Avectra Business Partner Program Enlists Maner Costerisan

McLean, VA (PRWEB) April 18, 2012

Avectra, a leading web-based Social CRM provider for association and not-for-profits, today announced Maner Costerisan’s Business Solutions & Technology division, part of Maner Costerisan CPA, is joining as an official member of the Avectra business partner program. Maner Costerisan, the largest local accounting firm in the Midwest, serving Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, will offer Avectra’s Social CRM suite, which will provide the ability to manage social interactions alongside the proven accounting software solutions that Maner Costerisan offers its trusted clients.

“We have experience serving more than 300 not-for-profit organizations and feel the Avectra Social CRM suite will positively influence our clients’ profitability,” said Jeffrey C. Stevens, CPA, CITP, president, principal of Maner Costerisan. “Our association and not-for-profit clients are seeking a solution with the benefits of a traditional membership management database and a seamless integration with the tools needed for today’s social business. Our customers gain confidence and a measurable return on investment when they invest in a full-service solution such as Avectra Social CRM.”

After a comprehensive review of competitive systems, Maner Costerisan chose Avectra for its proven leadership in the Association Management Software (AMS) market and its ability to use Avectra’s Social CRM suite to connect constituencies and Avectra’s recent integration with Intacct– a leading cloud SaaS accounting software solution which Maner Costerisan sells and implements. The Avectra Social CRM suite offers complete social media management, member engagement scoring, and a private online community coupled with a robust membership database.

Maner Costerisan works with associations, not-for-profits, supply chain distributors and manufacturers, health care systems and others to offer strong, flexible financial reporting and business management solutions to promote a streamlined and flexible infrastructure. Leading CPA firms such as Maner Costerisan are aligning their businesses with Avectra to offer the integrated cloud-based solution to their association and not-for-profit clients and generate new opportunities.

“The partnership between Avectra and Maner Costerisan provides exceptional value for associations and not-for-profits in the delivery of innovative and traditional accounting- related services combined with Avectra’s member and donor management and social business tools,” said Avectra Chairman and CEO Richard Davis. “Working with Maner Costerisan ensures that an increasing number of association and not-for-profit organizations will be poised for success with Avectra Social CRM.”

About Maner Costerisan

Maner Costerisan is a mid-market accounting and consulting firm located in Lansing, Michigan, that provides a broad range of traditional and non-traditional accounting services. It is also an Independent Member of the BDO Seidman Alliance, giving Maner Costerisan full access to the national and worldwide resources of one of the largest accounting and consulting firms in the world.

To learn more about Maner Costerisan, visit http://www.manersolutions.com

About Avectra

For the last 17 years, Avectra has translated our customers’ needs into a market-leading Customer Relationship Management system (CRM) – whether our customers serve members and non-members by the hundreds or hundreds of thousands. Avectra Social CRM is uniquely positioned to usher in a new era of membership success with its ability to provide world-class member management, built-in social networking and private online community, social media management and a powerful analytics suite, including Avectra’s proprietary A-Score™ and more. Avectra is headquartered in McLean, Virginia with regional offices in Chicago and Orlando.

To explore the Avectra family of products, please visit http://www.avectra.com, or call 855-AVECTRA (855-283-2872).

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Bullhorn Releases Global Social Recruiting Report: Recruiters in the U.K., Australia and Canada Leading in LinkedIn Usage, Lagging in Usage of Facebook

Boston, MA (PRWEB) April 17, 2012

Today, recruiting software provider Bullhorn, Inc. released a full report on social recruitment activity worldwide. The Bullhorn Reach Country Report compares how recruiters in the United States (U.S.), United Kingdom (U.K.), Australia, Canada and the rest of the world leverage LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter as part of their recruitment activity.

According to the report, recruiters in the U.K., Australia and Canada are leading in terms of LinkedIn usage, but trailing behind the U.S. in terms of Facebook usage.

Other key findings include:

    U.S. recruiters are the most active on Facebook, but less active on Twitter compared to recruiters in the U.K. and Australia. They are still above the international average of 28%.

    U.K. recruiters use Twitter the most with 53% posting jobs to the network, while recruiters in the U.S. and Canada use it the least.

    Recruiters at mid-sized companies in the U.K. are among the heaviest users of social networks in the world with 98% posting jobs to LinkedIn, 25% posting jobs to Facebook and 58% posting jobs to Twitter.

    Recruiters at small companies worldwide use LinkedIn the least with 87% posting jobs to the network.

    Recruiters at small companies worldwide are the most active on Facebook and Twitter with 30% posting jobs to Facebook and 49% of recruiters posting jobs to Twitter.

“With over 65,000 recruiters using Bullhorn Reach, we have an abundance of social recruiting activity and job posting data at our disposal,” said Art Papas, founder and CEO of Bullhorn. “The Bullhorn Reach Country Report was a great opportunity to evaluate the global recruitment data that we have and intelligently monitor the space in different parts of the world.”

Earlier this year, Bullhorn released its 2012 Social Recruiting Activity Report, the first report of its kind measuring the actual social media recruiting activity of recruiters worldwide.

Links for More Information:

Download the Full Report: http://www.bullhornreach.com/content/resources/reports

Read More on the Blog: http://blog.bullhornreach.com/post/21230552423/bullhorn-reach-country-report-u-k-recruiters-use

About Bullhorn

Bullhorn® creates software and services that improve the way employees and employers come together. For over ten years our innovations have powered the recruiting and staffing operations of fast-growing start-ups up through the world’s largest employment brands. Headquartered in Boston, with offices in London and Sydney, Bullhorn’s recruiting CRM and social recruiting products serve over 15,000 clients and 90,000 users in over 90 countries. Privately owned, Bullhorn is principally backed by Highland Capital Partners and General Catalyst Partners.

Contact:

Ashley Healy

Content Marketing Manager

617-951-4310

ahealy(at)bullhorn.com

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taskGiant launches a new App platform for managing and collaborating on projects in the cloud

taskGiant

Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) April 17, 2012

taskGiant, http://www.taskgiant.com, targets organizations that are looking for a solution that can handle their ever evolving processes and changing needs. Unlike many solutions that consist of only social feeds, checklists, and static templates, taskGiant also allows members to create and share Apps that contain processes, forms, reports, and integrations.    

taskGiant’s full functionality is available on smart phones, tablets, and desktops. The usability and features flow the same on any platform. Project managers have complete visibility on every communication and change related to their upcoming goals as they move from meeting to meeting during their day. Resources can stay on top of their work by having relevant approvals, questions, and information from all their projects fed in real-time to their personal dashboard. Customers can monitor and interact with the team from anywhere using their mobile device.

The introductory price for taskGiant.com is $ 2 per project per day. The price structure allows organizations to build the cost of the taskGiant service directly into each project’s budget. This works great for companies like outsourcers that manage projects for different clients; it also works great for large organizations passing costs between internal groups or divisions. taskGiant also comes in an enterprise version that provides a completely private cloud architecture that gives more control, data access, integrations, and the option of a per user pricing structure.

“If your current project solution isn’t flexible and available everywhere, then people won’t use it. To learn from your projects, you need to have all of the information flowing through a single point. If your last project status is sitting in an email between an NCAA bracket and a prince needing help harboring money, it might be time to try a different solution.” said Steven McElwee, CEO of taskGiant inc. (http://www.taskGiant.com).

taskGiant was formed in 2011 by a team of professionals that built and implemented CRM solutions for over 15 years. Using their experience from managing projects on enterprise CRM implementations, they realized that the project world lacked the same kind of flexibility that comes from most CRM solutions. That led to the creation of taskGiant.com.

William Reichard, COO of taskGiant states: “We created taskGiant because we wanted something better. We wanted a single solution that made it effortless to share information and we needed it to be flexible enough to change with us. We know that if it isn’t comfortable for the resources, then the information won’t be there for the customers and the managers.”

taskGiant inc (http://www.taskgiant.com) is a privately held company located in Cincinnati, Ohio. taskGiant provides project management solutions using leading edge concepts and technology.

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Avectra Taps Peggy Padalino as SVP of Global Sales

McLean, Va. (PRWEB) April 17, 2012

Avectra, a developer of web-based Social CRM solutions for associations and not-for-profits, today announced that Peggy Padalino will join the company as senior vice president of global sales.

In her new role, Padalino will oversee all of Avectra’s sales operations, including business development and international partners.

Padalino brings to Avectra more than 20 years of experience in sales, sales operations, and customer support for a number of companies in both the high-tech commercial and government sectors.

“I’m delighted to join the Avectra team and be a part of this innovative company that is focused on the success of their clients in the association and nonprofit world,” said Padalino. “With the increased relevance and necessity for Social CRM, Avectra is uniquely positioned to become a world leader in this arena. I am confident of the quality of Avectra’s products and am proud to lead the sales team in expanding our reach to the international and the domestic market.”

Prior to joining Avectra, Padalino served as vice president of sales and client services at Jobfox, a job networking site, and as vice president of sales for INPUT, a government market intelligence firm. Previously Padalino held director-level positions at Vocus, Inc. and CareerBuilder, Inc. At Vocus, she managed a team of account sales executives selling public relations automation software in Fortune 2000 accounts. At CareerBuilder, Padalino was one of the founding sales executives with direct responsibility for building a 150 person sales force deployed in 26 markets in the USA. Padalino held management-level sales positions at Sybase, SCO and Data General earlier in her career.

“With our focus on expanding globally, the Avectra team is enthusiastic about bringing a candidate of Peggy’s caliber on board,” said Richard Davis, Chairman and CEO of Avectra. “There’s tremendous global opportunity for Social CRM and Peggy’s expertise in developing global sales channels will be instrumental for our growth.”

Avectra is the first association management solutions (AMS) provider to design a completely web-based membership management solution for the association industry, and the first to provide SaaS membership solutions exclusively for small- to mid-size organizations. In 2011, Avectra launched Avectra Social CRM to extend the value of customers’ membership management initiatives by incorporating social interactions of the relationship into customers’ membership database and ongoing initiatives. Organizations now benefit from the ability to use the combined and integrated information to engage members and create mutually valuable relationships with members.

About Avectra

For the last 17 years, Avectra has translated our customers’ needs into a market-leading Customer Relationship Management system (CRM) – whether our customers serve members and non-members by the hundreds or hundreds of thousands. Avectra Social CRM is uniquely positioned to usher in a new era of membership and donor success with its ability to provide world-class member/donor management, a private online community, social media management, a powerful analytics suite, including Avectra’s proprietary A-Score™, and more. Avectra is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with regional offices in Chicago and Orlando.

To explore the Avectra family of products, please visit http://www.avectra.com, or call 800-858-8272.

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Chapter for Advanced Composites Hosts Statewide Competition at Salt Lake Community College

Composite bridges

Salt Lake City, Ut (PRWEB) April 26, 2012

The Utah Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering(SAMPE) hosted a statewide bridge-building competition at the Salt Lake Community College composites lab on April 11, 2012. Students enrolled in advanced composites training from Salt Lake Community College (SLCC), Davis Applied Technology College, BYU and the University of Utah entered the competition to demonstrate their skills to industry representatives, experts, guests and faculty, and competed for prizes up to $ 200.00.    

Twenty seven students participated in the competition. Eligible participants were required to construct a bridge that was fewer than four inches wide, four inches high, 26 inches long and lighter than 650 grams. Using the College’s Instron, a testing device that measures strength–students bridges were put to the test. Kevin Wagner, a student from BYU, placed first place in the competition with a bridge that withstood the weight of 9,497 pounds before bowing or breaking.

Advanced materials, such as carbon fiber and other composite materials are revolutionizing a variety of industries–everything from aerospace engineering and automobile construction to golfing, skiing and cycling equipment. As more products previously made from metal, wood or steel are converted to composites, companies with facilities in Utah such as Exelis (ITT), Janicki Industries, ATK, and Boeing have an increasing need for highly qualified composites technicians.

To meet the demands of Utah’s industry growth and open career pathways, colleges, industry experts and professional associations are working together to find ways to educate the public about training and career opportunities in the advanced material and processing industry.

Lenn Riddle, Program Chair for SAMPE is already planning next year’s bridge competition. Riddle hopes to have ‘teams’ that are comprised of students from two or more schools. A cross pollination of schools would provide students from both technical/hands-on programs and theoretical/engineering programs to collaborate with each other to build a single bridge.    

Emily Johnson from SLCC’s Composites Technology Training spent more than 15 years in the medical field before entering the composites program. While in the program, Johnson learned how to use several machines, tools and equipment to manufacture composite products. One of two females in her cohort, Johnson lauded the program’s benefits for women. “It’s a great career for women because it requires a lot of manual dexterity,” said JoAnn Matern, Education Chair of SAMPE. “We have several women go through the program and they are very good at it!”

The SLCC Composites Technology Training offers three levels to the certificate program that can be completed in as little as ten-weeks. As a growing key industry in the state of Utah, graduates have a large pool of companies to work for, especially in the aerospace and outdoor products industries.

“I really appreciate the training. I was laid off from a job in January, and I really wanted to better my skills for the job market. Now I am in the position of deciding which job I want to take,” said Brent Swenson, student in the Composites Technology Training at SLCC.

“Students in these programs are being trained to be composites technicians, but as the industry grows I see them being able to do more,” said Matern. “I see them as being the leaders and managers of the future.”

About the SLCC Composites program: Salt Lake Community College’s Composites Technology Training is the center for expert composites training and education. Conveniently located in the heart of the Salt Lake Valley, the Composites Technology Training Center is equipped with a state-of-the-art laboratory. The program offers a blended format of classroom instruction with hands-on projects, providing students with the knowledge to skillfully create, handle and process composites materials.

About SAMPE: The Utah Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering, an international professional member society, provides information on new materials and processing technology either via technical forums, journal publications, or books in which professionals in this field can exchange ideas and air their views. As the only technical society encompassing all fields of endeavor in materials and processes, SAMPE provides a unique and valuable forum for scientists, engineers, and academicians.

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EB-5 Regional Center Development and Investors Procurement Seminar Announced in Texas

Austin, Texas (PRWEB) April 24, 2012

“Capturing Foreign Capital to Fund Projects through EB-5 Program Seminar” hosted by Brian Su, a leading expert on EB-5 marketing in China and Korea, is attracting commercial real estate developers, immigration attorneys, investment bankers, EB-5 executives, and venture capitalists, among others, to be educated on the latest happenings and trends in the Chinese and Korean immigrant investors market.

The June 8, 2012 event hosted at Embassy Suites Austin Central, will be centered on how to secure EB-5 funding from wealthy Chinese and Korean immigrant investors. The EB-5 regional center program has been a growing success, with much foreign investment pouring in from China and Korea. Rapid growth specifically in the Chinese economy has made the EB-5 program more relevant than ever before. The number of wealthy Chinese is growing at 9.7% annually, according to the GroupM Knowledge – Hurun Wealth Report 2011. Additionally, Merrill Lynch and Capgemini’s Asia-Pacific Wealth Report 2008 shows that in 2007, high net-worth individuals in China placed 21% of their assets in real estate versus a worldwide average of 14%. The preference the wealthy Chinese show in real estate, along with the current drop in housing prices and a steady RMB, have made real estate investment in the U.S., along with the EB-5 program, more appealing than ever before. In the past five years, more than $ 3 billion of foreign capital have been invested into the U.S. through EB-5, creating thousands of jobs in a variety of industries. Nearly 70% EB-5 Visas are issued to Chinese investors this year. The Seminar aims to help U.S. companies and individuals tap into more of this foreign capital.

The day-long event will be headed by Mr. Brian Su, who is well equipped to help U.S. capital seekers utilize the EB-5 Program. Mr. Su acts as President and CEO of Artisan Business Group, Inc., a national consulting firm specializing in the development of market offerings for business projects seeking foreign capital. Additionally, Mr. Su acts as President of the China EB-5 Market Council. He is also a member of the Association to the Investment in the USA. Guest speakers include Mr. Kevin Wright, President of Wright Johnson LLC, Mr. Clem Turner, Attorney of Clem Turner, Esq. Homeier & Law, P.C. and Dandan Zhou, CEO of Texas Investment Regional Center.

This year’s event will provide both EB-5 professionals and those inexperienced with the program a great opportunity to learn more about Chinese and Korean market trends. Attendees of the event will obtain knowledge and experience that will be invaluable in their efforts to obtain EB-5 foreign capital. Those attending the event also have the opportunity to meet the prior day with Artisan Business Group’s CEO, Mr. Brian Su, for a 1-hour private consultation.

For more information regarding the event, registration, or a private consultation with Mr. Su, please visit: http://www.TexasEB5Seminar.com.

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