Along with Santa, Chapeau Blog Awards Offers 2,000 Dollars for 2009 Most Brilliant Blog
Minneapolis, MN – December 24, 2008- www.ChapeauBlogAwards.com – Chapeau Blog Awards and Santa have been working closely this year to check – and double check – bloggers’ holiday wish lists.
This year it seems that top of most bloggers’ holiday lists is a blog awards program which:
1 – honors brilliant blogs
2 – offers a Grand Prize, and
3 – is affordable!
Santa’s eyes did twinkle when the elves presented their ideas for deserving bloggers this year.
Chapeau Blog Awards and Santa are proud to deliver the following gifts:
• $2,000 for the Most Brilliant Blog
• An iPod Touch to the top 4 Honorable Mention Blogs
• A significantly reduced Chapeau Blog Award entry fee
Now $50.00
“For goodness sake, bloggers certainly have been good this year, and with nearly 23 million bloggers according to Technorati, Santa certainly has his hands full,” said Susan Misukanis, Director of Chapeau Blog Awards. “Chapeau Blog Awards is excited to be an honorary elf this year when we deliver a $2,000 award to the 2009 Most Brilliant Blog.”
IBM XIV Able To Regenerate Data Loss Due To Disk Failure
Minneapolis, MN- December 9, 2008 — http://www.evolvingsol.com — Evolving Solutions, a leading server virtualization and storage consolidation provider, is one of ten Certified IBM Business Partners in the United States to offer IBM’s XIV, a self healing data storage consolidation solution. IBM’s XIV is able to repair and restore data loss due to disk failure within approximately thirty minutes, versus the hours or days needed by alternative solutions.
Evolving Solutions is offering IBM XIV immediately for client demonstrations in its Business Partner Innovation Center (BPIC).
“It is essential to have a system that can effectively store, consolidate and protect mission critical data,” stated Jaime Gmach, President of Evolving Solutions. “We have seen a need for IBM’s XIV Storage Consolidation System as high volumes of data are outpacing an IT department’s ability to store and manage the data by traditional means. By the introduction of the XIV, IBM is providing another option for businesses to store and protect their data.”
DeepSpar Data Recovery Systems, leading analyst in disaster r,ecovery estimates disk failure accounts for 38 percent of data loss incidents in businesses across the United States each year. Disk failure for these companies results in data loss that can derail large, costly projects.
Minneapolis, MN- December 4, 2008- www.ChapeauBlogAwards.com- Chapeau Blog Awards announces Blog Review, an online destination dedicated to providing bloggers a channel to review and comment on blogs around the world.
All blogs are subject to being reviewed on Blog Review including political blogs, entertainment blogs and opinion blogs.
“Blog Review is designed to be a candid review from real world bloggers covering best practices and opportunities of well known as well as more obscure blogs,” stated Susan Misukanis, Director of Chapeau Blog Awards.
Bloggers have already been sharing comments regarding the ObamaBlog. Some reviews questioned the impact Obama’s staff writers are having on creating his blog postings.
“Enjoyed your review,” stated one post. “We all know that the Obama blog was never intended to be ‘from’ the man himself but written by his staff.”
Other comments suggest ObamaBlog contained creative and compelling messaging while other reviewers requested to see blogs from other countries.
With candid blogger responses and consistent messaging Blog Review awards ObamaBlog with nine out of ten stars.
Each week a member of Chapeau Blog Awards along with a guest reviewer will review, comment, make suggestions and rank a new blog.
Minneapolis-based office furniture company achieves number 20 on prestigious annual list of fastest growing companies
Eden Prairie, MN — December 3, 2008— www.thefsi.com – The Furniture Source, providers of new and used office furniture in Minneapolis, MN, proudly announces that they have been named to 2008’s Fast 50, by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Fast 50 is an annual list of the fifty fastest growing companies in Minnesota.
The Furniture Source, a three million dollar, twelve person firm in Eden Prairie, has achieved growth of nearly 120% since its launch by founder Dan Sheehan in 2003.
New and used office furniture, as quoted in the article announcing The Furniture Source’s inclusion in this list, is an admittedly non-sexy business, making the growth achieved by Sheehan and his team all the more impressive.
“No one comes in and goes, “Oh, thank you for making sure my office furniture is set up right,” quotes Sheehan in the piece. “In our business, there’s not a lot of gratitude involved. Instead, we try to relieve that small area of stress in our client’s lives.”
Santa’s Storybook Outlines 7 Steps to a Successful Business, Helping Others Bring Business Dreams to Life
Riverwoods, IL –December 3, 2008 – www.toolkit.com – Business Owner’s Toolkit, the total know-how for small businesses, is helping bring new business wishes to life this holiday season by telling the story of how Old St. Nick became the successful business owner, Santa Claus.
The story of Nick becoming Santa Claus is chronicled in, Santa’s Storybook: A Dream, A Wish and a World of Inspiration.
Nearly 1.5 million Americans launch new businesses each New Year, according to USA Today. Of those new businesses, “Two-thirds survive the first two years,” states Patricia Schaefer, of Franchisetrade.com.
Santa’s Storybook illustrates the seven steps toymaker Nick Claus took in creating his successful business, including:
Business Plan. Creates a formal statement of business goals, the reasons why they are attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals. Nick the toymaker believed that he had the experience necessary to make his toyshop a success and the kind smile to raise sufficient capital.
Incorporate. Forms a new corporation and safeguards personal assets against the claims of creditors and lawsuits. Realizing that he needed to protect his personal assets and his new business, Nick changed his legal persona to Santa Claus.
