Leapfrog International

Leapfrog International Slough, Berkshire ~ Business Services Corporate event organisers, including games, themed parties, ... its place as a market leader in the delivery of cutting edge team building events. Team building activities ... entertained all day. These can vary from spectator activities to team participation. Add a range [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 19:27:54

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The Need For Team Building to Help Survive the Recession

By Steve Larkins WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH....SHOULD WE NOT BE MOTIVATING OUR STAFF? ... in corporate fun days, themed parties, meeting icebreakers and team building events. Kaleidoscope ... by management in these turbulent times and a simple company or departmental meeting with some fun element [more...]

Date: 2009-02-04 22:22:59

Retreat

I am told that work retreats are supposed to combine team building, learning about the company, fun and getting to know your co-workers ... ...and it suited our purposes nicely. Our theme was Hollywood North and the team building activity involved them [more...]

Date: 2007-09-22 23:06:00

Employee Ownership Research Award from the Aspen Institute

As longtime readers of this blog know, one of the 9 themes we uncovered among the 15 Top Small Workplaces for 2008 is that their workplace team ... items?  What do you do as part of your team building and employee engagement activities to encourage ... building and employee engagement best practices geared toward instilling an ownership mentality [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 02:58:05

Highlights of Orange Island panels on Architecture: Guest post by Jaz Beverly

This is a guest post by Jaz Beverly, cross posted from her blog ‘Metaversity ... it might affect themed builds like my beloved hometown, SL London. It has a talented building and management team and an active core community of devoted residents. In the process of creating room [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 22:25:14

Employee Ownership Research Award from the Aspen Institute

As longtime readers of this blog know, one of the 9 themes we uncovered among the 15 Top Small Workplaces for 2008 is that their workplace team ... ? What do you do as part of your team building and employee engagement activities to encourage your people to think ... building and employee engagement best practices geared toward instilling an ownership [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 21:58:05

How to Make Work Fun | Jorbb.com

With the gloom in the economy, the office could be a place where people are working like dogs ... competition based on themes. You can also encourage your team members to bring a theme lunch ... . You can bring energy and charm to your office environment to help with building morale. A fun [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 06:55:00

BloggersUnite.Org - Make A Difference

C alling all bloggers who want to make a difference through their blogs, BloggersUnite ; a Blogcatalog initiative that has grown over the past years, ... For Bloggers Premium Wordpress Themes Up For Grabs! 3 Tips In Building Your Network ... , Tony and the team created BloggersUnite.org to give all its users the resources to create and manage [more...]

Date: 2009-03-08 21:00:29

Aetherica 2009 Announcement

Rachael Livermore, Co-Chair, Aetherica writes: Please see below for an announcement of a new convention for fantasy fans ... fantasy-themed programming, ranging from presentations and panels to craft workshops and team building activities. Just as fantasy ranges from fairy tales to complex epics, So Aetherica will offer [more...]

Date: 2008-08-28 15:58:09

Themed Nautical Nights

Fancy having a parley with your mates?Want to re-enact South Pacific? ... increasingly popular for corporate hospitality or motivational exercises as well as private parties.They’re especially useful for team building because “dressing up” tends to break down reservations – it’ [more...]

Date: 2009-02-15 08:31:48

Shareable Databases: Intuit QuickBase Bringing Desktop Database Users into Enterprise 2.0

This post is the first in a series we’ll be running over the coming weeks on “shareable databases ... problems, customize them to suit individual processes, and share within a team or an enterprise ... users by Intuit users. Within QuickBase they are building on this broader theme by reaching [more...]

Date: 2009-02-17 16:37:32

Themed Events With A Nautical Twist

Fancy having a parley with your pals?Want to re-enact South Pacific? ... increasingly popular for corporate hospitality or motivational exercises as well as private parties.They’re especially useful for team building because “dressing up” tends to break down departmental barriers [more...]

Date: 2009-02-14 00:10:52

The Road to Adepticon

2009 Marks the third year that Adepticon will be hosting a Lord of the Rings Team Tournament ... of short articles leading up to the “Road to Adepticon”.  Our first installment was published in January and was entitled “Building a LOTR Tournament Army:  Developing a Theme” and we obviously focused [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 21:10:31

Ten Albums to Anticipate This Spring

(MF) Doom: Born Like This (Lex, March 23) Dropping his “MF” prefix, ... s publicity team has done a great job of building the buzz for Crack the Skye, an album whose themes [more...]

Date: 2009-02-28 08:57:38

8:00 - Shannon Paul on Internet People and What They Do

The theme of SOBCon09 is the ROI of Relationships. Relationships with customers, employees, colleagues, coworkers, builders, contractors, ... across the social web for the organization and the team. Shannon began her career as an intern ... an independent study program aimed at building and exploring the impact of blogs on mass communication [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 01:58:38

Little big adventure

You probably haven't heard about Little King's Story, even though it's due in just a couple of months exclusively for Wii ... the charismatic game a chance to win you over. The Japanese team working on Little King's Story ... with real-time strategy, empire building, town planning and Harvest Moon-style life simulation. Players [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 22:53:54

Two Checks On The Bucket List: My Morning On 'The Today Show'

Today's Ypulse Youth Advisory Board post comes from Liz Funk who at the impressive age of 20 has just had her first book, Supergirls Speak Out: ... of Simon and Schuster's Touchstone/Fireside imprint, talking with a team of editors, publicists, and sales ... of its adult themes, she brought her daughter to see the highly sexual musical "Spring Awakening [more...]

Date: 2009-02-12 17:53:05

Ruud Questions: Dave Harry aka the Gypsy

I think I know Dave via Sphinn, somewhere… start of 2008? One of those people you see often. Amidst a sea of corporate logo’s, manga-style generated avatars and headshots, his avatar/profile pic stood out in the professional SEO community: sort of ripped-open shirt “here I’m sitting in my trailer with 12 lined up for the next hour” kind of look [more...]

Date: 2009-02-06 14:02:08

Where Are You? and So They Ask

I’ve been receiving emails from people who cares about me and wanted to know if I would still write for TSB or what had I actually been doing ... gratitude to our team of associate writers who has contributed awesome contents and kept ... , I’ve been investing my time and efforts into building a portfolio of niche sites to generate [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 18:58:43

Give them Lego

A Review of Backroom Boys by Francis Spufford Of the half-witteries that have brought us to the present crisis, one of the worst is `creative industry’. This is a phrase used to describe music, television, advertizing and other pursuits where overpaid mediocrities are held up as the saviours of the nation because they can sometimes gull [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 09:12:40

Lovingtech.net - Webmaster forum for technology lovers!

A few weeks ago, i talk about about webmasters forum, today i am here to introduce another potential webmaster forum “in the making”. Lovingtech ( ... , Lovingtech also allows it’s members to choose between it’s database of themes available and deploy ... has already grown into a community with hundreds of technology lovers. Nice work by the team of [more...]

Date: 2009-02-22 14:51:06

Generation Generosity

together from the ground up with the goal of raising money for clean water - putting the charity and its' mission before anything else.   (Well, maybe another motivation was the desire to meet up with other Twitter users and have a good time. Fundraising events should be fun!)  And while there are commercial or business event sponsors [more...]

Date: 2009-02-07 00:15:53

Small Business to Get Short Shrift from Obama Administration

Entrepreneurs will face a slew of new taxes, a stifling regulatory environment, and politicians who bail out the well-connected. January 24, 2009 - by Tristan YatesAs the Ford Motor Company prepares to cash its first multi-billion dollar corporate welfare check and hand part of it over to the union, it’s easy to forget [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 08:00:02

Connections between Music and Reading

“Books help children become whole people; reading facilitates both parent-child relationships and language as it helps to create a child’s ... him or her with important social, emotional, and brain-building experiences, but also building reading readiness. The Creative Team at Kindermusik International recognizes the importance of reading skills [more...]

Date: 2009-03-08 19:18:24

Education challenge lurks behind economic turmoil

These days it seems everyone - every business, every employee, every politician, every taxpayer - is consumed with surviving the economic downturn ... if the next generation enters the work force unprepared. In her paper, “Taking a Team Approach ... from her experience, Siegel explains the basic themes of the education reform efforts of the past 20 [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 18:56:05

Hillary Clinton Re-Imagined

Hillary Clinton Re-ImaginedHillary Rodham Clinton will serve in a non-partisan role as secretary of state, which may provide her an opportunity to recast her legacy.Hillary Rodham Clinton's confirmation hearing today in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee marks a turn in the legacy of a family that has dominated Democratic politics for [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 20:05:21

What’s To Criticize About Royal Caribbean’s Online Social Marketing?

For several years our public relations agency has been involved in social media / social marketing for such clients as The Leading Hotels of the ... . According to Loyalty Blog , a site about building customer relationships, Royal Caribbean ... identifying emergent qualitative themes of discussion on blogs, travel forums, usernets…” according [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 14:24:48

The wanderers

It is the middle of January this year and Bono is at home in Killiney, County Dublin, with an hour to spare before he heads into town for an afternoon of meetings. "Things are looking good," he says. "It's a beautiful, sunny, winter's day and Edna O'Brien has just been sent me her book on Lord Byron [more...]

Date: 2009-02-15 00:01:00

UN art collection to go on show in $150m “disposable” building

I had been wondering what they were building at the UN site… I’d also been meaning for quite some time to go visit the UN, which I’ve never done ... to go on show in $150m “disposable” building Travel and insurance costs of the 270 works discouraged ... , sculptures and other objects will go on view in a $149.5m building, designed by HLW Architects, [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 14:55:27

The Art of War [Feature]

War is a theme as old as the video game medium itself; leaps in game presentation have typically corresponded to some kind of combat themed game ... , it will need to advance the story. Building all that in to a combat scene is a tall order, because ... . But "once you have completed the research, building the world presents its own set of challenges," says [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 18:30:00

A comprehensive list to Silverlight Controls for developers

I’ve written a few times about some of the controls that have been provided by organizations like Telerik and ComponentOne.  I figured it would be a good idea to do a larger dump of those that I’m aware of (and hope you add comments to point me to others so I can amend this list) and help make you aware of them as well [more...]

Date: 2009-01-28 21:19:28

Mentality #7: Fine-Tuning Your Spiritual DNA

Mentality #7: Fine-Tuning Your Spiritual DNA Prior to Pre-LaunchTruth can only be revealed to us in stages, as we become capable of accepting it, ... in Part One and Part Two of this “Building a Booming Business-Ministry in Bust Times” are calling ... of our business-ministry. Otherwise I know I would only be building on sand.”Of course, others [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 04:09:50

Game 61 Late Recappy-Thing of the Game

Yeah, well, mingling with many scores of people at the official Blazersedge Get-Together at The Agency ( ... in his eyes without trying to be obvious.)  However I can give you some general observations/themes ... .  That's no mean feat after getting down early to the Nuggets in their own building.  Again [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 08:43:40

Eric Schmidt Talks Google, Apple, Energy, Obama With Jim Cramer

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was on Jim Cramer’s Mad Money this evening to talk about a wide range of issues, from Obama to Steve Jobs ... they can get the most ambitious agendas. In his inauguration speech yesterday you could hear the same things themes ... BARACK OBAMA SERVING ON OBAMA’S ECONOMIC TRANSITION TEAM. I BELIEVE THE MOST IMPORTANT TRANSITION [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 01:10:24

You Won’t Believe It’s Thesis!

One of the reasons we’re so confident developing exclusively on the Thesis framework is that it’s so incredibly versatile. We’ve been amazed over the last few months at what fellow Thesis developers have achieved, so we thought we’d share some of our favourites as a source of inspiration and encouragement [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 18:24:32

Who’s Who in WordPress (50+ people you should be following)

I’ve said before that what makes WordPress so powerful is the community behind it. I’ve pushed the importance of getting to know your WordPress developers before, and would like to think I’m doing my part in publishing interviews with members of the community as well. This time around, I’d like to publish my own “Who’s Who” of WordPress [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 23:37:44

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/11/2009

The most important news story tonight concerns the booby-trapping of a Gaza school by Hamas. The terrorists ran a fuse line from explosives in the school to a nearby zoo, and placed the detonator there. If the IDF troops had not been alert, then… Well, you know what viewers would be seeing on the BBC and CNN right about now [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 04:49:00

Northern Voice 2009: Passionately Local

Of all the sessions at Northern Voice 2009, I was perhaps most looking forward to the one presented by Briana Tomkinson of Tenth to the Fraser ... audience’ follow the performance Comment on themes React to the drama Provide insight ... -building Finding your nice within the media ecosystem Befriend the local media Extend [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 06:00:18

50+ More Unusual Buildings Architecture

After getting so many quality feedbacks on one of our past post over 80+ Strange and Fantastic Buildings Architecture It’s necessary to write ... requires a team of specialist professionals, with the architect being one of many, although usually the team leader. Please Amaze yourself by go through [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 22:56:33

2008 in plain view - Part 2

(This is the second part of my “2008 in plain view” series. Read the first part here.) ... of its success on a business front and partly because of the fun I’ve had whilst building a sustainable ... out from 2008… On 2 November 2007, I launched Premium News Themes on my own - never really planning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 18:13:33

Byte Into It - 11 Mar 09

to donate laptops for bushfire vet relief project contact: mpcosta@boroniavet.com.au 20 great Windows open source projects you should get to know | NetworkWorld.com Community Fun stuff: Juice (p. 1); RSSOWL (p. 7 ) Security tools Eraser (p. 1); TrueCrypt (p. 6 ) System or Net mgt tools FOG (p. 2 ); MRemote (p. 2 ); Paglo (p. 3 ) [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 07:55:35

The Process - Part 1

It doesn’t take long to rip open and examine a pack or box of cards, but have you ever wondered about what it really takes to get those cards created and into your hands? Over the course of multiple posts I’ll guide you on a tour through the real-life process of developing a trading card product [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 21:31:03

The Art of War

War is a theme as old as the video game medium itself; leaps in game presentation have typically corresponded to some kind of combat themed game ... game, it will need to advance the story. Building all that in to a combat scene is a tall order ... in the gaps. But "once you have completed the research, building the world presents its own set [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 18:30:00

20 ways to motivate your employees without raising their pay

It is a costly mistake to get lost in the false theory that more money equals happy employees. Believing this is costing you valuable time, revenue, employees…and even threatening your own job [more...]

Date: 2009-03-08 23:42:46

10 Creative Lessons from Bowie in Berlin

David Bowie is most famous for his glam rock creation Ziggy Stardust, but his best and most interesting work centres around his ‘Berlin period’ - the three years he spent living in Berlin, producing the experimental electronic albums Low, “Heroes” and Lodger [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 11:52:09

Public Diplomacy: Books, Articles, Websites #44

Below the fold is the latest list of books, articles, and websites on public diplomacy from Bruce Gregory, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University. Intended for teachers of public diplomacy and related courses, here is an update on resources that may be of general interest [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 04:39:29

What does “Christ-like approach” mean?

Newspaper sports columnists around the world jumped on an “incident” between two Texas schools involving a 100-0 blowout as ... up as a win because his “girls never quit” — as the opposing team continued to apply a full-court press [more...]

Date: 2009-01-28 11:26:15

Scorecard | Alexander Wang, Lacoste, Et Al.

We’re smack in the middle of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and if your head isn’t hurting yet, you haven’t been paying attention. Fortunately, a elite corps of critics are on the job, and so are we. Today, Scorecard has compiled sound bites from the reviews of Abaeté, ADAM, Alexander Wang, Barbara Tfank, BCBG Max Azria, Bibhu Mohapatra, [more...]

Date: 2009-02-17 16:25:53

They aren't Dogs, in those Slums

The following comments may contain spoilers. Directors Danny Boyle's and Loveleen Tandan 's "Slumdog Millionaire" swept the Oscars this year, in a remarkable sign of globalization. The creative team behind the film was largely British (Tandan began as a casting director and the screenplay was by Simon Beaufoy). But it was based [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 05:27:00

A 19th Century Jail becomes 21st Century Hotel

Entrance Lobby Charles Street Jail of Boston, built in 1851, was active till 1990 ... ) came up theidea of redeveloping this jail.  Their idea: Convert the building into a four-star luxury ... of Historic Places, the team on the $150 million project worked closely with a bevy of agencies, including [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 22:27:47

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