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Domaille Engineering Announces AS9100D Certification Achievement

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Domaille Engineering, LLC, known for providing World Class manufacturing solutions, has accomplished well in advance of the International Aerospace Quality Group’s (IAQG) September 2018 deadline for completion of AS9100D certification

ROCHESTER, MN (PRWEB) September 10, 2017

Domaille Engineering, LLC, known for providing World Class manufacturing solutions, has accomplished well in advance of the International Aerospace Quality Group’s (IAQG) September 2018 deadline for completion of AS9100D certification. The audit was performed by Perry Johnson Registrar.

AS9100D is an international standard for manufacturing products, including parts, components and assemblies for aerospace and defense industries.

Requirements for AS9100D are specific to the context of the organization, leadership, planning, support and operations with a focus on continuous improvement in quality, cost, delivery and performance for the aerospace industry.

AS9100D includes new requirements above and beyond those specified in AS9100C, such as rigorous risk-based thinking, driving it throughout the organization and building it into the entire quality management system.

Domaille’s commitment to excellence is driven by talented engineering and project management teams. Our team is well versed in different disciplines including: manufacturing engineering, quality, mechanical engineering, producibility studies and thermal engineering. Domaille Engineering has successfully helped clients develop unique manufacturing solutions for over 25 years.

Contact Information:

Domaille Engineering LLC

7100 Dresser Drive NE

Rochester, MN 55906

(507) 281-0275

http://www.DomailleEngineering.com

info(at)DomailleEngineering(dot)com

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Customer Outcome Selling Training To Get Major Uplift With Technology

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Baker Communications (BCI) Announced the Addition of Gamification & Learning Reinforcement to Its Public Customer Outcome Selling Training

Houston, Texas (PRWEB) September 10, 2017

If you can't remember what you learned in that selling class you attended last month, don't feel bad. You're not alone. According to educational research, most of us forget between 80 to 90 percent of what we learned within 30 days of saying goodbye to our classmates.

To help remedy the problem, Baker Communications (BCI) is adding gamification and learning reinforcement to all of its public training events. The product is called ReCall. ReCall uses gamification to increase learner engagement, as well as remedial learning paths when answers are missed.

One of its most popular classes, Win-Win Negotiations, has already received the upgrade, and BCI's equally popular class on Exceptional Presentations will have ReCall added by the end of this month.

Starting in mid-November, all attendees to Customer Outcome Selling (COS) will also receive a 30-day version of the BCI learning reinforcement tool as part of the course. ReCall is being added at BCI's expense because it feels that the value add for its clients will be very significant. The tool takes key learning objectives and behaviors and reinforces them with gamification on both mobile and desktop devices. Each cohort will receive a separate instance of the ReCall tool, so they can compete with their former classmates for leaderboard honors and associated badges, while essentially having key learnings reinforced after the class has ended.

When learning reinforcement tools are used in combination with classroom training, retention has been shown to increase from 20% to 84-90% depending on the topic. “We believe that these new tools will make our COS training an even better training investment,” said Walter Rogers, the CEO of Baker Communications (BCI). “In turn, this helps our clients’ sellers outperform their competition. That means even bigger paybacks in the form of quota achievement.”

Baker Communications' tagline states that "world class performance never happens by accident." The company believes that it takes a combination of proven concepts and practice, along with learning reinforcement tools and great coaching to create world class performers. BCI says these performance differences are no different than what we see in the world of professional sports.

“The average PGA Tour pro - from a scoring perspective - earned around $755,777 through August of 2017. The upper 2% percent of the touring pros averaged $6,220,722 through August. What's even more remarkable is when you consider that the average scoring difference was less than 2 strokes,” said Joe DiDonato, Vice President of Learning. “We believe this same small change in performance can be taught, practiced, reinforced and coached in our client's sellers.”

According to BCI, these learning reinforcement tools, as well as one-on-one coaching, can help push performance to the upper levels of the bell curve. According to education researcher Benjamin Bloom, his studies showed that learners who received learning reinforcement outperformed 84% of the people trained in the classroom alone. Those same studies showed that learners who were coached or mentored in a one-to-one venue, outperformed 98% of those learners who received only classroom training. BCI points out that this is the point where world class performance begins.

For more information about Baker Communications, please visit their website at http://www.BakerCommunications.com. Sign up for a free personal behavioral assessment on the company’s home page. That assessment combined with the knowledge of the behavior styles of the person your sellers are selling to, is part of the core curriculum. The direct link to BCI's behavior assessment section is: http://www.bakercommunications.com/behavior-assessment/. Simply click the “Learn Your Style” button on that page to begin a personal and confidential style assessment.

The American Heart Association, T-Mobile, Amazon Web Services and Ingersoll Rand were four of BCI’s customers who finished in the top tier of the 2017 Learning! 100 Awards. To learn more about their award-winning training initiatives, please download this reprint: http://www.bakercommunications.com/dl/BCIClients2017Learning100.pdf.

About Baker Communications (BCI)

As one of America's fastest-growing corporate training companies, Baker Communications has helped over 1.5 million professionals reach maximum performance for over 37 years. Globally recognized companies and government agencies, including Amazon Web Services, T-Mobile, Ingersoll Rand, ExxonMobil, General Electric and Bank of America depend on Baker Communications to equip their employees with skills to increase market share and produce immediate results. Baker provides customized targeted practice-driven performance improvement solutions that produce rapid, measurable results. Baker Communications' solutions have been utilized and delivered worldwide, throughout Europe, South America, North America, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific.

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Mediaclip Develops Plugin to Facilitate Integration Between its Software and the Leading Magento eCommerce Platform

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Mediaclip has developed an easy-to-configure plugin, which allows for the seamless integration between its product personalization software and the Magento eCommerce platform. Webstore owners are thus provided with yet another flexible integration option to start offering product personalization to their end-users.

Montreal, QC (PRWEB) September 10, 2017

Mediaclip™, the premier developer of product personalization software, is proud to introduce its new Magento® plugin, which is intended to make adding product personalization to any website an extremely simple process. From the beginning, one of Mediaclip’s core competitive strengths is its solution’s flexibility and ease of integration. Over the past ten years, the company has developed several products and solidified strategic partnerships to provide more turnkey options to its clientele. In an effort to continue down this path and meet an even wider array of needs, the company continues to prioritize a development style that allows customers to choose and define a unique shopping experience on their website which is in-line with the demands of their end-users. As such, the plugin’s development provides webstore owners with yet another integration alternative, facilitating a seamless hook between Mediaclip’s software and one of the most renowned open source eCommerce powers 28% of websites across the internet and 16% of the top one million websites.*

“Having a robust product customization software is only part of the equation to monetize the growing consumer need for personalization; a well-rounded eCommerce platform that can support various marketing strategies is also key to delivering a user experience that drives sales and builds customers loyalty,” says Marion Duchesne, Mediaclip’s CEO. “This is why coupling our unparalleled expertise in the personalization market with Magento’s leadership in eCommerce presents online store owners with the opportunity to leap far ahead of their competition and maximize revenues within the booming multi-billion-dollar product customization market.”

The new Mediaclip™ Magento® Plugin allows integration to the company’s cloud-based solution, Mediaclip™Hub, which provides the entire imaging infrastructure (Mediaclip™Designer, image uploader, content, and projects) required to offer the personalization of any photo printed product online. This easy-to-configure plugin provides a seamless integration between the storefront, Mediaclip’s editing tool, the shopping cart, and the final checkout process which automatically triggers the Hub servers to process files of personalized items in the order for fulfillment. The main focus of its design is to simplify integration and as such, using the plugin only requires Magento configuration skills; no programming skills are necessary. The ability to use two leading technologies in their domain has never been simpler or more streamlined.

Mediaclip’s staff will be available to discuss details about the Magento Plugin at Print 17. The company will also be exhibiting many of its other top innovations at Booth 4543 during the conference, which takes place from Sept. 10th to 14th at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL. To book an appointment with the team in Chicago, or for more information on working with Mediaclip and using the new plugin to start offering product personalization on your Magento powered store, contact us via email (info@mediaclip.ca) or by phone (1-877-799-2547).

ABOUT MEDIACLIP

Mediaclip™ is a leading provider of white-label software solutions allowing its customers to offer online personalization of any product. Our delightful user experience is designed to work on any device and our technology allows you to customize the look and feel of the tool in order to reflect your brand and differentiate yourself from everybody else in the market. Our solutions are offered in a wide range of business models to address your specific needs and help you execute your market strategy.

A privately-held company headquartered in Montreal, Mediaclip offers worldwide support. Our software solutions are currently integrated into hundreds of leading photo websites around the world.

*source: https://www.cminds.com/magento-updated-statistics/

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Four Baker Communications Customers Grab Top Honors in the 2017 Learning! 100 Awards in San Diego, CA

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Baker Communications (BCI) and CloudCoaching International (CCI) Congratulate T-Mobile, AHA, AWS, and Ingersoll Rand on Their Finishes in the Learning! 100 Awards

Houston, Texas (PRWEB) September 10, 2017

Four of the seven Baker Communications (BCI) and CloudCoaching International (CCI) clients honored this year at the 2017 Learning! 100 Awards finished in top spots in both the Private and Public awards. T-Mobile finished #1 in the Private sector, followed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the #2 spot, and Ingersoll Rand in the #5 spot. The American Heart Association (AHA) took the #2 spot in the Public sector. The other BCI | CCI clients that won included Honeywell ADI, Sysco and World Fuel Services.

These global organizations were recognized for their innovation, collaboration and high performance within an immersive learning culture. Growth in these top finishers were at double-digit rates, and reported ROIs were as high as 1,800 percent.

#1 - T-Mobile (private sector)

T-Mobile U.S.A. is the fastest growing company in the extremely competitive wireless communications industry. Its position as the 'Un-Carrier' fuels subscriber growth. No long-term contracts, excellent customer service and high valued services are the norm at T-Mobile, the 'Un-Carrier.' T- Mobile U.S.A. has been chosen as the #1 Learning! 100 Award recipient for unifying the 'Un-Carrier' vision at the sales level.

#2 – Amazon Web Services (private sector)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is being honored as the #2 Learning! 100 company this year in the Private Sector, thanks to its Outcome-Based Account Management (OBAM) program. Consistent with the Amazon Leadership Principle of Customer Obsession, the OBAM methodology works backward from customers, defining success through their eyes based on their unique needs and target outcomes.

#2 - American Heart Association (public sector)

Last year, the American Heart Association (AHA) wanted to establish a unified fund-raising process and culture across the entire organization for both volunteer-centric and direct groups. Besides this unified fund-raising process, AHA also wanted to support its staff in articulating the mission, impact and programs of the AHA, as well as to reach critical thresholds in areas of revenue and health goals. These business outcomes led to the creation of the "Building Powerful Partnerships" program.

According to the AHA, the program exceeded all expectations and helped it achieve its critical goals, which in turn helped the organization continue its laudatory work.This marks the sixth year the American Heart Association has been listed among Learning! 100 honorees.

#5 - Ingersoll Rand (private sector)

Multi-year winner Ingersoll Rand is on the list again. In one division, the Direct Channel reported consistent, double-digit year-over-year growth in revenue from a combination of strategies inclusive of IRSMX, and an 1800 percent return on investment (ROI) for the program. In the Indirect Channel, the results were equally impressive, with an increase in market share for the first time in several years and a 1300 percent ROI on the IRSMX implementation specifically.

To learn more about these customers' award-winning training initiatives, please download this reprint from the Learning! 100 Awards issue: http://www.bakercommunications.com/dl/BCIClients2017Learning100.pdf.

For more information about Baker Communications, please visit their website at http://www.BakerCommunications.com.

About Baker Communications (BCI)

As one of America's fastest-growing corporate training companies, Baker Communications has helped over 1.5 million professionals reach maximum performance for over 37 years. Globally recognized companies and government agencies, including Amazon Web Services, T-Mobile, Ingersoll Rand, ExxonMobil, General Electric and Bank of America depend on Baker Communications to equip their employees with skills to increase market share and produce immediate results. Baker provides customized targeted practice-driven performance improvement solutions that produce rapid, measurable results. Baker Communications' solutions have been utilized and delivered worldwide, throughout Europe, South America, North America, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific.

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13 Members from EO Atlanta Earn Spot on Inc. 5000 List

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Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), the world’s leading peer-to-peer network of successful business leaders recently congratulated 316 of its members on their business achievements that earned them a spot on the 2017 Inc. 5000 list. The annual list curated by Inc. ranks the fastest-growing private sector companies in the United States. EO's local chapter for Atlanta, GA has counted 13 members who have made it to the prestigious list this year.

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) September 10, 2017

13 Members from EO Atlanta Earn Spot on Inc. 5000 List;

316 EO Members Across the US Earn Rankings on Inc. 5000 List

Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), the world’s leading peer-to-peer network of successful business leaders recently congratulated 316 of its members on their business achievements that earned them a spot on the 2017 Inc. 5000 list. The annual list curated by Inc. ranks the fastest-growing private sector companies in the United States.

EO's local chapter for Atlanta, GA has counted 13 members who have made it to the prestigious list this year.

“It’s no surprise that, year in, year out, the Inc. 5000 list features hundreds of companies led by EO members. There is no surefire path to fast growth, but making the Inc. 5000 list does require a growth-focus, a willingness to seek counsel, and the drive to invest in oneself as a leader. EO members all have that in common,” said Patrick Hainault, Group Vice President of Marketing.

"EO Atlanta is incredibly proud of our 13 members who have deservingly earned their spot on the Inc. 5000 list. To see our members’ growth and development earn them recognition on this prestigious list shows the strength of our membership and how EO unites and supports leading, like-minded and driven entrepreneurs in our community,” said Rodney Strickland, Atlanta Chapter President.

Entrepreneurs' Organization celebrates 30 years of significance this year. Since its launch in 1987, it has grown to over 12,000 members in 169 chapters and 52 countries. Also featured in the top 10% of the 2017 Inc. 5000 list are 26 EO members that have been declared among the top 500 across the country. The complete list of EO member companies is available online, with EO Atlanta’s Inc. 5000 recipients listed below:

#122    

PeachCap     

peachcap.com

#430    

Rigor    

rigor.com

#765    

Crisp Video Group    

crispvideo.com

#1427    

Look Listen    

looklisten.com

#1680    

Sweet Peach Wax & Sugaring Studio    

sweetpeachwax.com

#1964    

Rumph & Associates    

rumphandassociates.com

#2134    

Advanced Care Pediatrics    

acpediatrics.com

#2191    

DentalPost    

dentalpost.net

#3483    

Ripple    

rippleit.com

#3571    

Rocket IT    

rocketit.com

#4091    

The Royster Group    

roystergroup.com

#4129    

Trade Ideas    

trade-ideas.com

#4361    

iVision    

ivision.com

About Entrepreneurs’ Organization

Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a global, peer-to-peer network of more than 12,000+ influential business owners with 169 chapters in 52 countries. Founded in 1987, EO is the catalyst that enables leading entrepreneurs to learn and grow, leading to greater success in business and beyond.

The Atlanta Chapter of the Entrepreneurs' Organization is committed to helping local entrepreneurs drive their dreams. Collectively employing a workforce of over 5,000 with combined revenues of over $1 billion, this group is made exclusively of entrepreneur business owners. The EO Atlanta chapter is among the global organization’s strongest, and was recently recognized as one of the top four providers of educational programming worldwide for entrepreneurs.

Media Contact: Rhonda Suttle, 404-246-7557

https://www.eonetwork.org/atlanta

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Dealer Video Showroom a Big Labor Day Hit at Chevy Dealers Across America!

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More than 500 Chevrolet dealers across America enjoyed a terrific Labor Day boost in traffic and sales during the free trial of the Dealer Video Showroom on their new, next generation CDK websites.

Acton, Massachusetts (PRWEB) September 10, 2017

The Dealer Video Showroom is an interactive video enhancement to CDK’s state-of-the-art next gen websites that lets car shoppers enjoy a personalized virtual test drive. The DVS was created by WheelsTV, which is now partnering with CDK on the DVS’s distribution to CDK’s 9,000 dealership websites.

The Dealer Video Showroom’s exclusive library of over 5,000 virtual test drives brings to life every new and pre-owned car on each dealers’ lots. Car shoppers go from taking virtual test-drives™ on dealers’ inventory pages to taking actual test-drives at the dealerships. Over the Labor Day weekend, Chevy dealerships’ busy websites became self-contained e-dealerships open around the clock. Car shoppers enjoyed exploring each vehicle’s most important attributes, from interior features, fuel economy, power, safety and warranty to exterior design and what’s new for the model year.

Visitors to 515 participating Chevrolet e-dealerships took 14,668 virtual test drives over the three day weekend. The busiest times were mornings and early afternoons. The most popular virtual test-drives were of the 2017 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and the most popular chapter was Interior.

Car shoppers averaged 5 minutes and 46 seconds while taking virtual test drives, indicating that they took at least two virtual test drives before setting out to the dealerships for actual test drives.

“Helping dealers and consumers do business more quickly and easily is what the Dealer Video Showroom is all about,” says WheelsTV President Lehel Reeves. “By providing this next gen interactive video experience, WheelsTV and CDK accelerate the consumer’s research and decision making process. When Chevy dealers help consumers to enjoy their research, they are helping themselves to move new and used cars off their lots and into the arms of happy motorists.”

WheelsTV and CDK offer the Dealer Video Showroom as a free, no-obligation trial similar in nature to how consumers can sample Sirius/XM satellite radio. Once the trial ends, the dealer can choose whether or not to keep this highly effective marketing and sales feature. Judging by the success that Colonial West Chevrolet and Colonial Chevrolet of Acton have experienced with the Dealer Video Showroom, that’s an easy call to make!

“Both Colonial West Chevrolet and Colonial Chevrolet Acton had great August and Labor Day weekend sales this year. Our sites converted more traffic to leads and experienced great time on site, which we attribute in part to our dynamic virtual test-drives from the Dealer Video Showroom!” states Daniel Fontaine, E-Commerce Director, Colonial Automotive Group at http://www.colonialchevy.com

To learn more about The Dealer Video Showroom contact Lehel Reeves at lreeves(at)wheelstv.net or call 978-264-4333.

About WheelsTV

Automotive Networks Corporation d/b/a WheelsTV, is an industry-leading video technology company that creates and distributes cutting-edge interactive video platforms and original automotive content for all screens. Patent-pending products include the Digital Video Showroom and iDrive Interactive Video Player. Exclusive content includes over 5,500 original virtual test drive™ brochures covering every popular light vehicle from 2008 to present. WheelsTV has received recognition for excellence in product innovation and automotive programming through multiple awards including Telly Awards, Communicator Awards and W3 Awards.

Visit http://dealervideoshowroom.com/

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Management Skills Training To Use Learning Reinforcement and Gamification

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Baker Communications (BCI) Announced That It Is Adding Learning Reinforcement and Gamification to Its Exceptional Management Skills Training

Houston, Texas (PRWEB) September 10, 2017

Hermann Ebbinghaus proved that much of what we learn in a class is forgotten within 30 days after the class ends. The amount of forgetting is usually projected to be 80% or more of the content. To address that problem, Baker Communications (BCI) has added a new learning reinforcement tool to its Exceptional Management Skills (EMS) class. The learning reinforcement product is called ReCall, and it uses gamification to increase learner engagement. If a learner forgets a concept, or gets an answer wrong, they can click on a "learn more" button to review the material that they're having trouble grasping.

Starting in late December 2017, all attendees to the public schedule of Exceptional Management Skills training will also receive a 30-day version of the BCI learning reinforcement tool. That offer is also being extended through its training partner network, so that their partners can provide their students with the same capability. The tool takes key behaviors and concepts, and reinforces them using gamification on both mobile and desktop devices. Students in each public class event will receive a cohort-shared version of the tool, so that reinforcement activities and leaderboard results begin at the same time for each group of attendees.

Using learning reinforcement tools in combination with classroom training has been shown to increase retention from 20% up to 80% or higher, depending upon the topic. “Adding learning retention tools to our EMS trainings will be a solid way to protect our customer’s training investment in their managers,” said Walter Rogers, the CEO of Baker Communications (BCI). “And because intention is improved, this helps our clients’ managers do a better job of managing and coaching their employees. We think that’s a significant value proposition for our customers.”

Baker Communications tagline is that "world class performance never happens by accident." BCI stresses that it takes a combination of proven concepts and constant practice, along with reinforcement and great coaching to create world class performers. That's been proven by educational research. Baker Communications likens these performance differences to results seen in professional sports.

“The earnings difference between the very top PGA players – the upper 2% of the players on tour - is pretty incredible, even through August of 2017," said Joe DiDonato, Vice President of Learning. "The average earnings difference was greater than $6,220,000 when compared to those PGA touring pros who were scoring around the tour average. What makes that earning difference stand out even more is when you consider that the average scoring difference was less than 2 strokes between the tour leaders and those at the middle of the pack. We believe this same small performance gain can be taught, practiced, reinforced and coached. And we think the net result will be equally impactful for our customers.”

This inclusion of learning reinforcement tools, as well as one-on-one coaching, helps push performance to the upper 2% of the bell curve of performance, according to BCI. According to education researcher Benjamin Bloom, studies he performed showed that learners who received learning reinforcement outperformed 84% of the people trained in the classroom alone. Those same studies showed that learners who were coached or mentored in a one-to-one venue, outperformed 98% of those learners who received only classroom training. That’s a 2-sigma difference in performance.

For more information about Baker Communications, please visit their website at http://www.BakerCommunications.com. You can also take the BCI Behavioral Assessment for free. The link can be found on the company's home page. Assessing your own style and learning how to discover and interact with the behavior styles of your employees, is part of the core curriculum. The direct link to the starting point of the behavior assessment section is: http://www.bakercommunications.com/behavior-assessment/. Simply click the “Learn Your Style” button on that page when you're ready to take your own behavior style assessment.

T-Mobile, Amazon Web Services, the American Heart Association and Ingersoll Rand were four of BCI’s customers who finished in the top tier of the highly competitive Learning! 100 Awards in 2017. To learn more about these customers' award-winning training initiatives, please download this reprint: http://www.bakercommunications.com/dl/BCIClients2017Learning100.pdf.

About Baker Communications (BCI)

As one of America's fastest-growing corporate training companies, Baker Communications has helped over 1.5 million professionals reach maximum performance for over 37 years. Globally recognized companies and government agencies, including Amazon Web Services, T-Mobile, Ingersoll Rand, ExxonMobil, General Electric and Bank of America depend on Baker Communications to equip their employees with skills to increase market share and produce immediate results. Baker provides customized targeted practice-driven performance improvement solutions that produce rapid, measurable results. Baker Communications' solutions have been utilized and delivered worldwide, throughout Europe, South America, North America, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific.

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New Study Revealing Billions of People are Drinking Micro Plastic Particles in Tap Water Described as ‘Shocking’ by Water Purification Innovator Bluewater

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World leading drinking water technology leader Bluewater describes a new scientific study that has found previously unknown plastic contamination in the tap water of cities around the world as ‘shocking and disturbing’.

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (PRWEB) September 10, 2017

A wave of new studies in recent months have escalated knowledge about the extent of ocean, lake and river pollution by plastics. Now a new study, said to be the first of its kind, has discovered previously unknown plastic contamination in the tap water of cities around the world.

“According to exclusive research by Orb Media, a top journalism site, and a researcher at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, microscopic plastic fibers are flowing out of taps from New York to New Delhi with women, children, men, and babies consuming plastic with every glass of water,” said Bengt Rittri, the Swedish environmental entrepreneur who founded Bluewater.

“It’s now no secret plastics have entered the human food chain as a result of being ingested by fish and stored in their intestines and fat, but the latest study by Orb Media is the first time we’ve been handed evidence that we are also ingesting plastic from our tap drinking our tap water,” says Bengt, who has made delivering clean drinking water and tackling ocean plastic pollution a cornerstone of Bluewater’s business mission.

Bengt said he found the findings that resulted from a ten month investigation by Orb Media across six continents both ‘shocking and disturbing’. The Swedish entrepreneur notes that micro plastics are in the stomachs of almost one in three mackerel caught in the Baltic, according to Stockholm University’s Baltic Sea Centre.

Bengt believes plastic – which has improved human life in so many ways over the past five decades – today threatens the existence of all living things on the planet. He called for an urgent and radical rethink of plastic use and said the world must harness the ingenuity, energy and passion of scientists, entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens to meet the environmental and health challenges and deliver business solutions that address the problems.

“The Orb Media study highlights two issues that Bluewater believes are fundamental to consuming water: one, stopping the use of throw-away plastic bottles and, two, assuring people’s access to clean drinking water. Bluewater is passionate about delivering viable alternatives to the problems behind the pollution that sees a million plastic bottles bought around the world every minute with just 9 percent of all plastic being recycled,” Bengt Rittri said.

Bluewater has innovated award-winning second-generation ‘SuperiorOsmosis’ reverse osmosis technology that is designed to remove particles down to below one nanometer in size, which encompasses most micro plastic particles. Powering Bluewater’s Pro and Spirit water purification ranges, the patented SuperiorOsmosis solution delivers unmatched quantities of on-demand purified drinking water, efficiently removing toxic metals such as lead, chemicals, microorganisms, pharmaceutical by-products and micro-plastics from drinking and bathing water.

#NoSingleUsePlastics

For more information, please contact

David Noble, Head of Communications, at +44 7785 302 694 or david.noble(at)bluewatergroup(dot)com

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InventHelp Inventor Develops Vehicle Identification System (LCC-3557)

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InventHelp, a leading inventor service company, is working to submit Automotive Safety Concept to companies for their review.

PITTSBURGH, PA (PRWEB) September 10, 2017

PITTSBURGH...An inventor from York, Pa., has developed the AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY CONCEPT, an electronic system for motor vehicles designed to prohibit operation by unlicensed drivers and those without insurance.

"I was hit by an uninsured driver many years ago. This inspired me to develop a system that would prevent this from happening to other motorists. I want to help keep roadways a safer place to drive," said the inventor. The AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY CONCEPT automatically filters out those unauthorized to drive due to drunk driving suspensions or a number of other violations. It helps reduce the risk of an accident involving unsafe drivers. This may allow police to be better prepared for potentially dangerous situations when pulling over a vehicle. This safety system is adaptable to both new-production and aftermarket vehicles.

The original design was submitted to the Lancaster office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 16-LCC-3557, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com - https://www.youtube.com/user/inventhelp

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Larson Electronics LLC Releases Electric Explosion Proof Pedestal Mount Fan

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Industrial lighting leader, Larson Electronics, has announced the release of a hazardous location fan with a pedestal base, designed to cool hazardous atmospheres. This Class I Division I, Class II Division I fan is rated for use in hazardous locations with flammable or explosive vapors, gas or dusts such as industrial sites, oil and gas facilities, processing plants, construction, aerospace facilities, indoor/outdoor cooling systems and more.

Kemp, TX (PRWEB) September 10, 2017

Industrial lighting leader, Larson Electronics, has announced the release of a hazardous location fan with a pedestal base, designed to cool hazardous atmospheres. This Class I Division I, Class II Division I fan is rated for use in hazardous locations with flammable or explosive vapors, gas or dusts such as industrial sites, oil and gas facilities, processing plants, construction, aerospace facilities, indoor/outdoor cooling systems and more.

The EPF-SM-24-150 from Larson Electronics is an explosion proof pedestal mount fan with a 24-inch diameter that can generate more than 7,980 CFM of air output that produces very efficient spot cooling for class rated locations. This pedestal mounted fan is equipped with a 150 foot 16/3 SOOW cable and an explosion proof plug for safe power source connection, and is available in a 115V model operating at 9.8 amps with a 5-15 or 5-20 explosion proof plug, or a 208-230V model that operates at 4.9 amps with a 6-20 explosion proof plug.

Although no fan can be 100 percent explosion proof, this pedestal mount fan is engineered with a robust and rugged design that minimizes the possibility of ignition, or explosion that may occur in a hazardous environment as much as possible. These special safety features include non-spark aluminum fan blades with powder coated steel fan guards, and a thermally protected maintenance free ½ HP motor the provides great corrosion resistance and a high degree of durability ideal for hazardous environments. Additionally, this fan sits atop a heavy-duty steel pedestal stand that provides a sturdy, balanced base for this 78 pound unit.

“This fan is as good as any fan can possibly get,” said Rob Bresnahan, CEO of Larson Electronics LLC. “We have equipped this explosion proof fan with non-sparking materials including aluminum fan blades with steel guards, as well as wiring and plugs rated for hazardous locations, so this fan can be used in any hazardous work site that needs effective cooling.”

About Larson Electronics LLC: Larson Electronics LLC is a manufacturer of industrial lighting equipment and accessories. The company offers an extensive catalog of industry-grade lighting and power distribution products for the following sectors: manufacturing, construction, food processing, oil and gas, military, marine and automobile. Customers can benefit from the company’s hands-on, customized approach to lighting solutions. Larson Electronics provides expedited service for quotes, customer support and shipments.

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Baicells Technologies Releases First Solar-Powered Small Cells Product

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SolarCell delivers sustainable solution in rural areas using solar power technology

San Francisco, CA, USA (PRWEB) September 12, 2017

Baicells Technologies, an emerging provider of global LTE solutions, has announced the release of the first solar powered small cell product. The device is called, aptly, SolarCell. This product is a sustainable, efficient, and low-cost solution that will address common issues that occur during network deployments in rural areas.

According to a BBC report, half of the world has no Internet coverage and even though mobile phones have been available for more than 30 years, 1.4 billion people around the world live in the absence of basic network facilities.

In rural areas, availability of adequate power also remains an issue. In these areas where the grid is less stable, network power supply largely depends on diesel. Added with re-occuring labor costs for monthly operation, the CAPEX for diesel power is often too heavy. Solar power solves this challenge.

Baicells SolarCell offers the following benefits:

Sustainability

Only 6 hours of sunshine is needed to keep the entire system running for approximately 48 hours. In the event of cloudy weather, there is a rechargeable back-up battery that supports the system in active use for 48 hours or on standby for 96 hours.

Efficiency

Power consumption is reduced to less than 20% than that of a macro base station, but the same coverage distance (more than 10 kilometers) as a macro base station is guaranteed, as the BBU is integrated in one box, 80% of traditional base station’s total power consumption is saved. Additionally, Baicells adopted Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technology to make solar energy utilization efficiency to the highest (99% versus 70-80% in the industry).

Easy deployment

SolarCell makes deployment easy with its integrated all-in-one design, which includes antenna, RRU, BBU, and a small solar panel that measures 100 cm wide by 162 cm long. It can be deployed in various environments, such as remote mountainous areas, wetlands, etc. For the backhaul solution, there are flexible choices including satellite, microwave, macro base station, and wired Ethernet.

Low cost

Not only does this device reduce the carbon emission due to its utilization of natural green energy, it also reduces any dependence on diesel to supply power to the network, which considerably decreases traditional operation cost. Remote visualized operation system also makes it easier and more reliable to manage the network, reducing OPEX.

Wei Bai, Vice President of Baicells Technologies, stated, “The future of wireless broadband is green. We feel that this sustainable and inexpensive product can make a huge difference anywhere, especially in less populated or rural communities. SolarCell is small yet powerful, with its efficiency benefiting both the user and environment.”

About Baicells

Baicells is a privately-held, high tech company with offices in China and USA. It has introduced some real breakthrough technologies to LTE, like moving a complete LTE system to unlicensed spectrum and building it with an IT based architecture. With Baicells’ turnkey end-to-end solutions, it becomes much easier to provide wireless broadband within everyone's reach at a very low cost.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Honors Stevens Institute of Technology President Nariman Farvardin With Academic Leadership Award

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Honor recognizes exceptional leadership and includes a $500,000 award to fund academic initiatives

Hoboken, New Jersey (PRWEB) September 12, 2017

Following a rigorous nomination and review process, Stevens Institute of Technology President Nariman Farvardin was selected by Carnegie Corporation of New York to receive the 2017 Academic Leadership Award in recognition of exceptional leadership in higher education, the Corporation announced today. He is one of seven college and university presidents to be honored this year.

Established in 2005, the award reflects the conviction of Andrew Carnegie, the Corporation’s philanthropic founder, that education and knowledge are fundamental tools for strengthening democracy and creating a more vibrant civil society.

The award is granted biannually to a small number of select educators who “demonstrate vision and an outstanding commitment to excellence in undergraduate education, the liberal arts, equal opportunity, the development of major interdisciplinary programs, international engagement, and the promotion of strong ties between their institutions and their local communities.” The award includes a $500,000 grant to each honoree's institution. At Stevens, Dr. Farvardin will use the money to fund academic initiatives.

In honoring Dr. Farvardin, the Carnegie Corporation cited a number of institutional accomplishments, among them:

  • Investment in faculty members, support services for students, new academic and research facilities and new classroom technology;
  • Emphasized experiential learning opportunities as a way for students to connect their education to work in their chosen fields;
  • Facilitated a 365 percent increase in students participating in international programs;
  • Oversaw increased applications and improved retention and graduation rates.

Dr. Farvardin has been the driving force for the development and implementation of an ambitious 10-year strategic plan, entitled, The Future. Ours to Create. During his tenure, the university has made significant progress on many of the goals and metrics identified in the plan, including a 28.4% increase in undergraduate enrollment a trend of stellar student outcomes and an incredible 19-point ascent in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges ranking.

“Since Dr. Farvardin’s arrival a little over six years ago, Stevens has advanced on all fronts,” said Virginia P. Ruesterholz ’83, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. “We have become a first-choice university for talented students and faculty as we pursue our goal of being a premier, student-centric technological research university. Recognition of Dr. Farvardin as an outstanding leader casts a bright light on our university.”

“There are more than 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States, which play a fundamental role in educating the next generation of our workforce, leaders, and citizens. Our higher education institutions are central to the future of our nation,” said Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York. “Andrew Carnegie believed in the importance of strong, dedicated, and effective higher education leaders. As custodians of Mr. Carnegie’s legacy, it is our honor to salute a new class of exemplary leaders, who join with another 20 past award recipients in representing some of the best of the American academy.”

In addition to Dr. Farvardin, the other 2017 honorees are Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern University; Mark P. Becker, president of Georgia State University; John J. DeGioia, president of Georgetown University; Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College; DeRionne Pollard, president of Montgomery College; and Barbara R. Snyder, president of Case Western Reserve University. Past recipients have included the presidents of Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, USC, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Pennsylvania.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Stevens Institute of Technology is a premier, private research university situated in Hoboken, New Jersey overlooking the Manhattan skyline. Since our founding in 1870, technological innovation has always been the hallmark and legacy of Stevens’ education and research. Within the university’s three schools and one college, 6,600 undergraduate and graduate students collaborate closely with faculty in an interdisciplinary, student-centric, entrepreneurial environment. A range of academic and research programming spanning business, computing, engineering, the arts and other fields actively advances the frontiers of science and leverages technology to confront our most pressing global challenges. The university is consistently ranked among the nation’s elite for return on tuition investment, career services and the mid-career salaries of alumni. Stevens is home to three national research centers of excellence as well as interdisciplinary research programs in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity; data science and information systems; complex systems and networks; financial systems and technologies; biomedical engineering, healthcare and life sciences; and resilience and sustainability. Stevens is currently in the midst of executing a 10-year strategic plan, The Future. Ours to Create., which is growing and transforming the university, further extending the Stevens legacy to create a forward-looking, far-reaching institution with global impact.

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Subscription Trade Association (SUBTA) heads to Denver for Third Annual Subscription Summit May 30, 2018 – June 1, 2018

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Super Early Bird ticket price now available until October 31, 2017 for subscription box industry entrepreneurs and companies that are expected to attend

Royal Oak, Mich. (PRWEB) September 12, 2017

The Subscription Trade Association (SUBTA) proudly announces its third annual Subscription Summit (Sub Summit) will be held May 30, 2018-June 1, 2018 in Denver, CO.

Sub Summit ‘18 will feature more than 25 speakers and help connect industry leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators and partners that are driving the evolution of how consumers discover, buy and experience new products via the array of subscription box industry businesses.

“In the last three years, more than 2,500 subscription box companies have launched,” said Paul Chambers, one of the co-founders of SUBTA, based in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, MI. “Over the next decade, the subscription box industry is on track to generate more than $90 billion in annual revenues. We are excited and looking forward to bringing the entrepreneurial energy of the subscription box industry to Denver for our third annual subscription box summit.”

Sub Summit ‘18 will also include the return of the 2018 CUBE Awards, with winners to be announced on Day 2 of event. The CUBE Awards highlight the best of the subscription box industry in more than 10 categories. Participating businesses are recognized for how they are leading the reshaping of how consumers discover, buy and experience new products, capped by the convenience of having their purchases delivered right to their doorstep.

With more than 700 entrepreneurs expected to attend Sub Summit 18, SUBTA is offering a super early bird ticket for subscription box companies. Attendees who purchase the Unboxing VIP ticket by October 31, 2017, can get the ticket for $600, half off the regular price of $1,200. The ticket includes full VIP conference access, welcome reception, CUBE Awards dinner and other benefits.

SUBTA leaders, meanwhile, are bullish about the future of the subscription box industry and their six-point mission-analogous to the sides of a box-that includes networking, professional development, customer experience and critical research. “We announced the formation of SUBTA at last year’s summit in Austin, TX,” said Michelle Lange, co-founder of SUBTA. “We want to continue to foster a socially conscious, sustainable subscription box industry, where profitable growth and impact thrive together.”

Those interested in attending Sub Summit ‘18 are invited to watch for developments such as the speaking lineup, summit agenda and other events associated with the gathering by going to http://www.thesubscriptionsummit.com.

About Subscription Trade Association-SUBTA

The Subscription Trade Association (SUBTA), located in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, Mich., is a global network built for today’s industry leaders, innovators and partners who are driving the rapid evolution of how consumers discover, buy and experience new products.

Launched in 2017, the association’s mission is to support the growth of subscription businesses through: networking, professional development, customer service benchmarking, profitable growth and fostering a socially conscious subscription box industry. More information on the Subscription Trade Association (SUBTA) can be found on its website at: http://www.subta.com.

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Astound Commerce Insights’ Omnichannel Commerce Mystery Shopping Report Reveals Top 10 Performing Brands in Customer Experience

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New report analyzes the digital and in-store experiences of 50 global brands to identify leaders and gauge competitiveness.

San Francisco (PRWEB) September 12, 2017

Today’s consumers expect strong mobile sites, want flexible fulfillment options, and use a variety of channels to research and make purchases. Brands must deliver superior experiences and support if they want to stay competitive in today’s retail environment.

To understand how brands are evolving to stay ahead in this new market, Astound Commerce Insights evaluated the desktop, mobile, and in-store experiences of 50 global brand retailers in the 2017 Global Mystery Shopping Study, released today. Astound Commerce Insights measured the branding, customer experience and services delivered through 206 metrics across eight common shopping scenarios, including site browsing, product search, customer service access and queries, and visiting Chicagoland physical stores when available.

Based on these metrics, the top 10 performing brands for customer experience across channels are (in alphabetical order):

Store-Based:

● Apple

● Nike

● The North Face

● Steve Madden

● Toms

● Tory Burch

● Under Armour

Online Only:

● Bobbi Brown

● Lancome

● Samsung

“The world’s top brands have a strong mix of digital capabilities both online and in store and almost always lead with brand, embrace strategic merchandising and offer convenience and simplicity at every touchpoint,” said Lauren Freedman, SVP of Digital Strategy at Astound Commerce. “Shoppers are increasingly looking to brands to deliver more engaging experiences, and the investment among brands in more sophisticated features is a direct response to these expectations and the sophistication of many of their retail partners and competitors.”

To further support the mystery shopping findings, Astound Commerce Insights drew from its recently released 2017 Global Brand Consumer Insights Study, which surveyed 1000 consumers who shop online and have visited brand manufacturer websites in the past 6 months. These consumer statistics dovetail with the findings and reinforce the mystery shopping observations.

Product Browsing and Search Have Matured

Online browsing and product search are fundamental to the digital purchase process and form the foundation of every digital shopper journey. In fact, 65 percent of consumers reported onsite search and navigation is “very important” in the shopping process.

The mystery shopping report found that brands are raising the bar in a variety of ways:

● Top performers can do it all: Lancome, Keurig, and Steve Madden were the top three performers for the browse the online site scenario, offering winning combinations of homepage branding, merchandising, and free shipping to draw in consumers.

● Search is more efficient: Type ahead or autocomplete search options are now a feature on 76 percent of sites, while visual search is offered on half of sites surveyed, suggesting that search is trending towards a more sophisticated experience beyond simple keyword capability.

With one in three shoppers finding sizing, product finders and customer tools very important,

global brands are making choices in the tactics they use to merchandise the shopping experience:

● Video deployment is aggressive: Just under half (48 percent) are positioning it at the category level with product configurators enabling customized product and interactive tools/profilers on one in four sites to guide decision-making.

● Merchandising tactics are taking a back seat in their execution: Tactics including top sellers, exclusives and trending now are seeing less than 50 percent penetration across the global brand landscape.

Brand Connections are Key to Consumer Loyalty

For brands today, offering a full set of customer service options, including prompt responses to questions and requests, is a necessity. Four in ten online shoppers expect expert service from brands online. Mystery shopping customer service findings include:

● Self-service needs work: Less than a third of brands surveyed had searchable FAQs, making it difficult to quickly find answers for the majority of these companies without getting directly in touch.

● Response times vary: Forty percent of brands offer live chat, and just 14 percent offer customer service on Twitter. It takes an average of 9.25 minutes for a live chat response, and 59 minutes for a Twitter response.

Tech Has a Presence in Brick-and-Mortar

While many in the retail industry have predicted the demise of physical stores, the study found that successful global brands are evolving their stores to ensure they still play a large role in the shopping experience. With 59 percent of consumers reporting the brand experience is better accomplished in the physical store, brands are investing in technology to facilitate deeper consumer engagement. Notable findings on the in-store shopping experience include:

● In-store tech adoption is increasing: Forty percent of brands provided tablets or digital screens in store.

● Advanced inventory transparency is a reality for top brands: Eighty-three percent of brands could find inventory across channels and place an order, but 17 percent still had to pick up the phone and call a store to confirm inventory or place an order.

To learn more about the top performers and view the full results and brands that comprised the Global Mystery Shopping Survey, click here.

About Astound Commerce

Astound Commerce, the world's largest privately held digital commerce agency, combines strategy, technology, creativity, insight and a proven methodology to deliver exceptional digital shopping experiences. Through a forward-thinking, results-driven approach, Astound Commerce serves leading global brands such as adidas, L’Oréal, Under Armour, Jimmy Choo, Lacoste and Versace. Founded in San Francisco in 2000, the passionate team of nearly 700 dedicated, diverse industry and technology experts has decades of ecommerce experience and more than 400 implementations under their belt to address the complex challenges, advancing technologies and unique needs of global markets. To learn more, visit astoundcommerce.com.

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EcoVessel Partners with Elkay Manufacturing to Provide Students with Clean Water

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EcoVessel and Elkay are introducing a unique program to help bring ezH2O bottle fill stations to schools across America

Boulder, CO (PRWEB) September 12, 2017

EcoVessel, a leading designer of hydration products and Elkay Manufacturing, the largest water fill station provider in the U.S., have formed a partnership to create a unique opportunity for schools across the country. The purpose of this partnership is to educate and encourage students to eliminate the use of single use plastic water bottles. Last year, Americans used 50 billion plastic bottles of water and 35 billion of them ended up in landfills, on beaches and in our oceans, harming the environment and marine life. Additionally, chemicals from plastic can be absorbed by the body, altering hormones and causing potentially harmful health effects.

The program works by having students take orders from their family, neighbors and friends for EcoVessel bottles that will be custom printed with their school mascot or logo. The earnings from their sales will finance Elkay ezH2O bottle fill stations for their schools. The bottles are made of premium stainless steel and feature EcoVessel’s signature TriMax Triple Insulation Technology so drinks stay cold for 36 hours and hot up to 8 hours. The bottles do not contain any BPA, phthalates, and are condensation-free. The fill stations provide ready access to filtered water that is free of lead, chlorine and other impurities so it is easy and convenient for kids to stay healthily hydrated. “We’re not only reducing waste and helping the environment, we’re creating better health habits by encouraging students to drink and enjoy clean, good tasting, filtered water instead of sugar loaded drinks,” says Jon Fox, EcoVessel’s founder and president.

Details of the program are available at http://www.elkay.com/ezwishkit.

About EcoVessel

Jon Fox founded EcoVessel in 2009 in response to the safety and environmental concerns that arose from the increasing use of plastic water bottles. After finding a limited choice of reusable bottles for himself and his family, he started the company to offer people of all ages and lifestyles a diverse choice of premium quality stainless steel hydration and drinkware products that are high performing and designed with modern styling and custom features. The company’s signature TriMax® Triple Insulation Technology has been independently tested to outperform competitors and the company stands behind the quality of all of their products with their 100 year warranty.

Part of the company’s mission is to support organizations that work to provide clean, safe drinking water around the world. Eco Vessel helps support Water for People, a long established non-profit, which helps provide long-lasting solutions to the water, sanitation, and hygiene problems in the developing world.

EcoVessel is based in Boulder, Colorado at the foot of the Rocky Mountains where creative ideas are inspired by the natural beauty of the area as well as their dedicated team and loyal customers. EcoVessel products are available on their website, http://www.ecovessel.com and in more than 20 countries.

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Access Healthcare’s Scott Schrader to Speak on Revenue Cycle Best Practices at Becker’s Hospital Review 3rd Annual Health IT + Revenue Cycle Conference

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Access Healthcare’s Chief Commercial Officer Scott Schrader will be providing his perspectives on “Best Practices for the Revenue Cycle” in a panel discussion at the Becker’s Hospital Review 3rd Annual Health IT + Revenue Cycle Conference.

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) September 12, 2017

Access Healthcare, a leading provider of end-to-end healthcare revenue cycle services, today announced that Scott Schrader, the company’s Chief Commercial Officer, will be sharing best practices for Revenue Cycle Management in a panel discussion at the Becker’s Hospital Review 3rd Annual Health IT + Revenue Cycle Conference.

Scott Schrader, Chief Commercial Officer, will be providing a practitioner’s perspective on Revenue Cycle Best Practices - covering business process management applications to support revenue cycle processes, global sourcing, application of Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

Speaking ahead of the Becker’s upcoming conference, Schrader said, “The role of revenue cycle management has constantly evolved over the years. The revenue focus has shifted from reducing the cost to collect to an enabler of high-quality care delivery and exceptional patient experiences. As a premier industry body in the revenue cycle space, Becker’s has been consistent in attracting the internationally renowned healthcare experts to create a community that shares best practice experiences. I am excited and looking forward to the conference and meeting some of the best minds in the healthcare industry.”

About Access Healthcare

Access Healthcare provides business process outsourcing and applications services, and robotic process automation tools to healthcare providers, payers, and related service providers. We operate from 12 delivery centers in the US, India and the Philippines, and our 8,500+ staff is committed to bringing revenue cycle excellence to our customers by leveraging technology, emerging best practices, and global delivery. Based in Dallas, we support over 125,000 physicians, serve 80+ specialties, process over $ 50 billions of A/R annually, and ascribe medical codes to over 10 million charts annually. To learn how Access Healthcare can help your organization boost its financial performance, visit accesshealthcare.org.

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Christina Miranda

sales(at)accesshealthcare(dot)co

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Goliath Technologies is a Member of the Epic App Orchard

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Goliath Technologies has joined the Epic App Orchard Program to bring Goliath’s End User Experience Monitoring and Management to Epic customers.

Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) September 12, 2017

Goliath Technologies is pleased to announce that they will integrate Epic application performance data into their end user experience monitoring, management and troubleshooting solutions for health systems.

“We are very pleased that Epic has accepted Goliath Technologies into the App Orchard Program. Where most EHR vendors have some form of interoperability initiative, we are excited that Epic also includes IT ecosystem vendors in their interoperability program. A prerequisite to interoperability is ingesting patient data into the applications and that will not happen if an application isn’t available in the first place,” said Thomas Charlton, Chairman and CEO of Goliath Technologies. He continued, “Goliath has purpose built functionality designed to provide an early warning system so healthcare IT can become aware of issues around application availability or responsiveness before physicians or healthcare professionals are impacted. This positively impacts interoperability and more importantly patient care.”

Goliath offers a proactive method to confirm health system applications, including the EHR, will be available before physicians and healthcare workers attempt to access the applications. Then, if there is an issue, Goliath has purpose-built healthcare modules which provide the performance data and analytics to troubleshoot and resolve the issue quickly. This ensures that applications are always available and drastically reduces time to remediation when performance issues do arise.

"Goliath already has an awesome product for monitoring uptime availability and the performance of a Citrix environment. It’s essentially a single pane of glass to enable you to quickly identify problems and remediate, ensuring as little impact to your end users as possible”, said Rory Monaghan, CTO, Americas at Algiz Technology Limited. “Previously, you could easily identify that an issue was not related to your Citrix environment and therefore it must be app related. You would then need to drill into System Pulse to discover more. Now that Goliath is an Epic App Orchard Contributor, the Epic application data will come into that single pane of glass, providing a one stop shop to quickly identify any performance issue whether it's related to your Citrix infrastructure, Epic infrastructure or the app itself. This should save time, money and alleviate stress for the healthcare professionals that require seamless access and use of clinical applications."

About Goliath Technologies

Goliath Technologies provides proactive IT operations software to address the challenges associated with managing a hybrid IT infrastructure. Organizations of all sizes are moving to the Cloud in some form and our products are purpose built to assist in that transition because IT can manage applications, infrastructure and users regardless of where they are located. Customers use our products to monitor, analyze, troubleshoot and report so performance issues can be resolved before end users are impacted. Because, IT infrastructure is moving. IT accountability is not. Customers include Walmart, Bank of America, Facebook, UHS, the VA, ADP, Verizon Wireless, and Office Depot.

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Mindmatrix Partner Relationship Management Software’s Playbook Module Upgraded with Exciting New Features

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The PRM Software’s playbook module now offers linear plays and more detailed reporting

Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) September 12, 2017

Mindmatrix Partner Relationship Management Software has been upgraded with exciting new features to make the playbooks, training and certification modules more effective.

The platform now allows companies to create linear internal playbooks which will be especially useful for training and certification. Linear playbooks ensure that the salespeople/channel partners do not jump from one step to another without passing through the entire training sequence. The PRM software allows companies to create multiple items within each step and also provides timelines for each item and step. For example, once a channel partner starts a training program, they will be shown the timeframe for completing the various steps within the training program and the entire program as well. They will also be shown the percentage of completion as they progress from one step to another. From the corporate perspective, channel managers get reports on the percentage of completion in the aggregate and also at individual partner level. Apart from helping channel managers judge the engagement levels of their channel partners, this helps them figure out how popular their training and certification courses are among the channel partners.

Harbinder Khera, CEO, Mindmatrix, says, “Training and certification programs play a key role in successful partner relationship management. Companies need to know how effective their training programs are and how responsive channel partners are to them. Recent updates to the Mindmatrix partner relationship management software helps companies gauge these parameters and take corrective action as needed.”

About MindMatrix

Mindmatrix is the only single, fully integrated platform offering complete sales and marketing enablement for direct and indirect sales. Mindmatrix combines Partner Relationship Management (PRM), Channel Marketing, Asset Management, Sales Enablement, and Marketing Automation for the complete enablement of your sales and marketing teams. This unified platform takes you through every step in the sales process from lead to revenue, enabling your sales channels to sell more, faster.

End-to-end services that make you successful

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Idaho’s Boundary County Library District Named 2017 Best Small Library in America

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Library Journal Honors Library District for Creating a Culture of Opportunity in Idaho-Canadian Border Community

NEW YORK, NY (PRWEB) September 12, 2017

Idaho’s Boundary County Library District (BCLD) is the Best Small Library in America, 2017. Honored today by Library Journal with the support of sustaining sponsor, Junior Library Guild (JLG), BCLD serves nearly 12,000 residents in Bonners Ferry, a small community straddling the Kootenai River, with its northern border touching Canada. As the Best Small Library in America 2017, BCLD will receive a cash prize of $5,000 from JLG and is featured on the cover of Library Journal’s September 15, 2017 issue, available in print and online. The Best Small Library in America Award was established in 2005 to identify and highlight the exemplary work of public libraries serving communities with populations under 25,000.

For 30 years, Sandy Ashworth, BCLD’s recently retired director, developed the library’s vision and community connections and identified the county’s needs. She saw that openings would have to be created to encourage residents to innovate and build business that could strengthen the shrinking farming and timber economy. She worked to get new resources and repurpose library space to develop practical educational programs at BCLD, to help upgrade and modernize skills and opportunities in the county and to inspire confidence that this progress is coming.

Ashworth identified the need to raise residents’ tech skills and saw that the library could be positioned to respond. She said, “The library’s goal is to provide people with a toolbox to allow them access to new ideas and technologies that they can use to make Bonners Ferry a more successful place.”

Today innovative educator Craig Anderson runs the library and continues its progress. “I let the board know that I share Sandy’s vision to take the library far beyond a traditional library,” Anderson told Library Journal.

“With its dynamic environment, creative use of resources, and high levels of engagement, BCLD is a model for all of America’s libraries – no matter their size,” said Rebecca T. Miller, editorial director of Library Journal and School Library Journal. “By collaborating with local schools, businesses and community members, the BCLD team is fulfilling its mission to create a culture of opportunity in Bonners Ferry.”

This year’s finalists for the 2017 Best Small Library in America Award also share a focus on innovative programs and collaboration to deliver exceptional service with limited resources. They are:

  • Columbus Public Library, Wisconsin, under the leadership of Director Cindy Fesemyer
  • Pottsboro Area Library, Texas, under the leadership of Director Dianne Connery

Also featured in the September 15, 2017 issue of Library Journal, the two finalists will receive $1,000 each in credit toward purchasing JLG book selections for their collections.

Each nomination was evaluated by a panel of qualified industry professionals—including Rosemary Cooper, director of Albert Wisner Public Library, Warwick, NY, Best Small Library in America 2016. Entries are judged based on criteria that include developing innovative services that can be replicated by other libraries, technology use and education, collaboration, and serving as a focal point for the community.

To learn more, visit http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2017/09/awards/bestsmalllibrary2017/.

For award guidelines, visit http://lj.libraryjournal.com/awards.

About Library Journal

Founded in 1876, Library Journal is one of the oldest and most respected publications covering the library field. Over 75,000 library directors, administrators, and staff in public, academic, and special libraries read LJ. Library Journal reviews over 8,000 books, audiobooks, videos, databases, and websites annually, and provides coverage of technology, management, policy, and other professional concerns. For more information, visit http://www.libraryjournal.com. Library Journal is a publication of Media Source Inc., which also owns School Library Journal, The Horn Book, and Junior Library Guild.

About Junior Library Guild

Junior Library Guild (JLG), a division of Media Source, Inc., is a book review and collection development service helping thousands of school and public libraries acquire the best new children’s and young adult books, saving them both time and money. Based in Plain City, Ohio, and founded in 1929, JLG provides the very best customer service in the industry. Its services help librarians with collection development and members trust JLG to put only the best books into the hands of eager young readers. For more information, visit http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/. JLG is a division of Media Source, Inc., which also owns Library Journal, School Library Journal and The Horn Book.

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EagleView Now Capturing Post-Event Imagery Following Hurricane Irma

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Leading provider of aerial imagery and property data analytics flying and capturing imagery to accelerate Hurricane Irma response.

Bothell, WA (PRWEB) September 12, 2017

Eagle View Technologies (“EagleView®”), the leading provider of aerial imagery and property analytics for the government, insurance and commercial sectors, is actively flying to acquire post-storm imagery in Florida following Hurricane Irma. With more than 20 planes staged or in the air, EagleView is continuously capturing high-resolution aerial imagery to enable rapid assessment and response to Hurricane Irma relief efforts.

Using both fixed-wing aircraft and drones, EagleView captures imagery to support post-hurricane insurance claims adjusting, property assessment, public safety and land surveying professionals. Additionally, EagleView is actively utilizing imagery and machine learning capabilities in post-Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts.

“With these hurricanes affecting so many Americans, we’re putting our planes in the air as soon as possible to begin the image capture process,” stated EagleView President Rishi Daga. “From our unique high-resolution post-event imagery to our industry-leading machine learning capabilities, EagleView’s technology can massively accelerate recovery efforts and because of this, we find it crucial to take flight immediately once permitted into the airspace.”

EagleView’s historical image library, dating back to 2002 in Florida, offers insurance carriers, first responders, non-profit organizations and local government agencies the ability to analyze the impact of the storm on homes, commercial buildings and infrastructure by comparing previously captured imagery with the latest post-event images. Image capture and processing post-Hurricane Irma will take place continuously over several weeks, with EagleView making constant updates to its nearly four-petabyte imagery and data library.

“We have access to an impressive amount of resources in Florida and the surrounding areas, allowing us to provide the largest post-storm image capture capabilities to our clients,” commented Jay Martin, Senior Vice President of Operations at EagleView. “Our team is working around the clock to deliver imagery to those who need it most following these devastating weather events.”

EagleView is capturing varying types of aerial imagery throughout Florida. This includes its ultra-high-resolution (UHR) imagery, also known as Reveal™ imagery, which is the highest resolution aerial imagery available on the market today.

For more information on EagleView’s deployment of aircraft, drones and other assets following Hurricane Irma, please contact Melissa Mazurek at (585) 444-2504 or melissa.mazurek(at)eagleview(dot)com.

About EagleView

EagleView® is the unparalleled provider of aerial imagery, data analytics, property data, and GIS solutions for government, infrastructure and commercial sectors. The patented Pictometry® imagery solutions answer questions related to millions of residential and commercial properties, saving individuals time and money while also reducing exposure to risk. EagleView provides access to its orthogonal and oblique aerial imagery, 3D models, interior mapping solution, and measurement and analytical tools through proprietary software as well as integrations for assessment, GIS, public safety and other industries. For more information, contact (866) 659-8439 or visit http://www.eagleview.com.

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