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Join us on Tuesday, November 3rd in Ft. Lauderdale as the Startup Business Boot Camp shows us how to turn an idea into business in 1 day! This event will teach you how to evaluate your business ideas and turn the ones that make the grade into a revenue generating business in 1 day. You will learn how to determine demand for a service or product before you even create it, how to realistically fund your business concept in today's economy, little known resources to find the hottest new business ideas and trends, A special hands-on exercise that will help you identify tons of business concepts residing within you that can be started in 1-2 days for next to nothing, and much more!
Join us on Saturday, November 7th in Tampa for the 5th Annual Tampa Code Camp. With over 40 sessions about everything from ASP.Net to ADO.Net to Silverlight to Facebook, there isn't a topic you don't want to miss. And with MVPs and Microsoft employees leading the sessions, the only challenge will be how to be in several sessions at once!
Don't forget about the afterparty with the speakers and attendees!
Join us on Tuesday, November 10th in West Palm as WITI discusses how to lay a green IT foundation for the future. Cloud Computing, Server and Desktop Consolidation and Virtualization, and Data Center Backup/Recovery/Archiving are all a part of laying a green IT Infrastructure and WITI will show you how to do it right.
Companies are being asked to quantify and reduce corporate energy use and environmental footprints, streamline supply chains, meet regulatory requirements and drive more energy-efficient operations. In short, organizations are being driven to adopt ‘green’ strategies. IT departments play a pivotal role in developing company’s direction with a green strategy and are therefore taking on projects to adopt newer technologies and update IT infrastructure in a manner that will impact the entire organization. IT is faced with the daunting task of streamlining network traffic, upgrading back-office systems, improving data center operations, and enabling virtualization without disrupting operations.
Join us on Wednesday, November 11th in Coral Springs for a Cheetah Guided Networking Event you don't want to miss. Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, founder of Cheetah Learning and one of PMI's 25 Most Influential Women In Project Management In The World lends her expertise to two of the three sessions and will show us how to make more money in today's economy and will also show us how to create more opportunities, faster! An opportunity like this one doesn't come around often so don't miss this one!
Join us on Thursday, November 12th in Boca as Joe Homnick, one of Microsoft's three Metro trainers in the Americas, discusses SharePoint 2010 features. Metro is a program that teaches independent software vendors the latest technologies before they ship. He'll be sharing his knowledge of new SharePoint 2010 features in this session.
SFIMA To Discuss Ecommerce Optimization: Last-minute Plays for the Holiday and Beyond
Join us on Thursday, November 12th at Parrot Jungle in Miami as Hunter Broyle discusses ecommerce optimization for this holiday season. The holiday season is make-or-break time for most ecommerce marketers - even more so in a shaky economy. Optimizing your site and marketing channels is your best bet. But you need to know which minor, last-minute changes can make the biggest impact on your ROI.
In this highly interactive session, we'll look at quick steps you should take to improve results, end the year on a high note, and start off 2010 strong.
GMCC To Hold Panel Discussion On The Discourse To Outsource
Join us on Wednesday, November 18th in Doral as the Greater Miami Chamber discusses Developing an Outsourcing Strategy that Enables Growth in a Tough Economy.. The panel will be moderated by John R. Poncy, CEO, Venali, Inc. and will include CEOs from the YMCA, Compuquip Technologies, rbb Public Relations, and more.
Join us on Thursday, November 19th in Ft. Lauderdale for a special members-only event with Mark Templeton, President, CEO, and Director of Citrix Systems, Inc. Templeton will be available for the SFTA members to engage in an intimate discussion about technology trends, challenges and insights for the future. This event is a unique opportunity to get up close and conversational with Templeton. Sign-up today!
There is no cost to members to attend the event. However, as we approach the holiday season, SFTA will be sending non-perishable items to The Cooperative Feeding Program (CFP), a United Way agency dedicated to reducing hunger in Broward County.
Thursday, November 19th, join ITWomen for an evening of fun and excitement at ITWomen's Annual CIO Celebrity Invitational Texas Hold`Em Poker Tournament & Casino Night.
Join us in 2010 at the Sherlock Technology Offices in Miami Beach for the Azure South Florida Users Group. Windows® Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft® datacenters.
For links to more information on Azure the inaugural ASFUG meeting, go to:
This is the live-action shooting game that lets you hunt a flying duck with a harmless infrared gun. A 10-second charge on the barrel of the gun energizes the mechanical duck for a 30-second flight (Play Video). The duck's 6" long mylar wings flap up and down nearly 500 times per minute, and it can be set to fly in an erratic left- or right-turning circle or a level, straight line. Sharp-eyed hunters take aim with the infrared gun--the first two hits merely stun the waterfowl, momentarily interrupting his flapping; the third hit downs the duck for good. The single-shot blaster has a 20' range and makes a loading sound with each pump.
Live Action Flying Duck Hunt Winner:John Blumenauer17,750 Points
Within temporary staffing, the segment performing the best at the moment is information technology, which scored the only year-over-year increase of any segment, up 1% on a weighted-average basis. At the other end of the spectrum, travel nursing reported a weighted-average year-over-year decline of 44% and no sequential relief.
According to data from the just-released Staffing Industry Monthly Pulse Survey, revenue trends are continuing to improve in most staffing segments. On a year-over-year basis, the 198 participants in the survey reported a weighted-average decline of 17% in overall temp revenue for the 12 months ending September 2009, a notable improvement from the 25% year-over-year decline reported for the 12 months ending August 2009. Sequential temporary staffing trends for September versus August were also very positive.
Improvement in direct hire trends was also noteworthy, with staffing firms reporting sequential improvement in September versus August.
According to the survey, the temporary staffing segments seeing the greatest merger & acquisition activity are information technology and per diem nursing.
View a video interview on uTube (http://tinyurl.com/yh86cvd ) with the CEO of Ryder Systems and Rebecca Staton-Reinstein, local author and national authority on corporate strategy, regarding her new book "Conventional Wisdom - How Today's Leaders Plan, Perform, and Progress Like the Founding Fathers"
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Episode 4 is truly a great episode! Expression Encoder 3, Live Writer, Mobility programming, Windows Mobile Marketplace, and Expression Blend 3 Behaviors and a star studded cast including, 4 MVPs! This show is smoking!!!! Don't forget to leave your comments and thoughts...
The South Florida I.T. Job Market is looking better now than it has in over a year
(Click on the Position Titles - They link directly to the job! Amazing, what technology can do. (but if they don't link, details are found at www.SherStaff.com)
