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Nonprofit Organization Increases Productivity and Operational Efficiency

Committee for Children CfC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping keep children safe. Its award-winning classroom programs focused on youth violence, bullying, child abuse, and personal safety reach millions of children and educators every year. CfC wanted to improve customer service and increase operational efficiency while devoting more resources...

Tags: Accounting, Nonprofit Organization, Customer Service, Microsoft Corp., Committee For Children, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Financial Services, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

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The Senate Dems' energy and climate bill debuts

The official name is "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act." I though the American power act had to do with invading weak countries like Grenada, Panama, Iraq and Afghainistan. This must be some other kind of power? This has to do with fossil fuel, electricity and...

Tags: Bill, U.S. Senate, Senate Dems, Transportation, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Red Book: Report of the committee on Infectious Diseases (RedBk) 12.0.3 (Mobile)

Red Book: Report of the committee on Infectious Diseasespowered by Skyscape Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics The Red Book - The authorative guide to the latest pediatric infectious disease information brings you the latest clinically tested guidelines on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 200 conditions....

Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Mobile, Hepatitis, Skyscape Inc., Data Mining, Federal Government, Tools & Techniques, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Government, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-25

Could Internet filtering cause more harm than good?

A rational blog from ZackA welcome surprise, but perhaps for once, in your area of expertise ;-)You've made some good points. Pedophilia is nothing new and before the Internet pictures, magazines, videos and films were used instead. Just as criminal, just as prosecuted, as are a number of...

Tags: Internet, Internet Filtering, government

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Pediatric Nutrition Handbook (PedsNutr) (Mobile)

Pediatric Nutrition Handbookpowered by Skyscape Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics Pediatric Nutrition Handbook provides the latest information about nutrient metabolism and nutrition to support normal development and health of infants and children who are well, those born with congenital anomalies or disorders of metabolism, and those with acute and chronic...

Tags: Nutrition, Mobile

Software downloads 2009-09-16

What century is this?

The chess clubMy vote would be, to strongly encourage them to go digital. And on line.I'm secretary of my chess club, and it's very annoying that some elderly members don't even have a computer let alone internet access. This makes communication a lot more difficult and slow.I even offered them...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, E-mail, chess club, computer

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

denial:global warming=creation:evolution?

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to re-enact the famous Scopes Monkey Trial when the forces of faith and creationism tried to bar the teaching of Darwinian evolution to impressionable school children. Only this time it would global warming theory on trial. Is this just another round in...

Tags: Climate Change, Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-31

Will the 'real' Windows 7 testers please stand up?

Will the 'real' Windows 7 testers please stand up?Can you tell me how long I'll have to wait for the pudding? :-) I agree with you on waiting for the finial version to arrive. I tried both the 32 & 64 bit RC versions on a 3 yr AMD...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Windows 7 RC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Win 7, beta tester, RTM, Windows 7 tester, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-07-22

New software enables communication for students with severe disabilities

New software enables communication for students with severe disabilitiesWow!To me, that is the natural progression of software/technology, to be able to include everyone in a full, rich life experience and share it with others. I often wondered how children with severe speech issues are able to express the natural...

Tags: Operational accounting, HEALTHCARE, Peachtree Software, revenue, Accenture Ltd., Sun Microsystems Inc., New Software

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

Yahoo's China "police informant" role sparked a $47.5 billion slide in market value

The anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests recalls the courage of the Chinese people and the vicious response of the Chinese government. It also recalls the gutless behavior of Silicon Valley tech companies towards the Chinese government in pursuit of profits rather than morals. Many are guilty...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Shi, Government, Vertical Industries, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Happy birthday to me: a $20 laptop?

Happy birthday to me: a $20 laptop?Yes! India can do it.I think, India can do it, because of it size and manpower. They have done it for Mobile phone.India has the second largest cell phone users in the world and call charges are cheapest in the world and main thing...

Tags: Notebooks, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

BNF for Children 2008 11.0.3 (Mobile)

BNF for Children ('BNFC') provides essential practical information to all healthcare professionals involved in the prescribing, dispensing, monitoring, and administration of medicines to children.Covering neonates to adolescents, BNF for Children includes key clinical and pharmaceutical information, organised by the familiar BNF classification. Working under the supervision of an expert paediatric...

Tags: Mobile, Pharmaceutical Company, Health Care, Skyscape Inc., BNF, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-09-23

Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?

Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?Obama's childish attack????Kinda like the one where McCain says Obama wants to teach sex education to kindergartners, when in fact, what he wanted was to teach them how to recognize inappropriate touching to protect them from child predators? Ridiculous, childish attack INDEED!Um ridiculous and childishlike...

Tags: INTERNET, RIM BlackBerry, Obama

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

Red Book (27th Ed) 1.0 (Mobile)

2006 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (27th Ed) presents the latest AAP clinically tested guidelines for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of over 200 infectious diseases in children. Includes valuable topic areas such as immunization, school health, blood safety, sexually transmitted infections, drug interactions, antimicrobial agents, biological terrorism, and...

Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Mobile, Homeland Security, Federal Government, Real Estate, Government, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-06-09

New Association Promotes Virtual Worlds and Business

New Association Promotes Virtual Worlds and BusinessVirtual Snake OilEDITA KAYE, THE "SKINNY PILL FOR KIDS," AND THE ASSOCIATION OF VIRTUAL WORLDSThere is a certain species of entrepreneur that capitalizes on the human desire for overnight solutions to intractable problems. Throughout human history, they have lurked in the shadows of the...

Tags: Entrepreneurship, SKINNY PILL

Discussion threads 2008-04-13

Big storage is watching you

Kudos to Larry Dignan for an informative post on the system that caught NY governor Eliot Spitzer canoodling with a prostitute. Modern information technology enables 24 hour surveillance of every citizen. Should we care? Of course not. Every citizen is a potential terrorist. You want to...

Tags: Database, President, Surveillance, Information Technology, Storage, Personal Responsibility, GPS, Government, Handhelds, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-03-12

Follow-up: Build-A-Bear says it will take privacy suggestions to heart

There were lots of reactions to my last post about Build-A-Bear luring kids and parents into divulging personal information they might otherwise, in other contexts, guard more closely. While some responses channeled Scott McNealy, most seemed to get that my beef was not with the fact of the data...

Tags: Information, Build-A-Bear, Privacy Policy, Upshot, E-mail, Online Communications, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-01-26

Bill to add emails to sex registry

The latest wrinkle in the battle against sex offenders: The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill to include email addresses and online IDs in offenders' records in the national registry of sex offenders, The Washington Post reports. The legislation is called Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual...

Tags: Registry, Legislation, E-mail Address, MySpace, Sex Offender, E-mail, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-12-16

Bill makes home WiFi users track child porn

Wednesday, House Democrats rushed an absurd piece of legislation to the floor where it passed almost unanimously. Congress critters are suddenly up in arms about Wi-Fi connections being used to transmit child pornography. The new bill requires anyone providing a Wi-Fi network that includes individuals to report illegal (kiddy...

Tags: Electronic Communication, Child Pornography, Online Communications, Wireless LANs, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Wi-Fi, Wireless, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-12-06

Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee

Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committeeDoubtful[i]Microsoft's strong-arming of the ISO process regarding Open XML, the proprietary format of Microsoft Office, may be destroying its legitimacy.[/i]I don't see this doing any harm at all to Microsoft's legitimacy.Where's the downside?[i]Is making Microsoft's Open XML format a standard so important that Microsoft is...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, Process improvement, Word processors, Microsoft Office, open-source community, Microsoft Corp., ISO, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Word

Discussion threads 2007-12-06