Setfocus announces Internship program

Setfocus announces Internship program

SetFocus, a Technology Training Center, specializing in the education of developers in JAVA, Visual Basic and. NET, has just announced an enhanced feature to their already intensive MasterÂ’s Program. In addition to the in depth training students receive; Setfocus will now couple this with a three month internship program that will bring additional development experience to the graduates

(PRWEB) December 7, 2001

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CONTACT:

Robert Witkowski: Vice President of Operations

Phone: 973.889.0211 x13

Fax: 973.889.0213

Email: rwitkowski@setfocus. com

Website: www. setfocus. com

Parsippany NJ - (December 5, 2001) Setfocus announces Internship program

SetFocus, a Technology Training Center, specializing in the education of developers in JAVA, Visual Basic and. NET, has just announced an enhanced feature to their already intensive MasterÂ’s Program.

In addition to the in depth training students receive; Setfocus will now couple this with a three month internship program that will bring additional development experience to the graduates.

SetFocus has partnered with a number of its clients to offer their graduates an opportunity to gain additional project experience requiring expertise in JAVA, Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server, and other development environments necessary to build rich n-tier internet-based applications. This makes an already incredible learning experience even more robust. Graduates will now enter the market place with six months of solid experience covering of almost 1300 hours and over 15,000 lines of code.

“This is total win-win proposition. Both SetFocus graduates and Internship Partners will benefit significantly from this program and it emphasizes our strong commitment to a quality program. The marketplace now recognizes that a SetFocus Alumni is an asset to their organization”, said Mike Landau President & CEO of SetFocus.

The training at Setfocus challenges all, and is believed by many industry experts to be the most in-depth, intense, integrated and comprehensive training solution available in the marketplace today. With their internship partners, SetFocus can provide a solid work experience that is consistent with the graduates skill set. Internship partners, benefit from access to very low cost high quality resources that can help them with existing external and internal projects.

All Masters Program participants are required to pass an extensive technical exam and interviews to assure they possess the abilities to complete the 13 weeks of knowledge transfer they are presented with. SetFocus receives from 1500-2000 applications to the program each quarter and selects no more than 20 individuals per track.

Both the Java and the Visual Basic/.NET curriculums are designed to challenge every student. Intense lectures combined with in depth lab exercises focus on n-tier applications with special emphasis on web development.

Organizations that would like to become a SetFocus Internship Partner can call Stacey Uhrig on (973) 889-0211 x 13, or go to www. setfocus. com/intern/default. asp (http://www. setfocus. com/intern/default. asp).

The start date of the next session is January 2, 2002. SetFocus runs sessions on a quarterly basis. To find out more about the Masters Program visit www. setfocus. com.

SHIVERING WORLD, by Bestselling Author Kathy Tyers, Offers Exactly What Avid Science-Fiction Fans Seek!

SHIVERING WORLD, by Bestselling Author Kathy Tyers, Offers Exactly What Avid Science-Fiction Fans Seek!

SHIVERING WORLD is a story of danger and intrigue about a planet on the edge of life. The planet’s colonists’ radical—and illegal—science may offer Dr. Graysha Brady-Phillips a hope for a cure. But, as the daughter of their worst enemy, can she convince these rebel scientists she’s trustworthy?

(PRWEB) March 19, 2004

Offering Exactly What Avid Science-Fiction Fans Seek!

The best science fiction writers create worlds that come to life in our imagination. Author Kathy Tyers is one of the best, this time offering a planet at the edge of life, in a story of danger and intrigue.

Dr. Graysha Brady-Phillips is suffering from a genetic disorder that causes weakness and will eventually lead to an early death. When she is offered a position on the planet Goddard, where the average life span is 150 years, she jumps at the opportunity.

Their Research Was Radical–and Illegal!

The planet’s colonists’ radical—and illegal—science may offer her only hope for a cure. But, as the daughter of their worst enemy, can she convince these rebel scientists she’s trustworthy?

"Tyers' smooth pacing and fully-developed characters make the reader forget just how complicated this novel should be, but isn't. Tyers knows just enough about genetics...to make her story completely convincing...fun, scientific mystery in the tradition of Asimov." --R. J. Sullivan, The Reluctant Famulus

About the Author

Kathy Tyers is the bestselling author of STAR WARS: BALANCE POINT, the FIREBIRD trilogy and STAR WARS: TRUCE AT BAKURA, which made the N. Y. Times bestseller. She has earned degrees in microbiology and education and lives in Bozeman, Montana, where she plays flute in the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra.

More information and an excerpt at BethanyHouse. com

SHIVERING WORLD by Kathy Tyers

Trade Paperback; $12.99; ISBN 0764226762

Circumerro Media Retools Cloudveil's Fall/Winter 08 Web Site

Circumerro Media Retools Cloudveil's Fall/Winter 08 Web Site

Building on a strong history of design, Circumerro Media has completed the Fall/Winter 08 refresh of the Cloudveil web site. Adobe Scene7 capabilities were incorporated to sharpen the shopping navigation by allowing visitors to zoom and scroll over product details. New video functionality expands the product pages with video product reviews and refined navigation has helped grow the site's organic search traffic.

Jackson, WY (PRWEB) October 9, 2008

Building on a strong history of design Circumerro Media (www. circumerro. com) has completed the Fall/Winter 08 refresh of the Cloudveil web site (www. cloudveil. com). Anchored in Jackson Hole, WY, Cloudveil produces inspired mountain apparel and has pioneered several categories in technical outerwear.

Circumerro's goals for the '08 refresh included updates on navigation, product imagery and design elements, but the paramount task centered on integrating a fine balance between genuine conversation and practical education on the product shopping experience. In order to expand the product pages and provide site visitors with engaging content, video reviews for key products were incorporated using familiar Cloudveil staff and athletes discussing product features and firsthand experiences. "Circumerro has been instrumental in developing pages and navigation that have grown our organic search traffic nearly twofold and the most recent video content integration has vastly enhanced the product education and experience," explains Jeff Wogoman, Cloudveil's Senior Business Manager-Direct.

Adobe Scene7 (www. scene7.com) capabilities also sharpen the shopping navigation by allowing visitors to zoom and scroll over product details. Additional imagery shows the product on people in action and up close in studios. The "shop by sport" categories were updated with additional video features and a custom player, along with a revolving product ally feature. "Being able to push the envelope a bit with video content and interactive components while at the same time improving our facilitation of the e-commerce process is very satisfying," added Noah Waterhouse of Circumerro. Clean and condensed top navigation rounds out the refresh highlights focused on connecting consumers with the brand on their own terms; a mountain apparel infused playground that highlights technical products and the stories behind them.

For more information on Cloudveil, visit www. cloudveil. com.

About Circumerro Media
We're a web design, publishing and branding company that creates engaging experiences based on the simple principle that your company has a story--a story we'll help you tell. Founded in 1995 and based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. For more information, visit www. circumerro. com.

Media Contact:
Chris Hanson
Circumerro Media
307-733-8319

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ActiveCampaign Announces Email Marketing Solution For Wordpress Web Sites

ActiveCampaign Announces Email Marketing Solution For Wordpress Web Sites

The industry's leading email marketing software now integrates directly with Wordpress web sites...

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) January 6, 2010

Today the makers of the most mature and powerful email marketing solution presently available announced the release of an email marketing plugin for the world's most popular content management solution. The plugin allows Wordpress users to take advantage of advanced email marketing features such as personalization, split-testing, and dynamically generated content, all without any knowledge of coding and without any need to modify their Wordpress theme.

ActiveCampaign, Inc., developer of the ubiquitous Email Marketing (http://activecampaign. com/email-marketing/) software package, has recently increased its focus on interoperability with other industry standard applications, according to ActiveCampaign CEO Jason VandeBoom. Says VandeBoom, "Integration of third party applications is essential for any modern software product. The ability to easily integrate with applications such as Wordpress allow our users to quickly and reliably extend the use of our software while benefiting their end users in the process."

The Email Marketing Wordpress plugin, provided free to all users of the latest version of ActiveCampaign Email Marketing, provides a drag-and-drop solution for adding email list subscription forms into Wordpress blogs. Any widgetized Wordpress theme can be used, so email list signup forms will be automatically and effortlessly stylized to match the rest of the site.

Since the plugin connects directly to the Email Marketing software's own settings, users are allowed infinite flexibility in choosing what information to collect from new subscribers. The software handles all technical aspects of the signup process, including sending out double opt-in confirmation emails to ensure valid subscriptions. And because repeated database requests can tax web servers that attract high volumes of traffic, the plugin caches the subscription forms that it downloads from the Email Marketing software for later use.

By using ActiveCampaign Email Marketing to power email campaigns for Wordpress sites, webmasters enjoy all the benefits of a full-featured email marketing solution without having to worry about what is going on behind the scenes. "Server administrators appreciate knowing that everything is running on their own servers, and that's what you get here: content, signup forms, list management, message sending, and statistics are all right there on your own server safe and sound," says Matt Thommes, a senior programmer at ActiveCampaign, "you don't want your data locked away on some third-party system."

About ActiveCampaign
Established in 2003, ActiveCampaign, Inc. develops and supports the industry's leading enterprise software solutions out of its offices in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Products include Email Marketing Software (http://activecampaign. com/email-marketing/), Survey Software (http://www. activecampaign. com/survey-software/), Knowledge Management Software (http://www. activecampaign. com/knowledge-management/), Help Desk Software (http://www. activecampaign. com/help-desk-software/), and Live Chat Software (http://www. activecampaign. com/live-chat/).

ActiveCampaign products are currently in use by more than 40,000 organizations including web designers, web hosts, design firms, small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, and educational institutions. For more information about ActiveCampaign, visit http://www. activecampaign. com (http://www. activecampaign. com)].

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New ‘Kite Mark of Trust’ for the Health & Fitness Market

New ‘Kite Mark of Trust’ for the Health & Fitness Market

Active Wellbeing Group launches ‘world first’ in complementary healthcare – professionally accredited self-help DVDs support chiropractor/patient partnership in helping rehabilitation – increased awareness of chiropractic in primary healthcare

(PRWEB) August 4, 2005

Fleet, Hants August 4, 2005 -- Like many millions of others, have you ever suffered from neck or back pain and not known what to do about it? Do you just suffer in silence and hope it will go away, take pain killers or go to your GP? 

Have you perhaps started to get headaches after being hunched over your computer all day? Or pulled a muscle after starting to exercise, recognising too late that you simply were not properly prepared? 

Chiropractors lead in preventative first-line healthcare:

In response, following two years’ intensive development and with the support of leading academic authorities in chiropractic, Active Wellbeing Group has launched a new series of Active Wellbeing™ self-help DVD programmes.

Approved and recommended by the College of Chiropractors to use as prescribed by a chiropractor, these are designed to assist and speed up patient rehabilitation and recovery, by empowering patients to better understand their condition and become proactive in the management of their own care, under the guidance of a regulated professional.

“In a huge but fragmented market bombarded with sporting, diet, fashion and general fitness programmes – many of which are celebrity-led – Active Wellbeing is the first to give consumers the essential confidence of an independent ‘kitemark of trust’,” says co-founder, Chris Ketley.

“Four out of five adults will suffer neck or back pain at sometime in their lives,” confirms fellow co-founder, Dr Stephen Brown. “Equally disturbing is the fact that more than one third of current sufferers have been in pain for more than 10 years. In line with the latest medical evidence on best care, Active Wellbeing™ helps the individual patient to take control, by making them an active co-partner in helping their own rehabilitation.”

Your virtual personal trainer at home:

Initially available through chiropractic clinics, the new Active Wellbeing™ programmes take the form of self-help DVDs, initially focusing on three key problem areas, namely Lower Back Pain, Neck Pain and Posture and General Fitness. They offer information and individually-designed exercises to complement the care and advice from chiropractors and can be tailored under supervision to meet patients’ individual needs at home.

Critically, all exercises have been developed with the assistance of academic authorities at the forefront of chiropractic education in Europe - the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic (AECC) and Welsh Institute of Chiropractic (WIC). Patients can thus be assured that that the exercises meet the highest standards and reflect current chiropractic best practice.

“This important initiative means that patients can easily follow a prescribed exercise programme at home which supports recommended treatment from their chiropractor,” says Dr Ken Vall, principal of the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic.

The importance of early interventions:

More than 5 million adults consult their GP annually with back or neck pain, at a total cost to the NHS of some £800 million. “This becomes a huge drain on doctors’ time and the NHS budget,” says Brown, “With limited knowledge or expertise in this area, many GPs simply have to refer the individual to a specialist, resulting in long delays in appropriate treatment.

“The latest scientific evidence shows that patients do best with early interventions, accurate information and a care plan supervised by a specialist in back and neck pain. By contrast, such appointment delays reduce the likelihood of an early return to normal day-to-day living for the patient and typically increase levels of stress and anxiety,” he believes.

In particular, the Active Wellbeing approach is fully in line with the findings of the recent BEAM (Back pain Exercise And Manipulation) study by the Medical Research Council, which showed that the most successful interventions in the treatment of lower back pain were those including manipulation and exercise. 

“As a fully-regulated provider of primary healthcare, chiropractors are able to deliver precisely the rapid, professional response recommended,” confirms Brown. “In addition to providing assurance, expert advice and support, chiropractors and Active Wellbeing self-help programmes can improve general levels of fitness, endurance and strength, by helping patients understand how to manage the risk factors associated with ordinary daily activities.” 

Exercise prescription

“We donÂ’t give a second thought about servicing our cars regularly,” says fellow co-founder, Chris Ketley. “Nor is the concept of routine maintenance of man as well as his machine hardly foreign to us: after all, we pay regular visits to the dentist to keep our teeth and gums healthy – and, quite sensibly, supplement this by brushing our teeth daily, to make sure the dentistÂ’s good work is maintained between visits.” 

Dr Tim Jay, president of the College of Chiropractors, emphasises that, “every day, chiropractors are providing exercise advice to thousands of patients to help speed up their rehabilitation. Active Wellbeing DVDs are an innovative, practical visual aid that will help educate patients how to properly undertake exercise and enhance the quality of chiropractor-to-patient supervision.”

So, in providing the equivalent of the chiropractorsÂ’ ‘toothbrushÂ’, Active Wellbeing responds to the growing demand for people to take charge of their lives - by providing pro-active self-help tools with guidance and supervision from a trusted source. “The easy-to-use, home DVD format recognises that most of the benefit of rehabilitation is lost if the recommended exercises are not regularly maintained,” says Ketley. “Active Wellbeing information for self-help is therefore an essential supplement to the care provided by a chiropractor - and at less than the cost of a single consultation.” 

“For us, it is simply a matter of ‘exercise prescription’,” Brown concludes. “In co-partnership with their chiropractor, we are helping people to help themselves.”

Copies of the initial range of DVDs are available from your local chiropractor. Alternatively for further information or how to order please contact info@activewellbeing. co. uk or visit the website on www. activewellbeing. com

Sarah Brambley

+44 1252 727313

Sarahb@whiteoaks. co. uk

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On the Road Social Media Campaign Promotes a Graduate Degree and Free iPad

On the Road Social Media Campaign Promotes a Graduate Degree and Free iPad

Southern New Hampshire University’s launch of its On the Road campaign encourages prospective graduate students to spot its banners on the road, upload a picture or video to their favorite social media site and then create a link on Twitter using #SNHU. The campaign is scheduled to run through September.

Manchester, NH (Vocus) July 20, 2010

Southern New Hampshire University (http://www. snhu. edu)’s launch of its On the Road campaign encourages prospective graduate students to spot its banners on the road, upload a picture or video to their favorite social media site and then create a link on Twitter using #SNHU. The campaign is scheduled to run through September.

The campaign will put three trucks on the road Mondays through Fridays in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine with banners that promote SNHU’s graduate programs and their affordability. Once the Twitter link is created and a student registers for a class during the Sept. 20 term-start and completes the class, the university will issue a free iPad.

Please visit SNHU (http://www. snhu. edu/8292.asp) to learn more about the campaign.

About Southern New Hampshire University
The university has approximately 1,900 traditional, full-time undergraduate day students and a total enrollment in all divisions of about 9,425. Programs are offered on campus, online and on location at our centers in New Hampshire and Maine. The university offers programs in business, community economic development, culinary arts, teacher education, hospitality management and liberal arts.

Contact: Gregg Mazzola   
Director of Communications   
Southern New Hampshire University   
603-305-0663
G. mazzola(at)snhu(dot)edu 

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SongVest to Auction Nikki Sixx Biography Royalties Directly to Fans

SongVest to Auction Nikki Sixx Biography Royalties Directly to Fans

Unprecedented Sale Of Book Rights To Feature Rock 'N' Roll Books Imprint 'An Education In Rebellion: The Biography Of Nikki Sixx' At SongVest. Com

Madison, WI (PRWEB) October 15, 2009

SongVest, the company that reinvented music memorabilia (http://www. songvest. com) by auctioning song rights directly to fans, has announced the first-ever online auction of book rights by offering access to the royalty stream of the forthcoming re-issue 'An Education in Rebellion: The Biography of Nikki Sixx.' The auction will take place exclusively at songvest. com from November 15-22 in advance of the book's Spring 2010 retail release.

SongVest (http://www. songvest. com) has partnered with book publisher Rock 'N' Roll Books to offer a 30% ownership share in the book's master rights. In addition to sharing in the royalty stream the retail and e-sales generate, the high bidder will also receive a one-of-a-kind platinum album, an 'Associate Publisher' credit in the book's printing, and an exclusive behind-the-scenes bonus DVD featuring interview excerpts from many rock luminaries interviewed exclusively for the book including band members John Corabi and Tommy Lee, legendary Motley Crue album producers Bob Rock and Tom Werman, hard rock diva Lita Ford, former London bandmate Lizzy Grey, Quiet Riot's late frontman Kevin Dubrow, late recovery counselor Bob Timmons, and many others.

"We've updated the original '03 release through 2009, with coverage of Motley Crue's massively successful comeback trek in 2004/5, the launch of Cruefest I & 2, Nikki's clothing business with Royal Underground, and solo success with side-project Sixx:AM & the Heroin Diaries to create by far the most comprehensive independent study of the wildly colorful life and times of Motley Crue (http://www. songvest. com) founder/chief songwriter Nikki Sixx (http://www. songvest. com). We're very excited to share this unique opportunity with a fan who'll enjoy the book's success as much as we will," said author Jake Brown.

The auction will begin at 3PM EST on Saturday, November 15 and end at 3PM EST on Saturday, November 22. Fans can register now at http://www. songvest. com (http://www. songvest. com) to learn more about plans for the book's re-printing and retail release.

Since 2007, SongVest has offered music fans, collectors, and investors the unique opportunity to share the royalties with the writers of their favorite music. Past auctions have included the rights to songs recorded by Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Carrie Underwood, Ringo Starr, Ozzy Osbourne, Natalie Cole, and The Monkees.

About SongVest
SongVest, Inc. is the world's first and only song rights auction house. The company provides 'music memorabilia with royalties' to fans, collectors, and investors by acting as a broker between songwriters (or their heirs) and rights buyers. When a songwriter is compensated for the performance, sale, or use of their song, so to will high bidders at SongVest auctions. The company's unique business model has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, CNBC, USA Today, Forbes, and countless online music, fan, collector, and investment outlets all over the world.

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