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I happened to vist CeBIT 2010 that was held in Hannover, Germany and was pretty impressed with the latest happeing in the IT and Communication sphere. Folks. Not to miss the Australian edition of CeBIT 2010 going tot be held at Darling Harbour Sydney, Australia from May 24th to 26th, 2010. I an gonna goin to go now. And yes some info on CeBIT 2010 down under at http://www.angleritech.com/news_events/CeBIT_Australia_2010.html. Found it quite useful!I happened to vist CeBIT 2010 that was held in Hannover, Germany and was pretty... more
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Please vote daily through August 30, 2009 for story about Rev. Jon Magnuson's nonprofit environment projects in Michigan's Upper Peninsula: Vote for the story by Donna Kumpula about the EarthKeeper Initiative and the Zaagkii Project
It was weekly winner in April but now its competing against about 19 others for the big prize . Money that would help fund the projects for a year.
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Creating numerous environment projects that bring together diverse groups, students, American Indians
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Brief summary of projects your vote would support:
The interfaith Earth Keeper Initiative:
The interfaith EarthKeepers planted twelve thousand (12,000) trees across northern Michigan for Earth Day 2009 thanks to over 100 churches/temples from 12 religions.
During past Earth Day projects, the EarthKeepers have recycled or properly disposed over nearly 400 tons of waste including cellphones, computers (and related equipment), printers, car batteries, poisons, pesticides, oil-based paint, pharmaceuticals and much more.
The Zaagkii Project:
This summer Native American youth and at-risk teens are repairing the ecosystem along a Lake Superior beach, built dozens of Mason Bee houses including some to be placed at the U.S. National Gardens in D.C.; Native American teens this month are helping build a greenhouse for native species plants on the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community reservation.
Last summer the teens built dozens of butterfly houses for migrating Monarchs.See Links to vote below:
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Please vote daily through August 30, 2009 for story about Rev. Jon Magnuson's nonprofit environment projects in Michigan's Upper Peninsula: Vote for the story by Donna Kumpula about the EarthKeeper Initiative and the Zaagkii Project
It was weekly winner in April but now its competing against about 19 others for the big prize . Money that would help fund the projects for a year.
You'll need to register - or login if you have voted before.
Its entitled:
Creating numerous environment projects that bring together diverse groups, students, American Indians
Link to story is near end of list on lower right hand side of pagfe.
http://www.friendsofelsie.com/friends.asp?action=register
Or go directly to story – and register or log-in:
http://www.friendsofelsie.com/SingleSensations.asp?action=readStory&story=70
Brief summary of projects your vote would support:
The interfaith Earth Keeper Initiative:
The interfaith EarthKeepers planted twelve thousand (12,000) trees across northern Michigan for Earth Day 2009 thanks to over 100 churches/temples from 12 religions.
During past Earth Day projects, the EarthKeepers have recycled or properly disposed over nearly 400 tons of waste including cellphones, computers (and related equipment), printers, car batteries, poisons, pesticides, oil-based paint, pharmaceuticals and much more.
The Zaagkii Project:
This summer Native American youth and at-risk teens are repairing the ecosystem along a Lake Superior beach, built dozens of Mason Bee houses including some to be placed at the U.S. National Gardens in D.C.; Native American teens this month are helping build a greenhouse for native species plants on the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community reservation.
Last summer the teens built dozens of butterfly houses for migrating Monarchs.Please vote daily through August 30, 2009 for story about Rev. Jon Magnuson's... more
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San Francisco, Ca: Leila Chirayath Janah, Founder of Samasource, met up with us at her office in San Francisco, California. In our talk, Leila tells us how she became inspired to start Samasource. Leila also tells us about the topic of the panel she is joining as a featured speaker at the upcoming SOCAP09, conference in San Francisco: Sept 1 - 3, 2009. SOCAP09, also known as Social Capital Markets, brings together leading catalysts of positive social change for a day of learning, knowledge exchange, and connecting. To learn more, visit www.Samasource.org & www.SocialCapitalMarkets.net.
Produced by envisionGood.tv. Thanks for watching: please rate, comment, and subscribe!San Francisco, Ca: Leila Chirayath Janah, Founder of Samasource, met up with us at her... more
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Swaziland, Africa, July 2009: During a quick break in between sessions at BarCampSwaziland, Gcina of YouthAssets explains that mobile phones are more widely used in Swaziland, Africa than computers, as a source of information and connecting with friends. Gcina also tells us about MXIT, the dominant mobile social networking platform in southern africa, with over 9 million users and growing. Gcina uses a Nokia 6300 to catch up with friends on Facebook.
Thanks for watching :-)Swaziland, Africa, July 2009: During a quick break in between sessions at... more
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envisionGood.tv talks with TibusisoM, multimedia student and participant at BarCampSwaziland, a technology event hosted by YouthAssets.org in Malkerns, Swaziland on June 27, 2009.
BarCampSwaziland brought together technology experts and enthusiasts for a day of sharing ideas, building local tech community relationships, and learning about the current tech scene that's happenig in Swaziland and southern Africa.
YouthAssets is an international nonprofit organization that empowers orphans and vulnerable youth in southern Africa. For more info, be sure to visit http://www.YouthAssets.org and http://www.BarCampSwaziland.org .envisionGood.tv talks with TibusisoM, multimedia student and participant at... more
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By Eli Nawas, Southern Methodist University Graduate Student, Dallas TX – Sat July 11, 10:47am CT
The most fundamental and basic goal of any company is to achieve success. Success is attained by a company by differentiating itself from every other one. It may be the ‘operational efficiency’ a firm provides (as that of Dell’s laptop-customization and delivery model), the ‘hip-image’ factor a certain product delivers (such as the new-age iPhone) or the ‘customer-focused environment’ engrafted in a company’s culture (like the Southwest Airlines’ mode of service).
Operational efficiency and excellence may appear easy to imitate, but studying the market reveals that some powerful companies simply don’t take advantage of efficient-frameworks set by their competitors. General Motors, for example, failed to learn and embed lean manufacturing methodologies after its famous joint-venture with Toyota (known as ‘NUMMI’). Other examples include Google and Microsoft, Wal-Mart and Target...etc.
Observing how operational efficiency can be a fundamental factor in attaining success, one cannot but notice that many ICT organizations lack efficient decisive capabilities to employ ICT to envision and deliver powerful different services, which radically affect and influence operational excellence. Also, overcoming organizational inertia is rather complex and cannot be rapidly transformed.
ICT is almost never the main cause or reason of value deterioration. Nevertheless, if ICT was to contribute drastically in organizational strategic and operational success, it ought to discard routine everyday-operations and focus on high-value functions/activities.
ICT survived a number of transformational attempts to redesign how business models and rules are viewed and utilized in an effort to integrate and consolidate ICT and Software Engineering concepts. However, the Software Engineering Institute created the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and defined a new context far beyond code-development and automation. Although many western ICT firms were skeptical about CMMI and rejected it as a reference for process improvement, others embraced it. However, applying industrial process techniques together with the emerging CMMI concepts, led to software estimate-improvements, timely-deliveries and enhanced code quality, which drastically changed how CMMI was previously perceived. Today, CMMI Level 5 is regarded as a standard in corporate systems (especially put in use in request for proposals), and as a result of CMMI’s adoption many ICT jobs came to transpire.
Recently, it was noted that a reasonable eagerness and interest for Web Services, especially Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) emerged. SOA’s basic and primary objective is creating sub-process component services that can be congregated and built in different ways to facilitate and enable innovative new business processes. These business processes can be extended, altered and customized by reusing SOA services, which is greatly attributed to the continuously expanding Service-Oriented Architecture libraries.
Applying the SOA framework[1] produces many business gains, some of which include the reduction of costs, due to services’ reuse, highly responsive ICT capabilities, and the improvement in quality, due to reduced code errors because of the services’ code-reuse option resulting in the elimination of any overlapping coding efforts.
To shed more light on these significant dimensions, service providers (such as IBM) are currently rendering and supplying rich catalogs of SOA components to numerous business industries, (specifically those involved in business-process implementation), to help businesses grow and gain a competitive edge. Key functions like manufacturing order, vendor setup and order tracking…etc, will be available for purchase by many diversified companies; which basically leads us down to the very concept of ICT commodification. [2]
— E. Nawas
*[1][2]: Expanded Below.By Eli Nawas, Southern Methodist University Graduate Student, Dallas TX – Sat... more
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The Internet is in the process of a fundamental transition, expanding from the traditional ASCII character URLs to include scripts of many world languages. Creating a true multilingual Internet is a monumental technical challenge that also brings up some important issues about the future of networked technology. This piece, produced by Imagining the Internet http://www.imaginingtheinternet.org , a project of Elon University's School of Communications, includes voices of many of the world's top experts, who discuss the advent of Internationalized Domain Names.The Internet is in the process of a fundamental transition, expanding from the... more
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