The specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, has contributed funds towards goals and other equipment at St Margaretsbury Football Club. Its donation - part of the company’s on-going corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitment – was prompted by a request from John Waites, of London-based City Interiors, who is connected with St [...]
This book review has been prepared for the Baptist Minister’s Journal. Dynamics of a Journey to Conflict Prevention and Peace in Israel and Palestine through an Olympic Sport By Geoffrey Victor Whitfield Published by: Emeth Press ISBN: 978-1-60947-025-8 The ‘Baptist minister and therapist’, the Rev Geoffrey Whitfield MBE is no stranger to writing about [...]
According to a survey commissioned by Google and carried out in January this year, organisations’ chief financial officers (CFOs) are becoming more involved in IT decisions. The survey (http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2164416/google-survey-cfos-set-bigger-decisions#ixzz1qWaMcRvb) showed that half of the respondents believe that increased levels of cloud adoption will result in the closer involvement of the CFO in areas more traditionally [...]
To mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, Premier Media has produced a list of the 60 most influential Christians during that time. Under the headings of ‘church’, ‘charity’, ‘the arts’, ‘sport. ‘leaders’, ‘science’, ‘academia’, ‘business’, ‘politics’ and ‘youth’, those named include Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu, Sir Harry Secombe, Dame Judi Dench, JRR Tolkien, Graham Kendrick, [...]
Revas, the outsourcing arm of Baker Tilly - the international provider of accountancy and business advisory services - is using ‘Active Analytics’ from LogiXML (www.LogiXML.com) to build financial apps that have drastically improved operational efficiency. This not only delivers better operational insight to Baker Tilly Revas clients, but also saves the company significant time in [...]
Mike Penning, the Member of Parliament for Hemel Hempstead and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, has visited the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King. While there, he found out about Waste King’s many environmentally-friendly waste and recycling initiatives and congratulated the company and its staff on their award-winning environmentally [...]
Anticipating the imminent launch of Articulate Storyline – which claims to be the latest in desktop authoring tools - Omniplex, the e-learning solutions provider, has scheduled the first training courses relating to this tool. According to Helen Smirthwaite, Omniplex’s Community Manager, Omniplex has already sold a number of licences for Storyline – in advance [...]
Marcel Proust said that the secret of discovery is not to find new lands but to see with new eyes. This is the key to success when introducing new learning technology into any organisation. Some tips for learning technology success are: Partner with others - but be smart about it. You can benefit by [...]
The term ‘e-learning’ was first coined in the mid-1990s. Before that, it was ‘computer based training. Over the last 20 years or so, if the idea has been to harvest the promise of e-learning in every aspect of corporate learning, what has obscured that reality?’ If you ask an engineer to build a bridge [...]
Who was Shostakovich’s favourite tenor in the role of Zinovy, in his opera, Katerina Ismailova? Which world famous tenor urinated – unintentionally – on his dresser? And who did the world famous soprano, Marilyn Horne, ask to play with her breasts one day on the Covent Garden stage? The answers – along [...]
