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Evaluation of Knowledge Management Performance Based on Extenics
During recent decades, the core of the organization is moving from being labor or capital intensive to being technology intensive and currently is moving towards becoming knowledge intensive. In the era of knowledge economy, knowledge is the strategic resource of an enterprise, and knowledge management has already become an essential...
Provided By AICIT
An Evaluation of Financing and Development of Small and Medium Enterprises in Mombasa County, Kenya
The purpose of this paper was to establish the relationship and the link between financing institutions and the level of development, growth of small and medium enterprises in Mombasa County. In the course of the research it was found out that many factors contribute to the growth and development of...
Provided By The International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE)
Sales Process Map
A step-by-step guide to attract prospects, qualify leads and close deals faster. Includes a new map of social channels in the lead process.
Provided By Salesforce.com
McAfee Email Protection
SC Magazine gives McAfee Email Protection 5 Stars and says it's "an absolutely brilliant product. We make it our Best Buy". "The product does everything we expect a product in this space would do, with a cmobination of flexibility and ease of use seldom seen."
Provided By Grey AU: McAfee/Intel
Integrated Computing Platforms: Infrastructure Builds for Tomorrow's Data Center
The consolidation of physical servers drove massive efficiencies across the IT ecosystem, including improved resource utilisation rates for CPU and storage capacity. This is the fifth consecutive year in which the increased use of server virtualisation has been among the top three most important IT priorities reported by ESG research...
Provided By EMC Australia (grey BG)
Information Governance: The Key To Unlocking Dodd-Frank Regulations
This webinar offers solutions to the Dodd-Frank compliance issues and challenges that target the Financial Services Industry.
Provided By OpenText
Protecting Users & Data in the Mobile Enterprise
On Tuesday 4th of June, popular ZDNet contributor Phil Dobbie talked to: Ed Metcalfe, Director of Product Marketing at McAfee & Perry Olson, Senior Director, Strategic Response and Global Activities at Intel. They participated in a highly informative webinar that tackles the issues IT professionals need to know...
Provided By Intel/McAfee
Exploring Business Models for NFC Enabled Mobile Payment Services: The Case of Google Wallet and ISIS
Over the past few years, mobile payments have been present like a storm on the horizon. They have generated a lot of attention; yet have not reached wide adoption. Issues such as the complexity of the mobile payment ecosystem and the lack of sustainable business models have been accounted for...
Provided By Copenhagen Business School
20 Information Governance Questions and Answers in 40 Minutes
As a new means to managing information, Information Governance, is a hot topic right now. This webinar answers the top 20 questions that have been asked on the subject.
Provided By OpenText
Investigating the Influence of Knowledge Management Practices on Organizational Performance: An Empirical Study
In this paper, the authors investigate the influence of knowledge management practices on organizational performance in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). A number of 282 senior managers from these enterprises were chosen using simple random sampling and the data were analyzed with the structural equation...
Provided By Amirkabir University of Technology
Does Knowledge Management Deliver the Goods in SMEs?
This paper is to review research on knowledge management's benefits within small and medium-sized firms. The paper attempts to answer the following research questions: Which studies have been conducted that focus on the benefits of KM within SMEs? What were the main findings of the studies? In what manner does...
Provided By University of Maine at Presque Isle
No More Sticky Clients
Now Aruba steps up to address the pervasive issue of "sticky clients." A sticky wireless client device is one that doesn't roam well from one AP to another. Watch how Aruba's 802.11ac rollout cleans up sticky clients.
Provided By Aruba Networks
Financing of Micro, Medium and Small Scale Enterprises in India Key Challenges
Micro, small and medium sector enterprises have a vital role in the economic growth of a developing nation like India. These enterprises play a catalyst role in the development of industrial and commercial activities. In the overall value chain of different industries these firms are placed in critical positions. It...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
Organizational Knowledge Management Movement Strategies
Organizational behavior is often dependent on the strategic movement of internal knowledge for success. Organizational knowledge management methodologies require the involvement of stakeholders. In large organizations, involved stakeholders shall be selected by the entire membership. Key involvement roles and considerations should be offered to/involve the 'Least likely to participate'. Suck...
Provided By Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and Information Technology
Mediating Role of Knowledge Management in Effect of Management Accounting Practices on Firm Performance
While adopting knowledge management can improve firm performance, it is determined by implementing level of management accounting practices. Furthermore, it plays mediating role in the relationship between implementing management accounting practices and firm performance. This paper employs path analysis to investigate causal relationships among the variables. Then it uses procedures...
Provided By Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and Information Technology
Understanding of Knowledge from Economist's Perspective
Author's approach to knowledge is based on the system of upgrading between knowledge as information, cognitive process, capital and a value. Knowledge cannot exist without it's subject to whom the capacity of cognition is ascribed. Cognitive capacity is bounded due to imperfect information and the limits of the human mind...
Provided By Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and Information Technology
ESG Whitepaper: Integrated Computing Platforms
The consolidation of physical servers drove massive efficiencies across the IT ecosystem, including improved resource utilisation rates for CPU and storage capacity. This is the fifth consecutive year in which the increased use of server virtualisation has been among the top three most important IT priorities reported by ESG research...
Provided By Amcom
The Use of Accounting Information by Small and Medium Enterprises in South District of Jordan
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have been very important in many countries including Jordan, because of its role for the country's economic growth. This paper explores the level of awareness towards the importance of financial management from the preparation of accounting reports and its information usage in the business. The...
Provided By Al-Balqa Applied University
Making Room for Innovation
Managing increasingly complex communications and networking technologies can be a daunting task with less money, fewer skilled resources and greater pressure than ever before to keep things up and running. As a result, organisations are looking for new ways to tackle these problems. By looking at different sourcing options like...
Provided By IBM Australia
Integrated Computing Platforms: Infrastructure Builds for Tomorrow's Data Center
The consolidation of physical servers drove massive efficiencies across the IT ecosystem, including improved resource utilisation rates for CPU and storage capacity. This is the fifth consecutive year in which the increased use of server virtualisation has been among the top three most important IT priorities reported by ESG research...
Provided By EMC Australia (grey BG)
Using Social to Improve Customer Experience
With four out of five Americans now using social networks, the era of social networking clearly has arrived, creating significant implications for enterprises. Today, there are compelling rewards for embracing social networks - and potentially severe penalties for putting it off any longer. This whitepaper outlines four key ground rules...
Provided By Oracle
Why Knowledge Management?
In this paper, the authors discuss some of the reasons for the implementation of Knowledge Management (KM). Increasingly, rapid technology changes impact the way people work and live and result in new ways they utilize knowledge in organizations, working practices, and overall activities. This paper provides an explanation of general...
Provided By Creative Commons
Enterprise Architecture Software Tool Support for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: EASE
In the current information society increased attention is being paid to Enterprise Architecture (EA) and accompanying techniques, models and frameworks. CHOOSE is an EA approach focused on and adapted to the characteristics and needs of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Though these techniques could offer significant benefits to SMEs, hardly...
Provided By Ghent University
Modelling the Contribution of Knowledge Management Towards Achieving Organisational Business Objectives
Knowledge Management (KM) continues to receive mounting interest within the construction industry due to its potential to offer solutions for organizations seeking competitive advantage. This paper presents a KM input-process output conceptual model comprising unique and well-defined theoretical constructs representing KM practices and their internal and external determinants in the...
Provided By Queensland Treasury Corporation
The 12 Essential Tasks of Active Directory Domain Services
Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) administration and management can be broken down into 12 major tasks—all of which can be staggering in nature and extremely time-consuming for AD DS administrators. While some can be delegated, complex tasks like security, networked service administration, OU-specific management and many more are not...
Provided By Dell Software
The 12 Critical Questions You Need to Ask When Choosing an AD Bridge Solution
Microsoft Active Directory (AD) provides Windows access for most users, but must also allow Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X access. It can be an identity and authentication nightmare. Fortunately, an AD bridge solution can help solve this and grant "full citizen" AD status for these platforms. But how do...
Provided By Dell Software
The 12 Critical Questions You Need to Ask When Choosing an AD Bridge Solution Whitepaper
Find out the best ways to evaluate AD bridge solutions to help ensure maximum security, compliance and productivity.
Provided By Dell Software
Web 2.0 Tools Support for SME Start-Up Projects
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) play a central role in the European economy. They are a major source of entrepreneurial skills, innovation and employment. In European Union 23 million SMEs provide around 75 million jobs and represent 99% of all enterprises. However, they are often confronted with market imperfections. SMEs...
Provided By Faculty of Economics & Business Zagreb
Organizational Trust as a Foundation for Knowledge Sharing and Its Influence on Organizational Performance
In this paper, the authors investigate whether there is a positive contribution of Organizational Trust (OT) on Organizational Performance (OP) in various enterprises from the Province of Mazovia in Poland. The instrument used in this paper included two parts that were used to measure the constructs of OT and OP....
Provided By Creative Commons
Conceptualizing Knowledge Culture
In the past twenty years, knowledge has been a topic of interest in the areas of Information Systems (IS) and organization/management. In this paper, the authors explore a concept of knowledge culture. The discussion addresses theoretical foundations of this concept: concepts of theoretical and practitioner knowledge, knowledge management processes, knowledge...
Provided By Creative Commons
Developments in Business Intelligence Software
In today's economy the requirements in Business Intelligence (BI) environments are changing dramatically. This paper tested underlying constructs. Hypothesis one sought to test if vendors seek to provide complete BI solutions following all four stages of the Competitive Intelligence (CI) cycle. The evaluation of BI vendors indicates that all vendors...
Provided By Blekinge Institute of Technology
Knowledge-Driven Computer Aided Process Innovation Method
The process innovation is difficult, costly and time-consuming because it mainly depends on limited knowledge and random inspiration of individual. This paper presents a knowledge-driven computer aided process innovation method in order to change this situation. In this method, process innovation knowledge is described with formal format, organized into process...
Provided By AICIT
Knowledge Management System for Humanoid Robot Based on Design Catalogue
Humanoid robot is a special kind of service robot. The knowledge management of the humanoid robot is important to the researchers. To improve the knowledge management of the humanoid robot, knowledge management method of the humanoid robot based on design catalogue is proposed, and the structure of the design information...
Provided By AICIT
Research on the Evaluation of Knowledge Innovation Ability of Enterprise Based on Knowledge Management
In the human society from industrial economy to knowledge economy of the evolution of new era, knowledge of the production, dissemination and exchange and use will be an important driving force of economic growth. With more and more important role in knowledge for people to knowledge management in management has...
Provided By AICIT
An Integrated Model on Factors Influencing Knowledge Sharing
Knowledge sharing is of great importance to sustain and enhance the competence advantage of the organizations. In order to better promote the knowledge sharing implementation, after a deep review and analysis on literatures and researches, this paper proposes an integrated model on factors influencing knowledge sharing and verify the model...
Provided By AICIT
The Effect of Entrepreneurial Orientation on the Internationalization of SMEs in Developing Countries
The increasing globalization of markets and businesses is playing a major role on the pace at which Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) internationalize. Within this context, the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and the internationalization of SMEs in developing countries is an important area of academic research. This paper reviews...
Provided By University of the Virgin Islands
Extraction of Ontology Concepts and Their Relationships from Knowledge Based Heterogeneous Text Documents
Ontology extraction is an important role in the semantic Web as well as in knowledge management. The emergence of semantic Web and the associated technologies promise to make the Web a meaningful experience. On the contrary, success of semantic Web and its applications depends largely on utilization and interoperability of...
Provided By IJSRCSAMS
Customer Value Creation by Customer Knowledge Management
Customer Knowledge Management (CKM), which integrates Customer Relationship Management (CRM) with Knowledge Management (KM), can be used to create a valuable leverage and direct interaction with the customers. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to assess the customer value created by implementing customer knowledge conversion between vending firms and customers....
Provided By AICIT
Enterprise Microblogging Tool to Increase Employee Participation in Organizational Knowledge Management
In this paper, the authors introduce and study the micro-blogging tool as one of the tools of Web 2.0 for increase participation of users in knowledge sharing and transmission of experiences. Case study data from 10 months activity of system and the results of the survey from employees who use...
Provided By Advances in Computer Science : an International Journal (ACSIJ)
Survey of Big Data Benchmarking
In this paper, the author provides a survey of up to date ideas in benchmarking big data systems. Big data is a growing field that pushes the limits of information collection and analysis. More and more entities are seeking ways to use big data. As the big data industry continues...
Provided By Washington Trust Bank
10 Ways To Come Out A Winner In An Interview
While the first step to landing the job you covet is the application and covering note, the most important hurdle is the interview. To succeed you need to be a step ahead of the interviewer. To do this you must prepare and that to well. Always dress appropriately for an...
Provided By Streetdirectory
Measures For Stimulating Competition On Mobile Services Market In Romania To Maximize Benefits For End Users
In the last years, the market of mobile services in Romania had a huge success; the number of users of this type of services is constantly growing. The interest of the investors who were encouraged by statistics and have recently appeared on the market shows that Romanians are leaders in...
Provided By Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
5 Ways A Book Review Can Increase Your Sales
If you write and/or publish books of any kind, you need to get your books reviewed. Why? Because it can dramatically increase your sales. This paper provides quick list of 5 ways a review can help to increase your sales. Book reviews are picked up and distributed across the web,...
Provided By Streetdirectory
Improve Your Sales With Copywriting
Use a hand written letter on your ad copy instead of text. Write the ad on a piece of paper, scan it and publish the ad on your web page. Adding a personal touch will always increase your sales. Publish a list of famous and respected customers who have bought...
Provided By Streetdirectory
Five Simple Steps To Increase Sales With E-Newsletters
This paper explains five simple steps to increase sales with e-newsletters. Keep it helpful: It's often repeated and often forgotten. But it's the kind of truism that's, well, true. If they don't read the newsletter, forget about capturing them as customers. Make it interactive: Readers love to share their opinions....
Provided By Streetdirectory
Everyone's A Publisher - On-Demand Webinar
Your customers are being inundated with content all day long from companies like yours that are trying to be engaging. How do you make sure that the most relevant content is in their inbox? How do your marketing and sales teams keep up with content requests? In this 60-minute webinar,...
Provided By MarkLogic
How To Keep Your Sales Souring In 5 Killer Steps?
Everything you may have heard about boosting your website profits might be true. But this paper shows you some amazing ways to get some MORE traffic and convert them to sales. These tricks when used on a consistent basis can pull in consistent traffic to your site and if you...
Provided By Streetdirectory
Sample Advertising Co-Ordinator Resume
This is a sample Advertising Coordinator resume that covers objectives and tips to gets you the best Advertising Coordinator Jobs. This curriculum vitae guide teaches you how to write Advertising Coordinator resume.
Provided By Sample Resumes
Responding to Today's Demands with a Dynamic Infrastructure
Listen to this webcast to hear IBM executives and clients discuss a host of new offerings that deliver and support a dynamic infrastructure. Register and receive a complimentary e-kit.
Provided By IBM Corp.
Smarter Products: The Building Blocks for a Smarter Planet
Businesses are delivering a new generation of smarter products that are increasingly instrumented, interconnected and intelligent - enabled through software.
Provided By IBM Corp.
Lowering Costs & Driving Efficiency with Lenovo ThinkServers®
As pressure mounts on IT budgets, it's time to consider replacing older servers that contribute to staff inefficiencies, consume excess power and space, and drive up costs. Many IT organizations find themselves in a budgetary Catch22: they need to find ways to lower operating expenses to meet budget demands and...
Provided By Lenovo
B2B Marketing Essentials
B2B marketing is a different breed altogether from traditional marketing. The target is an intelligent customer who is sophisticated and who doesn't do impulse purchase. The best promotion that works well in a B2B scenario is either referral selling or reference accounts. In fact, a web link to a case...
Provided By DJargon
Temporary Recruitment
Recruitment Solutions recognises that effective temporary recruitment is quick, efficient and provides a strong level of "Fit" between the requirements of our clients and the skills, attitude and behaviours of our candidates. As a result, we follow a specific and rigorous process to ensure that the "Best fit" temporary staff...
Provided By Chandler Macleod Group
Affiliate Management Agencies
This webcast discusses how to find an affiliate management company to run an affiliate program.
Provided By Howcast
How To Use Online Affiliate Marketing Training
Discover the proven online affiliate marketing training strategies that can make you five figures each and every month.
Provided By Howcast
How To Do Affiliate Marketing
In affiliate marketing, online merchants pay independent parties - called publishers, to promote their products on the publishers' web sites. The basic steps for becoming a publisher are described here. Determine who the web site visitors are, Capture e-mail addresses, Launch multiple web sites, Keep the web site current, Sign...
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MLM Information - Discover The Real Secret Of MLM Success
There are problems in network marketing with 97% of distributors failing. This is mlm information that not just networkers and many other people are aware of too. Discover the real secret to mlm success in this webcast.
Provided By Howcast
How To Do Real Estate Marketing Online
The attendee will learn the secrets most real estate pros will never know about getting free leads (buyers and sellers) and visitors WITHOUT spending a dime on advertising.
Provided By Howcast
Article Marketing Can Really Grow Your Business
This presenter of this webcast talks about Article marketing which is a powerful way to promote the products or services for little to no cost. It's fast, easy and quite effective.
Provided By Howcast
Article Marketing
Article marketing is one of the best free ways to generate leads. This video is an offer to visit the blog and view the free training on writing effective articles and how to submit them to a directory.
Provided By Howcast
How To Create A New E-mail Campaign (Autoresponder)
The presenter of this webcast talks about How To create a new E-mail Campaign (Autoresponder) using IG-autoresponder.
Provided By Howcast
Finding Niche Affiliates
This webcast is discusses methods for identifying affiliates in a niche.
Provided By Howcast
How To Use The Best Clickbank Affiliate Marketplace Directory
This webcast is discussing about if you are looking for the best Click bank affiliate products to either make money off of, or simply to buy, then you can't go better the Best Click Bank Store on the internet today.
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Internet Network Marketing - Generating Leads
This webcast is discussing advantages of Internet Network Marketing its prominent advantages is of Generating your own leads compared to purchasing generic leads.
Provided By Howcast
How To Use YouTube To Promote Your Product Or Service
This webcast is discussing about t how to use YouTube to promote your product or service with this video from The 60 Second Marketer.
Provided By Howcast
AdSense Tips For Newbies & Low Earners
This webcast is discussing about tips for new members and people having trouble making money.
Provided By Howcast
How To Get FREE Audio For Your Websites With Google Voice And AudioPal
How to get free audio for your websites with Google Voice and Audio Pal by Chuck from marketing reports. This webcast is giving simple instructions to add audio to your website, blog or email. Yes, it?s completely free.
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Ways To Make Money On The Internet
Learn the ultimate ways to make money on the internet here. The authors will bring you to the world of internet marketing where you can dominate whatever target niche you want or promote your business/company or even yet, provide online service to prospects. There are just countless ways to make...
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Internet Network Marketing - Choosing A Domain Name
This webcast is discussing about internet network marketing. It also discusses How to select and purchase a domain name.
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How To Write A Persuasive Ad That Generate 20 Leads A Day On Facebook (Part 1)
This video shows the exact secrets for writing facebook Ads that generate 20 Leads Every Day. These online marketing strategies will help explode your home based Business on the Internet.
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How-To Be An Affililiate Marketer
This is an introduction to Affiliate Marketing and how it all works. The video will help the attendee understand what he or she needs to to be an online affiliate for companies that are looking for affiliates to promote their products.
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How To Write Internet Marketing Articles
This webcast tells how to write internet marketing articles from doing keyword research to writing an effective resource box. How to construct an article that gets attention.
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Ways To Make Quick Money
People are always on the look for something that will allow them to make money quick and easy. Nowadays, people resort to the internet not just to find valuable information but to find a powerful avenue to make money. If a person wants to be like most successful internet marketers,...
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Network Marketing Leads
It is no surprise that business enterprises, big and small are always looking forward to reduce their operational costs and gain huge money on returns. With the coming of internet there opened a new world - the world of network marketing. This is not a new concept, just a more...
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How To Market Your Chiropractic Practice Via LinkedIn
The attendee will learn the little-known chiropractic marketing secrets of LinkedIn. This social network is for business professionals and can be a powerhouse as far as building relationships and referrals are concerned.
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Keyword Research Marketing
This webcast discusses Keyword research marketing tips to help find relevant keyword phrases to your main term using free keyword research tools.
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The Role Of Marketing Communications
The role of marketing communications is to create brand values and provoking behaviour. This webcast discusses the role of marketing communications.
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How To Use Social Networks In Your Chiropractic Marketing
Discover how to use chiropractic social networking to get an extra 10-15 new patients per month. This is done WITHOUT ever spending money on advertising! This is just one of many chiropractic marketing strategies the attendee will learn that will build credibility and trust with your Facebook audience quickly.
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Network Marketing Internet Business Training - Identifying Your Niche
This webcast discusses about Network Marketing Internet Business. It also focuses on How to identify your Niche if you are looking for new products and a new company to work with.
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International Options For US Affiliates
The international affiliate marketing is growing with absolutely no hindrance, but unless watched and executed carefully, it is likely falter and fall on its nose. There are several challenges that affiliate marketers face when they start out with their campaign. The first challenge that most affiliate marketers especially affiliates in...
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Put another Sweatstock in the wrinkly, rain-faded books. The fourth installment of Sweat Records' anniversary party and Record Store Day celebration played out on three stages in Little Haiti. But it's not just good times and dancing in the intermittent sun. It is also bleak, stomach-turning angst ... More >>
Sweatstock is for lovers. Lovers of independent music and record stores, yes. But also lovers of drunken groping before the sun has fully gone down. A good chunk of the attendees of Sweatstock 2030 were conceived indoors (and out) this weekend, spurred on by a hurricane season clothing-optional dr ... More >>
It wouldn't be Sweatstock without some good old-fashioned Miami freakiness. Maybe in Canada the music festivals end with handshakes and strangers gently complimenting each other on their felt hats. But this is Miami, where nothing's over until it has weird, probably videotaped sex with you. And Sw ... More >>
It's the weekend y'all! If the thought alone of these next two days doesn't want to make you get up, shred your papers, and do a victory dance, then maybe we should remind you of a few things. The Miami Heat made it to the playoffs (no shocker there), the Miami Marlins finally realized it was bas ... More >>
Go wild in the streets! Score swag! Mosh! In exactly 49 hours, everyone's favorite Little Haiti music shop, Sweat Records, will be celebrating Sweatstock 2013, its third annual one-day music fest, anniversary party, and Record Store Day bonanza. There will be limited-edition RSD releases, indie m ... More >>
It's finally here! Record Store Day (and cough, 4/20) is right around the corner. And that means tons of great acts are ready to get down and dirty with all y'all Miami music lovers. Whether you're looking for rock, punk, hip-hop, jazz, synth-pop, booty bass, or Latin, there's the perfect party wi ... More >>
Record Store Day 2013 Ambassador Jack White said it best: "We need to re-educate ourselves about human interaction and the difference between downloading a track on a computer and talking to other people in person and getting turned onto music that you can hold in your hands and share with others." ... More >>
Do you find yourself falling within that treacherous zone of a Venn diagram that connects "Working for the Weekend" with "The Great Recession"? One surefire way to know: Do you work all the fucking time, yet your wallet functions primarily as a seedy motel for moths? Maybe you need to get a new j ... More >>
Death to the Sun is not only Miami's best rock fest for the new, the hip, and the off-kilter. The annual farewell-to-summer local music bash, hosted by This Heart Electric's Ricardo Guerrero, is also one of the most controversial events spawned from the Biscayne Corridor's art-party music scene. L ... More >>
For three consecutive autumns, local musician and promoter Ricardo Guerrero's annual end-of-summer local showcase -- Death to the Sun -- has ranked among South Florida's best festivals for contemporary and/or experimental rock music. Just shy of reaching half a decade (and more than a couple months ... More >>
See the full 45-photo slideshow from Summer of Weirds 2012 at Churchill's Pub. Summer of Weirds III With Xela Zaid, Sharlyn Evertsz, Ed Wilcox, The Jellyfish Brothers, Rose Quartz, Mr. Feathers, Crucial Taunt, Luma Junger, and This Heart Electric Churchill's Pub, Miami Tuesday, August 7, 2012 Bett ... More >>
See the full 48-photo slideshow of Audio Junkie Independence Day Bash at O Cinema. While Fourth of July celebrations all across our nation have been hijacked by hot dog-eating contests and superpotent fireworks displays that leave American suburbs buried under ash, the meaning of the holiday was no ... More >>
With the first month of 2012 dead and gone, it's time to take a survey of up-and-coming South Florida music and maybe try to predict what the rest of the year has in store. This is not a best-of list. Nor is it a complete appraisal of South Florida's expansive nightlife sphere and its million m ... More >>
For 31 years, the numerous, ever-increasing stages at gritty, surreal, and spectacular Churchill's Pub in Little Haiti has been where Miami rock music goes to define itself. A quick scan of the assorted press and awards (including endless clippings for Miami New Times Best Rock Club nods) reveal ... More >>
Do you enjoy art, fashion, film, and music? If the answer is no, you probably aren't human. But if the answer is yes, you should go buy tix for Miami New Times' Artopia 2012, "an event," according to the official Facebook page, "that promotes art for people." There's gonna be an interactive ins ... More >>
How do we here at Crossfade typically spend our Saturday nights? Drunk and half-naked at the club, scamming complimentary booze coupons, shaking our fat asses to neo-freestyle, and shouting stupid stuff like, "No panties on the dance floor!," while holding our nose and fake puking. The point: O ... More >>
The archetypal preacher commands the pulpit like a mad scientist. He gesticulates wildly like a fascist dictator delivering his signature call-to-arms for an assembly of at-attention infantry. Spit collects in the corner of the holy man's mouth before launching forth like soot spewed from the barrel ... More >>
Ice Cream is a local band with a deliciously sweet name and a curiously exciting sound. But sadly, the five-guy psychedelic rock crew is skipping town for good. After tearing up eardrums across South Florida for the past two years, Ice Cream's Thomas Kennedy, Justin Anthony Rivers, Roy Neil Hun ... More >>
Our very own weirdo genius Dino Felipe is getting ready to hit the road. And he needs our help, i.e. $$$. Hence, a Kickstarter campaign. At the end of September, he and his sidekick This Heart Electric (AKA Ricardo Guerrero of "Miami Venues Suck Dick" fame) plan to load their crap into an old Ch ... More >>
In another instance of local music scenesters using Facebook to rail against the scene (see also: Fernando Perdomo Wants You To Know That Experimental Music is Crap), Crossfade was surprised to see a surly post from This Heart Electric frontman Ricardo Guerrero acerbically declaring that "All Mia ... More >>
The two delicious, locally grown brains of Bleeding Palm and This Heart Electric have proven that Miami's got what it takes to make the world a better place. As the photographers and creators of some of the most hypnotic and hilarious GIFs of all time, Bleeding Palm documents Miami's music and ... More >>
Jeff Rollason, maestro de WeirdsIs anything truly weird anymore? In 2011, headlines read like a Best of The Onion calendar and everyone is fucking through their cell phone. So what's got the power to grab you by the nose hairs, wipe your brain, and make your eyes turn into bloodshot questi ... More >>
Jason LeivaExhibition by Eric Elms at BarBar is like an everybody-knows-your-name-art-gallery where you can buy beer and booze. But they never seem to have PBR for some reason. And for a fairly compact watering hole located on the edge of Overtown, the place has hosted a string of impressive mus ... More >>
Ryan in a dress with a drum.Somewhere in the middle of Crossfade's interview with drummer Ryan Welch, Mr. C. of Churchill's Pub interrupted to say that he's taking this Friday off because of Rat Bastard's three-day International Noise Conference. He said the people that come to INC are a bunch ... More >>
Snakehole getting snakey. Celebrating birthdays with live music is just the friendly thing to do. Last night, a few bands joined forces for a house-party-slash-mini-concert in honor of their friend and housemate. It took place at La Cueva, all-girl band Snakehole's practice space, conveniently l ... More >>
This Heart Electric's "Polar" and "Nowhere To Run" 7" (die Stasi) Ricardo Guerrero is a man of many hats. He is the cofounder of electro-punk duo Animals of the Arctic, curator of the annual local music showcase Death To The Sun, Psychic Youth collaborator, and minister of the low-end (he plays b ... More >>
photo via hahahelp!'s FacebookRyan, left, and Rick of hahahelp!Rick Diaz has counted Ryan Oh as his best pal "forever," and as his right-hand man in local noise-pop weirdos hahahelp! for the past five years. So the soft-spoken Diaz probably deserves a hug these days. Ryan, who also plays aro ... More >>
The 305's godfather of fuzz, Rat Bastard, gets flattened.In the realm of supershort sets, the former reigning champs on the scene were those essentialist hardcore heads, whose performances boiled down to sweaty, shirtless 15-minute blasts of loud and sloppy 60-second songs. These days, however, ... More >>
S. PajotIce Cream's screamer molests the crowd.For eons, humanity has celebrated the autumnal equinox. Back in the day, summer ended and the pagans immediately noticed that the dirt was dying, crops were rotting, and only the grave lay ahead. So they said "Fuck it!" and threw an apocalypse party. ... More >>
Music is a science. It is like Geometry. It makes us feel really good, or really sad. Music is like Astronomy or gravity or electricity. You know it is there but you just can't see it. It can give you life. It can kill you. I just drank a whole pot of coffee while watching Miami's This Heart Electri ... More >>
photo by Jipsy / Nefariousgirl.comRadioboxer plays a FLIFF party at Cinema ParadisoFriday, November 6*Like we recommended earlier today, the Jacobs Ladder EP release party at Churchill's in Miami tonight, where $10 entry also gets you a copy of the band's new disc. Click here for full details.&nb ... More >>
photo by Ian WitlenSurfer BloodBefore monotheism ruined the fun, humans worshiped a female god (hell, yeah!) and held huge, outdoor fuck parties to honor the beginnings and endings of seasons. Instead, we now scrunch into hard-backed pews to be lectured; spend our entire Friday nights in the dark ... More >>
The homegrown So Raw Festival celebrates a scrappy new Miami rock scene.
We love festivals, even the small ones. But while most of our local festivals give non-natives the limelight, So Raw Festival aims to showcase the city's local artists and musicians to finally prove once and for all Miami possesses the rawest talent. The lineup so far includes Dan Melchior und das M ... More >>
R3K was on the streets of downtown putting flyers on peoples cars. I asked him what the deal was. Here's the interview.New Times: What's your name and what do you do?My [DJ] name is R3K . I spin at Psychic Tuesdays with DJ Healer at Bella Rose and Nightdrive Wednesdays at The News Lounge with DJPJ ... More >>
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Banksy in New York: Controversy, Adversity, and Exposure
As all of the art world knows by now, Banksy, the elusive street artist from the UK has spent the entire month of October in New York. He left 27 works of art in various locations of New York, plus a landscape oil painting "vandalized", an unpublished op-ed for The New York Times, and two videos plus a free t-shirt graphic for fans on his website. Appropriately named Better Out Than In, Banksy clearly reveals in the header of the website that his New York trip is about his conviction that art should be found outside of galleries to be easily seen and enjoyed by the masses.
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10 Beginner Tips for Unique Product Photography
Most photographers know the basics to good product photos – using a tripod, setting your camera to the widest aperture, using a white background, creating an out-of-focus background, and more. But what about those really unique product photographs? You know the ones. They simply don't look like a normal product photo you'd see in a regular catalog. These are usually used for full page features in a catalog or in ads for top brands.
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There We Go: 25+ Incredible Sites Created Using Website Builders
It seems that website builders are on the rise lately. These sites boast the capability of helping anyone create a professional website, with no technical experience at all. While not all website builders are all that they claim to be, many do provide everything needed for even those with a blind design eye to end up with a fairly nice-looking website. Some of the more flexible web builders – those with more advanced features – are attracting web designers, since they can create almost any website they imagine without needing to know code.
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Learning by Pulling Apart: An Interview with UI/UX Designer Matt Dempsey
Every once in awhile, we come across an amazing story of someone in the design world who seems somewhat hidden or insignificant. Matt Dempsey is such a someone. His career as a web and graphic designer begins at the very young age of 13 and includes such inspirational highlights as hiring a developer to build an app that was acquired by SitePoint when Matt was only 15 years old!
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To Eat With Your Eyes: 40+ Delicious Food Typography Designs
Delicatessen and fabulous fonts are two sources of inspiration for me, and when they are combined, even better! In fact, it's really very clever to create beautiful typographical designs with food. Designers then have the chance to trigger cravings with the food, which viewers then associate with the typography. Of course, most food typography is purely for artistic purposes, but every once in a while you may come across a title font that would be perfect for that restaurant website you are building. At the very least, the following collection of food typography designs will give you some great inspiration, whether your project is a cooking contest or the creation of a new font.
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55+ Amazing Commercial Use Photos of Urban Life
Stock photography is an excellent way to add visual stimulation to a website design, brochures, or posters. Saving some money for your client or yourself on stock photography is a bonus. Most designers know that there are some amazing commercial use photos available under a creative commons license, but the problem is that it can take hours searching for them. This roundup is here to help with this dilemma.
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Tips for Designing Small Websites Faster and Cheaper without Sacrificing Quality
Web designers/developers often find themselves needing to turn down small projects simply due to a lack of time or budget. For instance, a friend may be starting a doggie daycare and needs a simple website to provide clients with information. Or maybe a cousin needs to create a website for her social club events. Some of these projects may only pay in exchange of services, a much lower fee than you would offer if it wasn't your cousin, or maybe even no pay at all.
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50+ Fascinating Promotional Booklets to Inspire
No digital format can compare to the unique impression that printed materials leave with an audience. In today's era of computers and mobile devices, an excellent way for businesses to stand out is by printing booklets or other materials such as posters and postcards. In fact, an article on the PrintPlace.com blog points out that readers are much more engaged when reading print materials than when reading digitally. If you want your target audience to slow down and notice your products or portfolio in more details, then a promotional booklet may be your answer.
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Break Free From SEO: Integrating the News_Keywords Meta Tag into WordPress
Writers and editors, rejoice! SEO deadened titles are no longer required for news articles now that the news keywords meta tag is available, sort of. Okay, so only those who write articles for Google News can truly do a happy dance and even then are still not completely free from SEO in titles, but this new release is still a big step for online content. One of the big problems that the News team has been facing in the last few years has been that writers were forced to make awkward titles for their news articles so that the articles were optimized for both Google Search and News. In many cases, the titles were written by technical staff to make sure that the article was search engine optimized, often at the protest of the writers and editors. Because Search and News worked nearly the same, even though they are actually completely different systems, the approach to ranking well in both of those services meant keyword loading of the title. To combat this problem, just last September the Google News team rolled out the nifty news_keywords meta tag that Google News will now support.
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Never Grow Up: An Interview with Photographic Artist Ruadh DeLone
One could argue that there are plenty of talented and creative artists to be found in this world, that every artist has a unique perspective and style. However, it also seems that every great once in a while, along comes an artist who breaks the normal boundaries of art far beyond his modern fellow artists. Ruadh DeLone, an artist from Rheden, Netherlands, fits into this category of a photographer/ photomanipulation artist in his own level of class. His original work is expressive, odd, thoughtful, and stunning. While some of his pieces are definitely simply artistic, others seem to be making a powerful statement about life.
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For the 25th year, The Dallas Observer will honor the fine work of North Texas musicians (and a few behind-the-scenes people as well) with the Dallas Observer Music Awards. We've asked experts of all stripes to help us compile a list of the area's best talent in 40 categories, which you can see be ... More >>
In this week's Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area's most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. You don't love drums like Tex Bosley loves drums. He loves the shells, the way the woo ... More >>
Rob Zildjian is eulogized thusly on that great modern document, Wikipedia: "Robert Zildjian (14 July 1923 - 28 March 2013) was the founder of Sabian Cymbals, the second largest manufacturer of cymbals in the world." There's a lot in that one sentence, if you know where to look. The largest manufac ... More >>
From 35 Denton to SXSW, Snoop to Spillover, traversing Texas in search sonic bliss.
Work is miles away; the real world is even further. It is festival season. We begin at Hailey's in Denton. Terminator 2 kicks off the official portion of 35 Denton with a flexing of enormous sound. My everything shakes involuntarily, and it is perfect. --Kiernan Maletsky Before there was a note fro ... More >>
Saturday, November 17, at Dan's Silverleaf, Denton
Denton's historically-popular Good/Bad Art Collective, an artist-run co-operative studio and gallery that was active from 1993 to 2001, comes out of the woodwork each year to organize its Rock Lottery event, and has recently announced that its eleventh one will take place at Dan's Silverleaf on Nov. ... More >>
Around one in the afternoon on a Thursday in July, young ladies and gentlemen walk into Dan's Silverleaf dressed elegantly in black suits and formal dresses. All of the windows and doors are covered by dark blankets and sheets. Avoiding the dancers, Warren Jackson Hearne walks into the bar fresh fr ... More >>


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Who cares about Big Data
"Big Data" today clearly rules the web pages as market makers promote the topic at the drop of a hat. But with so much effort, and money, being spent promoting BD, is anyone actually doing anything in everyday businesses to exploit this loosely grouped family of technologies? Most readers of The Register acknowledge there are …
example of cross-consolidation of data domains
http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/ is a database that makes me cringe. The data is clearly manually driven, and incomplete. A larger data scope, which could include data from university rolls, and publications, would stabilise the original concept and increase the usefulness of all areas.
Is anybody looking for a Friday research project?
Who cares about Big Data?
Data's wife, I expect.
how about defining it first
what is big data? how big is big ?
I know some folks who claim be "big data" people but operate on only a few TBs worth of data.
Is big data more about say structured vs unstructured data rather than the volume of data? If you have a 5 node hadoop cluster with 50GB of data does that mean your running big data? How about how much active data vs inactive data ? You may have 600TB of data but maybe 95% of the jobs only operate on the most recent 5TB.
Perhaps big data is data that doesn't fit in a traditional old school SQL database? (there are of course mostly SQL compliant databases that can operate on massive amounts of data pretty easily).
From what I've heard the MySQL sharding system backed with FusionIO at facebook stores quite a bit of data, is that big data?
what is big data?!
Re: how about defining it first
Big Data is what people who lack the intellect to understand what a schema is (never mind deduce and implement one reflecting reality) "do" because they are not smart enough to know how to do anything better.
Re: how about defining it first
It's not purely about the volume of data, but the time in which that data has to be processed and useful information extracted.
Re: how about defining it first
Well, it means way more data than you ever thought you needed before.
But really 'Big Data' to me means an attitude that a company has : grab everything you can possibly know/find out about the environment in which you operate, and then employ expensive consultants to trawl through it to give you the nuggets of wisdom on which your business's future will depend.
As opposed to employing people with a bit of intelligence and experience in your field, and having a strategic vision.
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Google Chrome will block out-of-date plug-ins
Google will soon prevent insecure versions of plug-ins from running on top of its Chrome browser to make sure they don't contain security bugs that can be exploited by malicious websites. In a blog post, members of Google's security team said the feature, to be delivered "medium-term," will prevent Chrome from running "certain …
Sorry ?
What is this nonsense ? It is not because a plugin has a new version that my "old" version has all of a sudden become a liability.
On the other hand, the new version may well have a change in functionality that does not suit my needs immediately, and I might need some time to adapt to the new functionality.
Apparently, that does not matter for Google. It will block the plugin I have and basically force me to install the new one before I'm ready.
Google is decidedly looking more and more like a net-nanny. Now Google is deciding what apps you can and should have on your Android, and will helpfully force you to accept or do without whatever Google decides you need or don't need. Shortly, Google will force plugin versions on Chrome users whether they like it or not. And, in a few years, it'll be Google whitelisting web sites and Chrome users won't be able to visit any other.
Well I have only one thing to say to all this : you know what happens to a nanny, Google ?
Kids outgrow them, and go on to do stuff their way.
And agin
"Chrome was the only browser at the recent Pwn2Own hacker contest that wasn't exploited. ®"
Opera wasn't exploited either. Infact Opera is what alot of the hackers actually use because if it's security track record.
Old plug-ins with security problems or bugs which produce crashes are also blocked on firefox.
..what happens if the updated version contains bugs / flaws that mean it cannot run correctly . This means you have no roll back option. Or do the Overlords deem it better to have no plug at all, rather than one that *MAY* be at risk (more often down to the site you vist, not the browser you use).
If there is no overirde, then an utter fail
and at what point...
will google be able to install and remove plug-ins to your browser...
and what about...
the situation where a plugin becomes 'old' (what is that 3 weeks?)
and there is no replacement?
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Couples compete for World's Longest Kiss title
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Updated On: Feb 14 2013 08:34:54 AM MST
Couples in Thailand have been attempting to break the World's Longest Kiss Guinness World Record for nearly two days.
The current record is a single kiss that lasted 50 hours, 25 minutes, and one second, according to Guinness World Records.
A pair in their 70s who've been married for 50 years, Pannajet and Suwanna Yomjinda, are the oldest couple attending the annual Ripley's Believe It Or Not! contest in Pattaya, Thailand, ITN News reported.
"I'm not sure if we'll win because of our age," Suwanna Yomjinda said to ITN News, "but if we were younger, we would surely win."
The event's guidelines allow couples to drink water out of a straw as long as their lips remain sealed. Referees accompany them to a special bathroom throughout the competition.
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Members of both Cheer Squads perform at football games, women's home volleyball games, and men's and women's home basketball games. In addition, cheerleaders travel to all post season football bowl games, Big 12 tournament basketball games, and NCAA/NIT basketball tournament games. The squad also represents Texas Tech at many university and community events throughout the year.
The Texas Tech Co-Ed Cheerleaders are one the powerhouses of collegiate cheer squads. After competing in the 2014 National Collegiate Cheer & Dance Championship, the Texas Tech Cheerleaders finished in 3rd Place in Division 1A Large-Coed with a Final Score of 95.58! For more information on the national competition, click here.
In the past, the Tech Cheerleaders have placed at the national competition level including a 2nd place in 2011, 3rd Place, 4th place, 5th place, and winning the All-Girl division in 2000.
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MET Costume Institute Benefit Gala honors Paul Poiret
Let the gowns begin! Yesterday, the Costume Institutes's annual benefit gala took place at the MET in New York. The crème de la crème of Hollywood's celebrities along with the fashion elite took to the red carpet to honor Paul Poiret, France's 'King of Fashion'. Last year the theme was AngloMania where the stars turned to kilts and tartan, however this year's Poiret tribute meant a nod to retro Hollywood glamour.
Cameron Diaz (above, left) floored us all in this stunning Dior by John Galliano gown similar to the one recently worn by Drew Barrymore. We haven't seen Diaz looking this good in a while and those turquoise Fred Leighton jewels just make her eyes pop. Likewise, Jennifer Garner's strapless red Valentino dress had us drooling at the mouth. There's nothing like a piece of Valentino to get the fashion pulses racing.
So who was Paul Poiret? Well keep on reading and you will soon found out. That, plus more red carpet pics after the jump...
Yesterday the Costume Institute paid tribute to legendary designer Paul Poiret (1879-1944), an artist and courtier renowned for freeing women from the corset by launching the modern brassiere. Poiret also helped to create the suspender belt, flesh-coloured stockings as well as present the first sheath and sack dresses. His oriental Art Deco gowns also helped to embed him in fashion history. His story is a remarkable one especially since he did not know how to sew and therefore helped to shape the world of design by introducing drapery as oppose to tailoring.
Sandra Bullock (above, left) hit the red carpet yesterday in Alberta Ferretti while Renee Zellweger (above, right) showed off her new cropped 'do in a gorgeous floor-length gown by Carolina Herrera.
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Out of the 10 new emails this morning, one has got me a bit concerned.
Apparently, Becky McCartney "would like to add [me] to [her] professional network on LinkedIn"
Firstly... Who the [censored] are you? and HOW THE BEJEZUS DID YOU GET MY WORK EMAIL?!
Apparently she works for Ideonic and Skull Monkey, 2 companies I've never heard of until today.
Ideonic is a game company [I think... their site looks good but has NO information] so I wouldn't have approched them for anything. Skull Monkey appears to be her freelance business... And a quick search of the BETT site for them has 0 results, meaning there's very little chance I got drive-by scanned. [Though, Edugeek isn't on there either...]
But, even if they were at BETT... Why would you randomly send LinkedIn invites to someone you don't know?
Am I right in being wary of this or am I just overthinking it?