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Posted By amateur100.net on January 24, 2012

Medina, MN (PRWEB) January 24, 2012

Rockler Woodworking and Hardware has introduced ISemble Shelf Blocks to help do-it-yourselfers make custom furniture with ease. Furniture can be built in minutes using simple household tools. Using included screws, the ISemble Shelf Blocks form sturdy columns between shelves or countertops made of wood or other material. They are made of steel and feature a black powder coat finish and classic cross design to fit almost any decor.

“There is no easier or quicker way to build furniture,” said Steve Krohmer, Vice President of product development. “If you have the building material you want to use and a drill to drive the screws, the ISemble Shelf Blocks and included screws make the rest of the process easy. People can now build their own furniture without complicated wood joinery skills or a shop full of expensive tools.”

ISemble Shelf Blocks make construction of custom furniture a viable option for anyone from college students to grandparents. The simple shape lends itself for use in a variety of furniture forms, from end tables and entertainment centers to bookshelves and desks. The steel construction and bracketed shape of the ISemble Shelf Blocks will support shelving spans of up to 36″ of standard 3/4″ lumber. Reasonable cost and quick assembly make this an attractive new option for anyone who wants to make furniture that fits their space and personal style.

The ISemble Shelf Blocks (47512) come in pairs and retail for $ 19.99. They are available at Rockler Woodworking and Hardware stores nationwide, Rockler independent resellers, Rockler.com, or in the Rockler catalog. For store locations or a free catalog, please visit http://www.rockler.com or call 1-877-ROCKLER.

Note: Hi-resolution images and text to go along with this news release are available for download at http://www.rockler.com/news

About Rockler Woodworking and Hardware

Celebrating its 58th year as a family-run business, Rockler Woodworking and Hardware is the nations premier supplier of specialty hardware, tools, lumber and other high quality woodworking products. Rockler has 29 retail locations in AZ, CA, CO, GA, IL, IN, MA, MI, MN, MO, NH, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, WA, and WI plus 60 independent reseller locations nationwide, as well as extensive catalog and internet operations.

To learn more about Rockler, please visit http://www.rockler.com or call 1-877-ROCKLER.

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Posted By amateur100.net on January 14, 2012

Truro Massachussetts (PRWEB) January 14, 2012

Bobzio.com is a free platform for vacation rental owners, home swappers and local services to market their personal homes and travel oriented business. The Top Vacation Rental Value in Truro, Massachusetts is The Barnhart Holiday Home and Guest House.

Bobzio.com provides a free option where vacation rental owners and travelers can find each other. There is zero cost for displaying a property listing. Combined with holiday rentals anybody wishing to do home swaps or home exchanges is able to connect with other interested parties. The home exchange system uses the same system as the vacation rental platform. An owner can offer a vacation home as both a home exchange and as a vacation rental. This is accomplished by checking the appropriate boxes when constructing a listing. A reservation calendar is available to all users and helps organize records and informs potential users what periods are available to rent or exchange. A phone number can be displayed by the listing owner to facilitate connections with interested parties. There is an email contact option provided at the bottom of each expanded listing.

What sets the Bobzio.com service apart from others besides being absolutely free is the ability to search for exchanges and rentals based on Area Attractions. For example if snow skiing is of interest, a search can be performed and destinations with snow skiing will be displayed. This is particularly convenient when organizing a home exchange.

Bobzio.com has chosen The Barnhart Holiday Home and Guest House as giving an exceptional value to vacationer and is named Bobzios Best Value Vacation Rental in Truro, Massachusetts. Selection is not based only on cost but rather on the amenities, available activity bundles and level of fun factor. Suggestions for Bobzios Best Value Vacation Rental can be made by going to http://www.bobzio.com.

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Posted By amateur100.net on December 25, 2011

Chino Hills, CA (PRWEB) December 24, 2011

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Posted By amateur100.net on December 5, 2011

Marlborough, MA (PRWEB) December 05, 2011

Secure Digital Delivery platform extends to iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android; Content Raven Provides an Apple Approved App

Content Raven, a leading provider of secure content distribution services, today announces the release of four applications to enable large enterprises to share confidential, sensitive intellectual property with customers, partners, prospects and employees via iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android smart phones. The applications extend Content Ravens premier digital content security to the mobile devices that empower the anytime-anywhere workforce, ensuring content remains secure, no matter where or how it is accessed.

As companies deal with the realities of 24×7 business operations and a distributed, remote and traveling workforce, it is a basic fact that important documents and critical data will be accessed via mobile devices. This puts data in peril and the company at risk for both malicious and accidental data loss resulting in steep regulatory fines, loss of revenue and customer trust.

Content Raven enables organizations to confidently and securely share data across any of the major mobile applications, without fear of data loss. Employees, partners and customers can continue to interact, view and collaborate on critical content including video, PDFs, and Microsoft Office documents securely from their mobile devices.

As more and more content is accessed outside of a companys secure network or main office, the risk of data loss increases substantially, said Jon Oltsik, principal analyst at ESG. Content Ravens solution can help organizations improve data security by providing a platform for secure sharing and tracking of content via any mobile device.

The mobile applications are a natural extension of Content Ravens secure digital delivery platform. Content Raven enables companies to reduce the risk of data exposures and eliminate revenue loss associated with unauthorized access to sensitive and valuable corporate information The service, which can be deployed in the Cloud or behind a clients firewall ensures employees, partners, customers and prospects can securely interact with and share critical documents, video and other content anywhere, anytime, on desktops, laptops, mobile devices and other applications.

“This is a significant step forward in helping enterprises secure sensitive data to mobile devices, a key concern for CIOs and CSOs,” said Vasu Ram, President and CTO of Content Raven. The Content Raven mobile apps can secure, send, and then track all digital information to the end users.”

Learn more about Content Ravens solutions.

About Content Raven

Content Raven provides the premier solutions for secure content delivery, enabling companies to reduce the risk of data exposures and eliminate revenue loss associated with unauthorized access to sensitive corporate information. The Cloud-based service ensures employees, partners, customers and prospects can securely interact with and share critical documents, including video and other content anywhere, anytime, via desktops, laptops, mobile devices and other applications. Content Ravens solution is in use at many industry-leading organizations, including EMC, Gryphon Networks, and Waters. Content Raven is headquartered in Marlborough MA, with global offices. Contact Content Raven at 508-786-0500 and learn more at http://www.contentraven.com .

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Posted By amateur100.net on December 5, 2011

(PRWEB) December 05, 2011

Cherry Hill, New Jersey: AmeriQuest Transportation Services, a leading provider of fleet management services, has appointed Rich Silva as Director of Sales for the Northeast region of the U.S. and Rick Rogers as Director of Sales for the Great Lakes territory. Both men report to Kevin OBrien, AmeriQuests recently appointed National Sales Director. He antecedently held the position of Director of Sales.

We congratulate Kevin OBrien on his promotion to National Sales Director and welcome Rich and Rick to AmeriQuest. By retaining the best talent in the business, we can break enhance our expanding portfolio of fleet services, says Bill McCouch, AmeriQuest Vice President of Business Development. The breadth of their industry experience will help us serve our customers well, as AmeriQuest continues to match an ambitious economic picture with the most competitive fleet solutions available.

Silva and Rogers are responsible for managing the needs of private fleet and truckload carrier customers and educating them about the benefits of AmeriQuests supply management programs and its full menu of fleet servicing including financing, remarketing, fleet planning, logistics consulting, full service leasing, and accounts payable automation. Both men are meeting with current and new customers to assist them improve their operational efficiency.

Rich Silva comes to AmeriQuest from Ryder Transportation Services, where he served for 20 years, most recently as Field Inventory Planning Manager for the East Coast and Canada. He began his career in transportation with Northeast International Trucks, involved in the management of the parts department.

Silvas territory covers 14 states: Virginia; West Virginia; Maryland; Delaware; Washington, DC; Pennsylvania; New Jersey; New York; Connecticut; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Vermont; New Hampshire; and Maine. He attended Northeastern University and is a resident of Wilmington, MA.

Rick Rogers, a lifelong transportation sales professional, comes to AmeriQuest from All American Specialty Vehicles, manufacturer of ADA-accessible buses. He also worked for many years in the boating industry with Eldean Shipyard and Yacht Sales, representing the industrys leading brands. His career includes a post with Johnson Controls, Inc. as a supplier to the automotive industry.

Rogers territory includes Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. He is a graduate of Davenport University, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Studies. A certified Project Management Professional, he currently resides in Holland, MI.

AmeriQuest Transportation Services
AmeriQuest Transportation Services provides comprehensive lifecycle services designed to help companies that own, operate, or outsource trucking and logistics operations save money, increase productivity, and maximize the value of transportation assets. For more information, call 800-608-0809 or visit ameriquestcorp.com.

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Posted By amateur100.net on December 5, 2011

Hoboken, NJ (PRWEB) December 05, 2011

Everyone is talking about the economy, but feels helpless to do anything about it. From executives to street vendors, no one feels secure in their future. There is no shortage of talk. There is a shortage of answers. Well, here they are. Econovation challenges business leaders and 99%ers alike, to think differently about the U.S. economy and respond with big, sustainable innovations. Written by Fortune 100 innovator and futurist Steve Faktor, Econovation: The Red, White, and Blue Pill For Arousing Innovation (John Wiley & Sons; $ 34.95, December 2011), is not for the weak of heart. As Steve explains, believe of Econovation as a trends book on steroids. Its bursting with hardheaded, thought-arousing ideas no executive, entrepreneur, or Fed chairman can spend to lose.

Econovation uncovers opportunities in unexpected places in a future where a massive shift from labor to capital is quickly making most jobs unnecessary. In this book you’ll learn how to:

Capitalize on a market that will go from making nothing to making everything . . . for China
Use psychological pricing and some crafty tricks from Google to reduce reliance on tapped-out consumers
Sell to consumers whose new identities will be based on what they create, not what they buy, click or super-size
Seduce a desperate government to finance your business, then feed you pancakes in the morning
Motivate tomorrow’s employees with social currency instead of the green, depreciating kind
Upgrade your business and your kids with a little help from Mormons and kindergartners with hacksaws

Econovation is a fresh perspective on a future we’ve taken for granted. It empowers readers to think big, dream big, and conquer economic conditions that will paralyze others. With hefty doses of data, humor, and actionable ideas, Econovation offers insight and amusement in one convenient placea rare treat for a business book.

About The Author:
Steve Faktor (New York NY) is the former Vice President of Growth and Innovation and Head of the Chairman’s Innovation Fund at American Express. There, he developed and incubated numerous growth ventures including Zync, Loyalty Edge, and Private Sales, a joint venture with Vente Priv?e. Steve is the flop of Blue Beacon Partners, LLC, which helps start-up and corporations introduce new products and services, think big, and build a sustainable growth pipeline. In his career, Steve has created several $ 100-million-plus businesses, generated billions in sales volume, and deployed three enterprise-level innovation programs. Previously, Steve was a senior innovation and strategy executive at Citi and MasterCard. As a management consultant at Arthur Andersen, Steve led strategy, marketing, and technology projects for clients like WPP (Ogilvy), Samsung, JVC, Bombardier, Boise Cascade, Omnicom Group, and PSEG. As a futurist, innovator, and digital payments expert, Steve is a popular global keynote speaker on future growth opportunities. Steve also leads innovation workshops, ideation, and training sessions based on his proprietary 4C’s of InnovationTM methodology. An author with a satirical touch, his latest musings on trends in business can be read at http://www.ideafaktory.com

Econovation
The Red, White and Blue Pill for Arousing Innovation
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Publication date: December 5, 2011
$ 34.95; Hardcover; 224 pages; ISBN: 978-1-118-05400-

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Posted By amateur100.net on December 5, 2011

(PRWEB) December 05, 2011

The Riverside Company has already completed an add-on to its recently acquired portfolio company Avatar International (Avatar), purchasing HR Solutions International, Inc. of Chicago. Avatar assists its healthcare customers in improving the patient experience, while HR Solutions is a management consulting firm narrowing in employee and physician engagement. Both companies use surveys as a mechanism to measure their customers performance in their several areas of expertise.

HR Solutions serves a wide range of industries, but derives about half its revenue from healthcare customers and has been exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association for employee engagement, exit, and physician engagement surveys. HR Solutions also operates in many other industries, including hospitality, manufacturing, retail, communication and financial services, among others all of which provide a diverse knowledge base of best practices and inter-industry benchmarking. HR Solutions designs surveys and administers them primarily through email or other netted-based delivery. Customers access the data through an online reporting tool that supplied detailed and customizable results as well as actionable recommendations.

Avatar provides patient experience solutions to its customers, including customized patient satisfaction surveys, supplemented by actionable data reports, benchmarking, and best drilled guidance concentrating on improving the patient experience and health outcomes. The work of companies like Avatar and HR Solutions is increasingly significant in competitive marketplaces. The acquisition of HR Solutions greatly expands Avatars capabilities while providing an office in Chicago, which is close to many current Avatar customers and offers a solid foothold in the Midwest.

This allow Avatar to build its employee engagement service offering, a valuable complement to Avatars existing patient experience business, said Riverside Principal Sarah Roth. Were very excited because this acquisition will help Avatar develop solutions for customers that reflect its fundamental belief that engaged employees are a necessary component of delivering great patient care. Were developing that capability with an excellent company in HR Solutions. Their customers, AHA endorsement, database, tools, and talent all make Avatar a strong and more effective company.

Avatar plans to continue developing its employee survey business. One particularly exciting opportunity involves delivering to customers a better understanding of the relationship between employee engagement and patient satisfaction. Avatar believe this data tin help its customers improve the quality of healthcare delivery.

Were delighted to be capable to close such an effective add-on acquisition just a couple of months after acquiring the platform, aforementioned Roth. This is an outstanding strategic and cultural fit for Avatar.

The HR Solutions add-on is Riversides 25th acquisition of 2011.

Working with Roth on the transaction for Riverside were, Karen Pajarillo, Partner; Ben Davis, Senior Associate; and Drew Flanigan, Associate. Regional Director, Origination Jeremy Holland sourced the deal for Riverside.

Jones Day and KPMG advised Riverside on the deal, while Golub Capital provided fund.

The Riverside Company (http://www.riversidecompany.com or http://www.riversideeurope.com)
The Riverside Company is a global private equity firm focused on acquiring growing enterprises valued at up to $ 200 million (200 million in Europe). The firm partners with strong management teams and enhances its investments through acquisitions and organic growth. Since its founding in 1988, Riverside has invested in more than 250 transactions with a total enterprise value of more than $ 5.8 billion/4.7 billion. The firms portfolio in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region includes more than 75 companies with roughly 13,000 employees. Riverside completes acquisitions smoothly thanks to $ 3.2 billion/2.4 billion in assets under management, more than 200 professionals in 20 offices, and longstanding relationships with partner lenders.

Contact:
Graham Hearns
Director of Marketing and Communications
The Riverside Company
216-535-2221
ghearns(at)riversidecompany(constellated)com

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