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.
Company Releases Automated Solution to Enable Proactive, Enterprise-Wide Enforcement of PC Power Management
MINNEAPOLIS, November 11, 2008 – www.newboundary.com – New Boundary Technologies®, the IT automation innovator, today announced the release of its new Green IT Solution. Powered by Policy Commander® and the company’s unique PwrSmart™ technology, the Green IT Solution automates the enforcement of computer power management to dramatically reduce PC and computer monitor power consumption, energy costs, and environmental impact. The New Boundary Technologies Green IT Solution delivers centralized control of PC power management to IT departments enabling enterprise-wide energy efficiency and cost savings.
Research indicates that more than 100 million workers in the U.S. regularly use PCs on the job, and the majority of them never or only occasionally turn off those computers at the end of the workday. According to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates, the average PC left on all the time uses more than 700 kilowatts-hours of electricity, more than an average refrigerator, and wastes approximately 400 kilowatt-hours by running at full power when not in use. Each year, U.S. companies waste an estimated $4-billion powering computers that are not being used. Proactively managing PC power consumption can cut PC energy costs by 60 percent or more, or up to $350,000 annually for an organization with 5000 PCs. In fact, the potential for energy cost savings by implementing proactive PC power management is one reason Gartner named Green IT as its top strategic technology of 2008.
Fostering Donor Relationships Help Minnesota Youths of Color Achieve College Dreams
Rochester, MN October 21, 2008 — http://www.ResultsplusSoftware.com — ResultsPlus, a fundraising software solution from Metafile, is enabling large and small non-profit organizations to automate nearly all mission critical fundraising activities with minimum IT involvement. Page Education Foundation, utilizes ResultsPlus to help Minnesota youth of color realize their college dreams.
Page Education Foundation, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a small, non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Minnesota youths of color. By fostering positive attitudes about education and offering financial assistance for college, the foundation has helped send over three thousand students to college in the past 20 years.
Unfortunately, because the foundation was using an antiquated software system that did not have the ability to maintain detailed donor information, they were challenged when it came time to plan and target future fundraising initiatives.
The system Page Education Foundation was using did not even have the capability to provide foundation employees specific information about donor’s interests or to record specific causes donors had contributed to in the past. Without specific donor data, requests for donations and acknowledgement letters, a critical communication which helps the foundation seek support for Minnesota youth interested in attending college, could not be customized to the letter recipients.
Automated Windows Configuration Management Suite Introduces Secure, Internet-based Administration and Compliance;Extends Mobile Workforce and Distributed Environment Management
MINNEAPOLIS, October 16, 2008 - www.newboundary.com - New Boundary Technologies®, the IT automation innovator, today announced the release of Prism Suite® 9. Powered by the company’s automated configuration management innovations like Smart UpdateTM and Configuration Groups, Prism Suite 9 extends Windows configuration management to now include secure, Internet-based administration of the mobile workforce and widely distributed remote locations. With an open client/server architecture and modular design, Prism Suite 9 is engineered to automate and streamline processes within corporate IT departments and for delivery via managed service provider (MSP) and software as a service (SaaS) models.
Prism Suite 9 delivers robust, safe, and seamless Windows system management for any location, from any location. Engineered for the needs of IT departments that manage widely dispersed office locations and mobile Windows systems, Prism Suite 9 is also ideally positioned to provide managed service providers with an automated Windows configuration and compliance offering that can be delivered as an online service.
Importance of Vibration Testing Not Realized By Large Percentage of Medical Device Packaging Professionals
MINNEAPOLIS –August 12, 2008 — http://www.testedandproven.com/ — DDL, the leading product and package testing services firm specializing in medical device package testing, recently discovered through the company’s July “Vibration Testing Quizzler” that only 46 percent of Medical Device Packaging Professionals truly understand that vibration testing can prevent defective products or packaging from going to market.
In his winning Vibration Testing Quizzler response, David Anderson VP of Research & Development at GT Urological stated, “When there is the slightest chance that any of our medical products will be exposed to a transportation, operation or storage environment, it is vital that we implement vibration testing before going to market.”
The vibration testing quizzler question below received answers from nearly 200 medical device packaging professionals.
Question: Package and product testing should always be expanded to include vibration testing when there is a chance of exposure to what environments?
New Boundary Technologies®, the automated IT management innovator, today announced that Taarak India Private Limited has joined its global network of international distribution partners. Taarak India will distribute New Boundary Technologies’ Prism Suite™ and Policy Commander® software solutions throughout India. With the addition of Taarak to its global distributor network, New Boundary Technologies now counts 20 international distributors covering Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and Latin America.
Based in New Delhi with additional offices in Bangalore and Mumbai, Taarak is an information technology security company offering a wide range of IT solutions and services to protect business critical networks and information. With the addition of Prism Suite and Policy Commander, Taarak adds software and hardware asset management, software deployment, patch management, and security policy enforcement to its portfolio of technology solutions.
“We are excited about our new relationship with Taarak and our entry into the IT solutions market in India,” said Tom Diamond, president of New Boundary Technologies. “Taarak is an established company with a strong reputation for providing top quality technology solutions and services, and we share many common values and goals. Working together, our companies can offer organizations automated IT security and configuration management solutions that help them work and compete more efficiently and effectively.”
