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What’s New on TAG TV April 27 – May 1, 2009?
Posted by Josh Lewis
From last week’s tech news from CNET and how Google is rethinking the future of computing to a special hat’s off to the online People’s Choice start up company winners with a “thinking inside or outside the box” interview from Harvard Business, then what a video game superstar knows that might help you in your business and what happens when creativity meets technology, a new show is launched every week day on WebVisions: a TAG TV compilation of tech news and information clips from various popular Internet video sites. Watch a show a day to conveniently keep up with—and explore—a variety of tech topics!
Go to WebVisions Now!
Monday: CNET Buzz Report, What New Virus?
Last weeks news goes from good news, the green gadget of the week, to bad, the troubles at Craigslist, hacker attacks on everything from fighter jets to MSN New Zealand and a new virus. 4 minutes
Tuesday: Google, Rethinking the Future of Computing
Vic Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google, discusses why he left Microsoft to join Google and his daughter’s simple question caused him to rethink the future of computing, with the core being the phone as a cloud connected device. 4 minutes
Wednesday: Thinking Inside the Box for Innovation
In honor of the innovative People’s Choice competitors, WebVisions features a Harvard Business interview about thinking outside or inside “the box” and poses five questions that can stimulate more focused thinking about new products and services. 9 minutes
Thursday: What a Video Game Superstar Designer Knows
How can this insight help your business? Superstar video game designer Will Wright names one of his central premises to game design to be “people are very narcissistic.” How does that relate to the creative process, user-generated content, and more? 3 minutes
Friday: What Happens When Creativity Meets Technology?
How are businesses dealing with future products stimulating the market? Creative Sandbox was designed to spark the imagination of agencies by showing the best uses of Google products and creative possibilities in a high energy environment. 2 minutes
Other TAG TV Features: Tech Talk on TAG Radio
TAG President Tino Mantella interviews Atlanta’s top executives, with a new show launching every Tuesday afternoon. Click to listen to Tino’s latest interview!
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firstPRO Staffing and Executive Search to Participate in TAG “Best Place to Work Event”
Posted by Ariel Killen
The panel will feature business leaders from the Atlanta Business Chronicles’ “Best Places to Work in Atlanta.” April Nagel, CEO of firstPRO, will represent the company at the annual event.
“This is a terrific opportunity for the city’s top business leaders to discuss what makes their companies among the best places to work,” Nagel says. “Guests will find out what is different about these companies, and how they attract, retain, engage and profit from top-notch talent.”
Along with representatives from Sage Software, Hire Dynamics, Jackson Healthcare and Insight Sourcing, Nagel will share her strategies for propelling her company to the top of the list of best places to work. She will also share her tips for maintaining her company culture in these trying economic times.
“I am honored to be included in such an elite group of companies,” Nagel says. “An event like this is important for all of us in order to help our companies continue to grow.”
firstPRO Staffing and Executive Search will participate in the Technology Association of Georgia’s “Best Place to Work” event.
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firstPRO to Participate in the Technology Association of Georgia’s “Best Place to Work” Event
Posted by Ariel Killen
On Monday, May 11, firstPRO Staffing and Executive Search will participate in the Technology Association of Georgia’s “Best Place to Work” event. The panel will feature business leaders from the Atlanta Business Chronicles’ “Best Places to Work in Atlanta.” April Nagel, CEO of firstPRO, will represent the company at the annual event.
“This is a terrific opportunity for the city’s top business leaders to discuss what makes their companies among the best places to work,” Nagel says. “Guests will find out what is different about these companies, and how they attract, retain, engage and profit from top-notch talent.”
Along with representatives from Sage Software, Hire Dynamics, Jackson Healthcare and Insight Sourcing, Nagel will share her strategies for propelling her company to the top of the list of best places to work. She will also share her tips for maintaining her company culture in these trying economic times.
“I am honored to be included in such an elite group of companies,” Nagel says. “An event like this is important for all of us in order to help our companies continue to grow.”
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firstPRO to Participate in the Technology Association of Georgia’s “Best Place to Work” Event
Posted by Ariel Killen
On Monday, May 11, firstPRO Staffing and Executive Search will participate in the Technology Association of Georgia’s “Best Place to Work” event. The panel will feature business leaders from the Atlanta Business Chronicles’ “Best Places to Work in Atlanta.” April Nagel, CEO of firstPRO, will represent the company at the annual event.
“This is a terrific opportunity for the city’s top business leaders to discuss what makes their companies among the best places to work,” Nagel says. “Guests will find out what is different about these companies, and how they attract, retain, engage and profit from top-notch talent.”
Along with representatives from Sage Software, Hire Dynamics, Jackson Healthcare and Insight Sourcing, Nagel will share her strategies for propelling her company to the top of the list of best places to work. She will also share her tips for maintaining her company culture in these trying economic times.
“I am honored to be included in such an elite group of companies,” Nagel says. “An event like this is important for all of us in order to help our companies continue to grow.”
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Suniva Founder and CTO, Dr. Ajeet Rohatgi, Honored by U.S. EPA & American Solar Energy Society
Posted by Ariel Killen
Suniva Founder and CTO, Dr. Ajeet Rohatgi, Honored by U.S. EPA & American Solar Energy Society for Lifetime Achievement
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After over thirty years of innovative research and discoveries in photovoltaic (PV) technology, Dr. Ajeet Rohatgi, founder and CTO of Suniva, was recently recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) for a lifetime’s contribution to making solar technology a realistic, low-cost energy solution. The U.S. EPA will honor Dr. Rohatgi as an Individual Climate Protection Award Winner in a ceremony held today at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
In addition, ASES selected Dr. Rohatgi as this year’s Hoyt Clarke Hottel Award Winner, for contributions in solar energy technology, and will honor him at the SOLAR 2009 conference, in Buffalo, NY on May 11-16, 2009.
Dr. Rohatgi is a regents professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he founded the school’s PV research program and later established the first University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaic Research and Education (UCEP), a program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2007, he founded Suniva, a Norcross, GA-based company, to commercialize the world’s most advanced low-cost high-efficiency solar cells.
“This is a critical time in the history of solar research and deployment. Never before in my career have I seen today’s confluence of technological advances, political will and economic conditions necessary to bring solar into the mainstream. I’m honored to receive such recognitions as America and the world embrace photovoltaics as a practical energy solution,” said Rohatgi.
Throughout his career, Dr. Rohatgi has pushed the frontiers of PV cell performance and cost through research into the effects of impurities in silicon solar cells, the design and modeling of solar cells and the development of new fabrication techniques that simultaneously speed manufacturing and reduce costs. Dr. Rohatgi has authored and co-authored over 375 technical papers about solar, set 14 solar cell world records and helped more than 40 of the world’s largest solar companies develop new technologies.
Dr. Rohatgi was also selected by the Aspen Institute’s 2009 Energy and Environment Awards as one of five finalists in the Individual Thought Leadership category. These recent recognitions add to previous honors received by Dr. Rohatgi, including the IEEE Cherry Award, Georgia Tech’s Distinguished Professor Award and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Rappaport Award.
Dr. Rohatgi’s company, Suniva, recently won the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2009 Envention Environmental Award and was recognized by the Technology Association of Georgia as one of the Top 10 Innovative Georgia Technology Companies as well as by AlwaysOn as one of the Top 50 green technology companies in the Eastern U.S.
“These awards from the business and scientific communities validate the direction Suniva has chosen,” said Suniva CEO John Baumstark. “The combination of renowned PV scientists and an executive team turning their vision into a reality is quickly making solar a competitive energy technology and an important part of American industry.”
In March, Suniva was one of five clean technology companies invited to the White House for an event where President Obama pledged his ongoing support of increased research and development funding to build America’s new energy economy. Suniva was also one of 14 US companies invited on the Obama administration’s first trade mission to India, which focused on solar energy technology.
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Newsmakers
Posted by Ariel Killen
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/04/19/newsmakers0419.html
Atlanta Journal Consitution
Peter Correa has been named president of the Buckhead and Dunwoody campuses of American InterContinental University.
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center have appointed Dr. Paul W. Spearman chief research officer for Children’s Healthcare and vice chair of research of the department of pediatrics at the Emory School of Medicine.
Emily Sanders, founder of Norcross-based Sanders Financial Management, has been named one of the “Top 50 Women in Wealth Management” in the U.S. by Wealth Manager magazine.
Matt Marks has been elected president of the Georgia Association of Professional Process Servers.
Morehouse School of Medicine has named Anemarie Eades and Andreas Kaempf to its office of compliance and internal audit and information technology.
Joel F. Ames, public affairs manager at Atmos Energy Corp., and a member of the Georgia Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, has been awarded the Accredited in Public Relations certification. Ruth Mitcham, account manager at Communications 21, has been awarded the Georgia Chapter’s Chapter Champion award.
Emily Burkhardt Vicente has been named a partner of Hunton & Williams.
TrueBridge Resources, a national professional staffing company based in Atlanta, has named Liz Pavey as director, account management.
Trees Atlanta has named the following to its board of directors: Susannah Balish, Junior League of Atlanta; Kathryn Furman, King & Spalding; and Laine Kenan, Arcapita. Its new officers are C. Edward Dobbs of Parker, Hudson, Rainer and Dobbs, president; Kristina Christy, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., vice president; R. Charles Shufeldt, SunTrust, secretary; Laine Kenan, Arcapita, treasurer.
W. Bartley Hildreth has been named dean of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He is currently the Regents Distinguished Professor of Public Finance at the Hugo Wall School of Urban and Public Affairs at Wichita State University.
Moore Colson has been appointed to the Technology Association of Georgia Information Security Board.
Barron’s magazine named Kay R. Shirley, president of Financial Development Corp./Mutual Service Corp., to its list of Top 1,000 Financial Advisers.
The Royak Group, an Alpharetta-based staff augmentation and business services firm, has named Katie C. Ashcraft as chief financial officer.
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Transitions Optical and Optos Join SoloHealth to Expand Use of EyeSite™ Self-service Vision Kiosk
Posted by Ariel Killen
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SoloHealth (http://www.solo-health.com), maker of EyeSite™ self-service vision testing and new patient generating kiosks, announced today it will team with Transitions Optical, Inc., Optos, and other leading eye care companies to deploy a large number of its award-winning EyeSite kiosks in a major US market this summer. EyeSite is an innovative vehicle that has the potential to stimulate the eye care category and drive patients to eye care professionals because it offers free, simple and quick vision assessments coupled with education on the need for a comprehensive eye exam. Manufacturers can also market products on the interactive kiosks, which are placed in a variety of locations meant to capitalize on consumer demand and traffic. EyeSite kiosks allow consumers to assess their near and far vision, schedule an appointment with a local eye doctor, and learn about general eye health conditions--all in about five minutes.
“We view eye health education as an important part of our mission,” said Dave Cole, general manager of the Americas, Transitions Optical. “As consumers better understand the importance of taking care of their eyes, they’re more likely to make regular appointments. EyeSite is free and convenient, and has real potential to stimulate interest in vision care and increase the number of patients practitioners see.”
“Self-service is growing in popularity and partnering with SoloHealth, an innovator in the self-service market, gives us one more tool to reach out to patients and consumers,” according to Tom Daniells, VP of Marketing at Optos. “Because EyeSite vision screenings do not replace a full eye exam, we feel it will drive traffic to eye care practitioners, resulting in opportunities for increased sales of products and medical services including our retinal imaging technology.”
Established in late 2007, SoloHealth has placed EyeSite kiosks throughout its home base of Atlanta in retail locations such as Walgreens, Kroger, Walmart and regional malls. Since September of 2008, SoloHealth has screened over 100,000 people.
“SoloHealth, combined with these eye care industry leaders, is helping to create new ways to drive additional traffic,” said Bart Foster, CEO and founder of SoloHealth. “Results have shown that of the people who have used the EyeSite kiosk, over 25 percent have never visited an eye care professional. Many of those have gone on to book appointments. EyeSite self-service vision testing kiosks educate people about the health benefits of seeing an eye doctor on a regular basis.”
About SoloHealth
SoloHealth (http://www.solo-health.com) is an early stage startup in Atlanta, GA that is positioned to capitalize on the growing consumer preference for self-directed healthcare services. SoloHealth’s inaugural product is EyeSite™, an interactive kiosk that provides vision health information, as well as a customized vision report, and also directs consumers to an eye care professional nearby.
The company has garnered many awards, earning a spot in the top 5 of Forbes.com’s 2008 “Boost Your Business” entrepreneurial contest, chosen from over 1500 companies nation-wide. EyeSite has won three Awards of Excellence, including “Best in Show” at the Kiosk.Com Self Service Expo and The Digital Signage Show in Las Vegas. SoloHealth was also selected as one of the 2008 “Top 40” Innovative Technology companies in Georgia by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) (http://www.tagonline.org), the state’s leading technology organization. SoloHealth also was accepted for membership by Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) (http://www.atdc.org) in 2008.
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Competition for the GRA/TAG $300,000 Grand Prize Goes “Hollywood” on TAG TV
Posted by Josh Lewis
Audience voting will determine the “wild card” winners heading toward the grand prize! Just as American Idol and Dancing with the Stars combine professional judging and audience tallies to determine final winners, an online audience voting feature for the best company video presentation has been added for a second year to the TAG/GRA annual Business Launch Competition where candidates vie for a grand prize of cash and services totaling $300,000! The online Fast Forward People’s Choice audience voting will take two companies that the judges did not select into the semi-finals as wild cards.
Online voting will continue for 17 participating Business Launch competitor technology companies from April 10 through the 29th in the People’s Choice contest. To gain audience votes, each company refined their venture capital “elevator” pitch into a one minute presentation which was professionally taped and put online for audience votes on TAG TV at TAGtvOnline.com. Every People’s Choice vote will be important! The two highest vote getters will become Fast Forward wild card entries – if the judges did not select them to present and defend their business plan as semi-finalists in May – leading to the final judging of the prize winner on June 3, 2008.
Who will be Georgia’s venture capital “idol” and stay in the competition? Considering the videos are not meant to be serious presentations to the judges – that comes later—it will be interesting to see who breaks out of the box and shows passion or gets audience attention in some other way at the end of the two-week contest. Be sure to vote for a favorite emerging technology company video on TAGtvOnline.com!
According to one of the two 2008 People’s Choice winners, CEO of ProperNotice Henry Dan, the video competition wild card position in the semi-finals was crucial. “Looking back, without that video, probably we would not have made it to the Finals. Because of that win, we got to present to the semi-final judges and, due to a skillful presentation and an excellent Q&A, we were selected to go the finals,” he said. Many contestants agreed that the competition, although fun, helped them refine their value proposition as well as their contact base while executing strategies for stimulating votes.
Peoples Choice participants will be presented not only to the Georgia technology and venture capital communities on TAGtvOnline.com but also to a world of opportunities afforded with placement and appropriate investment search keywords on the most popular peer-to-peer video sites such as YouTube. All 17 competing companies have the chance of being discovered by investors and customers in Georgia and around the world!
The exciting annual GRA/TAG Business Launch Competition is an event designed to help a local start up technology-based company launch its business. Applicants, then semifinalists, then finalists vie for the $100,000 cash award and services valued at an additional $200,000, for a total grand prize of $300,000. The comprehensive prize provided by GRA and TAG is a way to reward high-tech entrepreneurship and assure a deserving Georgia start up company has everything in place to be successful.
The purpose of the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) and Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Business Launch Competition is to support economic development in Georgia by encouraging and supporting the creation and growth of new companies that will strengthen and expand Georgia’s strategic high tech clusters. Each year, GRA and TAG select the high-tech clusters that will be emphasized and, this year, the technology industry segment is Internet Technologies, which includes companies that are developing products, online services, or backend technologies that are using or extending the reach, flexibility, and ease of the Internet.
This year, the GRA/TAG competition, too, supports its chosen industry segment by expanding its Internet message delivery that Georgia supports economic development with substantial encouragement to new companies. Worldwide peer-to-peer video technology distribution is coupled and packaged with the excitement of the online voting for Georgia’s Peoples Choice on TAGtvOnline.com, a joint venture of TAG and globalspeak.com. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winners!
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What’s New on TAG TV April 13 – 17, 2009?
Posted by Josh Lewis
From cloud computing made simple and a PBS interview with Guy Kawasaki to a Discovery Channel news report on an electric car that feeds the grid, a TEDtalks show on military robots and Warner Brothers developers predicting the future of games, a new show is launched every week day on WebVisions: a TAG TV compilation of tech news and information clips from various popular Internet video sites. Watch a show a day to conveniently keep up with¬and explore¬a variety of tech topics!
Go to WebVisions Now!
Monday: Cloud Computing Made Simple
Confused about the term “Cloud Computing? Want to be able to talk intelligently about new technology buzzwords? Learn one area of Cloud Computing, that of Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Hosting. 5 minutes
Tuesday: PBS Interviews Industry Leader Guy Kawasaki
PBS coverage of the 2009 SXSW Interactive & Film conference included an interview that reveals thoughts and current projects of successful venture capitalist and Apple evangelist Kawasaki. 6 minutes
Wednesday: Electric Car Feeds Grid!
Discovery Channel News reports on V2G technology that can turn an electric car into a moving power station.
Thursday: A Killer App, Military Robots?
Military robots and the future of warfare is explored on TEDtalks by military expert P.W. Singer who shows how the widespread use of robots is changing the realities of combat. Science fiction now may not be so fictitious. 16 minutes
Friday: Warner Brothers Developers Predict Future of Games
Developers of the latest Warner Brothers games, including Terminator Salvation and Wanted, Weapons of Fate, discuss what cutting edge producers are adding to the gaming experience and where they think the future of game development lies. 9 minutes
Go to WebVisions Now!
Other TAG TV Features: Tech Talk on TAG Radio
TAG President Tino Mantella interviews Atlanta’s top executives, with a new show launching every Tuesday afternoon. Click to listen to Tino’s latest interview!
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AAA-NCNU Automates IT Fulfillment and Service Request Management
Posted by Ariel Killen
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PMG.net, Inc.
IT Executive to Discuss Success of Service Catalog Implementation
ATLANTA, April 9 /PRNewswire/—PMG.net, Inc., the technology leader for ITIL compliant service catalogs announced today that AAA of Northern California, Nevada and Utah (AAA-NCNU), the second-largest member club of the national AAA organization, will speak at a Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) event in Atlanta. Evan Maxey of AAA-NCNU will address TAG’s Business Process Management Society on Thursday, April 16, 2009.
The session, entitled “Transforming Service through BPM - the American Automobile Association’s Story,” details how AAA-NCNU used process improvement to automate service delivery while lowering costs and dramatically improving efficiency. AAA-NCNU serves more than 4.5 million members in Northern California, Nevada and Utah. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, AAA-NCNU has approximately 7,000 employees and over $2.5 billion in annual revenue.
In 2008, AAA-NCNU decided to replace their home grown, web-based IT ticketing request system. A contemporary service catalog was needed as a foundation for the IT department to become a world class services organization. AAA-NCNU found PMG’s Service Catalog to be the most comprehensive, yet flexible and easy to use offering available.
“PMG’s product flexibility has allowed us to move rapidly,” commented Evan Maxey of AAA-NCNU. “Not only have we improved customer satisfaction, we’ve dramatically advanced our ability to progress down an IT service management roadmap that includes the ability to charge back for services, to provide service-based budgeting information and to help the business make choices about how they spend their IT dollars,” continued Maxey.
PMG’s service request and fulfillment suite leverage’s PMG’s deep experience in e-Commerce, portal deployment and collaboration. This solution is the combination of:
PMG iRequest: an e-Commerce online catalog and request system
PMG iDeliver: a Business Process Management suite providing powerful workflow and integration
PMG iCollaborate: a content management and collaboration engine
PMG’s built-in connectors provide out-of-the-box integrations with Active Directory, e-mail, and most leading help desk, project management, ERP or CRM applications such as BMC Remedy, CA Service Desk, HP Service Center/Manager, IBM Maximo, Numara Footprints, and numerous others.
The TAG Business Process Management Society’s mission is to provide a leadership forum focused on influencing enterprises to build a process improvement culture to improve competitiveness. Don’t miss this insightful discussion of business process management in action. To learn more visit http://www.pmg.net.
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Tom Jinks Appointed to TAG Information Security Board
Posted by Ariel Killen
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Atlanta-based accounting firm, Moore Colson CPAs, recently announced that Tom Jinks, IT audit director with Moore Colson, has been appointed to the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Information Security Board. TAG is a Georgia IT Association that promotes the advancement of the state’s technology industry and provides leadership in driving initiatives in the areas of policy, capital, education and giving. TAG also brings the technology community together through events, initiative programs and networking opportunities.
With over 25 year’s experience in IT consulting, management and leadership Jinks will assist TAG’s Information Security Society board as they seek to achieve the mission of enhancing information security awareness through educational meetings, panel discussions, industry speakers and training sessions and the importance of integrating information security into today’s business environment.
Jinks’ role at Moore Colson includes proposing and implementing IT solutions, IT audit services, data privacy and security governance, and project planning and developing and maintaining client relationships. Jinks has excelled in strategic planning, analysis and risk assessment while consulting with business executives and management to identify problems and introduce solutions with measurable results. Jinks has successfully directed both technical and business development management positions, performed CIO/CTO functions on an interim basis, and consulted, designed and audited business continuity/disaster recovery plans for both public and privately held organizations.
As a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and member of Moore Colson’s Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) team, Jinks has managed all phases of IT compliance and controls related to SOX attestation for several $1 billion+ organizations. He has led compliance projects, HIPAA security assessments, preparedness, remediation, and information security best practices consultation for numerous healthcare and life sciences providers. Moore Colson has performed over 18,000 hours of SOX and HIPAA compliance services work, over the last six years.
Voted one of America’s Top 25 firms by Inside Public Accounting (IPA), Moore Colson is a full-service accounting and consulting firm located in Atlanta. For more information about Moore Colson, call 770-989-0028 or visit http://www.moorecolson.com.
For more information about the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), call 404-817-3333 or visit http://www.tagonline.org.
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What’s New on TAG TV April 6 – 10, 2009?
Posted by Josh Lewis
From an animated history of the Internet and exploring the role of IT in an economic turndown, to a top secret look at Qualcomm’s R&D facilities, controlling a robot by thought only and big games from small developers, a new show is launched every week day on WebVisions: a TAG TV compilation of tech news and information clips from various popular Internet video sites. Watch a show a day to conveniently keep up with¬and explore¬a variety of tech topics!
Go to WebVisions Now!
Monday: The History of the Internet
“History of the Internet,” an animated documentary, explains the inventions—from time-sharing to file sharing, from Arpanet to Internet. 8 minutes
Tuesday: Is Information Technology Strategic During an Economic Turndown?
With Nick Lippis, Industry Analyst, Cisco’s Jennifer Geisler examines the current economic recession, its implications for business, and the role of information technology. 10 minutes
Wednesday: Enter the Top Secret Cell Phone R&D Facilities
Qualcomm opens the doors behind their top secret R&D facilities to show the future of cell phone technology. 3 minutes
Thursday: Robot Control by Thought Only
Honda, ATR and Shimadzu jointly are developing Brain-Machine Interface Technology enabling control of a robot by human thought alone. 3 minutes
Friday: Big Games from Small Developers
At this year’s Independent Games Festival, small development teams swung for the fences, bringing some innovative, clever and fun indie titles for 2009. 5 minutes
Go to WebVisions Now!
Other TAG TV Features: Tech Talk on TAG Radio
TAG President Tino Mantella interviews Atlanta’s top executives, with a new show launching every Tuesday afternoon. Click to listen to Tino’s latest interview!
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Recession - The Human Factor
Posted by Tino
I have been on this earth a fairly long time, so, according to historical facts, I have been through a number of recessions. Why then is this the first one I feel like I am experiencing? After careful consideration to the possibilities, I have come down to three primary reasons:
1. The media is relentless in finding new ways to tell us that we are hurting. Technology gives us the opportunity to hear the bad news 24/7.
2. My job allows me to be up close and personal with what’s happening with people and companies. Many people are living in kind of “quiet desperation”. And, it’s impacting those I live with - the white collar community. Jobs are being lost, and/or not found, by the highly educated. One example is a person that told me that their son graduated in the top 10 in his law class and had a great job lined up with a prestigious law firm and the “plug was pulled”. I recently received an email from a member who told me, “I have been out of work for a long time and I am about to lose my home. I have an MBA and am a Six Sigma Black Belt....can you help me find a job....”?
3. No matter what the analyst tell us, this has to be the worst recession since the “great depression”. What’s going on with the banks, the auto industry, and the housing industry? I have contact with a number of young startup companies that simply have had to put their idea/business on hold and go find a paying job.
The Human Factor comes in when one thinks about it from the context that there are people hurting, but there are also people helping. The human spirit is alive and well. Every day I run across people and organizations that are doing something to help someone else. Just go to Starbucks any time of day or night and see the human spirit at its best. Even if the helper does not have a job for the one in need, sometimes a cup of coffee and a few kind words of encouragement is all that’s needed.
Anyway, this recession will pass. Maybe one measure, as we do go through it, is if we are all doing our best to do more than save ourselves. In this Easter season it’s a good time to get in the game of life…
Tino
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Georgia Technology Summit Online Video Launch Begins on TAG TV!
Posted by Josh Lewis
See the first in the 2009 Georgia Technology Summit (GTS) series of
videos: Keynote speaker Thomas Friedman’s power-packed Q&A! Coming
next: the TAG State of the Industry report, this year’s acceptance of
the annual Technology Hall of Fame Award and presentations by the Top
10 Innovative award-winning companies.
Renowned New York Times columnist and author of the bestsellers “The
World is Flat” and “Hot, Flat and Crowded” Tom Friedman engaged the GTS
audience in a lively and thought-provoking Q&A session. Although his
keynote could not be taped and re-run according to the Friedman
contract, enjoy the 14 minute Q&A! Click here
Watch for weekly announcements of the newly released GTS videos,
including the product and service innovation presentations by the Top
10 award winning companies: Suniva, Acculynk, Unicoi Systems, PlayON!
Sports, Pramana, SecureWorks, CCP North America, Purewire, Asankya and
NanoLumens. What makes them so hot? Stay tuned!
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Despite Economy, Companies Continue to Invest in their People
Posted by Ariel Killen
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Atlanta, GA, Apr 01, 2009 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX)—ARRS | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating—Count5 announced today that 100% of its customers have renewed 2009 subscriptions for its Workforce Alignment tool. 2008 saw Count5’s active user base triple from existing client expansion as well as from several new Fortune 500 additions. 100% renewal is not typical for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors like Count5 - and this high renewal rate emphasizes the importance of tools that help employees adopt relevant changes in sales, service, CRM and other change strategies and initiatives. Count5, named by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) as one of the state’s most innovative technology companies, has signed company-wide contracts with several marquis clients this year including Coca-Cola Food Services, Cbeyond, Great West Healthcare (now part of Cigna), ARRIS Group, and a Fortune 100 global payments, network and travel company.
Count5’s patent pending software tool, called Q, is a “push communications” tool that automates ongoing reinforcement with front line employees and that measures employee alignment with change. Q provides a “people strategy” for organizational change initiatives by delivering the knowledge support, focus and reinforcement employees need to change behavior while providing executives early indicators so misalignment can be identified and fixed proactively.
“With this economy, companies must be agile to remain competitive. Q helps companies drive change more quickly and predictably than before by eliminating message distortion at the front lines,” Adds Eric Blumthal, Count5 CEO. “Q improves the success rate of these change initiatives by adding layers of support, accountability and metrics that never existed before.”
About Count5: Count5 sells workforce alignment software that improves speed2revenue by helping companies drive change faster, more predictably & more efficiently than alternative methods. Count5’s patent pending software tool, called Q, is a “push communications” tool that automates ongoing reinforcement with the front lines and that quantifies user participation and understanding of change. To senior sales & operations executives, Q improves speed2revenue by making people more accountable for change. To sales operations, training and marketing professionals, Q fills critical gaps in front line communications, training and support efforts - and Q does all this with far less customer resources than alternative methods. Count5 customers are typically B2B companies with large field sales/service operations.
Count5(R) was recently named by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) as one of Georgia’s most innovative technology companies. Call 404.961.7350 Ext 1, visit the Count5 Website (http://www.count5.com) or visit Count5’s “alter ego” website Q Toons Website (http://www.funnysalescartoons.com)
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