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GetGoals Selected as a Finalist Presenter at 2nd Annual Statewide Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge on June 27

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Chico, CA (PRWEB) June 25, 2013

The Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge is the only statewide Most Innovative Product Competition focused principally on California businesses located outside of San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and San Diego. Each finalist is charged with demonstrating in a 6-minute presentation format how their new product will change the world, an industry, people’s lives or the environment in a positive, meaningful way. Over 70 industry experts from throughout California will be on-site serving as judges including CEOs, media representatives, angel investors, venture capitalists, university and government officials and corporate executives.

According to Innovate North State Managing Director Jon Gregory, who serves as the Executive Producer of the event, “the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge represents a once-a-year hotbed of the best innovation occurring in emerging markets of California.” He continued, “We were impressed with GetGoals’ game-changing innovation and are honored to have the company compete as one of the finalists based on their solution to people’s need to effectively achieve goals and ultimate productivity to choose, create and live their best lives.”

“We are honored to share GetGoals with the prestigious Sierra Nevada Innovate Challenge audience and compete for the 2013 Most Innovative New Product. GetGoals’ vision is to empower every internet-connected individual on the planet to live their best lives via achieving goals and building desired habits” says Founder and CEO Katie Elizabeth.

ABOUT GetGoals

GetGoals’ mission is to empower people to create positive change in their lives via achieving goals and actualizing desired habits. The mobile and web platform supports the structure and motivation that allows users to most effectively pursue their best selves and ultimate productivity. The proprietary technology combines behavioral science, gamification and social connectivity to ignite and sustain motivation within a framework that is customized to each individual’s success style.

ABOUT INNOVATE NORTH STATE

Innovate North State (http://www.innovate-northstate.com) – a public/private partnership driven by CEOs of leading California North State businesses – was established in early 2012. Innovate North State’s goal is to assist the region’s most innovative companies who have the largest growth potential garner a larger share of their national and global markets resulting in a more vibrant regional economy. It focuses on 5 key industry sectors: Sustainable Agriculture and Food; Manufacturing and Consumer Products; Cleantech and Environmental; Web, Mobile, and IT; and Healthcare and Medical Technology. With the mantra of “connecting to compete” Innovate North State’s strategy involves helping innovative companies connect with each other and also to vital resources located outside the region, making the North State the most economically competitive non-metropolitan region in the U.S. by 2017.

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SyTrue Has Been Selected as a Finalist Presenter at the 2nd Annual Statewide Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge on June 27

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Chico, CA (PRWEB) June 25, 2013

SyTrue™ has been selected to compete among 50 finalist companies from throughout California vying for a GLOBIE award as the 2013 Most Innovative New Product in non-metro California. A GLOBE Award will be presented in each of five industry categories, including Food and Ag, Web and Information Technology, Cleantech, Manufacturing, and Healthcare. Presented by Innovate North State, the Innovation Challenge is scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on June 27 at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company’s prestigious “Big Room” auditorium in Chico CA.

The Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge is the only state-wide Most Innovative Product Competition focused principally on California businesses located outside of San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and San Diego. Each finalist is charged with demonstrating in a 6-minute presentation format how their new product will change the world, an industry, people’s lives or the environment in a positive, meaningful way. Over 70 industry experts from throughout California will be on-site serving as judges including CEOs, media representatives, angel investors, venture capitalists, university and government officials and corporate executives.

According to Innovate North State Managing Director Jon Gregory, who serves as the Executive Producer of the event, “the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge represents a once-a-year hotbed of the best innovation occurring in emerging markets of California.” He continued, “We were impressed with Sytrue’s game-changing innovation and are honored to have the company compete as one of the finalists. We strongly feel that SyTrue™ is an important solution that addresses the most pressing challenges in Healthcare.”

“SyTrue is a breakthrough in physician workflow by capturing complete and accurate clinical documentation while identifying and correlating other critical data points that provide insight into care. Achieving a world where information is presented rather than sought will have a profound impact on a healthcare organization’s quality of care, reputation, and profitability.” said Kyle Silvestro, Founder and CEO of SyTrue.

SyTrue’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) utilizes intelligent search technologies to identify specific patient types in unstructured or structured data, which require physician follow up or needed care. SyTrue’s business and clinical intelligence platform has created a pathway for physicians to be proactive in providing needed care while improving outcomes and patient satisfaction.

SyTrue’s solution seamlessly integrates and structures disparate information, producing a truly longitudinal and comprehensive view of the patient population from transcribed reports. The platform allows providers to gain unparalleled insights into patient populations while improving care. SyTrue represents a major leap forward in medical search and clinical analytics technology, while improving reimbursement for physicians.

SyTrue, Inc.

SyTrue™ uses intelligent natural language processing to create vastly more usable data (from unstructured and structured sources) in seconds. Currently focused on medical record data from transcribed physician reports using or not using an electronic medical record system, SyTrue™ allows health systems, physician groups, clinical researchers and pharmaceutical companies to mine their multi-sourced clinical data. Until now, only billing or EMR-keyed data was usable this way. SyTrue™ in short, creates a longitudinal record for patient populations (from multiple systems) and makes it usable in seconds. http://www.sytrue.com.

Innovate North State

Innovate North State (http://www.innovate-northstate.com) – a public/private partnership driven by CEOs of leading California North State businesses – was established in early 2012. Innovate North State’s goal is to assist the region’s most innovative companies who have the largest growth potential garner a larger share of their national and global markets resulting in a more vibrant regional economy. It focuses on 5 key industry sectors: Sustainable Agriculture and Food; Manufacturing and Consumer Products; Cleantech and Environmental; Web, Mobile, and IT; and Healthcare and Medical Technology. With the mantra of “connecting to compete” Innovate North State’s strategy involves helping innovative companies connect with each other and also to vital resources located outside the region, making the North State the most economically competitive non-metropolitan region in the U.S. by 2017.







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Bright Employment Report: The Labor Market Gained 172,000 Net Jobs in June 2013

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 02, 2013

Employment increased by 172,000 net jobs from June to July 2013 according to the June 2013 Bright Employment Report, which is produced by Bright Media Corporation and Bright.com. The report is derived from one of the nation’s largest aggregations of job postings and resumes. This data is supplemented with government, financial, real estate, and other data sources, in order to measure changes in nonfarm private employment through a novel method utilizing inter-temporal substitution, regression, and labor supply.

Two other reports issued by Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and Automatic Data Inc. (ADP) also include monthly estimates of net jobs created. For their monthly Current Population Survey (CPS; household survey), which derives their net non-farm jobs created estimate, BLS collects data each month from the payroll records of a sample of approximately 145,000 nonagricultural business establishments. ADP also uses payroll data, however their estimate focuses on the payrolls of private businesses in their system. Thus, these three metrics from Bright, BLS, and ADP each examine unique aspects of the labor market.

This month’s estimate of 172,000 net jobs created comes on the heels of last month’s report by the BLS indicating that 175,000 jobs were created in May, compared with 177,000 estimated by Bright.

About Bright.com

Bright was founded in 2011, and has raised over $ 10 million in financing from Silicon Valley institutional and angel investors. A first in the market, Bright is not just an innovation in online job search. Our mission is to move the labor market faster via data science and engineering.

The Bright Score alleviates the lengthy and expensive task of finding the right fit between a position and a qualified candidate. Recruiters can locate the most qualified candidates within seconds, greatly reducing the time spent searching for top prospects and sifting through applicants. And now job seekers can automatically apply to jobs where they have the best chance of attracting the attention of hiring managers.

In order to accomplish this, our data science and engineering teams analyze the hiring trends of every company and industry in every city in the United States. For more information about Bright, visit our websites at Bright.com and Bright.com/labs © Copyright 2013, Bright.com. All Rights Reserved.

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The Year In Review – Part 1: January to June

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The Year In Review – Part 1: January to June
“The average American kid spends 53 hours per week watching a screen of some kind—and almost no time outdoors,” said Mike Weilbacher, executive director of the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. “That's ….. While many business and …
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3 Ways to Make Your New Year's Resolution Stick, 1 Week Later
There's little chance that a wage subsidy program would make its way through Congress, to say nothing of his plan to devolve anti-poverty programs to the states. … To avoid being sued by the state of Montana, Mortenson and CAI signed a settlement …
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Here's a summary of the second six months of the year that just passed. July. The New York State Legislature has approved … The Yates County and Benton Planning Boards had approved the development plans. About 60 people turned out July 20 to build …
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Reckless Reforms
In its executive summary, the report clearly calls for an end to "government collection and storage of mass, undigested, non-public personal information about U.S. persons for the purpose of enabling future queries and data-mining for foreign …
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RecruitMilitary Career Fair for Military Veterans and Military Spouses Coming to San Francisco on June 28

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 4, 2007

The military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary (http://www.recruitmilitary.com) will present a free hiring event for job seekers who have military backgrounds in San Francisco on Thursday, June 28. This event, the RecruitMilitary Career Fair, will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the baseball stadium AT&T Park. The career fair will be open to veterans who already have civilian work experience, men and women who are transitioning from active duty to civilian life, members of the National Guard and reserves, and military spouses. More than 30 veteran-friendly organizations will conduct one-on-one interviews with the job seekers — organizations that will include corporate employers, law-enforcement agencies and other government employers, educational institutions, veterans service agencies, and veterans associations.

RecruitMilitary will produce the San Francisco Career Fair in cooperation with The American Legion; HireVetsFirst, a unit of the United States Department of Labor; and the Military Spouse Corporate Career Network (MSCCN). The event will be the 19th of 45 RecruitMilitary Career Fairs scheduled for 2007. During 10 such events produced from January through April, an average of 30-plus organizations interviewed an average of over 500 job seekers. The line-up for San Francisco already includes F.A. Bartlett Tree Experts, First Command Financial Planning, Stockton Police Department, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Hanson Building Materials, ARS – ServiceMaster Clean/Furniture Medic, Bisk Education, Inc./University Alliance, DeVry University, Denny’s, Inc., Boston Scientific Corp, Cisco Systems, Oldcastle Architectural, Inc., Woodmen of the World, and many more.

The American Legion is an association of veterans who served during times of war. The Legion has 2.7 million members in nearly 15,000 posts throughout the world. The National Commander of the American Legion is Paul A. Morin, an Army veteran, of Chicopee, Massachusetts. The Commander of the Department of California is Charlie M. Eskridge, also an Army veteran. Congress chartered The American Legion in 1919. HireVetsFirst was created by Congress in 2002 to develop awareness among employers of the outstanding attributes of men and women who are transitioning from active duty to civilian life. The Military Spouse Corporate Career Network was founded in 2004 to provide career opportunities and job portability for military spouses. The organization is made up of military spouses, caregivers to war wounded, and retired military personnel. The President and founder is Deb Kloeppel, a military spouse.

RecruitMilitary, based in Cincinnati, connects employers with job seekers who have military backgrounds. All of the company’s owners, officers, account executives, and recruiters are either veterans or active or former reservists. In addition to participation in career fairs, RecruitMilitary offers subscriptions to its database of self-registered job seekers who have military backgrounds, currently numbering more than 156,000, at its Web site, http://www.recruitmilitary.com ; advertising in online and print media; and contingency and retained hiring services. The company mails more than 53,000 copies of a quarterly, print newsletter called Incoming! to over 230 military bases throughout the world for distribution to transitioning personnel; employers advertise their job openings in Incoming! The President of RecruitMilitary is Drew Myers, formerly a Captain in the United States Marine Corps. The company was founded in 1998.

RecruitMilitary produced 13 career fairs in 2006. More than 225 organizations and over 8,000 job seekers attended those events. The career fairs generated television coverage by CNBC, ABC, NBC, and CNN; radio coverage by ESPN and numerous regional stations; and articles in several newspapers.

Contact:

Drew Myers

President

RecruitMilitary, LLC

Phone 800-226-0841

drew @ recruitmilitary.com

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