Inaugural AppRapids Conference – Louisville, KY, March 28, 2012

Overview

A new enterprise information service called AppRapids, published Monday through Friday, covers enterprise infrastructure, solutions, and applications. Unlike other services, AppRapids focuses on important developments and provides critical comments about technology, products, and services. Providing space for discusions of apps-related issues is an important part of an the mission of AppRapids' services.

Conference

Inspired by quick integration of apps into not only our daily personal lives, but also embedded into the process of enterprise environments, the conference aims to provide guidance, practical advice, and case study reviews that can be used to help in the development and implementation of your own apps. We are excited to offer a Keynote session from Ric Manning of Louisville's The Courier-Journal and an afternoon Spotlight Session with Craig James on Social Applications. An additional highlight session for the conference will focus on opportunities for women and minority-owned businesses in the applications space.

Topics to be covered include:

• costs controls
• implementation
• user experience
• business applications

 We welcome any original contributions on these topics for presentation.

Paper Submission

• Call for Papers Opens January 9, 2012
• Call for Papers Closes February 3, 2012
• Speaker Acceptance: February 24, 2012
• Conference; March 28, 2012

Accepted speakers will receive free conference registration.

To submit a proposal for your 40-minute session that includes a Q&A, send an email to:  theseed2020@yahoo.com. Questions about the conference, including sponsorship opportunites, can also be emailed to theseed2020@yahoo.com.

Return all fields completed as follows:

1. Your full names, title, and organization
2. Contact information, including your address, email, and phone number
3. The name of your proposed session (keep your title simple, interesting, and relevant to the topic)
4. A 75-200 word overview of your presentation. (Panels are acceptible.)
5. A 100-200 word speaker bio that includes prior conference speaking or related experience

To be considered, proposals must be received by 12 Midnight Eastern Time, Friday, February 3, 2012.

The conference will be held in Downtown Louisville. More information will be available shortly at www.apprapids.com and theseed2020.com. Conference presented by PolySpot and ArnoldIT.

Google FundsTechnology to Fund Education for Women in Africa

In "Google Grant to Fund Groundbreaking Use of Technology to Keep Girls in School" we find that Google is showing a commitment to young women and their future.

The grant provides funding to cover all necessities for one year of high school in Tanzania from clothing to school supplies.  It also is funding the use of mobile technology, to capture data such as attendance. The data will feed directly into a Camfed database so that follow-ups can occur quickly and pre-empt a drop out or help solve other situations that interfere with educational pursuits.

Camfed fights poverty and AIDS in Africa through educating girls and empowering young women as leaders of change. Since 1993, 1,451,600 children in some of the poorest rural districts of Ghana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia have benefited from Camfed's programs.

The commitment to use technology to pre-empt social and medical issues in order to improve the health and education of women is something we hear at Seed 2020 respects and applauds. Google has stepped up in a big way to support an organisation that is committed and focused and the impact will be noticeable.

Constance Ard December 14, 2011

The Bar Method DC to Open This Week

An new woman-run business is about to hit our nation’s capital, and we couldn’t be more excited. On June 29, The Bar Method DC will begin offering its unique exercise opportunities.

What makes this business stand out from the multitude of gyms that litter our landscape? It’s the Bar Method, an innovative approach which combines the best from several sources. From the company’s website:

 “The Bar Method™ workout creates a uniquely lean, firm, sculpted body by combining the muscle-shaping principles of isometrics, the body-elongating practice of dance conditioning, the science of physical therapy and the intense pace of interval training into a powerful exercise format that quickly and safely reshapes and elongates muscles.”

Sounds great! Not only can clients lose weight and develop muscles safely, they can also attain better posture and increased energy. We all know the benefits, both to our health and our vanity, that result from these changes.

This studio is the latest step in a noteworthy woman-powered entrepreneur chain. I don’t have space for the entire history here, but it involves a number of enterprising ladies. Carrying on this tradition is one Kate Arnold, who is running this latest franchise.

We wish Ms Arnold and her staff the best of luck in this exciting new venture. Meanwhile, I’ll be looking forward to the day a Bar Method Studio opens near me. Hint, hint!

Cynthia Murrell  June 27, 2011

New Information Service about Sources of Automobile Information

ArnoldIT.com has developed another news service blog, this one about where to find automotive information on the Internet. Each article in the Web log provides a synopsis of a source, an example of the information available from it, and critical commentary about its value.

Despite the wide availability of Web indexes on Bing.com and Google.com, these services often make it difficult to locate high-value specific information. Vertical findability services such as Rolling Research provide more focused results than those of common Web indexes:

“The audience we want to reach wants to get to high value sources of information without wading through a laundry list of search results. Our researchers examine the sources and prepare compact, information-packed descriptions of a source. We think that anyone seeking objective information about the automobile industry will find Rolling Research a useful resource,” said Stephen E. Arnold, publisher and owner of ArnoldIT.com, an independent consulting and engineering firm. “Too much of the available automotive information is advertising fluff. We want to be clear and direct in stories that are crisp and brief. Who wants to spend endless hours clicking on potentially irrelevant or inaccurate sources in a quest for facts?”

The blog is sponsored by TheAutoChannel.com, a premier source of information about vehicles since 1994.2

Rolling Research is produced by ArnoldIT.com, publishers of Beyond Search and Inteltrax, and publishes Monday through Friday. Current and archived stories are available without charge at http://www.rollingresearch.com.  An RSS feed and new-story Twitter notifications are available.

The service includes articles, features, and links to important business information resources. The editorial team takes a critical stance, providing value added commentary about sources of information related to the automobile industry, hybrid vehicles, recreational vehicles, motor sports, and allied fields. Story ideas may be submitted to rollingresearch@yahoo.com

About Stephen E. Arnold, ArnoldIT:

Stephen E. Arnold is a technology and financial analyst with more than thirty years of experience and a bevy of awards to his name. In addition to “Google: The Digital Gutenberg,” he has authored more than 50 journal articles and several other books, including “Internet 2000” and the first three editions of the 600-page encyclopedia of search called “The Enterprise Search Report.” His new enterprise search study, "The New Landscape of Enterprise Search,” is now available from Pandia.com. The phrases "beyond SEO", "beyond search", “content with intent,” “SIMM”, or variants of these should be credited to ArnoldIT.com.

Cynthia Murrell, June 6, 2011

Social Media Competitors Team Up

ThinkWeb3 an established media developement company for the world of web is teaming up with SocialAdMX an early stages media developement company that allows businesses of all sizes to create marketing solutions such as customized Facebook fan pages, apps, and mobile web sites, to promote the new ArnoldIT offshoot HighGainBlog.com.