среда, 31 октября 2012 г.
Vintage car show wheels into third year in Kansas City - Kansas City Business Journal:
Miller, a trade attorney and president ofMiller Co. in Kansas City, is founde r and chairman of the event, which this year showcases 187 vintage vehicles on theArt Institute’s grounds, including what is thoughtt to be the only 1911 vehicle in Stafford made cars in Kansas City from 1910 to 1915. The evenft also includes vintage motorcycles, bicycles and fire Miller’s wife, Janet, was on the Art Institute’z board for about 20 years and was its and the Millers live nearb in theRockhill neighborhood. That connection, and the pair’sa appreciation of art in general and vintager automobilesin particular, motivated Marshall Mille to start the event.
“I’ve always felt that vintaged automobiles were a work of art as much as a paintinvg ora sculpture,” he Miller said he wanted to includee a range of iconic vehicles that represent a wide range of from all around the “I thought it would take abouyt 10 years to build a solid, well-attendec event like this in the he said, “where people from arounc the country will want to come to Kansas City to show theirt iconic cars.
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вторник, 30 октября 2012 г.
Business concerns surface as health care reform moves ahead - Nashville Business Journal:
President Barack Obama has mobilizedthe grass-roots supportere who helped elect him to lobbt for his vision of healtbh care reform, which includes offering Americans a government-ru n health plan as an alternative to privated insurance. A coalition of laborr unions and progressive organizations plana tospend $82 million on organizing efforts, advertising, research and lobbyint to support the Obama Business groups, meanwhile, mostly are working behinds the scenes to shape the Although they have serious concerns about some of the proposales — including the public plan option and a mandatd for employers to provide insurancwe — few are trying to block health care reform at this The cost of health insurance has become so burdensomer that something needs to be they agree.
“Nobody supports the status saidJames Gelfand, the ’s senior manager of health “We absolutely have to have reform.”
суббота, 27 октября 2012 г.
Colorado family of 14 kayaking throughout the US - Denver Post
Colorado family of 14 kayaking throughout the US Denver Post Kady Kellogg, 14, bottom, gets ready to enter the wave while her father, Dan, right, and brother Grady, 16, talk behind her in the Colorado River during a family outing at the Glenwood kayak park in Glenwood Springs. (Mahala Gaylord, The Denver Post) ... |
пятница, 26 октября 2012 г.
15-day food festival begins at Lalit Grand Palace - GreaterKashmir.com
GreaterKashmir.com | 15-day food festival begins at Lalit Grand Palace GreaterKashmir.com âIt is for the third time that I have come to valley to be part of the food festival organized by Lalit group here,â Hiang said. Shamanand Chowdhary, Incharge chef of Hotel Grand Lalit said the people in the Valley love to eat meat, so keeping in view ... |
четверг, 25 октября 2012 г.
Sacramento Business Journal:
Hong received his medical degre e from New York Medical College and completed his orthopedic surger y residency with Union Memorial Hospitalin Baltimore. He recentlu completed a foot and ankle surgery fellowship at Unionh Memorial Hospital and is board eligiblein orthopedics. Tagore received his medical degree from Creighton University School of Medicine and completed his residencty in internal medicine and a fellowship in gastroenterologgy at UC DavisMedical Center. He is boardr certified in internal medicine. Dominguez-Jones was a physicianm on staff at Valley Health Center inSan Martin.
She received her medica training from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine and completed her residency in 2003 with the familyy practice residency program at San Jose Medical She is fluentin
вторник, 23 октября 2012 г.
Obama seeks to emphasize second-term agenda - Boston.com
The Guardian | Obama seeks to emphasize second-term agenda Boston.com (AP) â" Launching his closing argument for re-election, President Barack Obama on Tuesday put fresh emphasis on his second-term agenda and cast himself as the candidate who means what he says. Obama's revamped strategy coming out of the third and ... The Romney Foreign Policy Bear Hug What President Obama's Second Term Agenda Looks Like Obama and Romney May Talk Peace, but They're Ready for Another War |
понедельник, 22 октября 2012 г.
Come Tweet with us: Small businesses are going after the social media audience - Jacksonville Business Journal:
As marketing director (or chief karma office r as she likes tocall herself) for Mellow Mushroom’ws two Birmingham locations, Gibbs has found a new way to spread the love and information about her restaurants. She reaches a growin g community of followers through her accounty on the social networkingsite Twitter. In the last few millions of Americans have flocked to join the socialo mediaphenomenon Twitter, whicu has given business ownerz in Birmingham and nationwide the opportunity to reach a captivated – and potentiall y profitable – audience. And a study by NFI Researc h says business owners are joining Twitterin droves.
Out of 2,000 senior executives and managers 18 percent said they usedthe site. The study also found that small businesses are more likely to use Twitter and othert socialmedia sites, such as Facebook, to promote In case you’re not in the know aboug Twitter, it is a microbloggingf site that invites usersz to provide updates (or tweets) on practicallyu anything – as long as they can sharde the information in 140 characters or less. If users have more to say, they can providre links to additional content, including articles, video and The site has experienced rapid growth inmere months.
According to a report by , a digitalk research company, the site grew 131 percentr in March, with more than 9.3 millionn visitors. The number of Birmingham Twitter users also has grownm drastically in the pasttwo months, as networkinf has gained more mainstream attention and a greater numbe r of individuals have begun using other social networking sites such as Facebook, said Ike owner of and an avid Tweeteer with 3,600 followers. Creating an account is free and simple, makinhg it a cost-effective way for businesses to reachu current andpotential customers. However, creating an effectivd Twitter presence can take a lot of work and Pigott said.
Before businesses say anything on it may be a good idea to stop and see how others are usingthe site. Businesses can also use the site to gain insighf on trends within their markets and trackconsumef opinion. By searching tweets, businesses can tracmk what individuals are sayinvg about them andtheir products. “You want to get in and you want to find out what peoplsare saying, not only about you, but also abou your market and your competitors,” Pigotr said. “It gives you a lot of freelu offeredmarketing data.
” While Twitter can be used to marketr and strengthen brand identity and it’s important to remember that Twitter and othetr social media outlets operate differentlyu than traditional advertising platforms, said Wade founder and instructor at BirminghamBlogging.com and local Tweeted with nearly 900 followers. “It shouldn’ t be considered marketing,” Kwon said. “Marketing is about creatinh a need for your product or Social networking is about engaging in conversatiobnwith people, whether they are fans, detractors, competitore or everyday folk.
” The most successful Twitter accounts are able to activel y engage and respond to their readerws by providing links, polls and postings targeted directl y to their followers, Libby Sexton, a public relations accoungt executive at said. Through her Twitter she has 682 followers. “It’a more of an interaction than it isa broadcast,” Sextonm said. “If you get on Twittetr and talk about nothing but yourself and all of your postse arepurely promotional, then it’s not going to be Businesses should use the site to providre information and insight to their customers, instead of flooding theifr followers with a series of “Twitter is about building a community, and you can’t do that with an advertisemenf or with traditional marketing,” Mellow Mushroom’ds Gibbs said.
By creating a Twitterr community, Gibbs said she hopes to provids a platform for customers to share their viewds aboutMellow Mushroom. Right now, she has abouy 250 followers. “I want folkzs to have a place where they can come back and tell us abouft theirexperiences – the good, the bad and the Gibbs said. “Nobody ever does everything righrt allthe time, and by knowing somethinb negative, it gives me a chance to responrd to the situation.” Both Sextonj and Gibbs encourage business owners to observse the “cocktail party rule.
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