Polymorph screening specialists, Onyx Scientific Ltd – chemistry outsourcing partner to the pharma and biotech industries – today announced the record-breaking growth of its solid-state chemistry services for the discovery, analysis and scale-up of polymorphs, hydrates, amorphous phases, salts and co-crystals of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs).

In close partnership with an international client base and often working with just a few grams of precious API material, Onyx Scientific performs highly specific polymorph screening at all stages of the drug discovery process, to both pinpoint as many crystal forms as possible, for IP protection, and to select the candidate with optimal solid-state properties.

“Polymorphs are best discovered sooner rather than later and the ultimate goal is to make sure you have the best one ” explains Tony Flinn, CEO, Onyx Scientific. “Choosing an appropriate form demands systematic screening and characterization. At Onyx we utilise a 96 well plate work flow combined with 2D X-ray Powder Diffraction, high throughput Raman Spectroscopy and an automated Zinsser Crissy platform”.

Recognised as a major strength, Onyx Scientifics’ founders and elite scientific team have the pharma industry background and solid-state chemistry expertise needed to make and characterize crystal forms and to integrate the control of solid-form properties in the manufacturing process.

Typical work programs offered in the Onyx GMP facility, include:

Mini Screens – initial, early stage polymorph screening (where material and/or budget are limited)

Standard Screens – identification of as many solid-forms as possible with in a fixed time period

Macro Screens – a complete polymorphism study with stability testing and scale-up

In addition to solid-state polymorph screening, Onyx Scientifics’ breadth of services include: salt selection, GMP custom synthesis, process development and lead optimization.

MHRA certified and conforming to international GMP standards, Onyx Scientifics’ state-of-the-art facility delivers peace-of-mind with the supply of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients for clinical trials.
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HOUSTON – SalesNexus releases “What is my sales process anyway?”

SalesNexus today released “What is my sales process anyway?”, identifying your sales process so you’re ready for a web based CRM to help you manage it.

“Companies implementing web based CRM software normally have as one of their goals better management of their pipeline of current deals”, said Craig Klein, Founder and CEO of SalesNexus.com. “But, for web based CRM vendors, this where the promise of the technology and the cool things you saw in the demo often start to diverge from reality.”

“This is due to the fact that most sellers of CRM solutions make setting up the CRM system appear very easy during demonstrations in an effort to win your business. The appearance they often create is that you simply have to logon, upload your contacts and then go take a look at your CRM dashboard and see your pipeline. This can only be true if you train your sales team to follow the pre-built, one size fits all steps or process in the CRM solution.

We all know that one size does not fit all. Your sales process is probably very different from your closest competitor. In the end, we know that you “can’t manage what you can’t measure”.

“That’s why SalesNexus Web Based CRM was built to allow you to quickly and easily tailor it to your unique way of marketing and selling. In the first days of your subscription, we’ll be conducting what we call a “Success Planning Call” to understand your processes and help you get things set up and fit to your needs.”

“What is my sales process anyway?” is on the SalesNexus website available here – http://www.salesnexus.com/what-is-my-sales-process-anyway.php To learn more about SalesNexus online CRM,

click here – http://www.salesnexus.com/.
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NEWPORT, RI – July 3, 2010 – A walking tour of the private gardens of some of Newport’s most prestigious private estates usually closed to the public will be held to benefit local students in the form of grants for arts and music education.

Attendees will get a rare glimpse inside the walls and fences of these famous Newport properties on a planned self-guided walking tour.

Organized by Myra Duvally, the Secret Garden Tours have raised more than $1.25 million since 1984 for local students who would have otherwise been unable to pursue their artistic or musical dreams.

During a time when tightening school budgets put art and music education on the chopping block, events like the Newport Secret Garden Tours can help change a student’s life.

“Arts are usually the first thing targeted when money gets tight,” Myra Duvally said during an interview. “The funds donated through the Newport Secret Garden Tours have benefited visual arts, dance, theater and music.”

The tours are self-guided to accommodate attendees’ schedules and create a unique experience for each attendee. The event will be July 9th, 10th and 11th, 2010 rain or shine.

Tickets purchased in advance for the event can be redeemed at anytime throughout the weekend and are available for $20.00 when ordered in advance or $25.00 at the event. The tours start at 10am each day.

For more information or to purchase tickets in advance, visit http://www.secretgardentours.org or call 401-847-0514

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Contact: Shara Lawrence-Weiss
Phone: 602-430-5808
Email: mainoffice@mommyperks.com
Website: www.mommyperks.com

MOMMYPERKS.COM: Twitter Charity Hats create Branding Success

PINE, AZ — July 3, 2010 — MommyPerks.com, a free online resource for families, has grown from a small local Arizona resource to an internationally known online community since its creation in 2005.

Local and international visitors to the site can utilize the numerous free articles on parenting and running a small business. In addition, they can find unique PERKS, reviews and giveaways.

For the small business, low-fee PR is offered. After being invited to tour the Cinnabon Farm in Seattle, the owner of Mommy Perks was asked if her funny twitter hats were a genius branding move. She replied, “No, but maybe they should be!” Since that time she has become known around twitter for her clever hats promoting various occasions, holidays and obscure celebrations (National Turkey Day, National Potty Training Awareness Month and more).

Signing Families owner, Louise Sattler, suggested that Shara begin wearing business logo hats as a way to help other businesses Brand. In trade, the business would donate to a family-friendly charity. There is now a waiting list for the Charity Hats branding campaign. Each business ships a hat to Shara, containing their logo, a photo is snapped and the hat is worn on the twitter avatar for one week. This effective branding strategy has quickly made its way around the twitterverse. The crew at Mommy Perks plans to continue the campaign, long term.

ABOUT:

MommyPerks.com is owned and operated by parenting expert and small business owner Shara Lawrence-Weiss. Lawrence-Weiss can also be found on twitter (@mommyperks) and on Facebook (Mommy Perks). Other sites in the MommyPerks community include KidsPerks.com, EarlyChildhoodNews.net and PersonalChildStories.com. All sites are hosted and maintained by DesignMediaPros.com.
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Generate Business Intelligence from your Expos! ViVOexpo.com is a powerful yet easy to use SaaS Cloud-based application that turns your traditional Marketing Sales activities into more revenue.

Miami Beach, FL – July 1, 2010 – ViVOexpo.com® has unleashed the power of the next generation Smart Marketing Automation, Sales Lead Nurturing Scoring solution; allowing its Subscribers to sell more products and services faster, better, and with a lower cost of sales. The backbone of this new online service is a 3G product called ViVOxm™, an application that has been in use for 10+ years meeting the needs of SMB’s and large companies alike.

ViVOexpo.com is the first of its kind; providing a Multi-tenant Environment that focuses on all aspects of Sales Lead Management, Nurturing, Scoring. It gathers data on each sales lead and provides holistic reports to: C-Level Management / Marketing / Sales; all in real-time. The big news is the price – all this is at a fraction of the cost of implementing a stand-alone system. No setup fees, and dramatically reduces recurring monthly fees.

“Web 2.0 and SaaS have become the catalyst for companies embracing integrated Marketing Sales Lead Management strategies. While traditional marketing works in functional silos, integrated marketing promotes end-to-end processes, automation, accountability, and metrics,” said Michael Kettenring, CEO of ViVOexpo.com. “Our Multi-tenant Environment allows our clients’ to implement a sophisticated Inbound Marketing / Campaign solution at a fraction of the cost of a stand-alone application,” Kettenring concluded.

About ViVOexpo.com®
Founded in 2009, ViVOexpo.com is a global leader in the deployment of Multi-tenant Cloud-based solutions. This powerful yet easy to use SaaS application turns traditional Marketing Sales activities into more revenue. We empower our clients’ to generate, nurture, qualify convert more high quality sales leads with less effort. The power behind the site is ViVOxm™ – this 3G application was first launched in 2000. Headquartered in Miami Beach FL, with a branch office in Muenchen Germany, ViVOexpo.com provides sales support coverage in all major world markets.

For more information on ViVOexpo.com, please visit: http://ViVOexpo.com

Press Contact
Lawrence Bujak
LJB@ViVOexpo.com
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FileHold www.filehold.com document management software helps companies; “Go Paperless” by organizing and protecting their intellectual property. FileHold’09, the latest product release from FileHold Systems, provides even more features for; physical and electronic records management, e-mail archiving and integration with other business applications. FileHold’09 supports all the new Microsoft platforms including 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows Explorer 8, SQL Server 2008, Windows server 2008, SharePoint 2010 and Windows 7.

Larry Oliver, President of FileHold said; “FileHold’09 delivers on the FileHold philosophy of making feature rich and infinitely scalable document and records management software affordable for organizations of all sizes. Our product has always been easy to install and easy to use but now it is even more packaged for fast, low cost deployment. Our decision to stay Microsoft centric has been a good one. Most of our customers already have the Microsoft components needed to run FileHold so installation is a matter of hours not days or weeks. We have packaged our product our installation processes and our training so that our customers know in advance what their total cost of ownership (TCO) will be.

A major feature expansion of FileHold’09 is in the area of Records Management! There is more and more need for organizations to store electronic and physical records to stay in regulatory compliance. FileHold’09 makes it easy to set archive and disposition policies for both physical and electronic documents.”

Dr. Jacek Lipowski, CTO of FileHold said: “Our product harnesses the power of the various Microsoft environments. We take full advantage of key Microsoft platforms. Microsoft Active Directory synchronization allows users to logon to FileHold with a single sign on. We make use of Microsoft SQL reporting services to empower our customers to mine data from FileHold and generate business intelligence. We integrate with Microsoft Office so that our customers can archive and tag Office documents including business relevant e-mail with a single click or using drag and drop.

Our integration with Microsoft SharePoint via web parts is a fast and easy way to add complimentary features such as; document scanning, document viewers, redaction, document workflow and approval to SharePoint. FileHold’09 strengthens SharePoint’s ‘federated search’ functionality by allowing users to look for documents in both the FileHold and SharePoint repositories.”

“Members of the Microsoft Partner Network, such as FileHold Systems Inc have earned the status as trusted advisor by helping customers realize business value. Partners like FileHold Systems inc. that achieve Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status have a deep understanding of Microsoft solutions and a passion for Canada’s growing technology industry,” said Corinne Sharp, National Director, Canadian Partner channel, Microsoft Canada Inc.

About FileHold Systems

FileHold, www.filehold.com is a privately owned, Microsoft Gold, manufacturer of affordable document management software with over 7,000 seats in production throughout the world. FileHold software; the fast track to the “Paperless Office”, is easy to use, easily interfaces with third party applications and is tightly integrated with Microsoft Office and SharePoint. FileHold empowers workers to store and find their important documents, including e-mail, while maintaining tight version control and managed workflow. For a free public demonstration of document management software: http://www.filehold.com/business/sign-up.htm

For further information contact Larry Oliver at 604-734-5653 loliver@filehold.com .
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LOS ANGELES, June 29, 2010 – Colocation America, a leading colocation server hosting company, announced its global communications network with its greatest quality connectivity yet. Colocation America routes the majority of its national and international communications through its One Wilshire (Los Angeles) and 60 Hudson (New York City) data centers, preeminent hubs for international communication.
“One Wilshire and 60 Hudson are two of the worlds leading connection points and with Colocation America’s premium bandwidth blend of over 55% peering in these facilities, our global reach is immediate and secure,” says Michael Trunkett, President of Colocation America. “Over 10 years of experience in providing exceptional colocation hosting services has gained the confidence and satisfaction of our clients and that is something of which we are very proud of.”
The improved data transit times for colocation hosting providers with network peering relationships is due to direct connections between carriers, as opposed to routing through other routing protocols. Colocation Americas private peering network at the One Wilshire and 60 Hudson data centers ensures instant connectivity for the hosting services that they provides.
The stability of Colocation America’s carrier-neutral facilities arise from the direct peering arrangements they have with other leading network providers. Colocation America has achieved 55% peering in its data centers, resulting in a balanced network with instant connectivity and 100% uptime for its colocation hosting and dedicated server hosting clients.
“The combination of premier infrastructure, strategic market location, and extensive data backup features makes our Los Angeles and New York hubs the top choices for reaching the East Coast, West Coast, Pacific Rim and other local and global markets,” says Trunkett.
Anyone looking for superior connectivity and 100% uptime based on state-of-the-art software and hardware, experienced engineers, and peering with leaders in communication, is encouraged to visit www.colocationamerica.com to learn more about Colocation America’s colocation hosting, dedicated server hosting, and managed server hosting.

About Colocation America, Inc.

Established in 2000, Colocation America has grown to become one of the most reliable colocation hosting providers nationally. Based in Los Angeles, California, Colocation America was built from the ground up by professional engineers with a vision of delivering a fully integrated, trusted colocation server hosting service. Colocation America has earned a reputation of excellence through its attention to detail, highly qualified technicians and commitment to the latest data center technology.

Colocation America’s primary data centers are located in the world famous One Wilshire building (Los Angeles) and 60 Hudson (New York). Colocation America’s data center locations provide maximum scalability to major fiber carriers and can connect to virtually any backbone provider. Colocation America has direct access to over 240 bandwidth providers around the world and can scale Internet connectivity to meet client needs. Colocation America leverages its extensive portfolio of colocation services with a powerful IT team to deliver affordable solutions to businesses.

For more information contact Colocation America at 1-800-296-8915, email Sales@ColocationAmerica.com, Twitter @ColocationUSA, or visit www.ColocationAmerica.com.

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With the trend of cutting performing arts programs in schools on the rise, David Pleasant makes it his mission to educate while performing. His passion coupled with The Mountain Retreat Learning Center’s dedication to providing meaningful intergenerational programming has resulted in a unique performing arts workshop for all ages and skill levels called “Shout, Juba Jive! Intergenerational Poly-rhythmic Explorations.” The workshop will take place at The Mountain Retreat Learning Center in Highlands, NC July 16-18.

Inspired by the traditions of the Gullah-Geechee culture of the Sea Islands, David Pleasant supplies teachers, musicians, students and the general public a way to learn about early African American history through rhythm-effect vocals and drum voice techniques. He has been featured on PBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, Reading Rainbow, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and many others around the world.

“David is an innovative, talented master percussionist and teacher. He engages people of all ages in the poly-rhythmic music and movement that Bessie Jones called ‘Drumfolk.’ The Mountain is absolutely thrilled to be bringing him to the Western North Carolina area,” said Alisa Pykett, Director of Programs at The Mountain. In addition to the “Shout, Juba Jive” intergenerational program, an adult program for all skill levels called “Language of the Soul” will take place at The Mountain July 19-22. More information can be found at www.mountaincenters.org.

Founded in 1979, The Mountain Retreat Learning Center is a non-profit program center, summer youth camp and a retreat center for individuals and groups where people can grow and renew themselves. The Mountain’s programs reflect strong convictions about peace, justice and environmental ethics. Annually 4,000 people from more than 35 states visit The Mountain. For further information, visit www.mountaincenters.org or call (828) 526-5838.
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While Microsoft, Google and others continues to cobble together its collection of hosted services, NetOffice, which changed its name from MessageTime in 2004, has been offering an award-winning integrated suite of web-accessible communications and information management tools for over a decade.

NetOffice an established presence since 1997 in the communication, contact and information management services industry, is pleased to announce the launch of its One Touch Network, Connecting you to YOUR EVERYTHING with just one touch from any device or connection, and for less than a dime per day.

“Today’s ever changing technology gives people more ways to connect than ever before. As a result, keeping information organized and staying in touch with one another is slowly becoming a time consuming challenge.

Keeping track of all the devices and technology used on a daily basis is slowly becoming a nightmare. The time spent texting, Skyping and updating social networks is up 24.6 percent compared to last year, costing millions of dollars in manpower and loss of time. Research has found that the average person spends about four hours a day online, and in some cases much longer. In addition, most people use several different mobile devices, not to mention phone numbers, on a daily basis, including a home number, work number, cell number, fax number or private and toll free lines.

Coupled with multiple numbers and devices are the various Web sites, social networks, blogs, texts and e-mails most people use to communicate with family, friends and business associates. Keeping track of all this information is a big challenge, especially when it’s needed right-now. Once a change of address or career is thrown in, this information can become even more burdensome to manage or notify others about your change or move.

NetOffices One Touch Network integrates all of this information — contact names, phone numbers and faxes; email capabilities; Google maps; Web sites; social networks and other productivity features — into one simple location with one simple name to remember. It’s like a virtual business card with built in tools and secured privacy features. When information is updated, it becomes available instantaneously.

NetOffice is designed like any other hosted service, available from any Internet-connected device, computer or phone. And because NetOffice contains so much vital information, its also a self-contained continuity program, ensuring that key data will always be available through the user’s own private domain and secured web page. This means that the user controls all the content, allowing only that which they want seen to be visible.

Best of all, subscribers can initiate the One Touch Network in less than 24 hours. With NetOffice there’s no hardware or software to install, and users never pay license or contract fees. It’s the ideal solution for anyone who likes to control and manage today’s ever changing world of technology while saving time and money.

For more information about NetOffice, visit NetOffice.com Become part of the One Touch Network and get your name before it’s gone or contact VP of Marketing and Sale Jessica Thach– Marketing@Netoffice.com.
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Brisbane, AU (OpenPress) June 25, 2010 – ArtistScope DRM for the Digital Rights Management of both documents and web content is now available and affordable for everyone to use. Instead of outlaying thousands of dollars for software and a dedicated server, authors can now start protecting their livelihood for as little as $25 by using a ready hosted DRM service.

An author can be publishing fully protected documents within hours. Documents not only protected from all manner of copying their content but are also protected from the copy and redistribution to others.

ArtistScope DRM is a total control solution comprised of a sophisticated suite of tools that enable authors to upload documents and images from a web page to be encrypted and assigned access rights permissions. The solution is unique in that all document conversions, regardless of file type and the ultimate encryption for distribution are performed server side.

ArtistScope DRM utilizes the most secure and renown CopySafe Runtime for the copy protection of documents, images and web page content. CopySafe is safe from all copy and saving including Printscreen and screen capture software. Today, claims of being safe from screen shots are used by a lot of products and merely false advertising. In fact all other copy protection solutions actually fall way short of the mark in comparison to the CopySafe solution which was first introduced in 1998 and has evolved to provide the most secure environments ever imagined.

Almost any type of document can be protected by ArtistScope DRM. Authors can upload a variety of document types and have them encrypted for DRM format for view by a CopySafe reader (a free download to the public). During the encryption process the documents signature and security code is embedded, so that when and if it is tagged for DRM then the Reader will query the online database, check the rules assigned to the document and or user/group permissions, and then allow/disallow access to the document according to those rules.

The most amazing feature of ArtistScope DRM is that a document can be uploaded and managed from anywhere in the world with immediate effect over any changes, even on documents already distributed to the end user, giving the author total control at all times.

ArtistScope DRM:

- Restricts which users or groups can view a document or web page
- Sets expiration on a document or web page validated by independent time server
- Allows/limits the number of views of documents and web pages per user or group
- Allows/limits the number of prints of documents and web pages per user or group
- Allows/limits access to documents and web pages by IP number or network
- Allows/limits a user to add/edit documents for shared distribution
- Creates member accounts for authoring documents and web pages
- Uploads, converts and protects all types of documents, images and web pages

Ordinarily such a complex solution would be installed on a client’s server and accessed directly from their own network, but ArtistScope DRM has been especially designed to cater for multi-tiered user groups, catering for millions of authors, groups, users and documents.

The ArtistScope DRM solution, having been in service since 2008 and utilized by a variety of different industries and different media supporting different languages, everyone should find that the hosted DRM service most reliable and user-friendly. Control panel pages are available in 27 different languages with all screens and messages, including member notices, automatically translated to the language of the user.

With all core functions server side, super strength encryption and SQL injection filters used on all client-server messages, ArtistScope DRM provides the foundation for the most secure document rights management solution available today.

For more information, please see:

Documentation – http://www.artistscope.com
Demo account – https://www.artisbiz.com/drm
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