From the No Shelf Required website : I’m thrilled to inform you that No Shelf Required: E-books in Libraries will be released in late August. This edited book, published by ALA Editions, discusses a variety of eBook topics for school, public, and academic libraries

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New book about ebooks in libraries – release in August

Social Media Marketing for Dummies is a resource for businesses who are looking to embrace the “social world” to engage with their customers. The author, Shiv Singh , is considered a social media guru who now heads the digital marketing for PepsiCo. If you would like to grab a copy of Shiv’s Social Media Marketing book for free, head over to dellsocialmedia.com and fill in the form.

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Social Media Marketing for Dummies – Get your free copy

Massachusetts lawmakers say a new health care bill they approved will help small businesses combat rising health care costs and force insurers to spend more on medical care and less on administrative costs.

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Health Care Reform Measure Approved

According to ShowbizGossips.com one of the best things to sell on eBay is something you got for free. And that’s exactly what some enterprising Australians are doing as they are selling free Go Cards they got from the Queensland government. The Australian institution gave away free Go Cards to boost usage of the public transport smartcard, but some enterprising recipients tried to cash them in on eBay

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Selling ‘Free’ On eBay

As it stands, there is no reliable way to judge the sustainability of a company. Sustainability is, of course, a subjective thing, and one whose definition changes depending on the industry

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Greenbiz, UL Environment Introduce Sweeping Sustainability Standard for Companies

At a ceremony held at the Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C., the 2010 class of the National Inventors Hall of Fame was formally inducted. David Kappos, director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, said, “The 2010 inductees have collectively amassed 387 patents.

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Inventors Hall Of Fame Inducts 16 New Members

According to The Washington Post , you don’t even have to like to cook in order to appreciate the gizmos, gadgets and gurus of food fixings in “Inventive Eats,” the first exhibit in the brand-spanking new installation space at the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Alexandria. Designers Laurie Mobley and Mitch Scott were given the job of setting up a universally appealing show in a few months’ time, so they built it around 20 food-related inductees

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‘Inventive Eats’

Thanks to Rachel Ray, extra virgin olive oil (or “EVOO” as she has playfully deemed it) has become a grocery staple in American grocery stores as well as American kitchens. Remember, it wasn’t so long ago that olive oil in the home meant that rancid bottle of Bertolli hanging out in the back of the pantry with the discarded bottles of molasses and rice wine vinegar. Now, EVOO is front and center in the kitchen and used for just about everything from salad dressings to cakes

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Virginity questioned: How extra virgin olive oil lost its purity

For organic caterer Annie Marshall, what was originally a means to support her daughter has since become a dedication to teaching people the benefits of healthier eating reports FrederickNewsPost.com .

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Veggie Annie’s Recipe For Success

According to John Calvert at the United States Patent and Trademark Office , A provisional patent application (PPA) is a patent application that can be used by a patent applicant to secure a filing date while avoiding the costs associated with the filing and prosecution of a non-provisional patent application. More specifically, if a non-provisional application is filed within one year from the filing date of a PPA, the non-provisional application may claim the benefit of the filing date of the PPA. Because a PPA is not examined, an applicant can also avoid the costs typically associated with non-provisional patent prosecution (certain attorney’s fees, for example) for a year while determining whether his/her invention is commercially viable

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What You Need to Know About Provisional Patents

Hoboken’s Ian Sacs (right) and Juan Melli with a Corner Car. (Jim Motavalli photo) HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY — Fresh off the $1.75 PATH tubes from Manhattan, I am standing on a pleasant residential street lined with brownstones in downtown Hoboken, New Jersey with the boyish Ian Sacs, head of the city’s transportation and parking bureau. In front of me is a Toyota Prius, just like any other except for the fact that it is parked in a green-lined space …

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Innovative car sharing helps a walkable city clear its streets

This week I’ll be a guest on the Hot Seminar Series to discuss taking a blog to max profit potential – including my strategies for getting the most out of every post . Kelly McCausey is the host of the summer series, and she has been digging into my blog archives to check things out before the interview on Wednesday.

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Blogging With A Plan

The Wall Street Journal makes no bones about the matter: Its report , based on discussions with industry insiders, is headlined “Microsoft Quashed Effort to Boost Online Privacy.” The core argument centers around the new version of MS’s “industry leading” browser that hit PCs in 2008: Internet Explorer 8.0. According to several sources close to MS’s management and coders, there was a huge move to differentiate IE8 from the other, increasingly competitive, browsers on the market by making it a champion of user privacy protection

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Microsoft’s Role in the Erosion of Online Privacy

The National Inventors Hall of Fame™ honors the women and men responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible. New to the museum is a display of the inductees of the Hall of Fame.

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National Inventors Hall Of Fame And Museum

All you need to know right now, from shrimps to billionaires. While you drifted off, BP stole livelihoods (again), Richard Branson blogged about being in business for funsies, and some new competitors arose in Asia. 1

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iFive: Branson on Fun, Asia Nobels, China Water Projects, BP Destroys Fisheries, Iraq Loses Electricity

August is National Inventors Month, a month long event celebrating invention and creativity. National Inventors Month began was started in 1998 by the United Inventors Association of the USA (UIA-USA), the Academy of Applied Science, and Inventors’ Digest magazine

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Part 5 of the Building Your Freelance Writing Brand Series here on Freelance Writing Jobs is all about online reputation management and search engine reputation management (SERM).  It’s a direct follow-up to Part 4, which dealt with manipulating search engine results and handling negative conversations about your brand online.  You can get links to all previous parts of the Building Your Freelance Writing Brand series at the end of this post. Online reputation management deals not just with responding to negative conversations but also monitoring what is being said about your brand across the social web on an ongoing basis.  When you know what is being published about your brand, you can decide which tactic described in Part 4 is the right one for you to pursue in different situations. But how do you find out what people are saying about you online

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Building Your Freelance Writing Brand – Part 5

OLDWICK, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to B+ (Good) from B (Fair) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) to bbb- from bb of Security Benefit Life Insurance Company (Topeka, KS) and its affiliate, First Security Benefit Life and Annuity Company of New York (Rye Brook, NY) (collectively known as Security Benefit Group)

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A.M. Best Upgrades Ratings of Security Benefit Life Insurance Company and Its Affiliate

Emerging group experiences have predictable dynamics, whether they are new project teams, training and development programs, wilderness experiences, or just people learning new jobs. People form relationships based on first impressions and sometimes-false hopes, find that things haven’t gone as imagined, and then struggle through confusion and misunderstanding to create their own positive norms that help them work effectively. The best leaders help people through these stages only to find some common issues popping up — things people seem to want that even the best leaders can’t provide.

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Four Things Groups Want that Leaders Can’t Give — and One They Can

By MERRILL GOOZNER Check out this study from the Healthcare Performance Management Institute, a business-backed think tank that promotes self-insurance among employers. The survey claims that insurance companies are refusing to provide employers with detailed data about employee claims, citing…

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If Insurers Thought the Public Plan Was A Threat