The Fourth Session of the Sixty-third General Assembly resumed on April 5, 2011. It had opened on November 12, 2010, and adjourned to the call of the Speaker on December 9, 2010.
Wes Sheridan, Minister of Finance and Municipal Affairs, introduced his budget on April 6, 2011, which contained expenditures of just over $1.53 billion. Total operating revenue for 2011-2012 is projected at nearly $1.49 billion, with provincial own source revenues forecast at $853 million. Health continued to account for the largest share of provincial expenditure at nearly $533 million; followed by Education and Early Childhood Development at $227 million. Revenue measures announced in the budget address included an increase to taxes on tobacco products, and an increase in liquor prices.
On March 28, 2011, Michael Currie resigned as a member of the Legislative Assembly to run as the Conservative candidate for Cardigan in the 2011 Canadian federal election. Mr. Currie had been first elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1996. He served as Minister of Transportation and Public Works from 1996-2000, and Minister of Development and Technology from 2000-2007. Following the 2007 provincial general election, Mr. Currie became the Opposition Critic for Telecommunications, Economic Development and Technology; Transportation and Public Works; Energy; and Communities, Cultural Affairs and Labour.
Book of Condolences for the People of Japan
Speaker Kathleen Casey arranged for a book of condolences to be opened at Province House for people to leave messages of support for victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. "Prince Edward Island and Japan have a special relationship," said Speaker Casey, "and Islanders naturally want to express their feelings of sympathy and friendship to those affected by the disaster." The book of condolences remained at Province House until the end of April when it was forwarded to the Embassy of Japan in Ottawa.
Renovations in the Legislative Chamber
The Legislative Chamber in historic Province House was refurbished this spring, with a fresh coat of paint, keeping a traditional green colour for the walls and introducing a lighter colour for the doors, baseboards and mouldings. The wood rails which delineate the floor of the Chamber and surround the public gallery were restored using traditional faux graining techniques, as were the black marble bases of the columns. One of the most striking changes was an addition to the canopy over the Speaker's chair. The new top was installed to disguise sound reinforcing equipment which had been visible from the public gallery. The renovation and restoration of the Legislative Chamber was one of the major projects undertaken to mark the 160th anniversary of Responsible Government which is being celebrated throughout 2011 with a number of events and projects.
Robertson Lecture
The public was invited to hear well known Canadian historian, Professor Ian Ross Robertson speaking on "The Road to Responsible Government" at Province House on March 31st.
Professor Robertson, a native of Mermaid, Prince Edward Island, received his early education in the province, including three years of study at Prince of Wales College. He completed a Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts at McGill University in Montreal, where he did his thesis on 19th century Prince Edward Island history. Professor Robertson completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Toronto on aspects of the career of Sir Andrew Macphail. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, where he taught from 1972 to 2007.
The lecture by Professor Robertson was one in a series of events taking place at Province House throughout 2011 in celebration of 160 years of Responsible Government in Prince Edward Island. The lecture series will continue during the year, providing an opportunity to learn more about the historical importance and present day application of the concept of responsible government.
Digitization Project
A digitization project of the Journals of the Legislative Assembly began in March, with the goal of capturing digitally information that is now available only in books held in the University of Prince Edward Island library, the Provincial Archives, the Legislative Library and the Government Services library. Two Hansard staff worked in the Robertson Library at the University of Prince Edward Island where they were trained on the ScanRobot (a self-scanning, state-of-the-art book scanner, the only one in North America, that can digitize about 1,500 pages an hour), and on other equipment pertinent to the project. Once this project is completed, there will be a wealth of statistics, maps, procedural resources, and more available to anyone via the Internet.
Rotary Youth Parliament
The Rotary Youth Parliament took place at Province House on February 11-12, 2011. Now in its twenty-third year, the long-running project is a partnership between the Speaker's and Clerk's offices, the Department of Education, District School Boards, volunteer teacher advisors and Rotary Clubs across Prince Edward Island.
Marian Johnston
Clerk Assistant and Clerk of Committees
BANGALORE, June 22 Asia Pulse - HP Labs India has announced the public beta release of a "personalised video" application which helps users create their own 'channel' that will deliver content relevant to them, based on their preferences.
Speaking to reporters, HP Labs India Director Sudhir Dixit said the application enables a user to create a TV-like channel by choosing a topic and clubbing all the videos relevant to the topic under the same category.
Illustrating the concept, HP Labs India Senior Research Scientist Krishnan Ramanathan said a viewer could create a 'channel' of Indian vegetable cuisine and could have all relevant online videos, currently sourced from Youtube, available at the click of the button, akin to a TV.
The user could watch new videos, view already watched videos, add new channels, get similar videos, go the previous video or next video and rate the videos.
The application will over a period of time learn the user's preferences via an in-application rating mechanism and would automatically adapt to the user's preferences to show videos that are relevant.
The beta application that is currently available for free download at http://www.personalized-video.com/ could deliver a high level of content personalisation through innovative algorithms and the smart use of local computing power, said Dixit.
From the monetisation point of view, the application could help push advertisements to selected clients. It also has a 'suggestion channel' where videos are recommended based on user preferences and these could be leveraged by businesses.
Giving a break-up of the overall demand for online videos, Dixit said at present, around 48 hours of video are uploaded every minute on Youtube and it is believed that by 2013, major internet traffic will be online video. In particular, emerging markets were more likely to consume video.
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2011
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This new edition of this popular guide to optimizing Windows computer performance is updated to reflect the totally new structure of the Windows 7 operating system and a host of new problems brought on by the personal technology boom of the last several years. The work covers removing un-needed applications and data, organizing file systems, cleaning up desktops and taskbars, optimizing drives, Internet, computer and local network security, syncing peripheral devices such as phones and media players and backing up important data. The work includes clear step-by-step instructions, tips and screen shots. Ballew is a technology trainer and the author of several books on technology management.
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Byline: Adam Jude The Register-Guard
For the first time in the 115-year history of the program, Oregon rocketed to the top of the college football polls Sunday, and veteran defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti conceded that, sure, he sensed at least a touch of excitement during the Ducks' morning practice.
"Everybody's buzzing and it's cool, I'm not going to lie to you," Aliotti said. "But as far as the meaning to me, it's really nothing. ... Everybody I'm sure is happy. But it means absolutely nothing to me until sometime in December."
Like Aliotti, the rest of the Ducks seemed to offer a collective shoulder shrug after learning that they were ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press and USA Today/coaches polls.
Oregon's rise to the top spot was destined after Ohio State, ranked No. 1 last week, lost at Wisconsin on Saturday night. The polls were then released Sunday morning while the Ducks were practicing inside the Moshofsky Center.
UO coach Chip Kelly hadn't yet heard the poll results as he prepared for his post-practice interview.
"You got any information for me?" he asked a group of reporters.
He was told his team was now No. 1.
"Awesome. I'm fired up," he said with a straight face.
"What I'm really fired up about, to be honest with you, is 49 days from today, because that's the only time it counts," he added. "On Dec. 5th, if you're one or two, then it's really relevant. Today, obviously it's an honor for these guys. But 49 days from today, we'll be jumping up and down, jumping around, doing all the stuff.
"But right now, it doesn't affect anything. If you watched the last two No. 1s, they lost a week ago (Alabama) and lost again yesterday (Ohio State)."
In the Harris Interactive Poll released in the afternoon, the Ducks were also ranked No. 1.
That's significant because the Harris and the coaches poll make up two-thirds of the Bowl Championship Series standings - the average of six computer rankings makes up the final third of the formula - that will ultimately determine which two teams will play in the national championship game.
Then the BCS standings were released Sunday evening, with the Ducks matching their highest ranking ever at No. 2. While not the sparkling No. 1 ranking bestowed on them earlier in the day, a No. 2 starting point in the BCS certainly puts the 6-0 Ducks in prime position to be invited to the national title game, if they're able to win their final six games of the regular season.
With a BCS average of .8921, Oregon is behind top-ranked Oklahoma (.9215) and narrowly ahead of Boise State (.8898).
The final BCS standings will be released on Dec. 5, as Kelly correctly noted.
If the past couple weeks have been any indication, there will no doubt be plenty of movement in the top 25 before then.
"The reality is, there have been a lot of teams ranked No. 1 and they're already lost that No. 1," Aliotti said.
Only once in the 12-year history of the BCS have the two teams that started out ranked No. 1 and No. 2 remained there at the end of the season (USC and Texas in 2005).
"The fact that Oklahoma is ahead of (Oregon) right now is no reason to panic," said Jerry Palm, a BCS expert who runs the website collegebcs.com. "Where they are in the BCS is meaningless at this time. They're a solid No. 1 in the polls right now ... and that's what Oregon fans should be celebrating."
For the fans, yes, it's an achievement to embrace. For the Ducks themselves, well, shoulder shrugs.
Senior center Jordan Holmes said his main concern is Oregon's Thursday night game against UCLA (3-3) at Autzen Stadium (6 p.m., ESPN). The Ducks are a 21 1/2-point favorite.
"It's something cool that you can tell your kids and your grandkids and stuff," Holmes said about being No. 1, "but our job is to focus on the task at hand, and that's UCLA. ... If you get caught up in the hype, you end up losing and then it's more disappointing."
Kelly hasn't broached the rankings with his team, and doesn't plan to.
"But they understand," he said. "They're smart kids. They can read the Internet. ... But today, it isn't really relevant. On Dec. 5th, it's extremely relevant."
Kelly doesn't buy into the notion that being No. 1 puts a bigger "target" on the Ducks this week.
"I don't think UCLA is now going to practice harder because, 'Oh, now they're 1," he said. "We were Pac-10 champs last year and everybody we played we got their best game.
"The tough thing to do no matter who you are is to go out and consistently compete every week because it's a difficult league and it's a difficult college football landscape," Kelly added. "It's hard to win every single week."
To stay No. 1, that's exactly what the Ducks will have to do.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- In discussing financial results for the company's third fiscal quarter yesterday, Frank L. Salizzoni, CompuServe's (Nasdaq: CSRV) chairman and acting CEO, stressed Europe's strategic importance for the firm.
"CompuServe is the European market-leader among global online service and Internet companies today," he said. "Our strategy calls for continuing this impressive growth."
Denny Matteucci, president of CompuServe's Interactive Services division, said CompuServe has nearly doubled its membership in Europe during the past 12 months. "With approximately 900,000 subscribers, we now have a two-fold lead over the next-largest global competitor in Europe."
Founded in 1969, CompuServe Incorporated provides the world's most comprehensive online/Internet access through its two brands, CSi and SPRYNET. Through CompuServe, its Japanese licensee NIFTY-Serve and its affiliates around the world, more than 5 million home and business users in more than 185 countries are connected online and to the Internet. CompuServe Network Services manages complex global data communication environments for more than 1,100 corporate customers. With world headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, the CompuServe organization includes offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
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BEIJING, Aug 8 Asia Pulse - China's Ministry of Information Industry recently issued a circular on strengthening administration of foreign capital in value-added telecommunications business.
The circular says that overseas telecom businesses must apply for permits in investing in China's value-added telecom and internet business, and are not allowed to enter the market by a roundabout way to evade the administration procedures.
According to a report on the Guangming Daily, the circular says that domestic telecom companies are not allowed to shift their telecom business licenses to foreign investors in forms of covert lending and renting, transfer, and reselling for profits, nor are they allowed to provide resources, grounds and facilities for foreign investors to illegally conduct telecom business in China.
It is reported that in order to have early participation of China's market and share the high profits of the telecom market, some foreign capital companies have taken large service providers in China as a springboard to enter China market by a devious way.
In fact the entry of foreign companies into China's wireless value-added market is not a new thing. In April of this year, a British cell-phone ring and game producer completed purchase of a Beijing-based service provider at a price of US$81.50 million. And a Spanish wireless value-added service provider has acquired two Chinese service providers, Sensky and Entel, at a price of US$140 million and US$90 million, respectively.
An industry expert pointed out that the circular is aimed at standardizing not banning foreign companies in operating telecom value-added business. China needs a more transparent telecom and internet market.
If overseas companies entering the market in a roundabout way to avoid the administration procedures, that would be hard for the government to conduct supervision and administration over the qualification of the companies.
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US researchers have devised low vapour pressure precursors for the manufacture of protective coatings on metallic and ceramic substrates.
The precursors are phosphate esters or aryl phosphate esters in solution, with additives that include iron, chromium, and/or other transition metals. Magnesium compounds can also be added to facilitate growth of films on substrates that do not contain magnesium, the researchers say.
According to the researchers--from US National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) John H. Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, and Cleveland State University--the precursors were formulated by mixing the ingredients into a high vapour pressure solvent, to form a homogeneous solution.
Next, the solvent is extracted by evaporation--aided, if necessary, by a vacuum aspirator, the researchers say. The solvent is judged to be fully extracted when the viscosity of the remaining solution closely resembles that of the phosphate ester or aryl phosphate ester.
In addition, satisfactory removal of the solvent can be verified by means of differential scanning calorimetry: the absence of endothermic processes for temperatures below 150[degrees]C indicates that the residual solvent has been eliminated from the solution beyond a detectable dilution level.
For further information, contact: Steve Fedor, Mail Stop 4-8, NASA Glenn Research Center, Commercial Technology Office, 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44135, USA; tel: +1-216-433-2144; fax: +1-216-433-5544; E-mail: steven.l.fedor@lerc.nasa.gov; Internet: www.lerc.nasa.gov
SAN DIEGO, July 19 /PRNewswire/ -- A-Life Medical, Inc. announces the release of the newest version of their coding workflow product, Actus(TM) 5.1. The Actus(TM) application suite dramatically streamlines the code to bill process for medical billing by utilizing the Internet and A-Life's advanced Natural Language Processing technology, LifeCode(R).
Actus(TM) is a suite of applications developed and designed specifically for medical billing organizations. The Actus(TM) Workstation allows coders to work from home or office by securely routing the physician note and patient demographic data via the Internet. After the medical coder has reviewed the physician note and results, the billing information is automatically uploaded to the organization's billing system. All physician notes, patient information and billing information are then electronically archived. Currently, A-Life's patent pending technology, LifeCode(R) automates coding for radiology and emergency medicine. The company plans to expand their automated coding capabilities to other medical specialties in upcoming releases.
"The healthcare industry is starting to gain a better appreciation of what it takes to produce a quality, compliant bill and it starts with the medical coder. A-Life's Actus(TM) not only makes the medical coder more productive, but also improves the quality of the coding. The results are increases in efficiency, productivity, compliance and manageability that have a major impact on the bottom-line," stated David Byrd, A-Life's Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
A new feature of the Actus(TM) application suite is the Executive Dashboard. The Actus(TM) Executive Dashboard is a Windows smart client application that gives visibility into the coding and billing process in a real-time display. This provides managers with fast updates on business critical information, such as productivity, workload and resource utilization.
About A-Life Medical, Inc.
A-Life Medical is the leading provider of Natural Language Processing (NLP) based solutions for the healthcare industry. NLP is a cutting edge technology that has the ability to read and understand electronic text just as a human does. The company's Actus(TM) product, installed in over 200 sites nationwide, streamlines physician and hospital billing processes. A-Life's mission is to provide world-class solutions to streamline and automate the code to bill process and to fundamentally advance the way the healthcare industry gathers and reports on patient information. A-Life is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California. For more information about A-Life and its products, call 858.812.3200 or visit A-Life at http://www.alifemedical.com/.
For further information, please contact David Byrd of A-Life Medical, +1-858-812-3200, ext. 5, sales@alifemedical.com.
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By Jan Norman, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 24--Six local ethnic business groups will honor their businessperson of the year Thursday during BizCon 2003, which promotes cross-ethnic business opportunities in Orange County.
BizCon 2003 starts with a golf tournament today at Coyote Hills Golf Course in Fullerton and continues Thursday with the expo at the Sequoia Conference Center. The concept is to provide both informal and formal opportunities for connecting and contracting, said Bobby McDonald, president of the Black Chamber of Commerce of Orange County and chairman of the Orange County Presidents Council.
Southern California has approximately a half-million minority-owned businesses, more than any other state, according to the U.S. Census.
The Presidents Council encompasses 23 local ethnic and business organizations, many of which have been working several years to create one event that would provide multiethnic business networking and contract opportunities, McDonald said.
"We wanted to bring together corporations and small businesses with access to the products, services and government assistance that will enhance business here," McDonald said.
Exhibitors say BizCon 2003 offers them an opportunity to make minority businesses familiar with their products and services.
"It fits our corporate strategy...to reach out to all the communities we serve," said Todd Hollander, senior vice president of the business-banking group for Wells Fargo Bank. "It's just good business. Minority businesses are growing at double the rate of nonminority businesses, both in sales and in numbers."
Honoring top businesses is an important part of the event, McDonald said.
"Six minority chambers timed the announcement of their business person of the year to show that there are real live minority business successes in Orange County."
The honorees are: William N. Byers Jr., Black Chamber; Adrian Castro, Asian Business Association; Dr. Shawn Hwang Hamilton, Chinese American Chamber; David Kim, Korean Chamber; Chieu Le and Henry Huong Le, Vietnamese Chamber; and William Rivera, Hispanic Chamber.
Byers is co-founder of Zen Media Agency LLC with offices in Anaheim and Thousand Oaks. The firm creates interactive content for the Internet, CD-ROM, DVD and wireless platforms. Before starting his own business in 2001, Byers was executive vice president at SysTECH Inc., which provided interactive programming for Fortune 500 companies, celebrities and foundations in the United States and Europe.
Castro owns A Winning Verdict Productions in Irvine. The company, founded in 1990, specializes in providing legal videos and documentaries for law firms and procedurally correct recordings for court proceedings.
Hamilton opened her medical practice in Irvine in 1998 after completing her internal medicine residency at King Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles. She treats many moderate-income Chinese workers. She has been active in the Chinese business community and contributed to scholarship funds locally.
Kim, chief director of the Santa Ana Symphony, opened Kim's Piano in Garden Grove with his brother in 1991. Before immigrating to the United States in 1987, Kim and his family owned a business in Korea for 35 years. Kim's Piano stocks more than 200 pianos from uprights to electric pianos to baby grand pianos.
The Les own Lee Brothers Foodservices Inc. and Lee's Sandwiches International, both headquartered in San Jose. The food-services business started a single catering truck in 1981 and now has 500 independently owned and operated trucks throughout northern California. Lee's Sandwiches now operates eight delicatessens throughout the state and plans to open at least 12 more in 2004.
Rivera founded Mini-Mailers with offices in Irvine and Commerce in 1986.
Mini-Mailers is a high-tech mailing service for direct marketers. It has grown from a 700-square-foot office to a 23,000-square-foot plant in Commerce and 27,000-square-foot facility in the Irvine Spectrum. It has 90 employees.
The winning entrepreneur will have exhibit space at BizCon 2003, which will give them exposure to a hundred other exhibits and hundreds of people expected to attend the event, McDonald said. "Instead of just getting another plaque, they will get invaluable exposure to the business community."
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(c) 2003, The Orange County Register, Calif. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News.
DUBLIN -- Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/25bd9b/2011_trendology_u) has announced the addition of the "2011 Trendology: U.S. Colleges & Universities" report to their offering.
The 2011 Trendology report on the U.S. Colleges & Universities industry characterizes the industry in three descriptive methods: qualitative analysis, quantitative data and lists of major industry players. The written analysis includes financial issues, technology issues, human resources issues, supplier issues, consumer issues, government regulations, global factors, major industry news highlights, major earnings and profit reports, major mergers and acquisitions, and our exclusive industry SWOT analysis (industry internal strengths, internal weaknesses, external opportunities and external threats).
Along with the trend analysis, quantitative data includes five-year trends (2007-2012) on number of establishments, industry and number of employees. This data is developed through Trendology's economic model using regression analysis based on historical industry trend data. Forecasts are available for 2012. Quantitative data for current year 2011 is provided for the U.S., 50 U.S. states, and 900 metro areas.
The report also lists up to ten of the industry's major players, their current sales and stock symbol (for public companies). Color charts and graphs run throughout the report to highlight trends and are ready for presentations and displays. Links to Internet sources in the report are useful for additional research and data gathering.
Key Topics Covered:
* Economic Outlook Scenario Definitions
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* 5-Year Trend - Estimated Number of Establishments
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For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/25bd9b/2011_trendology_u
BALTIMORE -- Addison Wiggin, Executive Publisher of Agora Financial today announced the acquisition of Laissez Faire Books (LFB), the country's premier Libertarian bookseller. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Commenting on the acquisition, Wiggin said, "The Laissez Faire Books purchase represents an important strategic move for Agora Financial. Fundamentally, we believe the classical economic tradition will again provide critical insight as the Western world faces ongoing fiscal crises." He added, "LFB will provide a solid resource for our one million readers worldwide while helping our analysts ground the financial advice we provide firmly in the intellectual tradition from which so much of it is derived." He concluded, "We're eager to write the next chapter in Laissez Faire Books storied history."
Founded in New York's Greenwich Village in 1972, LFB quickly earned the reputation as a leading voice in the libertarian community, often cited as carrying more printed materials on classical economics and individual liberty than any other bookstore. Additionally, the store became a venue for political discussion, lectures, book signings, and films - entirely focused on social and political issues of the day.
In the 1980s, Laissez Faire Books grew its business and developed a publishing imprint Fox & Wilkes to publish contemporary authors and re-issue major works that were out-of-print.
At LFB's peak in the mid-1990s, revenues exceeded a million dollars. The company had established a customer list of nearly 30,000, and was featured in a Wall Street Journal article by Gerald Seib. However, the rise of the Internet made profitability difficult, and LFB changed ownership and location several times.
Since the acquisition by Agora Financial in late 2010, Laissez Faire Books has developed a plan to pick up where the company left off in the mid-90s. Last month, LFB reprinted and co-published with the Mises Institute Ron Paul's The Case for Gold: A Minority Report of the U.S. Gold Commission.
Jeffrey Tucker, Editorial Vice President of the Mises Institute said, "Laissez-Faire Books has a noble heritage of providing great books to readers in the dark times before the digital age." He added, "They have a lengthy track record of innovation and now with the resources of Agora Financial, we are looking forward to a publishing focus that will reach or exceed LFB's best years."
Agora Financial, LLC, is a Baltimore-based publisher of over a dozen financial and investment advisory newsletters. The editors of these publications have been recognized by major media outlets for their honest, unconventional, and unbiased independent financial research.
Two of its free daily newsletters, the Daily Reckoning and Whiskey and Gunpowder, adroitly chronicle the failures and foibles of government intervention in financial markets and monetary policy. The combination of Agora Financial, LLC and Laissez Faire Books will bond both franchises and extend the outreach to a wider audience.
SEATTLE, March 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Wines of Washington Promotion, an interactive and integrated marketing and design agency based in Seattle, is a sponsor of the Puget Sound Wine Growers Association's Wine Marketing Symposium to be held on March 7, 2011. Details regarding this wine marketing event can be found by clicking on: http://meetmeinthecellar.org/Events.aspx.
About Wines of Washington Promotion
Wines of Washington Promotion, the marketing agency, offers wineries and AVA's a full range of strategic and tactical touch-point marketing and design services including: Logo & Label design, QR codes, social media marketing via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linked-In, Blogs and Vlogs, consumer web and trade page design, eCommerce wine stores, SEO, SMO, WOM, on- and off-premise promotions, point-of-purchase retail display design and sourcing, signage, POS, secondary packaging design, website creative, distributor & wholesaler marketing communications, retail sales collateral, trade communications, digital newsrooms, public relations and publicity. The agency also develops and manages list generation and nurturing, as well as administrates client's direct marketing systems such as Constant Contact.
Collateral design elements include wine bottle photography, online digital and print brochures, rack cards, shelf talkers, back cards, easel cards, posters, banners, neck hangers, wine notes, metal racks, wooden racks, wood barrel displays, and special end-aisle displays.
The agency provides eMarketing, eNewsletters, eBlasts, wine naming, marketing communications, digital and print advertising, sales promotion, merchandising, production and printing for wine tourism, vineyard and agri-marketing. Other services include: wine video, trademarks, wine copywriting, wine tasting booth design, fleet graphics, shopper marketing, account specific marketing, retail & channel marketing & promotion, media placement & promotion, corporate tie-ins, value-added promotions, couponing, sweepstakes & contests, internet, viral, buzz and stealth marketing, special events, mobile, hospitality and destination marketing, wine blogger conference sponsorship, festival marketing and trade promotions. For more information: Call 206-691-3883 or click on www.WOWpromotion.com.
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