Per Eco Scout, it’s true as long as the site meets strict quality criteria, fills gaps in educational content, and is approved by the EEWW.

Here’s the scoop on criteria and how to submit your Web site straight from the EEWW:

The EPA Environmental Education Web sites make quality environmental education materials more accessible to Kids, Middle School Students, High School Students and Teachers. The EPA’s Environmental Education Web Workgroup (EEWW) evaluates sites to determine whether they are appropriate to be included as links on EPA’s environmental education portal pages.

Read the linking criteria to determine if the site you are proposing may be included in any of the portal sites. The site will not be selected if it:

• Promotes commercial activities
• Promotes political organizations
• Engages in advocacy
• Is not fact based and neutral

[Reference: Above information from http://www.ttemidev.com/eewwRev/]

Our audiences:

We design our environmental education portals for specific target audiences. (Grades and ages may vary for certain content.)

Our Environmental Education Portal web sites
Site	Audience	We link to
Environmental Kids Club	grades pre-K-5 or ages 4-10	we link to EPA sites, other federal, state and local government sites, and educational sites (e.g., museums, educational institutions)
Student Environmental Center	grades 6-8 or ages 11-13	we link to EPA sites, other federal, state and local government sites, and educational sites (e.g., museums, educational institutions).
High School Environmental Center	grades 9-12 or ages 14-18	we link to EPA and other government sites, educational sites, and some non-government sites.
Teaching Center	classroom, home school, or non-classroom instructors for youth grades pre-K-12 or ages 4-18	we link to EPA and other government sites, educational sites, and some non-government sites.

 

[Reference: Audience information, method of evaluating sites, and more details regarding criteria can be found on http://www.epa.gov/teachers/criteria.htm]

Per Eco Scout, submit a site for EEWW review at: http://www.ttemidev.com/eewwRev/

Marketing Eco handled rebranding the publication for the launch of its new look in the Fall of 2010 and has continued to create bold andcreative graphics for articles and magazine cover.

Editors and authors of TLI are legal investigators and members of the NALI. The Legal Investigator is an official publication of the National Association of Legal Investigators, all rights reserved, copyright NALI.

Peruse issues of TLI below.

TLI, Vol. 37, Issue 2, Summer 2012

TLI, Vol. 37, Issue 1, Spring 2012

TLI, Vol. 36, Issue 4, Winter 2012

TLI, Vol. 36, Issue 3, Fall 2011

TLI, Vol. 36, Issue 2, Summer 2011

TLI, Vol. 36, Issue 1, Spring 2011

TLI, Vol. 35, Issue 4, Winter 2011

TLI, Vol. 35, Issue 4, Winter 2011, Hiding in Plain Sight Reprint

TLI, Vol. 35, Issue 3, Fall 2010

At launch, the website integrated a back end algorithmic trading interface provided by a partner company within the website’s architecture, simplifying the user experience, and allowing Geneva Fund Partners to offer their clients other tips and offers.

By using WordPress architecture for the website, owner Marshall Gause is able to update the content 24/7 from any place with an Internet connection without using any special software or programming knowledge.

The website also integrated trading commentary and links in a way that allows side bar boxes to be added for specified pages, and turned “off” for all other pages. In all, the WordPress platform allowed a totally customized solution, seamless integration, and 24/7 ease of update access from anywhere with Internet connection for Geneva Fund Partners.

About Geneva Fund Partners:

Geneva Fund Partners is an alternative asset management firm specializing in targeted return fixed income portfolios and structured yield FX portfolio management. The Geneva Fund Partners leadership team has decades of collective institutional portfolio management and structured yield experience.

Structured Income Portfolio Management

• Fee based, separately managed structured yield portfolios.

Quantitative FX Portfolio Management

• Fee based, separately managed quantitative FX portfolios.

Scanlon's Public Website

The Scanlon Leadership Network needed to consolidate websites and create an easy-to-manage public website along with member, consultancy, foundation, and board Intranet areas controlled by unique permissions to improve collaboration, communication, and access to Scanlon materials. Marketing Eco consolidated domain management and websites, created a single point of entry based on WordPress website archictecture, and fleshed out the SharePoint Intranet architecture and permissions on the SharePoint site launched by Bob Bruce of Trista Technology.

Members, Consultants, the Foundation, the Board, and the network’s support structure each have their own Intranet areas, visible only to those with specific area permissions.

Scanlon's SharePoint Intranet

The Scanlon SharePoint Intranet features tabbed areas that are only visible to each group based on permissions: Members, consultants, the foundation, the board, and the network’s support team. The view shown to the left is the admin view of SharePoint which shows all tabs due to the admins permissions to edit all areas of the Intranet. A member, for instance, would only see the Home and Members tabs.

Both the public facing WordPress site and the SharePoint Intranet site and sub sites were launched in May 2010 and are ready for content that will be developed by the Scanlon Leadership Network in phases. Since both platforms are so easy for anyone without web development knowledge to edit and are scalable, they are ideal for businesses of all sizes to use for external and internal communication and collaboration.

The Scanlon Leadership Network plans to add and update their own content via volunteers living across the United States. Since both platforms enable updates to be performed from any Internet connection anywhere in the world via permission-based login, they present an ideal solution.

About Doc Hall:

Frequently called “Doc” by industry friends, Hall is a founding member of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence and received its award for outstanding lifetime service. For 22 years he was editor-in-chief of AME’s publication, Target. He also received the SME Gold Medal for outstanding service to the manufacturing engineering profession in technical communications, technical writing, and lectures.

Hall has authored and co-authored six books on manufacturing excellence, with topics ranging from the improvement of manufacturing practice to organizational development and renewal. He also has an interest in innovation, and is a judge for the PACE Award (innovation by auto industry suppliers). A prior book, The Soul of the Enterprise (1992) touched on some of the topics in Compression, so he’s been ruminating about Compression thinking for almost 20 years – reluctantly concluding that there is no “easy out.” Compression thinking applies the best ideas seen in organizing for work to the manifold problems of the 21st century.

About Compression Thinking:

The 21st century must be a turning point. Physical economic expansion that accelerated with the industrial revolution cannot continue indefinitely. The earth has finite resources, but our legacy business and economic thinking promotes expansion, assuming that more resources are always available – somewhere. Transforming ourselves to limit consumption while simultaneously increasing human quality of life for everyone is the supreme human challenge of Compression.

What to do? The basics begin with eliminating waste, not doing that which doesn’t need to be done. Then reuse, repair, remanufacture, recycle and so on. Many individuals are doing what they can to decrease their personal waste of energy, water, and materials. But without working organizations creating systems that help them do it, that effect is minimal. And careful conservation is not enough. Every technology can have adverse consequences. Unless working organizations make a new kind of thinking practical, individual measures cannot offset the heedlessness stimulated by commercial incentives.

Compression calls for a change in fundamental economic thinking — a new mindset — Compression Thinking. This begins by contemplating issues so interrelated that single engineering fixes are unlikely to let mass consumption continue. Many different imaginative changes will be necessary, under always changing conditions. Most companies have barely started. Some do a little, but claim a lot, thus laying themselves open to charges of “greenwash.” Our technical and systems issues are unprecedented, but our biggest challenge, always, is us.

So start to look behind financial facades to see the physical reality of what we do. The transformation needed is so great that it amounts to redesign. Remediating excess consumption after it has happened is not good enough — expensive too. One can only go on from the present, devising operational methods that anticipate future problems and preclude them before they happen.

The goal of Compression is in short to greatly reduce global resource consumption while globally increasing human quality of life for everyone. It is a difficult challenge, yet it is possible.

To learn more about Compression Thinking, to download the free 55 page condensed version of the book “Compression” and extended footnotes, and to learn how to start thinking differently, visit Compression.org >

Marketing Eco developed a strong logo for Bob’s new company that embodies his vision for his company utilizing the best of breed brand identity guidelines.

The website Marketing Eco developed for Bob uses a modular format to give a visitors both an organized and visual walk through of his process using WordPress and the modular sticky post method of organizing and displaying content and a blog-style back end content management portal.

Today, many companies large and small struggle to gain a competitive edge, failing to capitalize on the fact that they possess a vast, virtually untapped resource within their company walls. Companies with horizontally structured processes often overlook the individual work ethic and the innate human need to be both productive and responsible. By comparison, companies with productivity / gain share programs demonstrate over and over that true employee involvement contributes significantly to the whole health of the company by any measure.

“I founded ISS Consulting because I felt a burning need to help employees by making their working life far more than a simple pay check. Work is the opportunity to make a difference, to express individual creativity and innovation,” said Browning, President and Founder of ISS Consulting. “The ISS process, based on The Scanlon Plan developed by Joseph N. Scanlon in the 1930’s, has been proven to work in any company committed to its people. By tapping unutilized employee resources, the companies I have worked with, and others who believe in true employee involvement utilizing the Scanlon philosophy, see significant positive differences in their organization’s ability to compete, employees report happier and healthier work experiences, customer satisfaction improves, which all leads to a stronger bottom line and improved job security. I cannot think of anything else I’d rather do than help companies by involving their constituents in a way that benefits the customer, investor, and employee.”

Mr. Browning’s mission with ISS provides a proven means of company transformation through a tailored three step process. The process begins with an analysis of a company’s culture to assess potential for embracing gain share. Next, Mr. Browning and his team perform a deep analysis that lays the groundwork for fine-tuning the balance between customers, investors, and employees and creates a benchmark to measure change. After that, Mr. Browning uses over 30 years of experience across a broad array of business niches and company cultures to build a dynamic model for participation that includes productivity councils overseen and guided by a screening committee.

By helping companies implement a model tailored specifically to their company and culture, Mr. Browning has been able to help companies realize dramatic, measurable improvement in productivity and profitability while simultaneously providing their employees with higher levels of job satisfaction and a constant desire to produce at the highest level of efficiency.

“The Scanlon Plan is an innovative management process for total organization development. It consists of a set of assumptions about human motivation and behavior, general principles for the management of organizations based on those assumptions, and specific procedures for implementing these principles,” said Carl Frost, author, Changing Forever.

All organization leaders have the ability to light a match and tap the multitude of talented resources within their employees or remain in productivity darkness. ISS Consulting is well positioned to provide that match and help companies create an ongoing plan of participation and involvement for the long-term success of the enterprise.

Visit the ISS Consulting website >

See Kari Havir’s LinkedIn profile >

“Ms. Havir and I have worked closely over the last four months in the design of my startup’s, ISS Consulting, web page. Her professional approach and keen marketing insight have proven invaluable.

I am continually impressed with her logic and her patient leadership. Her ability to take complex issues and configure them in an easy to understand format or mental picture clearly sets her apart from many “technical” people that I have worked with.

Kari is an encourager and her positive up beat approach to challenges is contagious. She has been a delight to work with and I highly recommend her.” December 17, 2009

John. R. Browning, President, ISS Consulting

Hang on to your hats and get ready to to “click on” your energy savings, because by using Blackle as your browser’s home page and your default search engine you can make an impact, and we all know that even the small energy savings are important ones.

Here’s the scoop straight from Blackle.com:

How is Blackle saving energy?

Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. “Image displayed is primarily a function of the user’s color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen.” Roberson et al, 2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.

How can you help?

We encourage you to set Blackle as your home page. This way every time you load your Internet browser you will save a little bit of energy. Remember every bit counts! You will also be reminded about the need to save energy each time you see the Blackle page load.

Help us spread the word about Blackle by telling your friends and family to set it as their home page. If you have a blog then give us a mention. Or put the following text in your email signature: “Blackle.com – Saving energy one search at a time”.

Have a look at our energy saving tips page for ideas on steps you can take to save energy or you can follow Blackle on Twitter and we will keep you updated with simple energy saving tips.

There are a lot of great web sites about saving energy and being more environmentally friendly. They are full of great tips covering the little things that we can all do to make a difference today. Try Blackling “energy saving tips” or visit one of the many great blogs dedicated to environmental awareness.

If you haven’t changed your browser’s default home page before, Blackle has instructions embedded above to set Blackle as your home page.

Thanks to Eco Scout, Marketing Eco has “clicked on” energy savings for each ME computer. We’d love to hear how many people are already on board with Blackle, and how many of you give two clicks for sustainability by visiting http://www.blackle.com now.

Tami found the fittingly vibrant photo that graces the cover of the book and companion CD and Marketing Eco designed the website header and companion graphics to compliment the book’s design and further communicate Tami’s vision.

The easy-to-use WordPress website content management portal has been pivotal, enabling Tami and the talented developers already managing her previously-created shopping cart secure access to add content and code at any time, from anywhere with Internet access.

What the Book is About

Here’s the scoop about the book’s content straight from the Women as Healers website along with an iPhone snapshot of the book and CD just after it arrived at Marketing Eco:

Women as Healers: Voices of Vibrancy is Tami Briggs’ newest book. From Nebraska to the Netherlands, India to Iran, and Serbia to South Carolina (and many other U.S. states), the 31 women featured are all gifted healers. As they share their stories, they give us many insights on how to help heal the world. Some work for corporations and institutions; many of them are self-employed. They are from all walks of life, doing extraordinary things to help make our world a better place. In this book you will read about life-changing experiences from authors, artists, consultants, nurses, educators, leaders, and therapists – creators all.

Many of the contributing authors have suffered great tragedies and losses, yet they demonstrate to all of us resiliency and great strength. They are pioneers – powerful, spiritual and spirited. You will likely see yourself in many of these women’s heart-warming and touching stories. As they reflect on and share their journeys of healing, they model taking risks, beating the odds, being of great service, making significant differences in the world, and living their passions.

A Marketing Eco Reader Experience

When the book and CD arrived by post yesterday, Kari Havir (Principal, Marketing Eco) dashed off with a beaming face and the copy of the book to her favorite garlic-scented restaurant, La Grolla. Kari had everything positive to say about her shared reading experience. Here’s the scoop:

I was so exceedingly thrilled when the book arrived that I just had to show it off immediately. I had a vision of delving into the book with a plate of my favorite cuisine and the happy chatter of contented people surrounding me. I know, you’re probably thinking you’d rather snuggle in under a warm lap blanket and read at home, however there was something about this particular book that made me want to share the experience while in the moment.

I sat down with a glass of wine and La Grolla’s marvelous bread and started reading. One of my very favorite La Grolla people, Rachel, waited on my table last night. When I confessed with a wobbly smile that I was so moved by the first story I was reading, she only half-jokingly gave me a few drink napkins just in case I needed them. I had happy, tear-filled eyes more than once, but I’m not shy about having those in public. Any piece of literature, art, or performance media that can move me to tears while sharing that experience with others is hands-down on my list of favorite things.

As I read on while enjoying a scrumptious plate of mixed seafood, I was again conscious of how wonderful the setting was for my personal experience with the book. The combination made for an absolutely lovely evening.

I am really looking forward to snuggling in for the rest of the book with Tami’s harp music playing in the background to complete the experience. I’ll definitely write an update when I complete my reading journey and share more about this fantastic project, so stay tuned for my follow up piece.

And Now, the Actual Website!

Marketing Eco is proud to point you to www.womenashealers.com where you can hear Tami’s harp music and learn more about the book project.

Call for Reader Responses

Marketing Eco would love to know where you take your Women as Healers: Voices of Vibrancy book copy and how you share your reading experience, so please feel share your book adventures and photos by submitting a comment.

Stay tuned to WomenAsHealers.com for further updates as Women as Healers: Voices of Vibrancy book adventure roles out!

Here’s a peek at The American P. I. look and feel:

We designed the logo, website, and one page speaking sheet for Paul in a vibrant range of oranges and blues.

The American P. I. purpose:

With The American P. I. website, Paul Jaeb, CEO of the Heartland Investigative Group, set out to create captivating podcast content that would provide helpful and educational information to fellow investigators. His content focuses on everything from the business issues of running a P. I. firm, to legislative issues, continuing education, networking and investigative associations, and of course investigation techniques and concerns. On each podcast episode Paul interviews several seasoned investigative colleagues from across the nation to get at the issues facing private investigators in various geographical areas and investigative niches.

Here’s a peek at Paul Jaeb, The American P. I.:

Paul Jaeb, CEO

Heartland Investigative Group

Paul Jaeb is 20 year veteran private investigator. He is the founder and CEO of Heartland Investigative Group, a premier investigative and security consulting firm based in Minneapolis.

Paul is a founding member of the Minnesota Association of Private Investigators and is the current National Director of the National Association of Legal Investigators.

Paul also sits on the Executive Committee of Investigative and Security Professionals for Legislative Action, and is active in ASIS International and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

In addition, Paul speaks at corporate events, professional associations, and private events bringing his experienced perspective and engaging style as a key note or breakout session for organizations across the nation.

Seamless, easy-to-use, and powerful website technology:

One-click integration isn’t only for Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn these days. We’re really excited how this website plugs The American P. I. into all the big podcast and video media feeds. What’s even more thrilling is that one-click integration can easily be built into every one of our client websites.

Here’s the skinny on podcast recording sessions with guests all over the nation work:

Podcasting session are recorded locally, yet guests on the podcast episodes call in from all over the nation with a clear recording session thanks to Skype.com’s free, 24/7 Internet calling features.

Check out The American P. I. website here and the Premiere Podcast Episode here.

Stay tuned! Down the road we’ll check back with Paul and feature feedback from The American P. I. on his website, podcasts, and further interactive plans in the works. Happy podcast listening!