Cedar Bluffs rallies to help football coach's family

Cedar Bluffs rallies to help football coach's family
Janssen sent a message through the school's electronic notification system, and before he knew it, he had a small army of Cedar Bluffs people eager to help the coach. “We had 18 kids and eight adults, including patrons, board members and parents,” …
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Railway crossing works to take place
The road will be closed to all traffic except local residents and businesses. During this period a Traffic Management Plan including the use of directional signage, electronic message boards and barriers will be in place for motorists to take …
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Hacker adds prank messages to San Francisco traffic sign
The electronic signs are rented out to events all over the Bay Area, so it is possible that somebody knows the code to the locks, explained Paul Indelicato with Pacific Highway Rentals in Hayward. "With close to 100 message boards out, it happens once …
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Infertility Message Boards For Couples

If you are a couples struggling with infertility, you may be looking for answers, and a place to find support. Infertility can be damaging to your spirit, and often, you need to know that you are not alone. When you need support, you can find infertility message boards online to connect with other women or couples who are going through the same struggles as you are, and you may also be surprised to find that you may also find some answers to some of your burning questions.

There are many infertility message boards out there, and they aren’t too hard to find. If a search yields nothing, look for parenting sites. These often have message boards, and in most cases, you will find that they have a special section devoted to conception. Because there are so many people struggling to get pregnant, you will most likely find infertility message boards there for people just like you. You will meet couples from all over the world and from all different backgrounds all with a common and troubling problem. Infertility strikes more couples than you may realize.

You will find that some infertility message boards have a fee to join. As long as they fee is not too high, it never hurts to pay to be a member. In my experience, other couples dealing with infertility are the best people to turn to when you don’t know what to do next. You will find people with all sorts of problems on infertility message boards, and someone may have the answers your doctor may have yet to stumble upon. You can find information on new treatments, newly diagnosed conditions, and the latest information on the best doctors in your area.

If you are having a problem finding infertility message boards that you like, there is no one stopping you from creating your own.

You will have to advertise to find people to join you, but this may be something you stick with long after you have worked through your problems and had your own children. You may find that hosting infertility message boards gives you a great feeling. Those who come to your site will share their experiences and with each successful birth, you will get a sense of satisfaction in knowing that you may have played a small part in offering support, or supplying knowledge to someone who needed it during a trying time of their life.

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Using Message Boards for Internet Marketing

The term internet marketing is indeed a broad term. It encapsulates most marketing activities executed online. Banner adverts, website promotions, search engine optimization, and affiliate and email marketing all fall under the purview of internet marketing. But then internet marketing still has more concepts than those already mentioned. For instance, promoting your business on the message board is also classed as internet marketing. In fact, message board is one the most effective and inexpensive methods of executing your internet marketing campaign. This article focuses on evaluating the benefits of using message boards and how to avoid the pitfalls inherent in it.

Message board serves as an online meeting point for people with common views and way of life. It is a community of sort made of up people with homogenous needs. They all converge online to discuss issues of mutual interest to them. The subject of discussion ranges from sport, politics, environment, television shows, entertainment, gardening etc. What a discerning internet marketer does is to select the niche that best suit the type of business offering he has in place. Consider an internet marketer that has a sporting audience in mind. All he simply needs to is to identify the exact message board that serves as meeting ground for sport lovers. This enables the marketer to avoid the hit or miss approach of sending out blanket emails to people. In this case he has already identified his niche and can be sure of positive responses along the line. It is not even uncommon for such marketers to hook up with such a community in order to fully identify with them. Links to the marketer’s website are provided, and such internet marketers often provide valuable and helpful suggestions to the members of the community.

Internet marketers using the message board must ensure that they abide by the rules guiding the operations of the message board.

They often have rules concerning the posting of links. Failure to heed such warnings and rules often leads to outright ban. Marketers are advised to read up the user agreement before choosing the particular message board to launch from. Where links are allowed be sure to use them with good discretion in order to avoid being ultimately classed as spam. Try as much as possible to be professional in your approach to the execution of your agenda. This will help in no small measure to advance your cause. Internet marketing involves a lot of painstaking and careful planning to succeed. It takes a lot of patience and understanding to fully mine the benefits inherent in message boards. But once you have found the right balance the result can make all the difference.

There are several ways of furthering your internet marketing ambition. Message board, if carefully cultivated and deployed, can yield immense positive responses. It allows you have your target audience streamlined for you unlike other email correspondences. You have your niche carefully delineated from inception. This saves problem of blindly dispersing your efforts. It does not however mean you should ignore the rules guiding the message boards. Carefully explore such rules and regulations to suit your purpose.

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Few gripes over limits on driver cellphone use

Few gripes over limits on driver cellphone use
Drivers would be allowed to use one hand to transmit or receive messages on a two-way radio and to use hands-free electronic devices. The measure also does not preclude using one hand "to activate, deactivate or initiate a function of the telephone.".
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Could This Mysterious 'Number Station' YouTube Account Be A Message Board
The idea goes that the account is being used as a message board… for spies. Under this interpretation, the account is the modern …. These receivers reveal the telltale electronic crackle of hidden mics and cameras. Strangely enough, they were …
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Five Ways to Break Your Kids' Screen Addiction (and Yours, Too)
A text message had managed to find me in the middle of nowhere. It was from my wife: “Where r u guys … The campaign, which has been running in one form or another since the early 1990s, encourages kids to rediscover fun things to do that don't …
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SignVine Helps Non-Profits Raise Funds for Outdoor Message Signs Using Crowdfunding

Ontario, CA (PRWEB) March 10, 2014

SignVine.org, is the world’s first and only specialized crowdfunding website that provides churches, civic groups and other deserving non-profit organizations a platform to accept donations.towards the purchase of an outdoor message sign.”

Paul Martin, Project Director, and Mike Prongue, Campaign Director, provided feedback regarding the SignVine website launch and the company’s mission.

“We’re so excited to launch. Our website is in beta testing now, but once that’s completed, we’ll begin uploading the projects we have, plus anyone else that wants to join us, and begin the SignVine journey!” Martin proclaimed.

“We’ve been working with sign companies in our builder network to identify deserving non-profit organizations and get them on-board with our mission,” Prongue said, “We’ve worked extensively with 2 or 3 of these sign companies. We call them ‘Builders’ but truly they are quality partners!”

A church, for example, needs a LED message display to replace their old monument sign. A church representative would register on SignVine.org and initiate an electronic fund-raising campaign to capture donations by supplying details about themselves and their outdoor messaging sign requirements. The church then works closely with a local sign company, part of the SignVine™ Builder network, to define the costs and technical requirements of the project.

Signvine will issue press releases, prepare promotional video, write the story behind the non-profit benevolent programs, work with media outlets to promote the project and provide guidance and extensive marketing support to ensure the funding goals are met.

“Our sign company partner, or Builder, will give them a realistic project quote,” Prongue said, “Then we help the non-profit with tactical advice to keep the energy of the campaign flowing so that funding goal is achieved. Breaking that larger dollar number down into smaller pieces puts the goal within reach!”

“We want this to be a fun experience, too,” Martin commented, “We employed a ‘Garden’ theme, and as our tagline states, we’re ‘growing’ a sign with the support of the community. The campaign coordinator for the non-profit is a ‘Gardener’ and all contributors are ‘Viners’”.

“Non-profit organizations are the backbone of our communities. They help raise our children, support the less fortunate and provide spiritual direction. Who is more deserving of an outdoor messaging system? Since they can’t always afford one, we help.” Prongue declared.

Are you a non-profit looking for a way to raise funds towards a new outdoor message sign? SignVine could be your solution. They are ready to help.

For more information on SignVine, please visit their Website at http://www.signvine.org or call 850-677-1099 and ask for Mike.







The Heart Gallery of Broward County Announces Successful 2013 and New Executive Director

Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) February 28, 2014

The Heart Gallery of Broward is happy to announce there were 25 matches that included 10 finalized adoptions for 2013. One of the programs that had great feedback from the community was the hands-on art class that was combined with a photo shoot. The children enjoyed the entire experience. The Heart Gallery was able to obtain funding to produce electronic kiosks to display the photos of the children with a brief description on each one. These will serve to augment the traditional photo gallery exhibit and will be placed at host sites in high traffic areas to increase the organization’s awareness and mission.

“We are looking forward to an exciting 2014 with the help of our new Executive Director, Yvette DuBose,” Michael Boorom, President of the Heart Gallery commented. “Yvette’s strong background in sales and marketing and over 14 years of experience in architectural specifications in marketing and sales will bring a strong leadership to our overall mission and goals,” he added.

Yvette DuBose also worked 13 years as a board member of the ACTSO Broward and as a mentor to high school students. “My mother was a foster child and she had a positive experience in her foster home and was later adopted at age 16; it changed her life for the better. I truly believe that every child deserves to feel loved and wanted; it is fundamental to the human experience,” stated DuBose.

The Heart Gallery’s initiatives for 2014 are largely our effort to continue to grow and expand our reach through innovative programs and events. The Heart Gallery will be introducing exciting programs throughout the year for the community to learn and get involved with the organization. One of the programs is the “Ask Me Programming.” Through this program the children were asked to tell the organization what it is they wanted to experience. The feedback was great and The Heart Gallery will be implementing as many as possible over the next year. The organization also plans to start a workshop feature to the Ask Me series to teach the children anything from financial awareness to how to tie a tie. To help with all the programs, the Heart Gallery is also launching a capital campaign, Campaign 214 an ongoing fundraiser for the year in which we ask donors to donate and invest in our programs and the children of Broward County.

“We also look forward to working with J. M. Field Marketing who is one of our corporate sponsors and helps us with our marketing efforts to get our message out,” commented Yvette DuBose.

For more information about programs, services and how to donate visit our website http://www.heartgalleryofbroward.org.

About The Heart Gallery of Broward County

The Heart Gallery’s mission is to provide innovative programs that help to promote the adoption and enrichment of Broward’s foster children. It is one of over 100 independent heart galleries across the country. We work closely with ChildNet and the local foster care providers to seek adoptive families and other connections for these children. The first exhibit was introduced in April of 2007.

The Heart Gallery of Broward County is a traveling photography exhibit of foster children who are waiting to be permanently adopted. The Gallery is unique: in concept- it is displayed in many public places just like an art exhibit- and in execution- every photograph is a vibrant composition taken by a professional photographer. Coupled with a bio card that describes each child’s personality and interests, the inner spirits of these unique children are brought to life. The Gallery presents an emotional appeal to the community to help:

    to adopt
    to volunteer
    to donate money or goods

The Heart Gallery provides a solution. It raises awareness of a major need and draws the community together to help solve it.







Ridley Twp. zoners reject variances for proposed Wawa

Ridley Twp. zoners reject variances for proposed Wawa
… a variance to permit underground gasoline-petroleum storage tanks with a capacity of 65,000 gallons, two electronic message boards on each of the permitted free standing signs rather than the permitted 10 square feet, and continuation of a …
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Wrigley Field turns 100 and my dad, the message board operator, recalls 9
The message board operator, at the time, was the person who entered data into a computer that appeared in what was then Wrigley's state-of-the-art nod to in-game electronic entertainment: An illuminated rectangle that spread much of the width of the …
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Campus Activism Against NSA Spying is Growing Fast
EFF has been on the road, traveling to cities and towns across the country to bring our message of digital rights and reform to community and student groups. And while we had the tremendous opportunity to talk about our work … In one particularly …
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MTI Named EMC Mid-Market Partner of the Year for Second Year

Godalming, UK (PRWEB UK) 20 March 2014

MTI today announces it has been named EMC Mid-Market Partner of the Year 2013 by EMC’s EMEA Advisory Board. The recognition – awarded at the 2014 EMC EMEA Partner Kick-off Event – reflects significant growth in MTI’s revenues across its EMC portfolio, delivering over 100 net-new named accounts. MTI was the recipient of the same award in 2012.

EMC’s EMEA Partner of the Year awards recognise high-achieving EMC Business Partners who exceed growth expectations and demonstrate a commitment to excellence through innovation and thought leadership that support joint business goals.

Terry Beale, EMC UK Channel Director, said: “The awards recognise that MTI has excelled by delivering value to our mid-market customers and demonstrated the capability to integrate EMC products into one MTI solution, helping customers improve efficiency and increase agility. MTI is able to achieve this through its strong technical capability, which is up-to-date with the latest customer and market trends. The award to MTI of EMC Mid-Market Partner of the Year 2013 is well deserved.”

Keith Clark, CEO of MTI, said: “MTI is proud of its long-standing relationship with EMC, having celebrated our 10-year anniversary last year. This amounts to over a decade of helping a great many organisations transform their businesses with the right application of IT solutions and services. EMC’s technologies play a key role in MTI’s portfolio, and the results which have earned MTI this most recent award are testimony to the impact that this partnership continues to have in the market. It is most encouraging to see that growth has come from a combination of organic growth, as well as a large number of new accounts.”

Payment systems operator Vocalink is an example of MTI’s expertise and long-standing client relationships within the IT industry. John Hewett, Head of Infrastructure Services at VocaLink, said: “VocaLink has been working with MTI and EMC for over seven years. The products and services provided sit right at the heart of our business, making us more efficient and effective. VocaLink provides high availability and resilient payment solutions delivering class-leading payment clearing systems and ATM switching platforms, which underpin the majority of UK electronic payments industry. Data efficiency, security and speed are business critical for VocaLink. MTI provides strategic consultancy, design, service delivery and on-site training to our team allowing us to focus on our core activities.”

Ian Parslow, Senior Vice President of Sales, MTI, said: “This recognition builds on MTI’s success, which includes winning EMC’s Mid-Market Partner of the Year 2012 and EMC’s VSPEX EMEA Partner of the Year 2013. Moving forward, we will further differentiate our message with ‘One MTI’ and we will continue to build out our XaaS portfolio ‘powered by EMC’. 2014 is set to be an even more successful year with EMC, across all our practice areas.”

ENDS

Notes to Editors

EMC is a trademark or registered trademark of EMC Corporation in the US and other countries.

About MTI

MTI – Managing Data Securely

MTI is a global solutions and service provider, underpinned with operational excellence and experience gained through thousands of client and partner engagements. With more than 25 years experience working extensively across public, social and private market sectors, MTI has developed proven methodologies and best practices aligned with recognised Industry Standards (ITIL, Prince2).

MTI’s consultants and specialists work collaboratively to provide holistic, tailored solutions and services across its Datacentre, Security & Managed Services Practices, whether in the corporate datacentre (private cloud), in a hosted environment or a hybrid service model. MTI aims to develop a partnership that will become a recognised asset, providing support and guidance through the myriad of choice in the market to ensure the right strategic decisions and investments are made.

More information is available at http://www.mti.com or you can follow us on Twitter @MTI_Technology.