The Swine Flu (H1N1) is suddenly on the scene and it is on everybody’s mind.
Is it for real? Yes.
How can we react appropriately to protect ourselves and our families?
Adopt some safe habits and practice them
The main thing to do is to avoid getting the flu in the first place. The principal means of doing this are: Personal hygiene and avoidance of people with the flu.
The Passover Planner — plan and software – is available for free download. Experience In Software, Inc., developed it to make it easier for people to plan for the upcoming holiday. (Passover starts on Wednesday, April 8th at Sundown.)
You start with a 23-step plan for your Passover Seder. Then, you can add your own traditions, print out reminders and to-do lists, even make your own schedule.
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Dear Customers,
As you may have read in one of the emails we’ve recently set out, we have dedicated the month of February to being green. It is a myth that being green and being economical are mutually exclusive; in fact, the opposite is true. The green movement’s primary value is efficiency. This does not merely mean resource efficiency, but also economic efficiency. While one goal is to efficiently use our natural resources, another is to efficiently utilize human resources. It is in this type of efficiency where Project KickStart shines. KickStart’s streamlined interface will allow you to churn out projects in a way that will reduce person-hours and ultimately reduce the amount of resources required for the project. It will make you remember that through clarity and simplicity you are, ultimately, more likely to determine what projects will be successful and what projects will be duds.
Dear Project KickStart fans and customers,
We are now part of the social networking scene! Please feel free to visit our Facebook page at your leisure or view our newly posted tutorials on YouTube. If you have a Facebook, feel free to friend request us and become fans. We’ll routinely have new blog posts, helpful advice, and perhaps even a couple discount sales. If you do not want to be left in the dust when all of our other customers are getting great deals, being our fan is a must!
The future of Project KickStart is bright. Oh, it is very bright.
The first four versions of our software (five if you count the DOS version) have had gray backgrounds. We have been relentless in our efforts to make the product as functional, intuitive and powerful as possible. Even so, one day, it dawned upon us: gray was so last decade. So we figured that Project KickStart 5’s Pro and Standard versions will feature beautiful new user interfaces.
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Hello, faithful readers, it’s Jeffrey Lane. I graduated in June from a small high school in Oakland, CA and am headed down to UC San Diego in just a few weeks to begin the next phase of my life. I spent my summer working full-time for Experience in Software, makers of Project KickStart. As an intern at a smaller company like ours, I was something of a jack-of-all-trades. Perhaps you spoke to me on the phone, it’s very possible that you read a promotional email I helped write and just maybe, you’ll soon be benefiting from an idea or two of mine. I think I’ll just keep that one vague for the time being.
I’ve had a couple of jobs before, but this is the first desk job for me. Though I had visited my mom’s office in San Francisco a few times, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this office, given that it was a much smaller company in Berkeley. Would I be a world of suits and ties, corporate lingo and TPS reports? To make a long story short, I wasn’t. Here I sit, clad in jeans and a sweatshirt from my high school lacrosse team, and I have never been lectured about any missing cover sheets. Read the rest of this entry »
This week, nations from every continent and every corner of the world will be drawn together by a global event: the Olympics. Tens of millions of fans will be glued to their televisions, radios and internet browsers, eager to see how well their countrymen fare on an international stage.
Many of these viewers spend the rest of their years competing on a large stage themselves. Instead of medals, however, they seek market share. And while the USA seems poised for Olympic success this year, our economy has seen better days. Even in countries whose economies are flourishing, the quest for efficiency continues.
We know this because Project KickStart is sold internationally every day. From Canada to Belgium to East Timor, our beloved project management software meets receptive customers in places as diverse and far-reaching as the Olympians themselves.
Ultimately, we don’t see international customers any differently than our customers here in the States. They have the same needs: complete project planning and straight-forward but powerful project management tools. We’re thrilled that people around the world enjoy using our software and we hope we can help them compete on global stage, whether that means expanding their customer base, carrying out an important construction project, raising funds for a great cause or planning lessons to educate the next generation.
You could even use Project KickStart to plan an Olympic training regimen. We’ve never heard of it being used that way, but who knows? Maybe it’s the secret weapon of an Olympian or two.
It’s no secret that many individuals and business are feeling the economic strain of a weak US economy. As a result, companies have begun to reexamine their business processes with a critical eye on efficiency. In a world of deflating property values, a weak dollar and $4 per gallon gas (yes, Europe, we know you think that’s next to free), companies are definitely counting the pennies.
When a company’s financial resources decrease, other tangible and intangible resources seem to dwindle as well. The workforce may become smaller. Employees might be more isolated than usual. The company may be too focused on stopping the monetary bleeding to plan for the future. Read the rest of this entry »