Chinese food is popular in the United States, with General Tso's Chicken being the most popular dish, followed by Shrimp Fried Rice and Lo-Mien. Other common Chinese dishes enjoyed in America include Sweet and Sour Chicken and Broccoli Beef.
This presentation discusses integrated marketing and social media. It outlines RipMedia's recent developments and certifications. The presentation contrasts old and new marketing models, noting that the new model uses open communication, builds communities, and is measurable. It discusses how social media can build brands, decrease costs, and provide insights. The presentation provides tips on starting with social media, including gaming, search engines, blogs, communities and measuring results. It emphasizes using good content to start conversations rather than directly selling.
Daniel Gallant, Nuyorican Poets Cafe at #RLTM NY 11Edelman
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a multi-arts venue founded in 1973 in New York City's East Village. It has grown from a small volunteer-led venue known for poetry events to a thriving arts center with citywide partnerships. The Cafe's online presence on Facebook, Twitter, and its website has grown proportionally, driving increases in ticket sales, traffic, events, and revenues while cutting advertising costs. This growth in social media presence has led to promotional opportunities, partnerships, and media features for the Cafe. The Cafe utilizes social media data and customer feedback to create new programs, target audiences more effectively, and promote existing programs.
This document contains information about Galileo Galilei, including that he was born in 1564 in Pisa, Italy. It describes some of his inventions such as the pendulum, thermometer, microscope and telescope. It also contains vocabulary words and sentences using those words, relating to astronomy and Galileo's work, such as constellation, celestial, apparatus, observation, and extraordinary. The document concludes with transitional slides for building a presentation.
Chinese food is popular in the United States, with General Tso's Chicken being the most popular dish, followed by Shrimp Fried Rice and Lo-Mien. Other common Chinese dishes enjoyed in America include Sweet and Sour Chicken and Broccoli Beef.
This presentation discusses integrated marketing and social media. It outlines RipMedia's recent developments and certifications. The presentation contrasts old and new marketing models, noting that the new model uses open communication, builds communities, and is measurable. It discusses how social media can build brands, decrease costs, and provide insights. The presentation provides tips on starting with social media, including gaming, search engines, blogs, communities and measuring results. It emphasizes using good content to start conversations rather than directly selling.
Daniel Gallant, Nuyorican Poets Cafe at #RLTM NY 11Edelman
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a multi-arts venue founded in 1973 in New York City's East Village. It has grown from a small volunteer-led venue known for poetry events to a thriving arts center with citywide partnerships. The Cafe's online presence on Facebook, Twitter, and its website has grown proportionally, driving increases in ticket sales, traffic, events, and revenues while cutting advertising costs. This growth in social media presence has led to promotional opportunities, partnerships, and media features for the Cafe. The Cafe utilizes social media data and customer feedback to create new programs, target audiences more effectively, and promote existing programs.
This document contains information about Galileo Galilei, including that he was born in 1564 in Pisa, Italy. It describes some of his inventions such as the pendulum, thermometer, microscope and telescope. It also contains vocabulary words and sentences using those words, relating to astronomy and Galileo's work, such as constellation, celestial, apparatus, observation, and extraordinary. The document concludes with transitional slides for building a presentation.
This document shares photos taken from space of the Earth at nighttime. It includes photos of Europe and Africa with city lights visible in Paris, Barcelona, and other cities. Photos also show nightfall occurring in Brazil, the USA, and other parts of the world. The photos provide a view of the Earth from space and how the transition from day to night looks from our planet in the middle of the universe.
What is enterprise search?
Why is good enterprise search important?
What’s new in 2010?
Configuring Search
Search Service Application
Site collection
Search site
What about FAST Search?
Elephants are the largest land animals and can weigh up to 27,000 pounds. They live in forests, grasslands, and semi-deserts in Africa and Asia, where they forage for 16 hours a day. Elephants are endangered due to being hunted for their ivory tusks, and their populations have declined from over 100,000 to between 35,000 and 50,000 today.
The document discusses the future of local government being more social and networked. It highlights opportunities for new technology to catalyze change and better sharing of learning. There is growing interest and support for more social and online approaches to local governance, as seen through initiatives like Local by Social conferences and roadshows that bring together hundreds of councils. The crisis has created an opening to rethink models of service delivery and how to engage groups traditionally seen as "hard to reach."
SocialMediaMeeting – это конференция, во время которой стартаперы и начинающие предприниматели смогут получить дополнительные знания из разных областей работы с социальными медиа (социальные сети, блогосфера, фото- и видеохостинги и др.), а также посмотреть реальные примеры проведения успешных кампаний в этой сфере.
This document provides tips for finding sources using library databases. It begins by stating the objective is to learn how to find sources for a paper. It then discusses searching library databases, which contain journal, newspaper, and magazine articles not available through web searches. It suggests several databases and encourages spending time searching and exploring how the databases work. The rest of the document provides eight tips for effective database searching, such as constructing search strategies using essential concepts, using Boolean operators like AND and OR, building in synonyms, and seeking help from librarians if needed.
The document discusses cloud computing and its applications for libraries. It begins by explaining what cloud computing is and some of its key benefits like flexibility, cost effectiveness, and accessibility from any device. It then outlines different types of cloud models including private, public, hybrid, and community clouds. The document notes advantages of cloud computing for consumers, small businesses, and large companies. Potential concerns around reliability, security, privacy, and unpredictable costs are also presented. Finally, it discusses how cloud computing represents a more efficient model than local servers for libraries and provides some examples of cloud services that could be used.
University of California Center for Health Leadership Mobile workshopmikekirkwood
Workshop building baseline mobile health landscape, scenario description, and development workshop given by Mike Kirkwood in Oakland California on 11/17/2010.
2007 04-11 cmaac member application 2001 version.eng (1)CMAAC
This document is a membership application form for the Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Association of Canada (CMAAC). It requests personal information such as name, date of birth, address, education history, clinical experience, licenses, and answers to questions regarding past disciplinary or criminal issues. The applicant declares their agreement to abide by the CMAAC constitution and return their membership certificate if they cease being a member.
AWS users group presentation optimizing your aws account with Cloudmgr & Clou...Craig Deveson
The document discusses how CloudMGR helps optimize AWS cloud usage and costs. It outlines CloudMGR's process of using analysis tools to provide recommendations to customers, implementing those recommendations, and achieving cost savings of up to 83%. Specific strategies discussed include moving to reserved instances, rightsizing instances, automating tasks, and implementing best practices like cloud sweeping. The presentation also provides an overview of CloudMGR and its partner Cloudcheckr and their expertise in cloud management and optimization.
The cornerstone of inbound marketing is remarkable content. This session will explain exactly which characteristics determine whether or not content is truly remarkable.
Human beings have a unique ability to reason and be self-aware, unlike computers which simply manipulate information. Philosophy involves abstract thinking about existence and our place in the world. It allows us to determine if questions are meaningful and work through problems logically to obtain valid conclusions. The method of philosophy can be applied to any field of human inquiry to arrive at well-reasoned conclusions.
This document shares photos taken from space of the Earth at nighttime. It includes photos of Europe and Africa with city lights visible in Paris, Barcelona, and other cities. Photos also show nightfall occurring in Brazil, the USA, and other parts of the world. The photos provide a view of the Earth from space and how the transition from day to night looks from our planet in the middle of the universe.
What is enterprise search?
Why is good enterprise search important?
What’s new in 2010?
Configuring Search
Search Service Application
Site collection
Search site
What about FAST Search?
Elephants are the largest land animals and can weigh up to 27,000 pounds. They live in forests, grasslands, and semi-deserts in Africa and Asia, where they forage for 16 hours a day. Elephants are endangered due to being hunted for their ivory tusks, and their populations have declined from over 100,000 to between 35,000 and 50,000 today.
The document discusses the future of local government being more social and networked. It highlights opportunities for new technology to catalyze change and better sharing of learning. There is growing interest and support for more social and online approaches to local governance, as seen through initiatives like Local by Social conferences and roadshows that bring together hundreds of councils. The crisis has created an opening to rethink models of service delivery and how to engage groups traditionally seen as "hard to reach."
SocialMediaMeeting – это конференция, во время которой стартаперы и начинающие предприниматели смогут получить дополнительные знания из разных областей работы с социальными медиа (социальные сети, блогосфера, фото- и видеохостинги и др.), а также посмотреть реальные примеры проведения успешных кампаний в этой сфере.
This document provides tips for finding sources using library databases. It begins by stating the objective is to learn how to find sources for a paper. It then discusses searching library databases, which contain journal, newspaper, and magazine articles not available through web searches. It suggests several databases and encourages spending time searching and exploring how the databases work. The rest of the document provides eight tips for effective database searching, such as constructing search strategies using essential concepts, using Boolean operators like AND and OR, building in synonyms, and seeking help from librarians if needed.
The document discusses cloud computing and its applications for libraries. It begins by explaining what cloud computing is and some of its key benefits like flexibility, cost effectiveness, and accessibility from any device. It then outlines different types of cloud models including private, public, hybrid, and community clouds. The document notes advantages of cloud computing for consumers, small businesses, and large companies. Potential concerns around reliability, security, privacy, and unpredictable costs are also presented. Finally, it discusses how cloud computing represents a more efficient model than local servers for libraries and provides some examples of cloud services that could be used.
University of California Center for Health Leadership Mobile workshopmikekirkwood
Workshop building baseline mobile health landscape, scenario description, and development workshop given by Mike Kirkwood in Oakland California on 11/17/2010.
2007 04-11 cmaac member application 2001 version.eng (1)CMAAC
This document is a membership application form for the Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Association of Canada (CMAAC). It requests personal information such as name, date of birth, address, education history, clinical experience, licenses, and answers to questions regarding past disciplinary or criminal issues. The applicant declares their agreement to abide by the CMAAC constitution and return their membership certificate if they cease being a member.
AWS users group presentation optimizing your aws account with Cloudmgr & Clou...Craig Deveson
The document discusses how CloudMGR helps optimize AWS cloud usage and costs. It outlines CloudMGR's process of using analysis tools to provide recommendations to customers, implementing those recommendations, and achieving cost savings of up to 83%. Specific strategies discussed include moving to reserved instances, rightsizing instances, automating tasks, and implementing best practices like cloud sweeping. The presentation also provides an overview of CloudMGR and its partner Cloudcheckr and their expertise in cloud management and optimization.
The cornerstone of inbound marketing is remarkable content. This session will explain exactly which characteristics determine whether or not content is truly remarkable.
Human beings have a unique ability to reason and be self-aware, unlike computers which simply manipulate information. Philosophy involves abstract thinking about existence and our place in the world. It allows us to determine if questions are meaningful and work through problems logically to obtain valid conclusions. The method of philosophy can be applied to any field of human inquiry to arrive at well-reasoned conclusions.
Guide to Corporate Governance for Subvented Organisations - Executive Summaryeuweben01
The document provides guidance on corporate governance best practices for organizations that receive public funding in Hong Kong. It outlines key principles like having a clear purpose, transparent decision making, and engaging stakeholders. The document discusses establishing an effective board, including composition, roles, and committees. It also covers strategies for planning, budgeting, performance management, transparency, and managing risks. The goal is to help sustain public trust by setting out governance principles and practices for subvented organizations to follow.
Guide to Corporate Governance for Subvented Organisations - Executive Summaryeuweben01
The document provides guidance on corporate governance best practices for organizations that receive public funding in Hong Kong. It outlines key principles like having a clear purpose, transparent decision making, and engaging stakeholders. The document discusses establishing an effective board, including composition, roles, and committees. It also covers strategies for planning, budgeting, performance management, transparency, and managing risks. The goal is to help sustain public trust by setting out governance principles and practices for subvented organizations to follow.
Guide to Corporate Governance for Subvented Organisationseuweben01
This introduction discusses the purpose and scope of the corporate governance guide for subvented organizations. It aims to help board members and executives understand their duties and assess whether their organization's governance practices meet principles and best practices. There is a diversity of over 1,000 subvented organizations in Hong Kong, including schools, welfare NGOs, hospitals, sports associations, and district groups. The goal is to maintain public trust in organizations that receive public funding.
1) Populations in many developed countries are aging rapidly as people live longer and birth rates decline. This will double the proportion of those over 65 compared to the working age population by 2050 in OECD countries.
2) An aging workforce presents challenges for managing public services, as many "baby boomers" reach retirement age. However, older workers can remain productive if supported to do so.
3) Governments must plan for an aging population to ensure risks are minimized and opportunities maximized, such as keeping older workers employed. This requires transforming how public services are delivered to meet changing demographic demands.
The document discusses making informed decisions through effective knowledge and information management. It defines key concepts like information, knowledge, knowledge management, and information overload. Proper information management is important for good decision-making and delivering public services. The document recommends implementing knowledge management tools and techniques to help organizations turn data and information into useful knowledge. This includes using records management, web 2.0 technologies, and addressing cultural and leadership factors to support informed decision making.
The document provides guidelines for government departments on outsourcing services to prevent corruption. It outlines key principles and control elements for an accountable outsourcing process, including thorough planning, clear policies and procedures, transparency, and fair contracting. It describes controls for each stage of outsourcing from pre-qualification of service providers to contract administration and performance monitoring. Departments are advised to establish policies, segregate duties, manage conflicts of interest, and incorporate checks such as competitive bidding, performance appraisals, and audits to ensure integrity and value for money.
This document provides a template for a business case report with sections on strategic context, requirements analysis, options selection, implementation planning, and post-implementation review. The template suggests content and tables to include in each section to justify the need for the project, analyze options, identify a preferred option, and plan project delivery and benefit tracking.
Serving The Community By Using The Private Sectoreuweben01
The document discusses best practices for maximizing private sector involvement in providing public services. It recommends:
1) Considering a range of approaches beyond just outsourcing, such as public-private partnerships.
2) Developing fully costed business cases that consider lifetime costs and bundling of services.
3) Encouraging creative tenders by specifying outcomes rather than inputs and allowing non-conforming bids.
4) Promoting cooperation across departments for initiatives that involve multiple functions.
The document discusses citizens' expectations of public services and how governments are responding. Citizens now expect public services to provide choice, convenience, and services that adapt to individual needs, similar to private sector standards. Governments are pursuing initiatives to improve customer service, such as joining up services across organizations and introducing more personalized approaches. New technologies are also enabling new ways for citizens to access services.
This document provides an executive summary of a report on recent public sector reforms around the world. It highlights several key themes of reform, including increasing public engagement, shifting to more customer-centric models of governance, using market instruments to improve services, strengthening delivery capabilities, and promoting cross-agency coordination. The summary outlines examples of reforms in these areas from different countries and aims to inform public managers about innovative approaches being tested internationally.
The document introduces public-private partnerships (PPPs) and outlines their key advantages:
1) PPPs bring together the public and private sectors in a long-term relationship to deliver high-quality public services, with the private sector taking on more of a service provider role and the public sector focusing on regulation and procurement.
2) The private sector can exploit its commercial skills, practices, and disciplines to deliver services earlier, at lower cost, and with better quality than traditional public sector procurement due to incentives like profit motivation and competitive pressures.
3) PPPs allow the government to harness private sector financing, innovation, and efficiencies to develop facilities and services, providing an alternative to public sector capital
This document provides an introductory guide to public private partnerships (PPPs) in Hong Kong. It defines PPPs as long-term contractual arrangements between the public and private sectors to deliver public services. The guide discusses the benefits of PPPs, including enhancing and improving public services, realizing value for money, removing inefficiencies, and managing risks. It also outlines common PPP models and structures that are suitable for Hong Kong, such as design-build-finance-operate agreements. The key benefits of PPPs are bringing private sector efficiencies to public services and delivering better quality infrastructure and services at a lower overall cost than traditional procurement methods.
The document provides guidance to government departments on policies and best practices for involving the private sector in delivering public services. It emphasizes considering private sector processes first to improve efficiency while maintaining quality. Best practices include addressing legislative constraints, ensuring probity, removing barriers to private sector involvement, and adopting international standards. Regularly reviewing operations can help determine if private sector involvement could provide benefits.
The document provides guidance on conducting Post Implementation Reviews (PIRs) of government projects in Hong Kong. It aims to help evaluate whether projects achieved their objectives and identify lessons learned to improve future project delivery. The guidance outlines a four-stage model for conducting PIRs that involves defining objectives and scope, determining the review methodology, collecting and analyzing data, and identifying lessons learned and reporting. PIRs help ensure public money is well spent, services are delivered effectively, and accountability is demonstrated.
This document provides guidance on outsourcing public services to private sector providers. It discusses the reasons why departments may outsource, such as focusing on core services and accessing skills unavailable in-house. The document emphasizes that outsourcing should achieve value for money through effective, efficient and economic use of resources. It outlines the key stages in the outsourcing process, including reviewing required services, tendering and selection, and contract management. Departments are advised to clearly identify the objectives and reasons for outsourcing to help develop service requirements and evaluation criteria. The guidance aims to help departments properly manage outsourcing contracts.
This document discusses improving performance measurement in business planning. It recommends using a logic model approach to identify relevant performance measures covering inputs, outputs, and outcomes. This helps structure how a program or policy is intended to achieve its goals. Quality performance measures should address the needs of citizens and stakeholders. Measures need to be selected that are appropriate for both management and accountability purposes. Ensuring measures capture intended outcomes, in addition to outputs, can help focus efforts on achieving desired results.
This document discusses six key work practices that can enhance employee motivation and lead to better performance when implemented together:
1. Career development and opportunities for advancement - Organizations should provide career development opportunities for all staff through consistent policies over time.
2. Training opportunities - Providing training linked to business needs generates commitment and a more efficient organization.
3. Job influence and challenge - Giving staff influence over their jobs and designing challenging jobs improves motivation and commitment.
4. Involvement and communication - Involving staff in decisions and communicating effectively makes them feel valued and improves understanding.
5. Performance management and appraisal - Focusing on performance improvement as well as reviews and linking these to development