Subject: Call for Nominations for Supporters of Minorities in Emerging, Digital and Research Science Technologies
Dear Friends,
Trailblazers are outstanding men and women actively creating new paths for others in emerging technologies, digital technologies, science, technology, research and development. Some are experienced executives who continuously seek innovative products or lines of thought, some are breaking new ground at the midpoint of their careers, and others are recent grads who show pioneering promise. But regardless of their career point, they distinguish themselves by constantly setting their sights higher, striving to innovate, and opening doors for others. This is a great opportunity for you to recognize a deserving employee.
To submit a nominee for these multicultural awards, please complete the information in this form and select “Done” when completed. We recommend that you submit your nominee as soon as possible. All that is required is a resume.
Members of this year's class of Trailblazers will be recognized on Thursday, February 16-18, 2012 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtownat the Trailblazers Recognition Luncheon. Be someone's CHAMPION today!
Here is a link to the online nomination form:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mirs
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Center for Homeland Security seeks essay entrants
r top finalist essays will be considered for publication by Homeland Security Affairs, the online academic journal published by the CHDS.
This competition strives to stimulate original thought on issues in homeland security and homeland defense. Responses may be general or focus on a specific aspect (organizational, policy, strategy, practice, technological innovation, social impact, etc.) or discipline/field, (emergency management, public health, law enforcement, critical infrastructure, intelligence, etc.). Essays may be written from any perspective - e.g. government, private sector, cultural, local community or citizen.
Previous winning entries have addressed the power of social media in homeland security, the possibility of linking emergency response and public health with the poison control system and promoting the use of rhetorical tools to help frame the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's mission. Last year's winning entry, authored by Yee San Su of CNA Safety and Security in Alexandria, Va., was titled "On the Challenge of Assessing National Preparedness."
The competition is open to everyone with an interest in homeland defense and security. Current CHDS faculty, staff, students and graduates are not eligible. Winners will be announced no later than May 31, 2012. The winning entry receives a $1,000 cash prize.
For information and instructions, visit www.chds.us/?essay/overview. If you have already submitted an entry, please respond to this email and confirm your submission.
Best,
Heather
Heather Issvoran
Director, Strategic Communications
Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Cell: 831.402.4672
hissvora@nps.edu
Monterey, CA
This competition strives to stimulate original thought on issues in homeland security and homeland defense. Responses may be general or focus on a specific aspect (organizational, policy, strategy, practice, technological innovation, social impact, etc.) or discipline/field, (emergency management, public health, law enforcement, critical infrastructure, intelligence, etc.). Essays may be written from any perspective - e.g. government, private sector, cultural, local community or citizen.
Previous winning entries have addressed the power of social media in homeland security, the possibility of linking emergency response and public health with the poison control system and promoting the use of rhetorical tools to help frame the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's mission. Last year's winning entry, authored by Yee San Su of CNA Safety and Security in Alexandria, Va., was titled "On the Challenge of Assessing National Preparedness."
The competition is open to everyone with an interest in homeland defense and security. Current CHDS faculty, staff, students and graduates are not eligible. Winners will be announced no later than May 31, 2012. The winning entry receives a $1,000 cash prize.
For information and instructions, visit www.chds.us/?essay/overview. If you have already submitted an entry, please respond to this email and confirm your submission.
Best,
Heather
Heather Issvoran
Director, Strategic Communications
Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Cell: 831.402.4672
hissvora@nps.edu
Monterey, CA
New stuff from the Homeland Security Digital Library
HSDL Critical Releases in Homeland Security [November 2011]
Every two weeks, the Homeland Security Digital Library identifies a targeted collection of recently-released documents of particular interest or potential importance. [Login to the HSDL is necessary to open some documents.*]
* Active Shooter Awareness Virtual Roundtable [webcast]
United States. Dept. of Homeland Security
* Decade Later: A Call for TSA Reform, Joint Majority Staff Report, One Hundred and Twelfth Congress, November 16, 2011
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
* Hate Crime Statistics 2010
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Criminal Justice Information Services Division
* Law Enforcement Guidelines for First Amendment-Protected Events
United States. Dept. of Justice; United States. Dept. of Homeland Security; United States. Dept. of Justice. Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative
* Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Trends and Implications of Climate Change for National and International Security
United States. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation’s premier collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents. It supports local, state and federal analysis and decision-making needs and assists academics of all disciplines in homeland defense and security related research. The HSDL provides quick access to thousands of important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and research reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.
*If you received this message and do not have an HSDL account, you may request one. Those with access are automatically subscribed to Critical Releases in Homeland Security.
Every two weeks, the Homeland Security Digital Library identifies a targeted collection of recently-released documents of particular interest or potential importance. [Login to the HSDL is necessary to open some documents.*]
* Active Shooter Awareness Virtual Roundtable [webcast]
United States. Dept. of Homeland Security
* Decade Later: A Call for TSA Reform, Joint Majority Staff Report, One Hundred and Twelfth Congress, November 16, 2011
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
* Hate Crime Statistics 2010
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Criminal Justice Information Services Division
* Law Enforcement Guidelines for First Amendment-Protected Events
United States. Dept. of Justice; United States. Dept. of Homeland Security; United States. Dept. of Justice. Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative
* Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Trends and Implications of Climate Change for National and International Security
United States. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation’s premier collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents. It supports local, state and federal analysis and decision-making needs and assists academics of all disciplines in homeland defense and security related research. The HSDL provides quick access to thousands of important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and research reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.
*If you received this message and do not have an HSDL account, you may request one. Those with access are automatically subscribed to Critical Releases in Homeland Security.
Secrets of Highly Successful Non-Profits: A White Paper
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Are you making important strategic decisions based on out-of-date information?
Many organizations have to rely on reports that are generated from various systems and then manually consolidated. By the time the report is compiled, the data is already stale. It's not an effective way to run an organization.
By applying the right technology tools, your non-profit can improve operational processes, fine-tune business strategies, uncover meaningful metrics, and deepen your connection with constituents.
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NAFSA announces its 2012 Conference
Even More at NAFSA 2012 for
Leaders in Internationalization!
Delve deeper into putting the vision of comprehensive internationalization into practice at NAFSA's 2012 Annual Conference & Expo in Houston, Texas, USA, May 27-June 1, 2012. Mark your calendars now!
Connect with more than 8,000 international education professionals from around the globe at the ultimate event for the field. Network and meet other leaders in internationalization and infuse your strategies in a big way with trends, new ideas, and best practices through unique programming developed with you in mind.
* More than 40 percent of attendees live outside the United States
* More networking opportunities to form strategic partnerships
* More than 30 of 200+ educational sessions and seminars offered for international education leaders
* More new content focus areas, including achieving comprehensive internationalization as well as the analysis of trends affecting international education
* More preconference workshops on relevant topics such as international alumni relations and leading campus internationalization
* More unique learning opportunities, colloquiums, and special networking sessions with colleagues from similar institutional types
Join us in the fourth largest city in the United States where known for its hospitality, diversity, and international appeal, and be part of something big. In Houston, discover big new ideas and play a part internationalizing higher education.
Visit the NAFSA Web Site in coming months for additional details.
Leaders in Internationalization!
Delve deeper into putting the vision of comprehensive internationalization into practice at NAFSA's 2012 Annual Conference & Expo in Houston, Texas, USA, May 27-June 1, 2012. Mark your calendars now!
Connect with more than 8,000 international education professionals from around the globe at the ultimate event for the field. Network and meet other leaders in internationalization and infuse your strategies in a big way with trends, new ideas, and best practices through unique programming developed with you in mind.
* More than 40 percent of attendees live outside the United States
* More networking opportunities to form strategic partnerships
* More than 30 of 200+ educational sessions and seminars offered for international education leaders
* More new content focus areas, including achieving comprehensive internationalization as well as the analysis of trends affecting international education
* More preconference workshops on relevant topics such as international alumni relations and leading campus internationalization
* More unique learning opportunities, colloquiums, and special networking sessions with colleagues from similar institutional types
Join us in the fourth largest city in the United States where known for its hospitality, diversity, and international appeal, and be part of something big. In Houston, discover big new ideas and play a part internationalizing higher education.
Visit the NAFSA Web Site in coming months for additional details.
Euro banks act and markets soar on the news
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/eu-monetary-chief-sees-10-094715118.html
Dear TWIG Readers,
Amid all the bleak economic news from Europe, there are some positive stories to tell. Germany is still home to many major companies and globally recognized brands, but one of the key secrets to its economic success comes from Hidden Champions - relatively unknown companies that are nevertheless major players in niche markets they have come to dominate on a global scale.
These largely family-owned businesses are also great places to work, according to experts who have analyzed what makes Hidden Champions tick.
As defined by German business leader, author, and economics professor Hermann Simon, Hidden Champions are companies characterized by certain criteria: They sell particular products in small niche markets, but their market share puts them in the "Top Three" among global companies in these markets; they earn an annual revenue below $4 billion; and they face a low level of public awareness for their success.
These companies that fall, at least partially, into the category of small- and medium-sized enterprises, or SME's, are also part of Germany's thriving "Mittelstand" - the SME-sized, mostly family-owned businesses that form the backbone of the German economy and explain its ongoing status as one of the world's leading exporters despite its comparatively small geographic size.
In 2010, these companies (SME's, or KMU, in German) accounted for a whopping total of 99.7 percent of businesses in Germany, according to the Bonn-based Institut für Mittelstandforschung (IfM). And they moreover accounted for 39.1 percent of all turnover in Germany and employed 60.8 percent of all employees registered in the private sector. (The latter two figures have remained more or less constant, ie within this range, from 2004 to 2009, according to statistics posted on the IfM website.)
And in 2005, according to the IfM, 95.1 percent of all German companies were family-owned businesses responsible for 45.1 percent of all turnover and employing 57.3 percent of all private sector employees.
The "Mittelstand" - which is also prevalent and thriving in Austria and Switzerland - is widely credited with Germany's economic expansion in the first half of the 20th century. It played a key role as a driving force in the "Wirtschaftswunder" (economic miracle) years of postwar reconstruction from the 1950s to 1970s.
While many of the niche products manufactured by "Mittelstand" companies that can also be defined as Hidden Champions may seem mundane at first - metals, steel coatings, solar cells, theater curtains, film equipment, dental materials, mechanical parts - they fulfill important functions in international niche markets on a global scale.
The upshot: Investing in quality, innovation and stable work environments for well-trained, loyal, and competent employees is well worth it. (Beyond the hallowed halls of traditional academia, vocational training is highly specialized in Germany, producing well-qualified skilled workers who take pride in precise, high-end craftsmanship.)
It would seem that Germany's homegrown "Mittelstand," and many "Hidden Champions," have found their own right recipe for weathering economic storms in today's volatile global economy.
Although many other countries also are home to successful Hidden Champions, Simon in particular has pointed out that there seems to be an unusually high concentration of them in Germany. Behind the scenes, and dwarfed in size and brand name recognition by the nation's more high profile mega enterprises, they keep Germany's economic motor humming.
Karen Carstens
Editor, The Week in Germany
Webteam Germany.info
Image: m_bartosch / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Dear TWIG Readers,
Amid all the bleak economic news from Europe, there are some positive stories to tell. Germany is still home to many major companies and globally recognized brands, but one of the key secrets to its economic success comes from Hidden Champions - relatively unknown companies that are nevertheless major players in niche markets they have come to dominate on a global scale.
These largely family-owned businesses are also great places to work, according to experts who have analyzed what makes Hidden Champions tick.
As defined by German business leader, author, and economics professor Hermann Simon, Hidden Champions are companies characterized by certain criteria: They sell particular products in small niche markets, but their market share puts them in the "Top Three" among global companies in these markets; they earn an annual revenue below $4 billion; and they face a low level of public awareness for their success.
These companies that fall, at least partially, into the category of small- and medium-sized enterprises, or SME's, are also part of Germany's thriving "Mittelstand" - the SME-sized, mostly family-owned businesses that form the backbone of the German economy and explain its ongoing status as one of the world's leading exporters despite its comparatively small geographic size.
In 2010, these companies (SME's, or KMU, in German) accounted for a whopping total of 99.7 percent of businesses in Germany, according to the Bonn-based Institut für Mittelstandforschung (IfM). And they moreover accounted for 39.1 percent of all turnover in Germany and employed 60.8 percent of all employees registered in the private sector. (The latter two figures have remained more or less constant, ie within this range, from 2004 to 2009, according to statistics posted on the IfM website.)
And in 2005, according to the IfM, 95.1 percent of all German companies were family-owned businesses responsible for 45.1 percent of all turnover and employing 57.3 percent of all private sector employees.
The "Mittelstand" - which is also prevalent and thriving in Austria and Switzerland - is widely credited with Germany's economic expansion in the first half of the 20th century. It played a key role as a driving force in the "Wirtschaftswunder" (economic miracle) years of postwar reconstruction from the 1950s to 1970s.
While many of the niche products manufactured by "Mittelstand" companies that can also be defined as Hidden Champions may seem mundane at first - metals, steel coatings, solar cells, theater curtains, film equipment, dental materials, mechanical parts - they fulfill important functions in international niche markets on a global scale.
The upshot: Investing in quality, innovation and stable work environments for well-trained, loyal, and competent employees is well worth it. (Beyond the hallowed halls of traditional academia, vocational training is highly specialized in Germany, producing well-qualified skilled workers who take pride in precise, high-end craftsmanship.)
It would seem that Germany's homegrown "Mittelstand," and many "Hidden Champions," have found their own right recipe for weathering economic storms in today's volatile global economy.
Although many other countries also are home to successful Hidden Champions, Simon in particular has pointed out that there seems to be an unusually high concentration of them in Germany. Behind the scenes, and dwarfed in size and brand name recognition by the nation's more high profile mega enterprises, they keep Germany's economic motor humming.
Karen Carstens
Editor, The Week in Germany
Webteam Germany.info
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