Come celebrate apples, cider, pies, and more food again this year with main-stage American Heritage musicians, vendors, down-home entertainment, orchards selling new and heirloom apples, hay wagon rides, children’s games and colonial re-enactors demonstrating old-time apple cooking and crafts.

Address:

2147 Bethabara Road
Winston-Salem, NC 27106

URL:

www.bethabarapark.org

Email:

[email protected]

Telephone Number(s):

Business Phone: (336)924-8191

I have one, a number of business owners I know have them, more and more students have them, what is it and why do we have them?

As the Gartner Groups “Dataquest Insight: Tablet PCs Are Slowly Gaining Momentum” report indicates, Tablet PCs are here to stay (www.gartner.com). Whereas the insurance, healthcare, public safety, and real estate industries were the 1st users of tablet technology, Gartner suggests that the next big vertical enterprise to identify the usefulness of Tablet PCs will be higher education. “In the past two years, higher education faculty and students have been the main emerging users adopting the convertible tablet PCs,”  the report states.

Read this ebook, Computer Magazine September issue.

GMAC announced they will be cutting 45 Information Technology group in Winston-Salem with another 55 in St. Louis. GMAC which was recently bought by a group led by Cerberus FIM Investors said these jobs will be outsourced to a third party vendor but has declined to say who or where.

Greensboro, NC — M33 Integrated Solutions, Edward Jones Investments and Prudential Carolinas Realty came out on top in The Business Journal’s annual ranking of the Triad’s Best Places to Work.

Greensboro-based M33 was the winner in the small-business category, while Edward Jones, also based in Greensboro, won in the category for businesses with 51 to 250 employees. Winston-Salem-based Prudential Carolinas Realty won in the large employers category, which is for businesses with more than 250 workers.

The winning companies were determined based on the results of anonymous online workplace satisfaction surveys completed by employees; results were compiled by Quantum Market Research to determine the winning companies.

Mount Airy-based WorkForce Carolina took second place in the small employers category, while United Anesthesia of Kernersville finished third.

In the midsize employers category, Burlington-based Tapco Underwriters Inc. finished second and Greensboro-based Merrill Lynch finished third.

For large employers, Advanced Home Care of High Point finished second and High Point Regional Health System took third.

In addition to the winners, each category also had finalists. For small employers, those companies were Advanced Electrolysis amp; Laser Clinic Inc. of High Point, Constangy Brooks amp; Smith LLC of Winston-Salem, Deuterman Law Group of Greensboro, Jasper Engines amp; Transmissions Exchange Inc. of Greensboro, Monaghan Group PLLC of Winston-Salem, The Clarks Group of Winston-Salem and TRC Staffing Services Inc. of Greensboro.

Midsize employers finalists were Bank of North Carolina in Thomasville, Cheshire Center of Greensboro, Frank L. Blum Construction Co. of Winston-Salem, Hospice of the Piedmont in High Point, ISP Sports in Winston-Salem, Smith Moore LLP in Greensboro and Yost amp; Little Realty Inc., also in Greensboro.

For large employers, the finalists were Alamance Regional Medical Center, Flow Cos. in Winston-Salem, Forsyth Medical Center and its affiliates in Winston-Salem, Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, Market America in Greensboro, Replacements Ltd. of Greensboro and Winston-Salem State University.

All the participating companies get free summary reports of their results, and the top three in each category will receive a full detailed report from Quantum Market Research valued at $4,000.

The 30 winning companies and finalists were honored Thursday evening at an awards ceremony and reception, and the winning companies are featured in a special publication that is part of the Aug. 24-30 print edition of The Business Journal.

Source: The Triad Business Journal

Copyright: 2007 digtriad.com

Winston-Salem is holding Business Training Courses. See HERE for more info.

City of Winston-Salem is sponering a series of Business Training Courses. Market analysis, legal issues, customer service, insurance needs, bookkeeping and taxes, writing a business plan, and how to apply for funding. Classes will be held at WSSU.

Participants who complete the program may apply to the city’s Small-Business Loan Program.

Call Ruben Gonzales at 747-7474

Just a quick note that reports are coming in that Blackberry service is suffering another outage or interruption. It appears to only be related to Blackberry Internet Service users and not Blackberry Enterprise users. Here is the statement from RIMM:

"Some customers using BlackBerry Internet Service experienced a delay this afternoon in sending or receiving e-mail. The issue has since been resolved and no messages were lost. RIM continues to investigate the matter. Service for BlackBerry Enterprise Server customers was not impacted. RIM apologizes to customers for any inconvenience."

Some may remember back to April when a reported "software update" caused an outage that lasted for hours.

Don’t let the name fool you this may have been setup for Teachers but if you or your staff isn’t an Excel Expert then check this site out:

“The tutorials on this site highlight many of the Excel skills that are helpful when working with building- and district-level data. These tutorials are targeted at data managers, principals, guidance counselors, teachers, and other school personnel who have the responsibility for collecting, analyzing, and reporting K-12 performance data.”  http://www.schooldatatutorials.org/home/

The videos are short, broken down by topic and stay on point. Well worth the 2-4 minutes if your not sure how to create a Pivot Table or give me a blank stare when I even say the term Pivot Table.