acquity Group's expertise in the digital channel.... (Continue reading)

ACLens.com Wins A Circle of Excellence Platinum Award For 2008

Shopzilla's BizRate Research recognized ACLens.com as a Platinum winner of the Circle of Excellence Awards for 2008. The award signifies outstanding online customer satisfaction.

To become a winner, online buyers completed surveys about ACLens.com - at the Point-of-Sale, and after the delivery of goods - in order to accurately measure the online shopping experience and to monitor the store's post-transaction fulfillment performance.

ACLens.com is the only contact lens retailer honored with this prestigious Platinum Award this year. "Being one of the 81 online companies awarded is very important for us," said Dr. Peter Clarkson, CEO of ACLens.com "When consumers are choosing an online company, they should seek out one that has longevity and a knowledgeable staff that can address their needs and concerns. We have been doing that for over 11 years and now we are being recognized because of this."... (Continue reading)

Got AdTracker Launches

Synergy-DTI.com is pleased to announce the launch of GotAdTracker.com.

Got AdTracker is a software product that can track and analyze all traffic on your websites. With excellent reporting functionality, Got AdTracker helps to identify main sources of quality traffic that resulted in increased conversion rates and sales.

Got AdTracker provides the following features:

-Track all web traffic on your site or the sites of your clients.

- Track actions, sales, split tests, campaigns and more.

- Detailed real time reports for actions, split tests, orders, products, referrers, search engines, search keywords, visitors browsers and more.

- See conversion rates for actions and sales; and return on investment (ROI) for campaigns and campaign groups.

- Create unlimited campaigns and campaign groups.

- Specify costs for a campaign either per click or as totals.

- Catch loading of important web pages with actions.

- Actions could be configured to redirect the visitor to a pre-defined URL (very useful when tracking downloads).

- Monitor particular visitors and visitor groups activity.

- Complete visitors paths are available as a separate report.

- Find visitors statistics using their IP.

- Print reports.

- Export reports in Excel/CSV format.

- Use powerful filters in the reports that help to display only the data that you need.

- Sort reports by any available column.

- Dynamic flash charts are available for all the reports

- Track the performance and optimize all of your marketing campaigns, including pay per click, banners advertising, email and affiliate marketing.

- Discover new advertising sites and search engine keywords that you can make use of to get more quality traffic and higher conversion rates.

- Track sales, downloads, signups, loading of important pages and see where the visitors that performed these actions originally came from.

- Watch the trends for years, months, days, weekdays and even hours.

- Find out the most effective versions of marketing copies and web pages by using the built-in split tests functionality.

- Examine the path of every visitor and see all actions and sales that the visitor performed while browsing the site.... (Continue reading)

PropertySold Brand Goes DotCom

PropertySold, one of Canada's leading For Sale by Owner sites, is pleased to announce the first step in its expansion into the US market with the acquisition of http://www.PropertySold.com.

The new domain will feature property listings in the US, as well as offering marketing tools for the do-it-yourself home seller, including yard signs, street signs and personal URLs.

One hundred free listings will be given away to mark the momentous event, as PropertySold prepares to break into the US housing market.... (Continue reading)

New Look Free PR Advice Web Site for Businesses

Technical and on-line public relations specialist Ainsworth Maguire has re-launched their marketing advice site www.free-PR-advice.co.uk. With 33 checklists on topics as diverse as making the most of exhibitions, crisis management, managing green agendas and exploiting the web, the site is designed to provide easy access to straight forward PR advice for companies.

Partner at the Bury based company, Kevin Ainsworth explained, "Each of the checklists deals with a different issue and follows a simple formula with ten positive actions to take and five things to avoid doing. At the end of the checklists we give recommended further reading and have now added links to other writers to add further interest."... (Continue reading)

COPC Joins with ICMI to Provide A Comprehensive Training Program for Implementing Six Sigma in Contact Centers"

- Customer Operations Performance Center, Inc. (COPC) is combining forces with Incoming Calls Management Institute (ICMI) to present an intensive five-day course designed to equip Customer Contact Centers to apply Six Sigma tools and methodologies. This disciplined approach uses data and statistical analysis to measure and improve an organizations contact center performance by identifying defects in service-related processes.

COPC and ICMI, two of the worlds leading authorities on customer contact operations, have developed this training course to focus specifically on the contact center environment. While there are many Six Sigma programs available for manufacturing, attending this course offers contact center insights shared by the COPC and ICMI industry renowned facilitators. Peter Bloom, President and Co-founder of COPC, Inc., and Brad Cleveland, President, CEO and Publisher of ICMI, provide practical and relevant cases, examples, and methods specific to the unique challenges of the customer contact environment.... (Continue reading)

EU Data Retention: Compliance Strategies for ISPs and Telecommunication Companies

Web Conference: "EU Data Retention Directive: Compliance Strategies for ISPs and Telecommunication Companies," featuring Martin Hoskins, Data Protection Manager, T-Mobile, Simon Watkins, Covert Investigation Policy Team, UK Home Office, Klaus Landefeld, Chief Technology Advisor, European Internet Service Providers Association.

In this Xtalks web conference on May 30, 2006, the new data retention directive will be examined by: Martin Hoskins, T-Mobile giving the teleco point of view; Simon Watkins, UK Home Office relating the legislative viewpoint; and Klaus Landefeld, European Internet Service Providers Association, discussing the issue for the ISPs.... (Continue reading)

MP3 Attachment Spam Bombards Computer Users

Accounting for approximately 7-10% of all spam globally over the past 18 hours, spam messages with MP3 attachments are the latest threat to hit email and computer users. According to the Commtouch Detection Centre, this latest flood of spam began at 21:24 GMT, October 17, 2007 and is characterized by massive file sizes that range from 85 KB to 147 KB. Commtouch reports that the message contents are usually empty as are the subject lines, containing just the words "Fwd:" or "Re:" or the name of the file attachment.... (Continue reading)

Psoriasis Cure Now Offers Free "Back to School" Resources for Children with Psoriasis, and Their Parents

"Psoriasis Cure Now," a nonprofit patient advocacy group, today released expanded resources to help children with psoriasis, and their parents, as kids head back to school. The organization offers a free fact sheet on children's psoriasis that parents can print off the internet and deliver to their child's school teacher; and it offers a free podcast interview with a leading pediatric dermatologist discussing how to treat psoriasis in children and how to help them cope with it. These resources and more are available at http://www.PsoriasisKids.org .... (Continue reading)

Get Industrial Strength Load-balancing and Fault-tolerance for Non-stop Access to Your Self-hosted Internet Servers.

Edimax Computer, a public listed company on the Taiwan stock exchange, announces that it has been shipping the new inbound & outbound multi-homing, multi-WAN, broadband routers, PermaLink PRI-682 (2 WAN ports) and PermaLink PRI-684 (4 WAN ports.)

the PermaLink PRI-684 (4 WAN ports.) is the only QuadWAN broadband router in the world that supports inbound load-balancing. Inbound load-balancing is the crucial feature that enables people to do reliable self-hosting of Internet severs. Why self-hosting?... (Continue reading)

Hurricane Preparedness for Business: Lessons Learned from Award-winning New Orleans Tech Company and HyperOffice

It’s Hurricane Season. Meteorologists forecast up to 16 named storms. Experts are warning small businesses to prepare an emergency plan that can save lives, company assets -- and the business.

Kerry W. Kirby, president of 365 Connect LLC, www.about365.com, based in New Orleans, is better prepared this year.

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One month after Hurricane Katrina delivered the “wake up call” that knocked his business offline, Kirby t 317 ook steps to protect and prepare 365 Connect from the next disaster.

First, Kirby deployed the company’s software platform to several data centers located across the U.S. This ensures 24x7 redundancy for the Internet-based products and services that 365 Connect provides nationwide to multifamily communities with more than 100 units. The platform includes online leasing and marketing tools for apartment managers, as well as self-service tools with which residents may schedule repairs, pay rent, buy insurance, reserve facilities, update a community calendar, and more.... (Continue reading)

Vendor-Neutral Storage Training Comes to the Midwest

Technical consulting firm Data Center Enhancements Inc. announces the formation of a new training services group. This new group will focus on delivery of instructor-led storage training classes. We will focus on presenting an in-depth examination of storage technology concepts to ensure maximum depth and breadth of understanding. Each course will be designed to assist students with the preparation for one or more comprehensive storage certification examinations.

High quality storage training courses.... (Continue reading)

GEDforFree.com Announces Free GED Program for College-bound Students

GEDforFree.com announces that its free GED online class, located at http://www.gedforfree.com , is available for individuals who are seeking to enter college. The system provides a complete course of study in all of the subject areas, especially GED math. The included GED preparation shows you how to get your GED. It is self-paced, and requires only an Internet connection. It is open to anyone, and includes extensive GED practice tests.

"Individuals who drop out of high school are less likely to find employment, and have significant lower earning potential, than high school graduates and individuals who have passed the GED exams. Furthermore, colleges usually require a diploma or high school equivalent. With the support of local and national GED non-profit educational centers, GEDforFree.com is able to provide the most extensive on-demand free GED preparation program available today," said James Donald, CEO of GEDforFree.com.... (Continue reading)

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California Signs Bill That Bans Mercury in Pediatric Vaccines -Parents Applaud Action

Thousands of children are now mentally handicapped from vaccines that contained Thimerosal. (a neuro-toxic, mercury compound). These children will require care and rehabilitation services for the rest of their lives.

Despite intense lobbying efforts by the pharmaceutical industry, The California Governor recently signed a bill that eliminates Thimerosal from children's vaccines. This is an important victory for parents who have lived with the horror of a mercury poisoned child.

A recent book titled, "Mercury: The Winged Messenger", has helped bring this tragedy to light with a glaring reality that cannot be disputed. It points out that the pharmaceutical industry has been protected with a three year statute of limitation and a vaccine injury court of law. This tragedy will eventually be fought out in the courts.... (Continue reading)