WebEnertia (www.WebEnertia.com) marks its five year anniversary by being acknowledged among the top ten Web Design Firms in the Silicon Valley for 2004. The increasing growth not only in number of prominent clients, but also in variety and quality of services provided, has put WebEnertia among the industry leaders, as ranked by the Silicon Valley Business Journal (June 18, 2004, vol.22, no 7).

"We are honored to be recognized for our accomplishments, especially during an important period for us. We have effectively attained our original goals, and continue to set even higher standards for the company and its services for the upcoming year," stated Steve Ohanians, a senior partner in WebEnertia. "Being able to not only survive tough economic times, but expand both our client base and capabilities during those times says a lot about our work and the WebEnertia team's character."

Silverlake Technology, Inc., one of the leading providers of Business Intelligence solutions, announced today that Terry Baldwin has joined the company as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Baldwin comes to Silverlake Technology with extensive experience in the sales, business development, and marketing of Microsoft technologies.

Baldwin’s knowledge of Business Intelligence and his expertise in sales and marketing will provide Silverlake the ability to further cultivate its partner relationships and accelerate its business growth. Silverlake Technology provides Business Intelligence solutions utilizing its Rapid Implementation Methodology which delivers clear business results faster and easier than typical BI solutions.



"Terry is a vital addition to our growing team," said Marinus Van Sandwyk, COO & CTO of Silverlake Technology. "We are very confident that his sales and marketing leadership initiatives will provide valuable long-term strategic benefits and ensure the continued growth of the company...we are very pleased to have him lead our sales and marketing direction into the future."

Applying for economic stimulus payments will now be easier for more than 20 million Americans who normally don't have to file a tax return thanks to the development of a new, user-friendly online tool developed jointly by AARP Tax-Aide and the National Council on Aging's (NCOA's) BenefitsCheckUp®.

Launched today, the Stimulus Payment Tool will help the more than 20 million people - many of whom are seniors - to fill out an IRS Form 1040A to receive payments under the 2008 Economic Stimulus Package. People can access the tool either through NCOA's BenefitsCheckUp® at www.BenefitsCheckUp.org/ or through AARP's web site at www.AARP.org/stimulus.

1&1 Internet Inc., the world's largest web host by known servers, today launched a new facility on http://www.1and1.com for finding already registered domain names up for sale alongside unregistered names. Powered by Sedo, the world's leading marketplace for buying and selling domain names, the service delivers more options to clinch the perfect web identity. 1&1's participation will bring registered domains to a wide range of consumer and business user groups and will enable the user to make a more appropriate choice from the very start of an online project. For businesses operating in a highly competitive Internet environment, investing in a memorable web address can often help drive traffic to a website or e-commerce venture.

eMag Solutions, LLC, a leading international provider of electronic discovery and data management services, announced today legal industry veteran Bonnie Rodden-Gomes is the company's new vice president of sales. Ms. Rodden formally joined the company in late January and made her public debut with eMag at LegalTech New York February 2-4.

Before joining eMag, Ms. Rodden was the founder of Rodden & Company, a successful business development consulting firm focused on the legal technology and services market. Prior to Rodden & Company, she served as vice president of sales and business development at RenewData where, during a five year period, she was responsible for growing revenue from $500,000 to $32 million in annual sales.

Prior to RenewData, Ms. Rodden was president of Techheadhunter, an executive and technical recruiting firm. In total, Ms. Rodden has 20 years of sales and sales management experience, including the development and management of direct, indirect, and inside sales teams for multiple startups and growing corporations. She has designed successful, company-specific sales distribution programs from inception, using Solution Selling and Customer Centric methodology for software, medical, and electronic evidence services companies.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 2, 2006 -– The importance, requirements and legal and moral obligation of professional ethics in consulting will be the subject of a two-part presentation to be offered by leading ethics ground rules authorities, Linnea McCord and Gene Siciliano, at the September monthly dinner meeting of the Institute of Management Consultants’ (IMC) Southern California Chapter to be held on Tuesday, September 19, at the Ayres Hotel (14400 Hindry Avenue, I-405 at Rosecrans) in Hawthorne. A one hour afternoon workshop will begin at 4:30 p.m. and the dinner meeting will start at 6:00 p.m.

Small website owners are finding it increasingly difficult to rank in the search engines as competition on the Internet intensifies. New webmasters often don't even realize just how important search engine optimization is to the success of their website until they have had their site online several months. It's only when their website begins to slip into oblivion and traffic dwindles away that the truth hits home.

Justin Maddox, development manager for SEO software Traffic Travis, says that at this point "website owners panic and use snippets of information they have gathered from blogs and articles in a haphazard approach to SEO that usually produces very little in the way of results. Some webmasters end up watching their sites slip even further down the ranks."

MobileVerbs Inc., a provider of next generation Mobile Marketing SaaS Platform, has enabled a new mobile experience for DEMO 2008 attendees -- DEMO 2008 Mobile.

The mobile campaign allows attendees to connect with the event by simply sending a text message from their cell phones. The DEMO 2008 attendees are able to cast their vote for the People's Choice Awards by click of their cell phone button.

"The voting system is secure and validates the votes against attendees' registration code," says Parmeet Chaddha, Founder and CEO of MobileVerbs Inc. "Our mission is to provide a self-service platform for multi-channel campaign lifecycle management -- enabling marketers to launch their contextually relevant campaigns in a matter of minutes, not days and weeks, and at a fraction of the cost," adds Parmeet.

Metro Atlanta, GA RV dealer Three Way Campers has hired TwentySix2 Marketing for search engine marketing and search engine optimization services. The project between Three Way Campers and TwentySix2 Marketing will focus around increasing the visibility of threewaycampers.com among the top search engines: Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask.

Three Way Campers has been in business since 1952 and is Georgia's oldest RV dealership.

Since 1997, TwentySix2 Marketing has been an established leader in the search engine marketing (SEM) industry. The Atlanta, GA search engine optimization agency has worked with both large and small businesses. The agency specializes in search engine optimization, paid search and professional website design. In addition, TwentySix2 Marketing also provides affiliate marketing, email marketing, blog marketing, and social media networking services.

October Toys will be debuting Gwin Series 2, their second line of designer vinyl penguins, at Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego July 20th to 23rd. Series 2 features seven new Gwin designs by artists including El Maz, Voltaire, Alex Pardee, C. Spliedt, Charlotte Link, Kruse, and Christie.

Gwin Series 1 and 2 will be available for sale along with 2006 Special Edition Gwins by Voltaire and C. Spliedt, the new 13” MegaGwins, a number of custom Gwins, t-shirts featuring a new Gwin design by El Maz, and much more. Along with the Gwins, October Toys will be showcasing several upcoming projects and collaborations including plush, vinyl, and resin figures. Customers will also have a chance to win several one-of-a-kind prizes throughout the convention while supplies last.

According to a recent article in USA Today, between 3% and 5% of school-age children are thought to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, causing them to lag behind their peers by as many as three years. Metro Detroit learning expert Kimberly Kassner feels that the issue isn't actually about 'learning disabilities', it's a matter of teaching children "how to learn" using their own unique strengths.

Kassner, founder of EmpowerMind, a learning-to-learn company based on Commerce, Michigan, has taught students and adults how to capitalize on their own unique abilities for seventeen years. She teaches students who are labeled as having multiple "learning disabilities" how to focus on their strengths and use them to improve their performance both in and out of the classroom.

The Rainmaker Retreat is a two day law firm marketing program for small and solo law firm members to help them learn proven, step-by-step strategies to build successful, seven-figure practices. This event is being presented by The Rainmaker Institute, LLC, the nation's largest law firm marketing company for small law firms and sponsored by the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA). It will be held April 25-26, 2008.

A $9,338.00 value, the registration cost for this two-day law firm marketing boot camp is only $1,397. However, when lawyers and their staff register by April 17th, they receive an additional $200 Early Bird Discount. LACBA member discount are available.

Not everyone nominated for an Academy Award took home an Oscar last Sunday, but many stars took home valuable gifts. Lavish spa treatments, diamond jewels, gourmet doggie treats and cutting edge Apple iPod and iPhone accessories were some of the giveaways available at various Gifting Suites for the Oscars, where celebrities can load up on freebies.

These Gifting Suites were booths organized inside selected hotels and multi-million dollar Bel Aire homes for Academy Award nominees, selects VIPs, and other Actors and Actresses. Celebrities poured into the three Gifting Suites attended by online Apple Accessory reseller myGearStore.com. Among some of the Stars that showed up to receive personal accessory attention, and some free gear, were Dominic Monahan (Charlie form "Lost"), James Kyson Lee (Ando from "Heroes"), Samantha Harris ("Dancing with the Stars" and "Entertainment Tonight)," and AnnaLynne McCord (Naomi from "90210").

Hostway Corporation, the global Web hosting leader, is offering all of its SSL certificates at discounts of up to 50% through October 28.

Hostway's sale comes just in time for ecommerce Web sites to renew or add important protections for the customers during the holiday season shopping rush. SSL certificates encrypt information such as customers' name, address and credit card account number before it's transmitted over the Internet, ensuring third parties can't intercept it. When a Web page is secured by an SSL certificate, it displays two highly recognizable signs of security: "https" in the address bar, and a lock icon in the bottom right corner of the screen.

Designing Your Own Dream Home for the New Home Builder: What is your dream home? Do you have an idea of what it will look like? Defining a dream home is very difficult, especially if you have a spouse or significant other that has tastes different than your own. Although you might be able to agree on a floor plan, do you both agree on what the purposes for each of the rooms? My solution to this matter is simple. Brain storm together! Make it fun! After all its your dream that you are talking about. Privately, each of you, collect floor plan ideas from other sources, and prioritize what you like. List the top 10 bedroom floor plans, bathroom floor plans, kitchen floor plans and of course the floor plan layout styles. You can do this by researching these topics: Log Home Floor Plans, Model Home Floor Plans (which, by the way, utilize small spaces very efficiently), Kitchen Floor Plans, Apartment Floor Plans (another very good space effective plan), and various architectural floor plans. Collect your "top ten" sources from each of these plans and then select your top ten out of those. You will have a very comprehensible top ten list to discuss with your spouse or significant other. Keep in mind that you can make any room the size you desire from these plans, but its the concept and ideas of the plans that you should be collecting.

Gomadic Corp, the creative force that gave us the ComCube and Tip Exchange Technology, is proud to add the Clean-n-Dry Waterproof Bag to its arsenal of innovative gadgetry designed to accommodate the needs of the ever-changing nomadic workforce.

Praised by a wide range of media outlets from trade publications like Pocket PC Magazine to mainstream periodicals like the Wall Street Journal, Gomadic has become a leader in providing affordable solutions to customers without sacrificing quality. And with consumers wanting to cut the chains binding them to their workstations, Gomadic’s Clean-n-Dry Waterproof Bag is the perfect accessory for preserving the hand-held devices that keep us mobile in today’s disposable technology culture.

Philavania, a company selling original Philadelphia sports T-shirts and apparel, launched its new website at Philavania.com this month. Started by a Bucks County, PA native and life-long Philadelphia sports fan, the site is dedicated to the teams, fans and unique culture of the city of Philadelphia.

Philavania T-Shirts

Winning is for the Birds

Philavania was born when founder Charles Peacock spotted a T-shirt worn by a character in the 2006 film "Invincible." Remembering the shirt from his youth, Peacock felt that that its slogan, "Winning is for the Birds," perfectly exemplified the heartbreakingly passionate duality of being a Philly sports fan.

New Life Hiking Spa will be open from May 14 - September 27 for the 2009 season and is now taking reservations. New Life Hiking Spa is a nationally recognized, affordable fitness and weight loss destination celebrating 31 years in business. Founded in 1978 by the director, Jimmy LeSage, M.S., New Life is one of the oldest and most established vacation package programs of its kind in the country catering to over 500 guests each spring through the fall season.

New Life Hiking Spa Weight Loss Retreat

The new U S Airways has honored travel professional and Coastal Vacations Director Dean Marino. Marino travels extensively with US Airways as a top level Director with Coastal Vacations and as an independent travel agent. His duties include coordinating training and hosting conference calls for the largest, fastest growing, and most successful group in the 12-year-old Coastal Vacations program.

Marino has earned the designation "1 Million Mile Flyer" in U S Airways Dividend Miles program and again has been designated by the airline as one of their elite travelers with "Chairman's Preferred" status.

Wedding website service WedShare.com (www.wedshare.com) reports that nearly 80% of all engaged couples today use the Internet to help plan their wedding, a trend that is still on the rise. And it's not just about information, they say. With the boom of the online bridal market, new tools and resources are emerging that can greatly ease the planning burden for today's engaged couples.

"The Internet has created a cultural revolution," WedShare.com president Jason Melendez says. "It has dramatically changed how we shop, keep up with the news, and stay in touch with friends and loved ones. It has also made changes to how we plan a wedding."