Roselle Montesion, has joined North Gate Labs. Montesion was most recently the Director of Interactive Services at Henderson Advertising where she built their Hdrive group. She will lead a newly formed Strategic Internet Marketing Consulting arm for Web Sales Tool.
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Archive for April, 2006
Ryan Owens has recently been selected for the fourth consecutive year as one of the expert judges for the 2006 WebAward Competition for outstanding website development, sponsored by the Web Marketing Association.
The annual WebAward Competition is produced by the Web Marketing Association (WMA), founded in 1997 to set a high standard for Internet marketing and site development on the World Wide Web. More at www.webaward.org.
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Stratatomic, a creative design studio located in Greenville, SC, has recently added two new Upstate businesses to its growing portfolio of clients, including Carolina Furniture of Simpsonville and Netxusa of Greenville. Projects and services provided for the various clients will include web site design, hosting, and integrated WebAdmin site management tools and technology.
Stratatomic is a creative firm specializing in web, multimedia, advertising, and graphic communications. Stratatomic also offers complete solutions for web site hosting, WebAdmin site management software and WebStats site analysis tools.
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GASP meets the 4th Thursday of every month from January through October. Meetings begin at 7 PM at Greenville Tech’s Buck Mickel Center. The meetings are free and open to the public. You can add the meetings to your calendar here:
Next Meeting – March 22, 2007
IT Security & Audit: An Opportunity for Success.
About our speaker:
Newell Eastland is a Greenville native. His IT career started in 1980 in the two man shop of a local institutional food distributor. After 3 years with a consulting firm, he began work for Capsugel (a division of Pfizer) a manufacturer for the pharmaceutical industry located in Greenwood, SC. Over the next 15 years he held positions in application development, installed the Windows NT network and maintained the server farm, and was the location’s corporate liaison for security matters. In 2003 he became the Information Security Analyst for RBC Liberty, an insurance company with a long history in Greenville. When RBC sold the infrastructure group to IBM in 2005, Newell became the location Security Focal and Information Security / Business Controls lead for IBM Insurance Outsourcing Services. He is an MCP and holds the Security+ and CISSP certifications.
Date: April 26, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM
Where: GTBMC (map)
Agenda:
7:00 PM Announcements
7:10 PM Introductions / QA
7:20 PM Main Presentation
8:20 – 8:30 Close of meeting
RSVP: Please let us know you are coming by clicking on the link below.
DIRECTIONS TO GREENVILLE TECHNICAL COLLEGE
BUCK MICKEL CENTER 216 S. Pleasantburg Dr., Greenville, SC 864-250-8800
From Spartanburg, SC and Charlotte, NC (also from GVL-SPT Airport)
• Take 1-85 South toward GREENVILLE, SC
• Take 1-385 North toward GREENVILLE, SC.
• Take Exit #40B SC-291 S/PLEASANTBURG DR.
• Stay on PLEASANTBURG DR. until you pass the Krispy Kreme and go under a bridge.
• Look for “The Open Book” bookstore on the right. The BUCK MICKEL CENTER is a 2-story tan building. It will be on your RIGHT after the next light at ANTRIM DR. just past THE TRAVEL GROUP building.
• It is easiest to turn RIGHT onto ANTRIM DR. at the light just beyond the bookstore, drive behind THE TRAVEL GROUP building, and turn LEFT into the parking lot at the second driveway on ANTRIM DR. Parking is available on both sides of the BUCK MICKEL CENTER. The lobby is on the side of the building facing PLEASANTBURG DR. There is a registration desk and a television with classroom locations in the lobby
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Lenovo and Best Buy have announced that they will join forces to provide small and medium business customers with access to purchase ThinkPad notebooks, ThinkCentre desktops and the newly announced Lenovo-branded 3000 PCs.
Small business customers nationwide now will have the opportunity to acquire Lenovo technology online, by phone and at more than 135 “Best Buy For Business” locations. Customers can rely on the expertise of Lenovo-trained sales professionals to help identify and apply the right technology solutions for their unique business needs. Best Buy For Business provides businesses with expanded technology offerings, personal assistance from business professionals and specialized installation services.
IDC reports that by 2007, U.S. PC shipments to small businesses (1-99 employees) are expected to grow by two million units (1). Through Best Buy For Business, customers can select from Lenovo’s Think-branded portfolio as well as the Lenovo-branded PCs just introduced worldwide. The Lenovo 3000 product line, featuring several new desktop and notebook models, offers a unique suite of easy-to-use Lenovo Care productivity tools that help make owning and operating a PC a worry-free experience for small businesses. Lenovo 3000 models offered through Best Buy include the J100 and J105 desktops and the C100 and N100 notebooks.
In addition, the entire ThinkPad notebook and ThinkCentre desktop product lines will be available through Best Buy For Business, including offerings that are tailored to the needs of very small, small and medium business customers.
via Lenovo
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Instant Software, the Florida-based technology firm that provides reservation management systems for the vacation rental industry, announces the appointment of Linda Hess to the position of regional manager of the company’s Client Relationship Management Team.
“We’re thrilled to have Linda on our team,” stated Dave Hopcroft, CEO of Instant Software. “She’s an industry icon whose experience will add greatly to our already successful management team.”
Ms. Hess will be the regional manager for North and South Carolina as well as Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and the Northeast. Linda has been a vacation rental manager since 1992 and has served on many industry boards. Hess, a member of Vacation Rental Management Association (VRMA) since 1996, recently retired from a three-year term on the board. She was the president of North Carolina VRMA from 2002-2005 and is also the immediate past president of The Outer Banks Association of REALTORS®. Hess is also a member of the NAR Resorts and Second Home Committee and presently serves as a director of the North Carolina Association of Realtors. Hess will be based out of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
via Instant Software
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The past year of enhancements in bill payments, online applications, customer service and products has helped Bank of America maintain its dominance in online banking and reach a record 15 million subscribers. That makes up more than one-third of the market in the United States, according to comScore.
Bank of America has continued to redefine online banking as “online financial retailing,” with the company’s community of online customers increasingly taking advantage of the full suite of Bank of America products and services through bankofamerica.com. Sales of products through bankofamerica.com totaled 3.8 million in 2005, an increase of 69 percent. This included 2.3 million online activations, 380,000 new savings accounts, 375,000 new credit card accounts and 298,000 new checking accounts.
via Bank of America
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ScanSource Security Distribution, a sales unit of ScanSource, Inc., has partnered with Panasonic to distribute the company’s line of video surveillance solutions ranging from analog-based systems to new and expanding IP video security systems.
Through this partnership, ScanSource Security’s reseller customers will have access to Panasonic’s wide range of industry-leading video surveillance and security products, including the company’s new and expanded i-Pro Series of intelligent and professional IP/networking solutions, as well as its expansive range of IP remote monitoring solutions for residential and small office/home office use. ScanSource Security also will distribute Panasonic’s cameras and lenses, including the Super Dynamic III (SDIII) intelligent technology line-up of cameras, biometric access control, digital video recorders, management software, lenses and housings, and network interfaces needed to deliver a total physical security solution.
ScanSource Security Distribution offers access control, surveillance/CCTV, intrusion, fire and identification products exclusively to the reseller community. The company provides competitive pricing; free ground shipping; products in stock and ready to ship from a centralized location, allowing for improved efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and highly trained sales representatives and technical support specialists with an extensive product knowledge.
via ScanSource
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ScanSource, Inc., has entered Fortune Magazine’s annual ranking of America’s largest corporations at # 982. Founded in 1992, ScanSource, Inc.’s sales were $1.469 billion for its most recent fiscal year ended June 30, 2005, an increase of 23% compared to the year before.
ScanSource is one of only four South Carolina companies named to the Fortune 1000, which is based on a number of criteria, including company revenue, profits, market value, and earnings per share.
“When you have a group of dedicated employees, who are committed to doing the right thing for your customers and vendors, the numbers tend to follow,” said Mike Baur, president and CEO, ScanSource, Inc. “We’re honored to be recognized for this commitment and included on this prestigious list.”
Fortune Magazine previously recognized ScanSource as one of the nation’s 100 fastest-growing companies in 2000, 2001 and 2002.
via ScanSource
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Phil Yanov, Director of Business Development at Acentron Technologies, Inc., as well as Founder and Executive Director of the GSA Technology Council will once again take calls live on Clemson University’s Your Day radio program scheduled for Thursday April 13.
The noontime show will begin with a half hour pre-recorded segment in which Donna London of the Jim Self Center on the Future talks with Dr. Nancy Snow, assistant professor in the College of Communications at California State University, Fullerton, and adjunct assistant professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. A Senior Fellow in the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, Dr. Snow is directing a research and teaching initiative on anti-Americanism and the American image in the world and the two will discuss the validity of news in blogging.
The live call in segment will appear in the second half of the hour long show. During that time Eric Rodgers will host Phil Yanov as they answer questions on blogging, online news media, and other internet technologies. Members of the radio audience are invited to call in with questions on computer technology and related topics during the second half of the show. Your Day airs at noon on WEPR 90.1 FM in the upstate and on various other stations throughout South Carolina. The toll-free number is 888-539-8859.
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