Social Media and the Enterprise Day to be Held at Upcoming Blog Business Summit

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) August 15, 2007

Businesses shopping for a Web 2.0-style platform to facilitate internal and external communications will need to look no further than the first day of September’s Blog Business Summit conference.

This year’s conference, which begins on September 17th, will feature a one-day workshop titled “Social Media in the Enterprise: Blogs, Wikis and Beyond.” Representatives from many of the major companies that produce platforms that leverage blogs, wikis and social networking tools to foster employee collaboration and creativity will be in attendance.

Companies signed on to demonstrate their tools and technologies for enterprise collaboration include: IBM Lotus, Blogtronix, WordPress, and Near-Time Systems.

“The idea is to expose our attendees to enterprise-relevant tools and platforms,” said conference organizer Steve Broback. “The day will give them a thorough understanding of what’s available and the best ways to use these tools to improve communications and manage knowledge.”

“CIOs and CTOs are now focusing on collaboration based on services-oriented architectures,” said Ed Brill, Business Unit Executive, Worldwide Lotus Notes/Domino Sales, IBM Software Group. “It’s clear that Web 2.0 technologies are taking us far beyond what Email and calendaring provide. We’re excited to have the opportunity to show how enterprise-based social networks can create truly integrated collaboration environments.”

“We’re thrilled to be included in the day,” said Vasil Mladjov, CEO of up-and-coming enterprise blogging platform Blogtronix. “This is an opportunity for us to showcase what makes Blogtronix unique while sharing our general expertise in the field of enterprise blogging.”

Companies that use internal collaboration software have seen their intra-office e-mail traffic reduced by as much as 30%. The result has been more time spent actually innovating and less time sorting through stacks of backlogged e-mail.

“We are excited to join the Summit,” said Reid Conrad, CEO of hosted wiki and weblog platform Near-Time. “This is a timely event to help businesses learn how to transform how they work with their customers, partners and markets by leveraging the new read-write Web.”

“I recently read that EMC is using our WordPress Multi-User offering to facilitate an internal communications system,” said Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of the popular open-source WordPress blogging software. “One of the great things about open-source software is that it can be customized for just about any purpose. EMC’s internal effort is a great example.”

Mullenweg will demonstrate WordPress MU at the enterprise day, and will deliver a keynote about open source blogging software at the main conference.

About the conference:

The Blog Business Summit is a conference series focused on the use of blogs and other social media in business. It is a leading authority on the development and implementation of successful business blogs. Its mission is to bring together expert bloggers and thought leaders with entrepreneurial and corporate executives for the purpose of developing and leveraging blogging platforms for profit, collaborative and public relations benefits.

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Social Media and the Enterprise Day to be Held at Upcoming Blog Business Summit

Summit Highlights Houstons Burgeoning Green Schools Movement

(Vocus) January 22, 2010

The third annual Environmental Education Summit will bring together Houston-area educators for a comprehensive exploration of innovative tools and techniques for expanding childrens understanding of the natural world. The Summit will be held in Houston on Saturday, January 23rd, from 8 am to 4 pm, at the University of Houston Downtown. Organizers are expecting the highest turnout evermore than 300 people have registered so far.

There is a groundswell of interest in greening our schools and getting kids back in touch with nature, said Kevin Coyle, Vice-President of Education at the National Wildlife Federation. Were excited to learn what Houstons educators are doing and to introduce these teachers to national experts on using the outdoors as a laboratory for exploring math, science and other subjects.

Coyle will be introducing the National Wildlife Federations new Eco-Schools USA program to conference participants. Eco-Schools USA is a comprehensive program that weaves sustainability through every element of a school, its campus and curriculum. Eco-Schools USA is designed to improve students academic performance, especially in science and math, while decreasing a school’s energy and water use. The program also works to foster a greater sense of environmental stewardship among youth.

Three schools in the Houston area have already registered with Eco-Schools USA, even though the program was just launched in the United States late last year.

The first Eco-Schools program was started in 1994 by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) with support by the European Commission. It was identified by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) as a model initiative for Education for Sustainable Development in 2003. The Eco-Schools program has been implemented on 30,000 campuses in 47 countries.

Becoming certified as an Eco-School is a real commitment and were delighted that several campuses in Houston have already signed up for the challenge, said Coyle.

Robin Moore, Director of the Natural Learning Initiative at North Carolina State University, will open the conference. Moore is a nationally recognized expert in the design of play and learning environments and has extensively researched ways to bring nature into the lives of urban and suburban children.

This is an exciting time for the field of environmental education, said Coyle. People are beginning to realize that getting children re-connected with nature doesnt just benefit kids emotionally, it also has tangible academic and intellectual benefits.

Over the past decade, a series of peer-reviewed studies have examined hands-on environment-based education to determine how it affects student behavior, motivation to learn, and actual academic achievement. The findings show that environment-based education:

Summit Highlights Houstons Burgeoning Green Schools Movement

PERI Software to Participate in the California Utilities Diversity Council"s 2010 Green Diversity Summit

Sacramento, CA (PRWEB) June 8, 2010

PERI Software Solutions Inc., a global business solutions company will participate in the California Utilities Diversity Council’s 2010 Green Diversity Summit next month. The June 28, 2010 Energy Summit takes place at the Sacramento Convention Center.

President and CEO Sarav Periasamy will speak on how he grew his successful company from a small startup to global business. PERI is one of the fastest growing minority owned business solutions company with 700+ employees, and it is the only diverse business enterprise in the nation with an end-to-end smart grid solution. It is based in Newark, New Jersey (headquarters), and with offices in San Jose, Los Angeles, and Chennai, India.

When I founded PERI Software in 1999 my goal was to make it one of the world’s leading technology companies, said Periasamy. It took about five years to really develop the upper management and firmly encompass the goals for each division. It has been a steep learning curve for me as a young executive and it was a real challenge coordinating management between divisions to keep them in tune on the same page and sometimes its hard to keep up with the growing pains.”

PERIs broadening of its products and services portfolio stems from critical attention to customer needs and market fluctuations. “All the changes we made over the last 10 years are due to how the market has been and what our clients have been doing with their technology, he said.

Periasamy will join more than 800 invited policy makers, educators, industry experts, labor leaders, investors, business owners, and community organization leaders are expected to participate in the California Utilities Diversity Council’s 2010 Green Diversity Summit.

According to the conference organizers this timely statewide summit will be the first green energy conference to directly address diversity. It will provide a first time opportunity for discussion of solution strategies that can generate tens of thousands of green jobs for all California. It will promote programs to increase green job training and education, as well as programs to stimulate green business development.

The primary goal is to broaden the understanding of how the transition to a clean energy economy can bring green investment and contracting opportunities to entrepreneurial woman, minority, service-disabled and veteran-owned business enterprise (WMDVBE) business owners. The Summit will also benefit underserved and underrepresented communities through green workforce education, training and green job creation.

PERI is a green company and is always conscious about the environment, which is why we are consistently developing software to help save on energy and operation costs from smart grid technology to numerous business solutions, explained Periasamy.

About PERI

Founded in 1999, PERI is a global business solutions company, which has grown to more than 700 plus employees and delivers high value-cost effective technology based business solutions. PERI draws on deep industry expertise and a portfolio of interrelated consulting, business processes, application development along with smart-intelligent hardware and software products. PERI blends strategic design, proven technology, and timely delivery of solutions that maximize customers return on IT investment. Be sure to visit PERIs blog for company updates and developments

http://perisoftware.wordpress.com.

Editors: For images and advanced media interviews with PERI Founder and President Sarav Periasamy, please call: Aida Mayo or George McQuade at 818-340-5300 or 818-618-9229 or email Publicity(at)MayoCommunications(dot)com.

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Exit Realty Suncoast"s Realtor-Slash-Blogger John Mudd Joins Microsoft, Boeing"s Connexion and Others in Sponsoring Blog Business Summit

(PRWEB) July 22, 2005

John Mudd (http://www.homeintampabay.com), the Realtor-slash-blogger who generates millions in sales production from blogging joins Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com) and Connexion by Boeing (http://www.connexionbyboeing.com) in sponsoring the Blog Business Summit (http://snipurl.com/gd00), to be held in San Francisco from August 17 to 19. The event will show attendees how their businesses can leverage current real-world blogging techniques, tools and platforms to promote and enhance their business ventures, according to the Blog Business Summit website, http://snipurl.com/gd00. Related news on Connexion by Boeing’s sponsorship can be found here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/7/prwebxml263613.php.

Other sponsors for the Blog Business Summit include WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org), Marqui (http://www.marqui.com), Moreover Technologies (http://www.moreover.com), Business Logs (http://www.businesslogs.com), PubSub (http://www.pubsub.com), New Communications Blogzine (http://www.newcommblogzine.com), Clip-n-Seal, 9rules Network (http://www.9rules.com), Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS (a book by Rok Hrastnik – http://rss.marketingstudies.net), SXSW Interactive Festival (http://2005.sxsw.com/interactive/), Lockergnome (http://www.lockergnome.com), Blog Lightning (http://www.bloglightning.com), Blog Business World (http://blogbusinessworld.blogspot.com), WordBiz (http://www.wordbiz.com), Creativepro (http://www.creativepro.com) and Avondale Media (http://www.avondalemedia.com).

Seminar speakers include Pete Blackshaw, Chief Marketing Officer of Intelliseek (http://www.blogpulse.com); Stowe Boyd, President and COO of Corante (http://www.corante.com); DL Byron, Principal of Textura Design, Inc. (http://www.texturadesign.com); John Cass, Director of Internet Marketing Strategies for Backbone Media, Inc. (http://www.backbonemedia.com); Anil Dash, Vice President of Business Development for Six Apart (http://www.sixapart.com); Molly E. Holzschlag, author, educator and overall one of the most influential women on the Web (http://www.molly.com); Rick Murray, EVP & General Manager, Edelman Diversified Services; Robert Scoble of Microsoft, author of the Scoblizer blog (http://scoble.weblogs.com/); Biz Stone, author of several books on blogging, former Xanga.com Creative Director and now Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) team member at Google (http://www.google.com); Dave Taylor, a widely recognized expert on both technical and business issues, widely published author and founder of four Internet-related startup companies; Steve Broback, founder of the Blog Business Summit (http://snipurl.com/gd00) and i3forum (http://www.i3forum.com) conferences, co-founder and partner of Avondale Media (http://www.avondalemedia.com), and co-founder of Thunder Lizard Productions (http://www.thunderlizard.com), now a subsidiary of Fawcette Technical Publications (http://www.fawcette.com).

John Mudd, who recently completed an exclusive article on how blogging can benefit Realtors’ businesses that will be published in the September 2005 edition of REALTOR

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What can be Learned from the Worst Travel Websites at E-Tourism Summit: Who"s on the List?

Sausalito, CA (PRWEB) August 11, 2009

A committee of experts will nominate and select the weakest travel and destination websites for a session entitled, “What Can Be Learned From The Worst Travel Websites?” at the 10th Annual E-Tourism Summit Oct. 13-14 at the Marriott New York Marquis. Noting that improved Web technology and current economic conditions have prompted travel companies to increase their interactive marketing budgets by 16 percent, Jake Steinman, president of NAJ Group, which produces the Summit, explained that this year’s event “provides the most granular, ‘how to’ content in its 10-year history, with 25 presenters, (including Google, TripAdvisor and the Travel Channel) all in one place over a two-day period to help attendees learn how use the newest applications and marketing ideas to take their interactive marketing to the next level.”

Rob Varley, Executive Director of the Florida Space Coast CVB, who has attended five of the past nine events. “If you’re interested in learning about the experiences that early adopters have had with new interactive marketing models such as social media, mobile apps and video search, so you can avoid some pitfalls, this event is for you.” Attendees have been able to return from past Summits and re-tool their marketing programs to stay ahead of the curve.” said Steinman. In addition, he pointed out, the one-on-one contacts with program presenters and speakers, as well as the fact that attendance is limited to 120 promote peer-to-peer networking and creates “a unique dynamic.

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