Card Gnome Enhances Ability to Send Birthday Cards Using New Scheduling Feature

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Boulder, Colorado (PRWEB) March 27, 2013

Card Gnome, an online greeting card company, has introduced a way to send birthday cards from the internet all year round by using an advanced scheduling feature.

Those who wish to send birthday cards to loved ones in the mail can schedule their cards online in advance, allowing them to plan ahead for a loved one’s special day.

Card Gnome offers more than 1000 crowdsourced cards, including birthday cards that range from the lighthearted to heartfelt, according to Card Gnome co-founder and CEO Joel Wishkovsky. “Our customers choose the date a birthday card arrives in the mail, making it easy to get celebratory cards into a loved one’s mailbox in time for their big day,” Wishkovsky said.

Card Gnome’s birthday card options are different from sending an e-card. Users can scroll through hundreds of birthday cards created by independent artists to find a suitable birthday message, then choose when the card will be sent out–up to one year in advance. The recipient will get a colorful paper card in the mail on the day the sender selects.

“Like me, our customers have a lot of birthdays to remember. Card Gnome’s scheduling feature is the perfect way to let people plan ahead and make sure cards are delivered at the perfect moment,” Wishkovsky said.

The Card Gnome team regularly unveils new birthday cards on their site, as well as cards for other special occasions. Find out more at http://www.cardgnome.com.

About Card Gnome

Card Gnome is an online greeting card company offering personalized paper cards. Based in Boulder, Colo., Card Gnome offers the ease of online ordering while remaining dedicated to preserving the time-honored tradition of receiving real cards in the mail. The company works with an exclusive community of independent artists from around the world. Card Gnome’s technology focuses on helping people find the perfect card. All cards are printed on 100% recycled card stock and packaged in biodegradable materials. For more information, please visit http://www.cardgnome.com and follow on Facebook.com/CardGnome.







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The Green Economy Set to Expand

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Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) March 28, 2013

The Green Economy is launching a crowd-sourcing campaign through Kickstarter.com in April, coinciding with the launch of their redesigned website. The campaign will enable the company to reach new audiences through a series of podcasts.

“We have formed an alliance with a firm of nationally known documentary filmmakers to help us make professional level podcasts that will bring a new dimension to reporting on the green economy,” says Tana Kantor, publisher. “To accomplish this, we are going for funding from a number of sources.”

Besides continuing to report on successful business strategies, The Green Economy is upgrading its website with extensive visual representations. The magazine is expanding its hugely successful internship program, which helps young journalists and designers begin their careers in all areas of publishing.

The Green Economy is an online magazine and website, providing reliable, fact based, in-depth reporting on energy, technology, policy, design and finance. Its writers engage with leaders in the business world who are successfully tackling environmental sustainability. The Green Economy tells their stories.







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Great quotes about Modification and True love

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It truly is good time to get started with moving ahead in life if you come to feel stuck in the occupation, relationship, or other crisis. If you have previously had a relationship split up, or perhaps are dismissed from your job, look for optimistic approaches to release all the earlier times, get going, then build up an amazing brand new life. Allow me to share several great sayings related to changing as well as true love.

While taking the hard course of action to release any kind of a agonizing position and then to develop a whole new lifestyle, make energy to find some of those components in the past that happen to be actually useful, and to these you’ll be able to always handle firm. Discover good friends along with loved ones who will backup you in the new location, your brand new job, or perhaps your new romance relationship. If the household is just not precisely what you are quitting, revive the link to them all. In case you’re not altering careers, even though you might be having new business employers, restore your professional contacts. To sum up, break up those connections which are limiting your foreseeable future, nonetheless preserve these kinds of ties that may guide all your exact personality.

Quotes associated with Improvement and Passion

— Whenever one particular front door of joy seal up, a different opens up,

nevertheless often most of us keep gazing towards shut down gate

and then we fail to take a look at the different that has opened towards you.

* A component of currently being champion is going to be finding out the time sufficient is truly good enough.

In some cases you must let go of a struggle and move on,

and then start working on whatever that can be far more successful.

* God grant us all peace of mind

To simply accept most of the issues I could not adjust;

Strength to alter all the facts We can;

As well as intelligence to understand that significant difference.

* Everything you’d like in everyday life, begin today.

And not the next day — today.

It can be tiny start .

A person’s joy and happiness is dependent upon starting out immediately – every day.

– I Can certainly Accomplish Whatever : Beginning Now.

I have a wish, I’ve Lord,

and so I decide to go by the direction of my own mission,

even though I am terrified or suspicious.

Any time I slip, I just rise up, wash me,

and then remain progressing to objective.

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Corbin Bernsens Crowdsourcing Venture, Powsumer, to Use Big Data

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Akron, Ohio (PRWEB) March 28, 2013

Powsumer a new consumer-driven pricing website founded by Corbin Bernsen, will use “big data” to pursue the best deals for shoppers, according to a recent article on Akron Beacon Journal Online. Since the launch of a funding campaign on the Indiegogo crowdsourcing site, Powsumer has drawn attention for its use of crowdsourcing to fund a crowd-powered venture.

“Indiegogo is a great way to launch Powsumer,” says Corbin Bernsen, co-founder and president, Powsumer. “Powsumer will rely on broad-based internet participation to bring the best deals to consumers, much the same way Indiegogo uses the internet to crowd-source funds for many worthy causes.”

The Journal noted: “Consumers would tell Powsumer what they want to buy and how much they want to pay. Powsumer would use ‘big data’ — large, complex sets of information that is the project’s secret sauce — to determine the likelihood of a supplier agreeing to that price.”

Powsumers disruptive e-commerce technology will allow communities of individuals to more actively participate and drive down the price in the consumer choices they make. The patent-pending technology includes protection of the “big data” analytics associated with the process of bringing consumers together into purchasing groups (“packs”) through social and web networks as well as procuring suppliers that are willing to fulfill a packs purchasing demands. Each pack will be established by a “pack leader” that defines the product or service the pack wants as well as the lowest price each member of the pack is willing to pay for the product or service. Powsumer connects suppliers with the pack and helps negotiate and close the deal as a volume purchase. Suppliers of products can be anywhere in the world and will drop ship the product directly to individual consumers without Powsumer ever handling the specific product. Big data will allow for robust metrics for both the consumer and the supplier around real time market data, product and pricing trends, and current surplus inventory throughout the U.S. and world.

The $ 100,000 funding goal will be used to pay for further development and launch of the Powsumer.com beta site. The Indiegogo campaign can be found at: http://igg.me/at/powsumer/x/2593754. Supporters of the campaign will receive a range of perks from founder certificates and hoodies to a visit with the Powsumer team, including founder Bernsen.

About Powsumer

Founded in 2011, Powsumer is a consumer driven pricing site that is enticing to educated consumers everywhere. Powsumer brings together consumers into purchasing groups (“packs”) with social and web networks who demand the lowest price for things they want. Powsumer provides distributors, retailers, and manufacturers a conduit to sell at profitable margins.







SkyDroid – Golf GPS: Winning the Masters is Easy if You Practice with GPS powered by SkyDroid

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West Hartford, CT (PRWEB) March 28, 2013

As we approach the Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta National, the first major of 2013, we look back on how Bubba Watson pulled off his amazing 2012 win there.

During his practice round in 2012, Bubba used a GPS device powered by SkyDroid – Golf GPS course data. Bubba was using the MotoActv golf watch during practice which uses SkyDroid courses exclusively.

SkyDroid course data (which contains all the latitude/longitude points for the front, center, back of the golf greens and other features like hazards, target points, trees), is crowd sourced by SkyDroid’s user community. Users add new courses every single day of the year using the web based Course Mapper tool on the SkyDroid website.

Starting in 2010 with only a small number of courses, the SkyDroid database has grown in 2013 to over 25,000 golf courses covering the entire world. Using satellite imagery supplied by Google Maps (and Bing Maps in some cases), users can add new courses or update existing ones online and then download updates to their SkyDroid – Golf GPS app running on Android, iPhone and Blackberry 10 devices.

Bubba’s win at the Masters in 2012 proves that SkyDroid course data is at the top level, is super accurate, and can be used by pro and amateur golfers all over the world to help improve their game.







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Babe Ruth Leads the Race for Ranker's March Rankings of the Greatest Baseball Players Ever

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 28, 2013

Babe Ruth holds steady at #1 on Ranker’s “Greatest Baseball Players of All Time” list, a a crowd-sourced list on the consumer opinions website, Ranker.com. More than 900 people have voted on the list as of March, 2013 and the resounding sentiment is that the all-stars of the present don’t have anything on the great players of the past. At #16, Nolan Ryan- who last played with the Texas Rangers in 1993- is the most recent ball player to make the list (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim first baseman Albert Pujols is the top-ranking active player at #37).

The rest of the Top 10 Best Baseball Players are as follows:

1) Babe Ruth

2) Willie Mays

3) Lou Gehrig

4) Ted Williams

5) Ty Cobb

6) Hank Aaron

7) Stan Musial

8) Mickey Mantle

9) Joe Dimaggio

10) Honus Wagner

Baseball aficionado Andrew Tertitski, an ardent Yankees fan, disagrees with Babe Ruth’s top spot. Said Tertitski, “Babe Ruth was an amazing player, fun to watch I’m sure, but when it comes to the man that made the most impact for his team and for the game, there’s no one better than Lou Gehrig”. On the topic of new players being absent from the top rankings, he posited that “too many people question whether these new guys are great because of talent or drugs”.

See the full list of Top Baseball Players Ever, as well as 1000’s of other Sports lists at Ranker.com.

Ranker.com is the premier data source for aggregated consumer opinions. Over seven million people go to Ranker each month to view, rank and vote their opinions on matters both entertaining and practical. Ranker’s proprietary algorithms and datacentric approach to opinion aggregation deliver the most credible answers from “the best” to “the worst” across a wide range of topics including food, sports, travel, entertainment, cars and many others. For more information, visit Ranker.com.







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Lean Kanban North America Finalizes Speaker Lineup for April Management Conference

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Seattle, Washington (PRWEB) March 29, 2013

Lean Kanban North America 2013, part of the global conference series of the largest, highest quality Kanban events in the world, announces the final lineup of speakers for its management conference taking place April 28-May 2 in Chicago.

Organized by Lean-Kanban University (LKU), Lean Kanban North America is an international gathering of professionals who realize the value of Lean thinking. This year’s conference features the next wave of ideas on measurement, psychology of change, Kanban at scale, risk management, and core foundations of Kanban.

The event is for managers, developers, and change agents who value smart thinking, voracious learning, and constant improvement in the workplace. Attendees will meet and mingle with thought leaders, worldwide experts and Brickell Key Award winners who are the most-respected Lean and Kanban experts all sharing their knowledge under one roof.

Lean Kanban North America Keynote Speakers include:


    Bob Lewis, opening keynote and InfoWorld columnist, will convey why “Everything You Know Is Wrong.” This entertaining and thought-provoking talk explains what’s so disastrous about standard models for running IT organizations. Lewis presents a compelling alternative that won’t just drive better results, for IT and for the business it serves, but will make the job of leading and working in IT more satisfying and enjoyable as well.

    Douglas Hubbard, inventor of Applied Information Economics (AIE) and Chicago-based author of How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business, will describe how it is possible to measure any “intangible,” to think of risk like an actuary, and how to look at investment portfolios from a risk/return point-of-view.

    Stephen Parry is an international leader and strategist on the creation of service enterprises that are adaptive, innovative and engaging. This presentation based on the most recent research from work psychology will provide counter intuitive insights into the ‘industrial management’ mind set, its impact on the design of work and management behaviors.

Lean Kanban North America will feature nine renowned authors on the Main Stage, plus more than 40 invited speakers on six tracks that include Economics & Risk; Kanban at Scale; Kanban Foundations; Psychology & Sociology; Simulation, Games & Measurement; and The Change Agent.

In addition to the main program, LKNA13 authors, speakers and thought leaders will lead full-day Lean Tutorials – one-day or two-day interactive classes designed to provide participants with practical, hands-on knowledge they can use right away on Lean projects.

Attendees will also enjoy an additional 18 presenters with LKNA’s exciting and unique crowd-sourced Ignite talks that will drive the Lean Kanban conversation forward.

Conferences in the Lean Kanban global series provide unique training presentations and focus on helping IT groups within organizations to lower risk and improve predictability of delivery. For more information about the global Lean Kanban conference series endorsed by Lean-Kanban University, please contact Janice Linden-Reed, Lean-Kanban University Vice President of Marketing, at janice(at)leankanbanuniversity(dot)com.

About Lean Kanban North America

The Lean Kanban North America conference brings together professionals from around the world who realize the value of Lean thinking. This is the event for technology managers, business leaders, and change agents who want to build quality, predictable delivery, and a culture of continuous improvement into their organizations. The new Lean-Kanban North America conference continues the conversation started at our landmark conferences in Miami (2009), Atlanta (2010), Long Beach (2011), and Boston (2012). For more information and to register, please visit lkna.leankanban.com. You can also join the Lean Kanban North America discussion on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About Lean-Kanban University

Lean-Kanban University (LKU) works to assure the highest quality coaching and training on Kanban for knowledge work and service work worldwide. LKU Accredited Kanban Training™ program partners and Kanban Coaching Professionals™ follow the Kanban Method for evolutionary organizational change as originally developed by David J. Anderson.

The Lean-Kanban University Accredited Kanban Training Program exists to provide confidence to consumers about the quality of the Kanban training that they will receive. The program establishes the quality of Kanban training based on the status of 1) the organization, 2) the individual trainer, and 3) the training curriculum. Member organizations, their trainers and their training curriculums must meet the established criteria in all three areas in order to call their Kanban training “accredited” under the terms of the program.

For more information on Lean Kanban University programs, please visit leankanbanuniversity.com.







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Production Music Licensing Website RoyaltyFreeKings.com Announces Major Update

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 29, 2013

RoyaltyFreeKings.com has been busy with major under-the-hood updates, in preparation for a steady stream of new royalty free albums and tracks. The considerable addition to the catalog includes a eclectic selection of new albums, including western film music, solo piano and epic orchestral trailer music, all aimed primarily at independent producers.

Several new releases include: ‘Wild Wild West’; a royalty free western music album featuring sweeping orchestral film music and brooding western acoustic soundscapes, ‘Moody Piano’; solo royalty free piano tracks aimed at independent dramatic films and perfect as music for a documentary; and ‘Epic Worlds 3’; modern royalty free epic music designed for use in trailers and promos.

March has brought about a recent new milestone for RoyaltyFreeKings.com: 800,000 plays through their demo player (powered by SoundCloud.com). In their first year, RoyaltyFreeKings.com has become known throughout the world as a source of quality music. Traffic to the website and sales of the library’s downloadable background music have steadily increased each month as producers from every corner of the world have learned of the music licensing website, and the strict quality control that runs through the entire catalog.

Alongside the new tracks and albums, a wide selection of free-to-use production tracks is also available to anyone working with a low to medium budget (US$ 250,000 or less per project). The music is immediately downloadable and ready to use. This complimentary background music section has proved to be very popular with students, educators and charities around the world. The range of styles and genres in the music given away by RoyaltyFreeKings.com include: epic dramatic orchestral, ambient piano, jazz, comedy, rock and suspense tension.

The mission of RoyaltyFreeKings.com since launching in 2012 has been to make searching for background music for video production incredibly easy and streamlined. The crowd-sourcing business model (where anyone can upload music), like that used by many competing royalty free websites, has the benefit of a rapid expansion of content. The downside is that with so many tracks being uploaded, the catalog easily gets bloated with mediocre music that does little to enhance a project, whether it’s a commercial, wedding video, film or webisode. Producers looking through these crowd-sourcing music licensing websites have to spend significant time sifting through vast collections to find something they’d actually want to use, or worse – settle for something inferior just because they don’t have the time to continue searching.

By hand picking each track, RoyaltyFreeKings.com only allows in music that meets a strict standard of musicality and production value. The growing catalog of hand picked tracks at RoyaltyFreeKings.com is produced by an international group of over fifty award winning composers, including a pop rock producer in Finland, a Nashville based folk and country expert, a heavy metal specialist in Italy, a renowned acoustic guitar artist in Hawaii and several well known trailer music composers. The high quality of tracks from these composers results is a streamlined shopping experience where producers can find, purchase and download the music they need within just a few minutes.

A guiding principle for RoyaltyFreeKings.com is fair treatment of their content suppliers. The composers who provide the carefully vetted music are given an equal share of the sales, before any discounts a customer might receive. This is in sharp contrast to many of its competitors, some of whom are offering far less – 40%, 35%, or in some cases just 30% of the sales to composers.







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Celebrating the Service Economy in Minneapolis: An Unlikely Partnership Launches a Community into Action

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Minneapolis, Minnesota (PRWEB) March 29, 2013

Local startup Heroic (http://www.beheroic.com/) teams up with CRAVE Restaurants to celebrate the hardworking service economy in Minneapolis through a campaign called “Who Do You Love?” (http://www.beheroic.com/whodoyoulove). They are seeking recommendations from the public to discover little-known experts, artisans, and local craftsmen. The first 100 participants win a $ 20 gift card to CRAVE restaurants, and one will win one-year of free house cleaning.

Heroic is a newly formed community in the Twin Cities and is a free place for friends and neighbors to share recommendations of local service providers, like painters, carpenters, and mechanics. Who Do You Love is inspired by co-founders Dan Linstroth and Reed Robinson’s discovery of a little-known bike mechanic working out of his basement in Minneapolis named Sam Reinert.

“I discovered Sam through a recommendation from Reed and he blew me away with his service,” says Linstroth. “He’s an absolute expert, provides incredible customer service, and charges a neighborly price.”

By making this connection, the two friends began wondering how many people like Sam exist in the Twin Cities of other crafts. Who Do You Love was born, and they’re seeking word-of-mouth recommendations from the community to uncover more experts, just like Sam.

“These are the hardworking, honest people that make our neighborhoods run,” adds Linstroth. “They are the soul of our local economy and deserve to be recognized.”

Heroic is encouraging people to share by offering a limited number of Gift Cards to CRAVE restaurants and the chance to win one-year of free house cleaning.

“CRAVE was very generous in showing their support for this idea and Happy Earth Cleaning Company, another fantastic service provider, chipped in the incredible cleaning offer,” says Linstroth with excitement. “We’re very grateful for their participation.”    

The Who Do You Love campaign emphasizes the core of Heroic,“which is friends and neighbors sharing good old-fashioned referrals,” says Linstroth. “We want to facilitate this age-old, word-of-mouth behavior online while helping people like Sam get discovered.”

The service provider of the winning recommendation will also win prizes from Heroic. Professional photos and video plus a free premium upgrade on the site are all meant to celebrate the winning expert from the local service economy.

About Heroic

Heroic (http://www.beheroic.com/) is a free place for friends to share recommendations of favorite service providers. A personal referral from a friend or neighbor is the best source of information. Heroic is also free for service providers and will be incorporating a premium version in the future. The company is currently available in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul market and features service providers in 150 categories, all crowd-sourced and user-verified through personal recommendations. The company was founded by Justin Barrett (CEO), Ethan Otterlei (CTO), Reed Robinson (CPO), and Dan Linstroth (CMO).

Who Do You Love, Video [1:11] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OBQYkPQffs

The Heroic Story, Video [1:08] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7FtxCjjYY

Sam’s Story, Video [2:59] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIp_tOqqOjA







Quotes about Moving away from the Past

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Do you find it simple to go forward? Absolutely not, it is actually in no way simple to get rid of the past years. Generally, accumulating strength to advance in this reality can be one of the toughest challenges that you’ve dealt with. It is absolutely typical as well as quality of man’s instinct, to wish to cling recognizable and also to keep away from the fresh new or unfamiliar. We’re beings of habit. Most of us choose to think tomorrow will be much like last week – despite the fact that yesterday was in fact agonizing. It can take guts to create hard decision to actually transform the way a person is living, what career person desires, as well as what people a person considers good friends.

Fascinating Sayings on the subject of Moving forward from a Past years

– Don’t be sad because it’s ended. Be glad just because it actually took place

* Life is really like operating any kind of motorbike. To make sure you hold your current stability it’s essential to continue to move.

* To let go does not imply giving up … this would mean moving ahead

* Strength is not really minimal amount of concerns, but basically moving forward with self-esteem irrespective of concern.

— Awareness is finding out anything every day. Wisdom is to release some thing every single day

* Strength may be the ability to get rid of all the well-known

* Life will not be related to waiting for typhoon to pass … It is definitely about figuring out a way to have fun in rain.

— A few of us feel that actually holding on will make you tough, but at times it can be to release.

– Many of us may under no circumstances turn back the point in time, however we might wish to relive a cheerful point in time, or simply say goodbye only a single time, all of us under no circumstances are able to, simply because the rainfall of the time proceed to fall over

* The moment 1 entry closes a second doorway slides open; nevertheless most people gaze so very long toward the actual closed doorway, that any of us usually do not find out entrance that will open up before us

— We have to be completely ready to forget about the particular everyday life we have now thought out, so as to settle for life this really is expecting us

I hope you enjoyed each of these quotes! They may come to be very helpful each time you come to feel poor.

 

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