Video: Patrick Casey – Behind the Numbers
Written by Angelina Weir on July 11, 2011.
Patrick Casey from the website Full Fact spoke at the Royal Statistical Society – Behind the Numbers event.
Athletics News: 73 Lions Earn Place on 2011 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
Written by Angelina Weir on July 11, 2011.
All 11 Winter/Spring Sports Are Represented on the Honor Roll
SAINT LEO, Fla. 73 Saint Leo mens and womens student-athletes were named to the 2011 Sunshine State Conference Commissioners Spring Honor Roll, it was announced Friday by SSC Commissioner Jay Jones.
In total, the list comprised of 672 student-athletes, including 102 who carried a perfect 4.00 throughout the semester.
A complete team-by-team break down can be found below.
To be eligible for the Commissioners Spring Honor Roll, a student-athlete must post a minimum grade point average of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00. Participants in the sports of mens and womens basketball, mens and womens swimming, mens and womens golf, mens and womens tennis, womens rowing, baseball, softball, and mens and womens lacrosse were eligible for the honor roll.
Having won 76 national championships since the league was founded in 1975, the SSCs student-athletes have also proven to be successful in the classrooms.
Join Us This Thursday For Part 3 Of Our Managed Services Webcast Series: Pricing Services On Value
Written by Joel Ramsbotham on July 11, 2011.
Youre invited to join MSP University and Autotask as we team up to deliver a new 8-part Webcast series to help you improve yourManaged ServicesPractice success!
Each month, MSP Universitys and Autotasks Len DiCostanzo and Steve Noel will cover a topic central to developing your Managed Services practice and adding recurring revenue to your bottom line.
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- Part 3: Pricing Managed Services on Value – Thu., July 14 at 10am PDT/1pm EDT
- Part 4: Managed Services Agreements – Thu., August 11 at 10am PDT/1pm EDT
- Part 5: Marketing Managed Services – Thu., September 22 at 10am PDT/1pm EDT
- Part 6: Selling Managed Services – Thu., October 27 at 10am PDT/1pm EDT
- Part 7: Onboarding new Managed Services Clients – Thu., November 10 at 10am PDT/1pm EDT
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SU’s Janklow Arts Leadership Program appoints founding director, professor of practice
Written by Angelina Weir on July 10, 2011.
The Department of Art and Music Histories in Syracuse Universitys College of Arts and Sciences has announced the appointment of Mark Nerenhausen as founding director and professor of practice of the new Janklow Arts Leadership Program. Nerenhausen brings more than two decades of professional arts administration experience to SU, having most recently served as president and CEO of the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas.
The new graduate programnamed in honor of Mort Janklow 50, a renowned arts patron and literary agent, and his wife, Linda Leroylaunches in the summer of 2012. For more information, contact Amanda Eubanks Winkler, associate professor and chair of art and music histories, at 315-443-4584 or awinkler@syr.edu.
Mark Nerenhausen is renowned for his signature collaborative approach to arts management, says Arts and Sciences Dean George M. Langford, referencing Nerenhausens pioneering work at the AT&T Performing Arts Center and, before that, the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
How good should a media organisation try to be?
Written by Angelina Weir on July 9, 2011.
Google’s famous motto ‘Don’t be evil’ was only ever informal and rather jokey.
Like any outspoken moral statement of purpose, it left the company open to charges of not living up to its own standards. Google’s former long-standing PR boss David Krane was reportedly unhappy with it, complaining that “I always felt it would come back to bite us in some way, that we would end up building concentration camps, or something even worse. The universe seems to love irony, why leave ourselves wide open?”
I don’t believe News Corp ever had an equivalent motto, but the final issue of the News of the World couldn’t duck moral statements altogether: “We finally say a sad but very proud farewell to our 7.5 million loyal readers,” proclaimed the front page. Proud? Well, maybe, but can you really feel proud in the midst of a crisis caused by what you’re saying you are ashamed of?
And can a newspaper or any other organisation be said to have those kind of feelings? Maybe n