TEDGlobal 2013
Event Name: TEDGlobal 2013
Date: 10th – 14th June, 2013
Location: Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Organizer: TED Conferences LLC
As all we can see in this world, there appears to be a radical transformation within the creating, and a brand new world rising at the intersection of once-separated realities. Technology intrudes into biology and society. Disciplines merge and pollinate. Power and authority are being distributed and decentralised. Hopes and anxieties collide.
TEDGlobal 2013 will bring together those who venture to change our perspective, who ask different questions, illuminate old problems with a new light in order to find better answers, cope with ambiguity, detect the weak signals pointing to a different future, and challenge us to pause for an instant, and Think Again.
TEDGlobal will be woven into the city of Edinburgh, making the most of its landmarks and event spaces. Special activities will include TED University, exclusive tours and visits, evening social events and more. These activities will be open to registered participants only.
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Posted by BusinessVibes on 2013-05-24 01:15
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Global Stocks React to Asian Market Losses
Market shares in Japan and China fell this Thursday after months of healthy activity. Chinese factory data was released showing a decline in activity for the first time in seven months and Japan's Nikkei index fell seven per cent. Global markets reacted to these numbers as investors moved to safer assets and news outlets predicted slow global economic growth.
Asian markets weren't the only ones experiencing losses. The US manufacturing sector saw limited growth this month and the Eurozone is expecting a second economic contraction in Q2. Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, also released a statement this week indicating a slowdown in US bond buying practices that could have led to Thursday's poor market performance.
Pundits are blaming current global market conditions for the slump. Much of the recent economic recovery has been liquitidy-driven which is threatening stocks in particular. Market volatility is likely to continue until concerns over Bernanke's bond buying policies subside.
The over one per cent spike in interest rates charged on Japan’s 10-year bond is being blamed for the Nikkei’s fall. This dip comes despite the Nikkei being the best-performing major index this year.
Copper and oil prices fell on Thursday due to Chinese factory data, sending Brent oil value down sharply from its high in February of $119.17 a barrel. Copper trading prices fell 2.6 per cent in reaction to Chinese market news. Despite this, the yen climbed more than 2 per cent against the US dollar.
Other market updates include:
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iShare's MSCI Emerging Markets Index fell 1.7 per cent, its biggest slump of this year.
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The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) fell by 0.89 per cent.
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The S&P 500 dropped 16.39 points, putting it on track for its first back-to-back drop in a month.
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German bond futures were up to 145.09.
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The Dow Jones Industrial fell 75.55 points.
- In Europe, the FTSX 100 index was down 1.9 per cent.
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Posted by BusinessVibes on 2013-05-24 12:29| Total comments: 0
Marketing Automation: A Critical Piece of Your Marketing Puzzle
Content creation, lead generation, inbound marketing—these are the hot topics in marketing today. With marketers clamoring to keep up with this ever changing industry, any chance to stand out, get ahead or gain a competitive edge often becomes part of the mix as soon as it is introduced.
Yet, there is one area of marketing that just isn’t getting the attention it deserves.
· It eliminates many of the arduous manual tasks that drain a marketer’s valuable time
· It drives revenue and increases efficiency
· It aids every aspect of analyzing, measuring and testing
..But it doesn’t get nearly as much buzz as some of the less effective and less valuable aspects of marketing.
It’s marketing automation.
So, if this technology is such a vital component, why isn’t it more popular?
Simply put, it is just that new. The features and benefits of marketing automation have not permeated the market. Not yet, anyway.
Early adopters have been utilizing this system since it first entered the market several years ago, and here is why, it allows your business to:
• Add touch points to prospects at any stage of the funnel, scaling inside sales efforts.
• Track and analyze specific campaigns based on their influence to the sales funnel. It is not just about closed deals but your price per MGQ, SQL, Opportunity, etc.
• Scale a large lead volume and improve the efficiency of inside sales.
• Keep the sales team up to date and alerted to any and all tracked activity including lead source, website hits, opened emails, and more. Leads can be tracked all the way through the funnel.
• Ability to send personalized, timely and targeted content that would not otherwise be scalable.
• Able to track and stay in front of a lead after it in generated so that no costly lead is lost.
• Complete alignment of sales and marketing alignment.
Bottom line, demand generation is the overall theme, consisting of inbound marketing that feeds marketing automation. Marketing automation will soon be as necessary to the puzzle as content creation or social media, but as with anything in this ever changing world of marketing: fall behind and you will stay behind.
BIO: Jonathan Beaton is the Director of Marketing for iDatix Corporation. You can find iDatix on Facebook and Twitter.
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Posted by BusinessVibes on 2013-05-23 02:58
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Mate - Mobile Application Technology Expo 2013
Date: 30 – 31 May
Venue: Central Exhibition Hall Artplay, Moscow, Russia
Organizer: Smile Expo
On May 30-31 2013 in Moscow (Russia) at the Design Center ARTPLAY will be taking place Mobile Applications and Technology Expo (MATE Expo). The exhibition will open its doors for prominent professionals and experts, as well as developers with wide experience of different companies in a search for solutions, innovations and practical experience, and to show the current trends, technologies and achievements across the world on the PDA market.
Mobile Application & Technology Expo (MATE) – this is an exhibition dedicated to business in mobile networks, with the following main activities:
• Mobile applications for all business areas
• Mobile games
• Mobile advertising
• Partnership (affiliate) marketing
• Monetization of applications
• Attraction of investments
• E-commerce
Our participants:
Unlead Media Group, Eski.Mobi, 2Гис, Dr.Web, Tamzap, Polonium Arts, MobiAds, Favorit Systems, PlayDisplay, Get Taxi, Feedbacker, Help Line, ID Company, E-Commerce, etc.
Educational platform МАТЕ will allow identifying the dominant tendencies of the market development and their prospects in Russia and CIS countries, to acquaint with the latest technologies and up-to-date trends in the field of development of mobile applications, to adopt skills of key specialists in one of the largest dynamically emerging branch. On the conference within
the Exhibition mentors will share their practical experience and not only tell stories of success of the particular developers, but also expose a lot of aspects:
• Investments in “mobile projects”
• Outsourcing development of a product
• Usability of mobile interfaces
• Digital and mobile publishing
Participants will get an opportunity to discuss content consumption and providers ensuring of personalized steam by means of mobile games, technical support of rising volume of application programs, choosing of applications themes, estimation of target group and interaction with mobile software customers. Business program MATE will touch upon the issue of mobile technologies in health care service, financial and banking sectors, marketing and advertising as well as present a wide variety of built-in and cloud applications.
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Measuring Employee Performance and Productivity
You’re setting up a new Employee of the Month program and you want an easier way to track the employees’ performance. If your business already has an employee review system, you’re off to a good start. Otherwise, it’s time to set one up. So how do you review and rate employees and how do you measure productivity?
By using an employee performance evaluation form, you can assess a worker’s knowledge of their job, rate their performance and productivity, as well as determine how dependable the worker is. Monthly or quarterly, managers can hold evaluations and conduct inspections to test who is really exceling at their job. Unexpected visits or shadowing can go a long way in exposing a slack work ethic.
As we all know, there are truly hard workers and then there are workers who will pretend to be the dedicated employee only on the day their boss is around but, when that time is over, they go back to a sub-par way of handling their work. This is why unexpected visits to your business and monitoring help you really see what’s going on and rate your employees on how they perform every day.
Is performance measured based solely on productivity?
When evaluating performance, some managers look only at productivity. Productivity can be measured by reviewing the employment history folder (personnel file), which includes all the pertinent information on the employee: awards won, attendance/tardiness, rating received at performance (salary) reviews, etc. Employee and team/division goals should be included with notes on whether the goals were achieved.
An employee with a good record of punctuality, productivity, and recognition has demonstrated that they are a benefit to your business. But you may want to consider grading their performance on factors other than productivity.
Should performance be measured on profitability?
Depending on the quality of the work, the type of business you have, and the type of customers you have, you know your ability to be profitable. Your employees can directly affect your level of profitability. Some managers base reviews on bottom line numbers. They have employees who may be productive – but if they are not working as efficiently as possible, or aren’t following certain procedures, then the work they are doing is not as profitable to the business as it could be. But is it fair to judge performance only on the profits made?
How about a combination?
Ultimately, the staff members who are most effective for your business are both productive (performance oriented) and profit-focused. A good way to conduct reviews and measure performance is by looking not only at their rate and pace of work (productivity) but their bottom line contributions as well. Do they contribute to profits? Weighing these things accordingly for review and feedback purposes is your challenge as a manager.
Do you review results with employees routinely or on a once a year basis?
Giving employees a performance review is sort of like grading them for their work. It could benefit you to do it more than once a year. This way, they can constantly stay up-to-date and will not be worried about not doing a good job, or having to wait a year to know their evaluation results. Speaking to them more frequently can nip work-related problems in the bud and avoid mistakes or inefficiencies.
At the end of the day, you have to measure performance and provide feedback to employees. How well you do these tasks – and what you take away from the process – is up to you.
Guest blog for BusinessVibes - Stephanie Thomas writes articles focused on the latest trends in employee motivation and recognition.
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UK’s Food Market Overview
The food industry in UK has been one of the industries showing strong resilience since the economic downturn few late 2010s, of which the agriculture food sector has seen the most powerful recovery with contribution of £96.1 billion to the country’s economy, or 7.3% of the Gross Value Added in 2011, that is also an 7.8% growth from previous year.
Today’s food industry in UK has employment of over 3.3 million people by 2012, including 3.8 million of self employed farmers working in agriculture and fishing sectors. The whole employment in food industry covered about 13 percent of total labour market in UK.
According to the latest report Food Statistics Pocketbook by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the food market in UK has seen its total factor productivity grew in 2011 by 0.7 percent, which kept rising gradually for almost a decade, while food manufacture and food wholesale still in the leading position.
The report also found that with the value of £26.4 billion, UK’s food and drink manufacturing sector was the biggest contributor to gross value added within the whole food industry in 2011, then followed by food and drink retailing sector – with £26.1 billion worth, and the non residential catering sector – with £25.2 billion.
In terms of food expenditure in UK, the spending on food, drink and catering has had a constant growth even during the economic shrink – the number reached £179 billion in 2011, which was 3.5% up from previous year. The spending on alcoholic drinks recorded 9.1% increase - a highest increase in year 2011, while spend on food was up by 3.1%, catering decreased 0.9% in the same year. Although the research indicates that consumers in UK are eating out in 2012 more than last two years, the spending on the whole food industry has declined.
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Terabit 2013
Title: Terabit 2013
Date: June 4 – 5, 2013
Location: Sheraton Fishermans Wharf Hote
Organizer: Informa Telecoms & Media
Terabit 2013 will provide the capacity and bandwidth needed to meet the exponential increase in customer demand for data and to support the future internet Future proofing the network to manage the big data explosion, http://terabitevent.com
Who should attend:
Fixed & Mobile Operators/Carriers, Equipment Vendors, Optical solution providers, content providers, enterprise, associations and standard bodies, Analysts
Who should exhibit:
Equipment Vendors
Why you should join:
First to market event on Terabit, targeted networking, unique industry speakers and insights, future proof your network and business. Cutting edge innovations, long established audience
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The Prevailing Trends for Event Venues London: Catering and Entertainment
There are essentially two types of event venues London where catering and entertainment are concerned: those that offer their own (usually as part of a package); and those that allow the hirer to specify particular vendors. There may be some crossover between the two, in that some venues may be happy to offer either. For the sake of simplicity, though, this discussion will deal with the two as separate – that is, as venues that offer their own services, and “blank canvas” venues; which hire themselves out as a space with no extras.
A blank canvas venue may be used by a hirer who has very specific requirements for everything, from the decoration of the place to the catering and entertainment enjoyed inside it. Typical requirements of this nature may include book and product launches, where specific catering elements or entertainment are matched to the nature of the product or the book in question.
The event venues which provide full service, with catering and entertainment included, may usefully be thought of as venues hired for the purposes of staff parties and client entertainment, where the substance of the evening (in its detail) is not as important as the fact that it happened. In other words – where the client or the staff are required simply to have fun, it often behoves the venue hirer to leave the nuts and bolts of the evening’s layout to a package.
One of the clear advantages of a package for any hirer is the ability to control a budget with an obvious per heads price. This may be true of third party caterers and entertainment vendors, who come into a blank canvas venue to ply their trade – but the difference here is that the client must first source all three elements of the evening, before he or she can get a proper idea of the overall cost.
Where catering and entertainment are already provided in package deals, the hirer can match venue costs at a glance and may be seen as providing a simpler service for a busy client.
Event venues London providing package services may provide different levels of catering according to the requirements of the client. Entertainment usually stays the same regardless of the package – this is because it is partly the existence of the entertainment that attracts clients to use the venue in question.
Catering packages are roughly determined by event type and venue size. A smaller venue may run a series of event packages where different levels of buffet food are included for different prices; and may adjust the quantity and type of free alcohol accordingly as well. A medium sized venue may offer a seated catering package, again with levels of food service (number of course, for example) and different levels of alcohol service according to per head price.
Where catering is brought in by a third party, the hirer may again be offered different levels of service for different prices – though in these cases, again, the cost is added to venue hire rather than part of it.
Guest blog for BusinessVibes : Rossi Lemon is a freelance content writer by profession. She finds immense pleasure in writing event venue-related articles including event venues London.
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Fashion Industry and Social Media Embrace
Fashion brands fusing with social media has become a new trend nowadays as more and more consumers are turning to social media to express their interests, opinions and recommendations regarding their fashion purchases.
According to a survey in the US conducted by 8thBRIDGE, the current situation is:
70% of people would rather prefer to hear about a new product from a friend on Facebook, than from advertising.
57% of people have asked friends on social media for advice on buying a product
69% of people would share their purchased products on social media
64% of people said that more Facebook “likes” on a product will increase their chance of buying that product
From fashion industry point of view, it is also a marketing strategy that allows brands to interact with their target customers through social media. Thereby the term - social commerce IQ has been introduced to describe how smart the brands are through social media engagement.
Following infographic made by 8thBRIDGE features how the convergence of fashion, social media and Ecommerce influences consumer behaviour.
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PAPER-ME 2013
Title: PAPER-ME 2013
Date: November 28- 30, 2013
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Organizer: Nile Trade Fairs
PAPER-ME 2013, The 5th International Exhibition & Conference for Paper, Board, Tissue, Printing & Packaging, which will be held in 28th Nov 2013, at Cairo International Convention Center (CICC), Cairo, Egypt
PAPER-ME 2013 specialized in all paper manufacturing and allied industries “Paper, Board, Tissue, chemicals, Printing & Packaging Industry ", So you will find all industries which serve and cover Paper Industrial under one umbrella.
PAPER-TECH 2013 Conference, the Paper Industry Technical Conference planned to be held in conjunction with PAPER-ME 2013 Exhibition in November 29, 2013 at Cairo International Convention Center (CICC), Cairo, Egypt.
PAPER-TECH 2013 is a unique opportunity to address paper industry moves, situations and challenges including cost reduction, energy conservation, recycling , quality control, improving performance, production optimization, sustainability, measurements water, waste water, and to provide various approaches to solve it effectively that suit the needs of every individual plant.
Who should attend:
Paper mills, Paper manufactories, Packaging factories, Packaging & Wrapping equipment companies, Food & beverage processing lines, Printing companies, Tissue plants, Chemical industries, Petrochemical industries, Textile industries, Converting and printing machinery, Disposable products manufactories, Waste Recycling, Pharmaceutical industries, Electrical industry & electronics factories, Chemicals and other raw materials, Jumbo rolls and finishing products
Who should exhibit:
Pulp, Paper & Corrugated Board
- Corrugated board making technology
- Suppliers of second Hand & reconditioned machines& equipment
- Recycling paper machines and technology
- Paper Core machines
- Paper Converting machines
- Paper Stationary
- Laminating machinery
- Coated and Uncoated paper
- Used machinery
- Pulping & fiber treatment
Tissue
- Tissue making and converting equipment & machinery
- Tissue technology and software
- Raw materials
Printing
- Printing equipment and technology
- Sheetfed- and web printing systems
- Inkjet
- Print origination equipment
- Print finishing and binding equipment
- Plates and plate making equipment
- On-press ancillary equipment and controls
- Press room handling equipment
- Used machinery
Packaging
- Packaging Equipment Machinery, Technology, Services
- Fill and seal machines
- Post Processing Machinery
- Paper & Board
- Food Technology and Processing equipment
- Bottling and canning systems
- Wrapping and packaging machines
Others
- Water Treatment
- Process aids
- Instruments and systems for measure, test, control and managements
- Process control devices
- Conveyor belts
- Logistics
- Media
Why you should join:
The Middle East & African markets for paper is expected to continue to grow in the near future
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