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Social Selling – Top-10 Real ROI & Results – Seminar Highlights

2018-09-06T08:02:00.002-07:00

By Thomas B. Cross @techtionary This is both an introduction and taking action seminar designed to not just “talk the talk” but “walk the walk” in changing the nature of sales, channels and most importantly customers in the way they explore, evaluate, decide, purchase and deploy new and expanded versions of solutions in their business. This is both a half-day onsite or full-day onsite seminar delivered in the U.S with webinar options available. If you prefer to get started with a social selling strategy scroll down to after the seminar. Social selling is an exciting and proven way to promote, engagement and conduct business.

Here are 10 proven reasons why it works with real ROI and results. 1 – It’s still social – whether you are in person, on the phone, email or via social media you can engage, collaborate, exchange ideas, explore new ideas, provide solutions to business needs and network with others, via social media as well. Social selling is easy, fun and provides the means to share your “thought leadership” (time to get started on that) with a global audience. Thought leadership is a complex subject and will be explored in another article. 2 – Shareable – by sharing your services or solutions you will find via social media there are often many others who are kindred spirits having similar ideas and areas of interest. You can use #hashtags to find any topic you like. You can also share their ideas with your followers. More importantly, you can share their ideas and they can share yours. In other words, RT-retweeting shows you are engaged and involved in not just your own posts but others. 3 – Speak out – even if you are focused on selling you can also share good things, helping others for your favorite cause or charity to help “lift all boats.” 4 – Seek to learn about others in the world around them. Social media is not just about selling its about everything and you can find everything you need on social media. Yes, it’s overwhelming but the old Sunday newspapers were overwhelming as well but you found the time to read about the world. Social media is really an interactive newspaper, however there is not one OPED-opinion editorial page but thousands which you can explore. Certainly, there is fake news but most of the time there are honest comments whether you like them or not from people expressing their own First Amendment views of the world. From that vantage you can accept, change but also express your own view. 5 – Sends – a message to others that you are involved in the social community. Times they are a changing Bob Dylan once wrote and it’s time to “get with the program” though some would say “expose” yourself you show you are actively engaged. This also means that in selling, people buy from people they trust and if they don’t trust you they won’t buy from you. By explaining your solutions to potential customers, you help them understand the real value you and your company bring to their business. This kind of messaging brings new ways current customers can use or expand the use of your product. Of course, your competitors are likely watching what you are saying but also makes the sales process more transparent as you can respond to both customers and competitors. 6 – Supply – information on your company and solutions available. All too often customers have to dig through far too many website pages to find the information they are looking for. Through the use of social media messages, you can offer to be the guide for what customers are looking for. Here’s how. On Twitter you can say “DM-direct message me for custom details as to what you are looking for as I can cut through the clutter to help you find if we can be of help to you.” Or, “DM me for special offers and terms that we have going on now.” Or, come up with you own way to say this. 7 – Secure – that you in the mind of the buyer. Survey say that up to 70% of customers have made up their mind before they contact the company. This should tell you they have been looking for a solution for a long time and carefully evaluating the alternatives before engaging with the onslaught of sales calls, demos, trials, terms, delivery and more. By being involved daily you can present your solutions and often have the edge over your competition. 8 – Suite – increasing numbers of C-levels from all kinds of C-suites are championing social selling. Look at Elon Musk, Richard Branson and John Legere of T-Mobile are setting new levels of customer engagement and thought leadership. John Legere is of particular interest because not only has the stock doubled, he is constantly engaging with customers providing great CTA-calls to action such these examples which are from Mr. Legere’s Twitter feed such as free movie tickets, free subscriptions to Kindle, sweet deals on donuts but also taking responsibility for outages. He also provides true company leadership by talking about future directions of T-Mobile. He also talks to his employees via Twitter which “cuts the gossip” in corporate communications chaos. 9 – Showoff – there is a showoff in all of us which we want to show to our family, community and others all the things we are involved with. You can use social selling to showoff other ideas but also RT posts of others who need a boost, share similar interests and connect in a new way. Practically speaking, social selling shows the world how one part is connected to all the parts – tires are connected to cars which take us news place we want to go. That is, your posts are connected with other solutions to help customers in more ways than just one you sell. 10 – Sell – social selling is not new but a new way to discover new opportunities, learn, engage, explore and be connected part to the world around you. Social selling works, if you work it. Like exercise, you are never “one and done.” It’s like eating, you do eat every day, you can make social selling part of your daily sales efforts. You may not realize it now and gaining followers is not the only metric for success but it really works. Importantly, there are some really amazing people, leading business leaders and influencers who are also involved in social selling everyday. It is a new world, seize the day. Summary – social selling is more than sizzle. It can bring real ideas to business needs faster, easier with greater ROI than any traditional selling method. Social selling works by integrating selling with company, product thought leadership and marketing communications to bring viable solutions to customers.

There are many more actionable tips to be found in the Social Selling Seminar:

Introduction to Social Selling – Morning Session for Professional Selling Professionals

Session 1 – Customers Bain or Boon This session will drill in to the customers mind and not react or predict but direct them to your strategy: - Social Selling and Social Media Explained - presentation to everyone on what it is, what works and what leads to failure. Social selling concepts helps getting people “on the same page” a horrendous task yet without this effort, factions often arise to derail the process. – Core Customers – potential, fans, fence-sitters, ignored, end of life – are customers “listening to what you say on social media and are you really listening to what customers are saying” – who is the real buyer and who are other key decision-makers? - Build customer personas and map to social media platforms based on product/solution. In addition, an evaluation of customer buying cycles, alignments, down to the branch level. Also, what do they know, think, believe and need to know about you. – Communications Media Channels – product/solution messaging and mediums used for current sales. Understand role of sales-marketing interfaces for specific campaigns, events and other sales activities. Specifically, evaluate how social selling would fit into the organization including support, product and other areas. In other words, is there a “black hole” that could impact social selling solution to derail the process? – Evaluate Sales Channels of Distribution – channels and partners are just one part of the means to an end, evaluation of “hot spots” and “dead zones” including self-service social selling and indepth analysis of CAC-customer acquisition costs and buying cycles (seasonal, annual, government, other).
Session 2 - Build Strategic Customer Assessments Explore the following: 1 – Customer type – vertical, specialty, distribution, OEM 2 – Content – what are they saying, selling telling their customers, what do they know about you (what research are you providing them to help them evaluate you) - explore their Omnichannel purchasing processes including multi-source social content syndication news gathering. 3 - Media Channels – what mainstream and other media channels are they using? 4 - Channels of Distribution – build “agile” channel models adapting to known and emerging technologies. 5 - Apps – are customers using app(s) for selling/supporting? 6 - Technology – what social selling/media and technologies are they using – did they build or buy. 7 - Organization – where is their organization going – merge, divest, domestic and international. 8 - Brand – is their brand something that is important to you? 9 - Random – what regulatory, political, environmental factors have on customer buying now and in the future. 10 - Vision – where are customers now and where are they going and how can you “walk in their moccasins” now and in the future. Session 3 – Taking Social Selling Action Today Develop and build new Social Selling Strategy on specific elements making each element “more social” than pure selling. - Start selling – build new social “cold calling” build new social selling newsfeeds. - Upsell – build new means to selling “dogs” and finding “happy meals.” - Pitch-sell – build new social selling “pitches.” - Re-sell – integration of social selling with resellers, VARs, channels, direct, partners and anyone else. - Cross-sell – exploring ways to social selling multi-vendor solutions. - Follow-up selling – is social selling working, “mid-course” corrections and testing multiple approaches? - Shorter selling – build ways to shorten sales cycle, integrate CAC-customer acquisition cycles and building selling cycle calendar (no point in selling Christmas trees in January). - Outselling – not really outsourcing options for social selling but soliciting other “sources” to help in sales. - Support selling - "constant courtesy" – integration of selling and support - Cool selling – can toys, movies, and fun be to use - Develop funnel buying stages. Questions & Answers Session Evaluation: "Taking action, building real call to actions and engaging actions were just some of the actionable efforts I put to work immediately after the seminar making social selling exciting and actually works." Jeff D.

Advanced Social Selling – Afternoon Session for Corporate and Sales Management

Session 1 – Selling Social Selling to the Organization – The Hardest Part - Organizational integration of social selling - review of where social selling "fits in" to the current organization. - Organizational marketing “socializing social selling” to other departments - often internal selling is harder than external and what internal roadblocks emerge to divert or block the social selling strategy. - Incorporate industry and competitive research and other “thought leadership on who else is talking about social selling? - Evaluate social selling and integration with current/proposed compensation plans. - Integrating Social Influencer aka KOL-Key Opinion Leaders involvement into the pilot program. - Discuss critical elements of the implementation program include: - Social media "word of mouth" social sales - Social selling is really an extension of, not replacement for being a great sales person and great selling processes, what, where and how will social selling be used to extend that process will be developed. - Social Influencer and Leadership - “you cannot manage a sales force, you lead it” and social selling leadership development will be included. - How internal social selling leadership and external social influencer programs are integrated into content development and delivery. Session 2 – Critical Social Selling Concepts This session focuses on management and the changing nature of management in the future including: - Connections – how to create and connect with other social media influencers. - Curation - review and curate company content, provide guidance and enhanced thought leadership via influencer team. - Content – how to create content to have compelling “thought leadership” knowledge. - Collaboration – learn how to collaborate with internal and external social leaders. - C-Level – get help from C-levels to gain access to and assist and guide others on their social media efforts along with gaining-retaining followers. - Concerns – learn key points in responding to concerns expressed by global crisis issues, cultural issues, terrorism, customer comments and others including social media. Learn how to build and monitor system for sales, support/service, IR/PR and compliance issues. - Build tools to track results for monitoring, managing, auditing and making the most of your social influencers and KOL-key opinion leaders program. Session 3 – Corporate Management and Social Selling Here are some of the key issues addressed: - Integration of organizational compensation systems with HR for personnel management - hiring/firing is the often the greatest challenge -- integration of social selling is key to an overlay or replace to current selling processes. - Crisis - discuss having a crisis response team to address 7×24 tracking to avoid situations such as Uber (sexual harassment) Target (hack attack), Wells Fargo (internal corruption), Chipotle (incompetence) and learn how to other respond to corporate devastating consequences with live “tweetchats” demonstrating responsiveness. - Develop a social selling approach based on key elements in the buying cycle and what customers need to know at each stage, accelerating where possible, testing concepts if possible to evaluate what works, doesn’t and viable social selling “best practices.” Ongoing audit and assessment KPI factors - no selling or social selling practice is viable without some form of auditing and key metrics. Albeit social selling metrics are more about social media engagements, likes and other mentions and postings. Social selling engages with various customer types is just one kind of metric. All content factors will be included in the assessments. - Integration of KPI factors with other organizational KPI metrics. - Explore the new social selling organizational structure. Questions & Answers Session Evaluation: "For me the ability to scale management of staff channel managers and 100s of channel partners was worth ten times the seminar fee. I now run multiple Linkedin groups and Twitter accounts that extend my reach providing great ways to make people "get and stay on the same page" cuts communications chaos and speeds the sales process." John D. VP Sales Social Selling Corporate Strategy This seminar is part of a comprehensive social selling strategy. Click on image for complete presentation.
Delivery methods – three- or six-hour onsite delivery with webinar option available. Scheduling is extremely limited due to previously scheduled seminars. If you have topic or scheduling questions, you can call 303-594-1694 or email cross@gocross.com

Scheduling and Terms – Tuition and travel are prepaid prior to confirmation of delivery date. Payment methods include credit cards, PayPal, ACH/wire. Due to the breadth and depth of this seminar, all topics may not be discussed due to student questions and class interaction. Course topics or terms may change without notice. Disclaimer If you have any questions regarding specific content presented or want specific topics or issues addressed, please email or call. The author and presenter have used their best efforts in preparing this seminar and the programs contained in it. These efforts include the development, research, and testing of the theories and programs to determine their effectiveness. The author and presenter make no warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, with regard to these programs or the documentation contained in this seminar. The author and presenter shall not be liable in any event for incidental or consequential damages in connection with, or arising out of, the furnishing, performance, or use of these programs.

MindMeld: CEO and AI: Merging Mental and Metal

2018-08-12T05:19:00.001-07:00

The following is the introduction to MindMeld: CEO & AI Merging of Mental & Metal book available now via iBooks - Available on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac.

Book Review - "As the CEO of a energy industrial company and actively involved in CEO Leadership Forums I have been following AI for more than a decade. Indeed the promises for improving many technical tasks are interesting yet in reality often prove more complex to manage than proposed. MindMeld was very profound in proposing that AI starts not at the bottom of the organization but with CXO decision-making and worth reading by anyone in or rising to the boardroom." George B.

For interviews, professional guidance, product/market research or evaluations, articles or presentations, please contact cross@gocross.com

Book Introduction

This book MindMeld: the CEO and AI is meant to plant the seeds of knowledge about a young but growing new field. In the pursuit of this new technology, it is important to remember that technology accelerates faster and faster while increasing humanism cannot be denied.

No matter who you are or what you do, MindMeld: CEO and AI is a book you must read to understand the vast technological advancements coming your way—advancements that will impact how you do business... how you make decisions... how you communicate... how you live. It's your personal guided tour into the latest trends, issues, problems, challenges, and promise of our technological past, present, and future. Beyond mere theory and speculation, you'll see firsthand the very real developments in Knowledge Technology Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Visualization Knowledge Networking Systems.

In the beginning of any project there is a spark of inspiration that leads one to pursue the unknown. For the past five years, considerable research has taken place in the field of human-made machines that act or perform functions like humans. The goal of this book was to do the following: Address the underlying problem that management and people are at the center of all concerns in the use and abuse of technology; Recognize that communication and understanding are the limiting factors in the development of artificial or machine-based technologies; Understand that technology has a social function as well as an analytical function; Cope with the limitation that present technology is hardly more advanced than the Model T was in its time period and the technologies that will emerge even only 10 years from now will be as dramatically different as the jet airplane is from a candle.

Chapter 1 - Trends in Knowledge Technology examines communications and information technology in business and business management. Topics include: the move away from the pyramidal business approach; the development of virtual management, which stresses the incorporation of new technology with humanistic concerns; the multidimensional management system which recognizes the individual employee as a data base management system in itself; and computer communication, networking, and computer-aided management.

Chapter 2 - Issues in Knowledge Technology takes a look at various problem-solving strategies for use in business management, the limits of information in a machine as well as humans, the concept and limitations of time in business decision-making, and language as it relates to understanding. Important to this chapter is the emphasis on human/machine relations and how they work together, rather than deciding which is better than the other.

Chapter 3 - Expert Systems defines and explains the various aspects of this science, which is considered both a part of, and a separate entity from, AI. With an emphasis on reasoning about the knowledge underlying human expertise, as opposed to the emphasis on knowledge itself that characterizes AI, Expert Systems examines the need for establishing standards; inference, reasoning; and natural languages.

Chapter 4 - Visualization Systems are systems capable of providing simulations or models of the physical world. Still in an early development stage, visualization systems, their current status, and potential are examined. A detailed look is taken at computer-aided programs and the current state-of-the-art in such systems. Specific topics in "Visualization Systems" include conceptual information processing, spatial reasoning, and communication and information theories.

Chapter 5 - Artificial Intelligence provides a new look at AI. Most important are some of the philosophical developments that laid the groundwork for AI. Robots, as opposed to machines with intelligence, are also studied. This chapter concludes with a discussion of an architecture for intelligence. Here, the need for standards, an idea first introduced in Chapter 3, is reemphasized, and virtual processing, a mental gaming process that devises ways to probe and enhance the abilities of both the brain and the machine is introduced.

Chapter 6 - Knowledge Networking Systems are the subject of Recognized as the technology that will probably cause the most dramatic change in business and business management, these systems are studied in relation to organizational communication and corporate management. Topics in Knowledge Networking Systems include human interaction, perception, organizational relationships, organizational networking, decision making, and online idea exchanges.

Chapter 7- Metal Models (that's correct, not mental models) review human mental and machine (metal) modeling, examining ambiguity as one of the most important characteristics that currently separates humans from devices. Thought processing applications are discussed as they relate to the sales and marketing field, with a particular look various programs and approaches supplies the end users with the building blocks for applications such as project management, software management, financial planning, marketing, field engineering, and virtually any endeavor that requires manipulation, tracking, and communication of ideas between people over time."

Chapter 8 - Future Trends concludes the book. Planning and methodologies for the practical applications of knowledge engineering are reviewed; a sample business plan and a short term information resource management plan are also included. Anticipation technologies are discussed as issues for future users and designers of artificial intelligence. The text ends with a reemphasis of the need for a working relationship between the people and the technology: "The interdependence of technology and behavior cannot be overemphasized.

This book is meant to plant the seeds of knowledge, to instill that sense of wonder about a young, but growing new field. In the pursuit of this new technology, it is important to remember that humanism cannot be denied. MindMeld is meant to expand "human effectiveness and efficiency," not replace it.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – Introduction

- Knowledge Technology Limitations and Possibilities

- Technology in Business Management

- Management Styles and Technology

- Professional and Lifestyle Associations

- Knowledge Management in an AI Mind Meld

- Information providers

- Knowledge Users

- Power brokers

- Knowledge Processing

- Knowledge Innovation

- CEOs and AI

- Multidimensional Management Systems (MMS)

- Intelligence-Aided Decision-Making (IAD)

- Organizational Marketing

- Virtual Management (VM)

- Emerging Virtual CEO

- Key Factors in Virtual CEO

- Steps Leading to Virtual Management

- Management Operation Centers and VM

- Virtual Management In Action

- AI Melded Management and Communications

- Matrix Organization

- Virtual Workplace

- Communications Technology and Management

- CEO AI-Melded Strategies

- Group Decision-Making and AI Melded Technology

- Summary

Chapter 2 - Issues in Knowledge Technology

- Gaming as Business Strategy

- Problem-Solving Strategies

- Gaming as Business Strategy

- Reasoning environments

- Guessing

- The Systematic-Intuitive Approach

- Channels of Distribution or Span of Control

- Real Time: Can Machines Think?

- Understanding & Feelings

- Summary

Chapter 3 – Expert Systems

- What If?

- Expert Torque

- Standards

- Inference, Reasoning & Knowledge

- Harvesting Expertise

- Heuristics and Mathematical Models

- Machine-human environments

- Heuristic models and programs of the mind

- Vertical Intelligence

- Lateral Intelligence

- Oblique Intelligence

- AI Management Formats

- Prototypes

- Parsing

- Language Mapping

- Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence

- Knowledge Versus Reasoning

- Expert Systems – Differences

- Designing an Expert Systems

- AI and Commonsense Reasoning

- Reasoning Horizons

- Language and the Machine

- AI Fantasies

- Scientific Methods

- Heuristics as Hypothesis

- Metaphors

- Natural Languages

- Natural Languages and Understanding

- Diverse interpretations

- Language Development

- Nodes and Languages

- Infinite Structures

Chapter 4 - Visualization Systems

- Introduction

- Conceptual Information Processing

- Spatial Reasoning

- Communication Theory Versus Information Theory

- Entropy

- Machine Intelligence Technology

Chapter 5 - Artificial Intelligence

- AI Systems and Variables

- Solving Well-Defined Problems

- The Universal Computing Machine – the root DNA of AI

- Effective Procedure Model

- Organizational Gaming Modeling

- Game Theory

- AI and Business

- Robotics

- Architecture for Intelligence

- The Thinking Level

- Virtual Processing

- Virtual Processing At Work

- Parallel Connections—Liveware & MachineAware

Chapter 6 - Knowledge Networking Systems

- Life in the Nano Fast Lane

- Organizational Communications

- Human Interactions

- Perils of Immediate-Instant Communications

- Leadership though Knowledge Networking

- How-To Knowledge Network

- Nature of Meaning and Messages

- Organizational Relationships

- Organizational Intelligence System

- Corporate Management

- Organizational Networking

- Decision-Making - CEO Level AI

- Idea Exchange

- Evidence Trail

- Time management

- Neural Networks

- Delphi - AI-Driven Decision-Making

- AI Learning Systems

Chapter 7 —Metal Models

- Mechanization of Knowledge

- Ergonomics

- Modeling States of Mind

- The State of Metal Mind

- Metal Model Building and Ambiguity

- Metal Business Applications

- Thought Processing—Sales and Marketing

Chapter 8 - Future Trends – CEO Mind Meld

- Tactical and Strategic Considerations

- Business Strategy Analysis

- Monitoring and Environmental Tracking

- Strategic management planning

- Corporate Culture and Strategic Alliances

- Anticipation Technologies

- Body Snatchers or Watchers

- Lifestyle Path

- Integration of Anticipation technology

- AI in Communications and Information Theory

- Holographic concepts

- Anticipation machines

- Future Trends – Can We Really Predict Anything

- Future Management

Afterword

Disclaimer

The author and publisher of this book have used their best efforts in preparing this book and the programs contained in it. These efforts include the development, research, and testing of the theories and programs to determine their effectiveness. The author and publisher make no warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, with regard to these programs or the documentation contained in this book. The author and publisher shall not be liable in any event for incidental or consequential damages in connection with, or arising out of, the furnishing, performance, or use of these programs. Please send any corrections to cross@gocross.com

Top of Mind Keeps You First in Line - 5 Tips for Sales/Marketing B2B Success

2017-09-16T14:00:00.002-07:00

This is a webinar presentation available for sales teams at a nominal fee.

Key points are:
1 – Know Thy Customer
2 – Be the Thought Leader
3 – Create Calls-To-Action often
4 – Decide Marketing Methods
5 – Build a Calendar & Commit
Are you really in the line at all or just think you are?

Click here for the complete presentation and contact Tom Cross at cross@gocross.com for details, customizing and scheduling.

First Calendar with Integrated Drawing Pad - Explain Your Meetings in Pictures

2017-08-14T08:03:00.005-07:00

Approved for iPhone and iPad, SleepTracsPro has Sleep, Snooze, Snap Alert, Zoomlite, Journal/Diary and Actical-Action Calendar. Click on image for iTunes.

Key features of SleepTracsPro are:

NEW - Actical-Action calendar with Acticons-action icons and first calendar with drawings. Add drawings and images to your calendar to improve tracking and performance.

- Dream Diary Journal with drawing pads, audio recording, pics and notes with social sharing feature

- Zoomlite - Siri-enabled magnifying flashlight, weather, camera, large format clock. Unlike iPhone/iPad flashlight you can just say "Hey Siri Zoomlight" the flashlight will turn on with large format clock, weather, and zooming camera.

- Snooze feature is designed to let you get your "power nap" or "cat nap" anytime; you can select your snooze time and a wakeup vibration or tone/tune or your own voice or that of a friend or child.

- Snap feature is a new feature not found in any sleep app we have found so far. Snap is really a "snap out of it" feature that you put in your shirt pocket and when no motion or limited motions are detected, it gives you a vibration or tune/tone. Designed to help you overcome falling asleep in class or on the job, it should not be used while driving.

- Sleep mode feature offers you a scheduling tool You can select your sleep time and a wakeup vibration or tone/tune or your own voice or that of a friend or child.

- Weather - current weather is displayed when user awakes.

- ZoomLite is an exciting weather center, camera, large format clock and 3-level magnifying flashlight app. You are able to see weather, large font clock, take a picture and easily read labels, meds bottles, check meds, cuts/sores, household issues and other fine print articles and other hard to read documents or any other reason to see something closeup with 3-step magnifying flashlight.

Dream Diary journal has unlimited notepads with multi-color drawing features, text notes, audio recording, backgrounds with pictures from camera or gallery and sharing features for email, social sites, gallery and other ways.

We have also incorporated extensive sleep research into our app. New articles on getting better sleep are added daily, click on image to help you get better sleep and wellness.

SleepTracsPro is one of the many apps such as SleepTracs, ZoomLite, Baseball Fans Club, Basketball Fans, ReallyReal, Sports Fans Club, Football Fans Club, iSeekSugar, BiEyes, iFlipTips, iSeekSugar, MedsMinders, RewardsVIPClub, HashNewsGram and many others from TECHtionary.com.

Please visit http://sleeptracs.com/for tips, applications and ideas.

HashNewsGram - Podcasting Social Media Posting App

2017-06-20T11:46:00.000-07:00

What’s New in HashNewsGram 2.5:
Many new improvements and new features:
- Podcast-Music library – record music, songs, presentations and easily post them to Twitter as well as share them via email, Gallery, Facebook and other ways.
Never get stuck at 140 characters again!
HashNewsGram 2.4 breaks the Twitter 140 character limitation barrier. You can post essentially unlimited text, videos, pics, audio recordings including pre-recorded music and audio from the HashNewsGram library, created freehand paintings or drawings using the drawing features and library, multimedia images called Acticons-Action Icons.
#HashNewsGram is a FREE Twitter #hashtag news gathering app for iPhone and iPad. You can select your favorite #hashtag topics and put them in folders and subfolders and organize your Twitter news gathering and personal newsfeed. Then tap on the selected folder subfolder and see the posts in the categories selected. This is a great way to simplify your Twitter news feed.
HashNewsGram is one of the many apps such as ZoomLite, Basketball Fans, ReallyReal, Sports Fans Club, Football Fans Club, iSeekSugar, BiEyes, iFlipTips, SleepTracs, iSeekSugar, MedsMinders, BaseballFansClub, RewardsVIPClub, and others from TECHtionary.
Click on either image for iTunes. Custom versions and advertising available.

Sports Fans Club Meetup App Approved

2017-06-17T09:12:00.004-07:00

Sports Fans Club is a Free social networking chat dating app designed for meeting fellow sports fans of your favorite sports professional or college team or teams. You can select your favorite sports team(s) wherever you are and location services will show you other users interested in the same teams. Free to register and via in-app purchase weekly, monthly or annual subscription you can connect with other fellow baseball fans for meetups and social network such as chatting.
This is great if you live anywhere or just visiting other cities and want to meetup with other fellow fans. Users can chat with other users, after subscribing, share pics, video, audio messages and icons as well as setup meetups to cheer their fav team to victory.
Sports Fans Club is one of the many apps such as HashNewsGram, ZoomLite, Basketball Fans, ReallyReal, Sports Fans Club, Football Fans Club, iSeekSugar, BiEyes, iFlipTips, SleepTracs, iSeekSugar, MedsMinders, RewardsVIPClub, and others from TECHtionary.

Never get stuck at 140 characters again! HashNewsGrams 2.0 breaks the Twitter 140 character limitation barrier. You can post essentially unlimited text, videos, pics, audio recordings and Acticons-Action Icons

2017-06-17T07:43:00.000-07:00

HashNewsGram 2.4 breaks the Twitter 140 character limitation barrier. You can post essentially unlimited text, videos, pics, audio recordings, freehand paintings or drawings using the drawing features in HashnewsGram, multimedia images and Acticons-Action Icons.
#HashNewsGram is a FREE Twitter #hashtag news gathering app for iPhone and iPad. You can select your favorite #hashtag topics and put them in folders and subfolders and organize your Twitter news gathering and personal newsfeed. Then tap on the selected folder subfolder and see the posts in the categories selected. This is a great way to simplify your Twitter news feed.
HashNewsGram is one of the many apps such as ZoomLite, Basketball Fans, ReallyReal, Sports Fans Club, Football Fans Club, iSeekSugar, BiEyes, iFlipTips, SleepTracs, iSeekSugar, MedsMinders, BaseballFansClub, RewardsVIPClub, and others from TECHtionary.
What’s New in HashNewsGram 2.4:
Many new improvements and new features:
- 1-Touch Repeat-a-Tweet for those Twitter posts you want to share again and again
- Easy Edit – you can edit and repost Twitter posts you created with HashNewsGram
- Post Logs – easily review all your Twitter posts created with HashNewGrams
In addition, new in-app advertising options are available, email cross@gocross.com for details.
Click here for iTunes app for iPhone and iPad.

Baseball Fans Club App Approved

2017-06-17T07:35:00.001-07:00

Baseball Fans Club is a Free social networking chat dating app designed for meeting fellow baseball fans of your favorite baseball professional or college team or teams. You can select your favorite baseball team(s) wherever you are and location services will show you other users interested in the same teams. Free to register and via in-app purchase weekly, monthly or annual subscription you can connect with other fellow baseball fans for meetups and social network such as chatting. This is great if you live anywhere or just visiting other cities and want to meetup with other fellow fans. Users can chat with other users, after subscribing, share pics, video, audio messages and icons as well as setup meetups to cheer their fav team to victory. Baseball Fans Club is one of the many apps such as HashNewsGram, ZoomLite, Basketball Fans, ReallyReal, Sports Fans Club, Football Fans Club, iSeekSugar, BiEyes, iFlipTips, SleepTracs, iSeekSugar, MedsMinders, RewardsVIPClub, and others from TECHtionary.
Click here for iTunes

Hashtag News Gram

2017-04-26T08:39:00.002-07:00

#HashNewsGram a Free Twitter #hashtag gathering app for iPhone was approved. Create "speed dial" #hashtag lists for easy news gathering and reading. You can select your favorite #hashtag topics and put them in Folders/Sub-Folders and organize your Twitter newsfeed.
Then Tap on Folders to see all Folder/Sub-Folders and see the posts. Tap on Edit to delete Folders and Sub-Folders. In Version 1.2 approved you can ReTweet, Like and Reply to Twitter posts.

In Version 2.0, you will be able to see pages of text, pics, videos, hand-drawings, Acticons(tm) (action icons) and audio clips in your Twitter posts.

Hash News Gram is a great way to simplify your Twitter news feed. HashNewsGram is one of the many apps such as ZoomLite, Basketball Fans, ReallyReal, Sports Fans Club, Football Fans Club, iSeekSugar, BiEyes, iFlipTips, SleepTracs, iSleepTrack, iSeekSugar, MedsMinders,

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hashnewsgram/id1222046275?mt=8

RewardsVIPClub, and many others from TECHtionary. Below are sample screenshots. You can create Folders and Subfolders on any #hashtag and then just tap on the Folder and see all the Twitter posts in that #hashtag or @username.

Sugar Dating - New Dating Lifestyle - Top-10

2016-12-26T14:54:00.001-08:00

New Review from SugarDaddy - "I love this app both as both daddies and babies need to subscribe to chat for the modest sum of .99 cents a week. Filters out babies who think everything should be free and I can subscribe for only as along as I need and no outrageous fees like all the others have."

Living the Lifestyle of Sugar Dating
Though the concept has been around for a long time, the scenario of wealthier, older men and young women dating has become the new dating lifestyle with younger socialites in an agreement of companionship.

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iSeekSugar has been approved click on image for iTunes and we look forward to helping you with this new and exciting form of dating. This type of relationship used to be somewhat unspoken. It used to be understood through intentions and outward appearances: a man tipping the valet in twenties, and glancing at his dense, gold incrusted watch as he lifts it to a drooped brow beneath designer sun glasses; and the vibrant beauty in the corner café across the street that entices him with her bouncy locks and shapely physique radiating with youth. Then, through ‘casual’ and strategic conversation, it becomes clear what both parties want and what they are willing to give in order to gain it. It’s flirtatious and sexy and informative all rolled into one. But now, there’s more of a cutting-to-the-chase type of approach to this particular dating scene.
Now, there’s an entire slew of websites dedicated to helping you find a suitable match with a defined arrangement. If you prefer more traditional social meetups and dating, click on image for our other app ReallyReal. People are much more upfront about their desires – sex appeal or money, and much more frank about their offerings – courting or money. There’s a level of consideration for both people that takes away any fears of rejections, tenseness, or awkwardness in this sort of agreement that the sites have brought out in this type of dating.
Sugardating Top-10
In a year long series of interviews with mainly girls who have been sugar babies we found some interesting and perceptive comments on why they perfer this new sugar dating lifestyle:
1 - Boring - most men in their 20s and 30 are really boys was the most common comment. "Nice bodies, not much upstairs and certainly not much in the bedroom or even in public" summarized most other cmments. Many said they are not looking for more than beer pong, game boys or pot heads. "Most SDs are really exciting, worldly, experienced and really listen and help me through my own personal and professional challenges, one SB said.
2 - More - more from a relationship was another widely mentioned term. Though not often with many specifics, it wasn't just about sex or money but more to living than just being here.
3 - Shopping - yes, SDs taking them shopping and buying nice things was another widely held view. One said, "I am HOT, I like looking hot and feeling hot and showing ever inch of my hardbody I workout for. I have professional job but the cost of real fashion is more than my budget, so my SD buys me nice things which both of us really like. We both like me looking hot when we go out and I feel so alive."
4 - Sex - ondemand (like movies ondemand) was considered another great benefit. "I can get sex whenever I want it and my SD loves it when I text FM-F-- me, he knows to have my fav cocktail, bubble bath ready, always clean sheets and is also polished up as well shaving in all the right places and knows the real use for his tonque. I love it and want it and want him more and more without all the pressure of a traditinal BF."
5 - Love - not high on the list but when asked many said they do love their SD but rarely tell them so as it is not a priority.
6 - Romance - indeed while love is not important, many SB said that their SD were far more romantic than BFs. Not the same as love but getting flowers, kindnesses, help with apartment things and gifts was always appreciated.
7 - Enhancements - cosmetic surgery was another term used as many SB said they get money from their parents but none said their parents would pay for those really desired enhancements. "I am like so many other college girls - flat-chested, all my friends workout so our body fat is minimal which reduces our chest-size - if we had any to begin with. And, my parents like my other friends are not going to pay out a lot of money for a really nice augmentation on top of the already outragous college tuition and its something I want to do on my own. So my allowance from my SD goes to my augfund and in a few more months I can get my DDs I have always wanted."
8 - Lifestyle - another rising topic was mentioned more and more often. One said, "I prefer working out to working. Even with a college degree I am working in a job that has no future and with other dumb millenials, is really boring in an open space office with no privacy and frankly a lot of people smell and bring smelly food. I prefer looking good, working out and on other professional job-related certifications and frankly its the lifestyle I have always wanted and really love it."
9 - Career - indeed an increasing number of girls thought of being a sugarbaby as a career. While not mentioning it on their resume some girls and even some boys mentioned that living the life as a paid companion was certainly not a new career it could be easily be hidden on a resume as a management consultant and if asked saying it was a private confidential secretary to a CEO who's name could not be disclosed due to a non-disclosure agreement.
10 - Other - there was so many other random and odd comments far too many to mention in a meaningful way reflecting that each SB often has unique reasons for living and loving the sugar dating lifestyle. That is, sugar dating is the new lifestyle preferred though not always chosen by young women today.

iSeekSugar App Approved !

2016-12-04T12:26:00.000-08:00

If you prefer more traditional social meetups and dating, click on image for our other app ReallyReal. People are much more upfront about their desires – sex appeal or money, and much more frank about their offerings – courting or money. There’s a level of consideration for both people that takes away any fears of rejections, tenseness, or awkwardness in this sort of agreement that the sites have brought out in this type of dating. The following are three sugar babies’ accounts of sugar dating reality.

1) “I Needed Him, And He Needed Me.” I was 20, and I’d never been away from home. I had never planned on attending college after graduating high school… in fact I hadn’t really planned on doing a whole lot – at least not then. The last job I held was working cashier at my neighborhood car washing service for ten months before I missed two shifts and couldn’t get anyone to cover them for me, and was fired. I had no goals or ambitions, and had been without a job for several months. I had counted on the fact that I’d eventually find my calling, possibly being chosen out of a crowded mall while America’s Next Top Model was in town for casting (like one of the girls from past seasons was), or getting a ridiculously large sum of money for winning the lotto. But since I never bothered to look up casting dates and locations for a coincidental and slim chance to model and rarely bought lotto tickets, I figured that I wasn’t all that determined to do much of anything for myself. I didn’t really need to think about it either. I had hard working parents that were never home, I grew up in a nice suburban home with all my childhood friends, and I didn’t have that jealous streak in me that pushed me to do better because all my friends were doing big things. I just didn’t have a lot to worry about even with the lack of employment. Sure, my parents were always nagging me and attempting to motivate me to at least work; they never had it in their hearts to really punish me for my laziness. One weekend day though, while I was pretending to job search online when I was really instant messaging my friend on Facebook, my Mom went to take our dog for a walk. I had always parked my car down the street since our front driveway and garage and side streets were pretty packed daily. And that’s when she saw it – my hammy down 1982 Toyota Camry – the passenger side badly crushed and severely scraped. “It’s still drivable though,” I plead with her. “But I am looking for a job!” I retort. Then it’s a guilt trip unlike anything I’ve faced, and all my mistakes, character flaws, and selfish acts are unveiled in a furious frenzy of name calling and accusations that ends with my booting from home. I stay with friends until I eventually ware out my welcome there as well, mooching off of their families while I struggle to seriously find a job that sticks. But nothing works nor pays enough. I’m a theater attendant for 25 hours weekly here, slaving away at a string of fast food joints there, and then ricocheting off of numerous gas stations and countless retail stores. This chaotic and unsettling turmoil of varied homes, jobs and unsteady pay checks goes on for a while, until I find myself catching the eye of one brilliantly shiny suit and tie – I mean eye. Interviewing at one of the many restaurants I’ve applied to, a man with bristly facial hair, polished dress shoes and appears to be twice my age, smiles from across the hostess podium. He’s with another guy in a suit that seems to be talking his ear off, and has a very serious and stern look on his face. They are led to a table some ways from me, where the intriguing man is continuously peeking over at me from behind his menu. I blush, flash a small smirk, and then I wait outside after my interview is over, enjoying a cheap fag – one of my many expenses that I indulge in, necessarily, instead of paying rent to my gracious friends’ parents. Mr. Big Spender finally comes out, sees his colleague into a taxi, and walks leisurely over to me. Flirty small talk turns into coffee which turns in several lunch dates which soon turns into me moving in to his master suite hotels with him and traveling all year-long to exotic locales and European villas. I stroked his ego a lot and made him feel as special as he made me feel. I tended to his every emotional desire and put up with his moody episodes. I needed him just as much as he needed me. But his job finally settled him in Michigan, where we moved in the dead of winter. When he confessed that there would be no more traveling for his work for a very long time now, I told him that I needed that adventure in my life and that I’d have to find it somewhere else. He was very understanding and knew that the relationship couldn’t last long. He did, however, make several attempts to persuade me to stay, showering me with gifts and lingerie and telling me that he’d always take care of me. But I told him cold weather just wasn’t for me, and all though we cared for each other very much, it was time I moved on. I had found my calling card. I was going to be a professional sugar baby. I set up a profile on several sugar dating sites and formed my own set of rules, restricting myself to one sugar daddy at a time, devoting myself wholly and completely to that one special guy until breaking it off for new horizons. That was the only moral issue I had with the idea – that I couldn’t be with several daddies at once because I liked the idea of living with each one. They are my boyfriends and my work. And I’ve found an interest in painting while on vacation with my recent hunk. He thinks he could sell one of my portraits it to an interested gallery. I may have a future there, but in the meantime… I don’t know if I’ll ever stop being in the sugar baby business. Maybe I would consider it if I found that one guy that outshines all the rest in his brains and bank account. But I know that if it weren’t for sugar dating, I’m not sure I’d be where I am today, sunning in California without a care in the world – except for my lunch date with Mr. Right Now, who’s my only concern. A job that I can enjoy happy hour every day at noon, conversing with the CEO of a fortune-500 company, loosening his nerves and relaxing my own – that’s the kind of work I enjoy.

2) “I Was A Sugar Baby, Before I Understood Term.” I’ve always been bright. Top of my graduating high school class, scholarship to my state college, and straight-A student, and living off of student loans, yet I still manage to maintain a wonderful lifestyle. When I was a teenager, I was super popular with all the boys. I always had a boyfriend. And all my boyfriends knew that I was fairly high-maintenance. Even though I came from a very low-income household, living with my Aunt and Uncle, I always had this personality for expensive taste. I liked to be pampered and I never paid for meals or dates. I always got the heavier gifts for holidays on the cash-o-meter, because I could never afford the same for them. It never seemed to bug anyone. At least anyone I was with. I always focused more on my studies rather than working. Right out of high school, I moved in with my boyfriend at the time, into our own apartment. He was working two jobs and skipped on college. But things didn’t work out, and I was looking for a job for the first time to help support myself. I found a really neat dating site where men were willing to pay me for my time. I found a couple of guys that I really liked. One was a partner in a law firm who knew lots about negotiating and the importance of networking. One was a nerdy engineer who was about the youngest of the bunch, but still older than me, who loved a lot of the same scientific and math topics I did. And one was a much older man who could’ve been old enough to be my great-grandfather who had been a farmer and owned a small ranch in the country, when he’d hit it big in the lottery and became a mega millionaire overnight. They were all so sweet and I’d have three-hour long dinners with them, go to movies, accompany them to business events and country clubs, and sometimes just talk on the phone for hours – when I wasn’t doing my homework, of course. But that’s it. There was no solidifying a relationship. There was no talk or mention of sex. There was no assumption of physical affairs. It was friendship, and I got paid to be a part of it. Between the three of them, I made upwards of 7,000 dollars a month! Neither of them knew the other existed, so I pretty much got paid triple the amount of my rent and monthly living expenses every couple of weeks. I even saved up enough money to pay off some student loans, buy a new car and some decadent furniture. I stopped it fairly soon after saving enough money. I only have a few semesters left to go, and I’m pretty set as long as I’m conservative and smart with the money I have left over. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to being a sugar baby, but it was certainly a pleasant way to make cash and I don’t regret it at all. It’s nice to be secure until I find an opening in my career field, and I sort of think of it as a summer job. And I really think of the men I met as special people in my lives that I was able to make a difference for – they certainly made a difference in my life. I’m sure my future relationships will be the same as they’ve always been, and I’ll always stay the role of a sugar baby. It’s funny that I was a sugar baby even before the coined term. It was fun to try it out from a professional standpoint, but I know that I’d rather play that role for someone my age – romance wise.

3) “She’s All I Ever Wanted.” 26 years old, living in a 600 square-footage studio apartment with four other roommates, playing nightly gigs at the local bar for tip money – that’s where I sat almost 18 months ago. I’m not complaining though. It was enough for me. I had friends that I lived with who all pretty much made the same minuscule amount of money I brought home each week. I lived on instant ramen noodles and TV-dinner pot pies (when they were on sale), and a keg if we ever had enough money to scrap together and spare. I was counting on the fact that I’d have my day in the recording studio, that I’d somehow catch the ear of some hot-shot talent manger. But until that day, I was just spending my days writing songs on my guitar and practicing with my band on weekends to prepare for our nightly slot in front of a crowd of 30 – on a good night. It wasn’t until I got drunk with my friends on a camping trip in the peak of winter, passed out sleeveless on a bed of snow, and had to have my right arm amputated for frost bite, that I came to a sobering realization. Without that arm, I would never be able to become the rock star I’d always dreamed of. There were famous rockers that were able to play their instruments with a physical handicap, and remained remarkably and insanely top notch. But not me. Maybe I could’ve if I tried, but my

willpower was drained after that. My friends were sympathetic for a while, until they got tired of having to pull my weight in groceries and rent. They kept pushing me to get a job and finding me one in their places of work as a pizza delivery boy, an over-the-phone customer representative, and more. But I never had the motivation to work for them. So I got my thirty days notice to vacate, and started looking for a job and apartment needed in less than four weeks. My friend, Jeanine, had talked about this sugar dating service she was into, and that she’d made more money in a week than she could ever at a minimum wage job. I looked it up online, and immediately started posting profiles at every sugar dating site I could find. In no time at all, women were calling me up, connecting with me online, and asking me out to brunch. I went on a lot of dates. And unlike most other jobs, my handicap wasn’t an issue. Many of the women thought my missing arm was fascinating and adorable at the same time. A lot of women felt sorry for me, and it helped me in the dollar department in that respect. My family probably wouldn’t have approved of this alternative job, and my guy friends wouldn’t understand because they weren’t in the same position. So it was nice that I could act as if I was going out on a job interview, when really I was going out on a date, which I guess was almost the same thing but more fun. Soon, I was making more than enough money to stay in a comfortable apartment and eat more than ramen every night with the amount of money I got just to go to dinner with some of these older gals. Some were all wound up and business oriented, just wanting to enjoy a martini while they take a load off of work. Some were tired-looking and needed a make-out session to spice up their week. Some were escaping their lifeless and extremely dull marriages, a night at a time, with me. One lady said that what she liked the most about me was that I made her laugh and forget her troubles. Another lady said that she wanted more than just friendship, and that it was okay to have multiple girlfriends, as long as I always made time for her. So, I started using that as a condition of my contractual obligations – not that there were really any written contracts to have signed, just mutual agreements since we’d both invested our time in the site. I started telling people up front that I was a relationship man, and I liked having girlfriends, not just chatting buddies, and that I had multiple – if that was a problem, than we probably shouldn’t meet in the first place. I still had lots of business. I had all sorts of girlfriends of all ages – older than me of course, but there was a range. I had an on-going steady relationship with seven. My days of the week were pretty jam packed with secret getaways and private phone calls and fun, exciting activities that I got to be paid for and the best part – no one knew. One of the girlfriends though, turned out to be something more than just a romance fling. She’s 46, blonde and tan, and wears designer perfume and Valentino everywhere we go. She’s a lead editor at a wealthy publishing company, and she owns a really beautiful apartment – the whole 32^nd floor, to be exact. She’s shy and always takes a bit of coaxing to get her to come out of her shell. But she also has a side that is wild and free-spirited that she only reveals for me. She doesn’t pay as much as some of the other chicks, but she’s a lot of fun to be with and I feel very close to her. You can tell she used to be gorgeous as a young lady, but years of working her butt off and sucking up to executives of the company has shown its’ toll on her face and body. One night, we stayed up until sunrise and talked about everything and anything. I found that we have so much in common and a lot of her upbringing was similar to mine. I realized that she’s all I ever wanted. We fell asleep in each other’s arms, and after that night I cut ties with all of my other girlfriends and quit business as a sugar baby. I proposed to her on a romantic vacation on the beaches of Thailand, and we’ve been married for only a few months now, but I know it’s forever. Without sugar dating, I may never have been able to connect with her, and known what true love had in store for me. Like and Unlike Any Other Life It’s clear that sugar dating has always been a lucrative market for fellow babies, but that it’s just now becoming defined as a market and the employee title as babies. Sugar babies will always have the demand required to stay afloat as earners, just as sugar daddies and mommies will always have eager youths to keep them company. Sugar babies have all sorts of reasons for starting, stopping and continuing this type of work, and the job description varies for each of them. Sugar dating has been around for a very long time, and is just now starting to gain more societal acceptance now that its terms are more freely discussed. It’s a lifestyle that offers benefits, requires work, and can lead to other opportunities, just like any other lifestyle.

Living the Lifestyle As A Sugar Dating Though the concept has been around for a long time, the scenario of wealthier, older men and young women dating has become the new dating lifestyle with younger socialites in an agreement of companionship.
iSeekSugar has been approved click on image for iTunes and we look forward to helping you with this new and exciting form of dating. This type of relationship used to be somewhat unspoken. It used to be understood through intentions and outward appearances: a man tipping the valet in twenties, and glancing at his dense, gold incrusted watch as he lifts it to a drooped brow beneath designer sun glasses; and the vibrant beauty in the corner café across the street that entices him with her bouncy locks and shapely physique radiating with youth. Then, through ‘casual’ and strategic conversation, it becomes clear what both parties want and what they are willing to give in order to gain it. It’s flirtatious and sexy and informative all rolled into one. But now, there’s more of a cutting-to-the-chase type of approach to this particular dating scene. Now, there’s an entire slew of websites dedicated to helping you find a suitable match with a defined arrangement.

Really Real Dating App for iPhone and iPad Now with Photobooth

2016-10-20T17:48:00.001-07:00

The latest version of Really Really has a great feature called Photobooth. Like the "photo strips" of real photobooths, you can add 2, 4, 6, or 8 pics together into a single image. Here are some of the images take with photobooth. Have fun with your mates and dates !

ReallyReal Dating App for iPhone and iPad Announced

2016-10-12T05:45:00.001-07:00

ReallyReal is a new social networking, chatting app for iPhone/iPad. You will see in the app we have a new twist or angle on this complicated process by asking users to be really real about themselves before they connect with another person. There are features that get you to be really real about yourself. If you prefer being a fraud or flake or whatever, then use those other apps. Our goal is to be "inclusive" to anyone or perference. No Facebook account required either.

CSP Online SIP Professional

2016-09-05T14:59:00.002-07:00

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Football Fans Mates & Dates

2016-09-05T14:45:00.002-07:00

Football Fan Dates & Mates is a new social dating app for iPhone/iPad now approved for football fans to meet one another and social networking and live meetups. The idea is to find fellow team fans near you so you can team up for team building, meetup for events or even date up. We are not picking sides so you can do that !

RVC Weekly Newsletter

2016-08-16T11:22:00.000-07:00

Weekly Angel Investing News from Colorado

RVC Weekly Newsletter

Your source for upcoming events, quality companies and angel investing insights.

A Year In Retrospect:

Last Tuesday Rockies Venture Club held its annual summer Pitchfest event and I for one was impressed by all 7 companies that presented at the event. Among these companies was Bitsbox, a company that provides real coding projects for kids, who ended up coming in first in terms of both pitch and investment quality according to an audience poll. Seeing the quality of these pitches made me think back to the first event that I ever attended, a little under two years ago and how much has changed. It has been incredible to see Colorado's entrepreneurial, and in turn RVC's growth in just my two short years. To give you an idea, here are a few of the club's numbers from 2016.

12 Companies Funded
54 Pitches
98 pitch, educational, and investor events
1252 event attendees

Just like the startups that we work with every day, RVC is constantly innovating and iterating its model to better serve the community. If you have any feedback for the club, things that are going well, things that we can improve upon, I would love to listen.

~Ian

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Believable Financial Projections Workshop
8/17/15 | 3-5:30 PM | Thrive Cherry Creek, 201 Milwaukee St. Denver, CO 80206

Proformas can be tricky - showing your financial strategy as you scale your company. On one hand you want to show that your company will grow at rates that would make an investor interested while still being grounded in validated assumptions. This is very hard to do and it can make or break a company. In this workshop entrepreneurs and investors will learn what goes into a "believable" proforma side-by-side.

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August 24th, 3:00-5:30PM | Thrive Cherry Creek, 201 Milwaukee St. Denver, CO 80206

This 30 minute free webinar that Springboard Equity is hosting in partnership with Rockies Venture Club will discuss why traditional valuation methodologies don't work for early stage companies, and why an exit strategy is essential to conducting valuation exercises.

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Accelerate Fort Collins: Angel Investors In Northern Colorado
September 7th, 2:00-6:00PM | Fort Collins

During this half day event, Peter Adams will teach prospective angel investors the fundamentals of what they need to know to be a successful angel and will give current investors a chance to brush up on their knowledge. Following the education portion of the event there will be pitches from 2-3 high quality Colorado companies that are looking for growth capital. This will be a chance for attendees to apply what they have learned. Through a grant from the City of Fort Collins we are able to offer this event for free to current and prospective angel investors!

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TECHtionary Library

2016-08-06T14:18:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the animated tutorials in TECHtionary at www.techtionary.com

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About TECHtionary

A/B Bits in T-1 signaling

Access-Edge Routers

ADM-Add-Drop Multiplexer-Optical

ARP-Address Resolution Protocol

ARP and RARP-Reverse ARP Packet

Aerial Plant

Akami-Content Delivery

AMI-Alternate Mark Inversion";

AM-Modulation";

ASK-Amplitude Shift Keying";

Analog-Digital Basics ";

Analog Signal: Transmission Network";

Answer Supervision";

ASP-Application Service Provider";

ASP: Top-10 Opportunities";

Aspect Ratio-Video Scanning Technology”;

Array Proxy Server-Hierarchical ";

Asymmetrical-Symmetrical";

ATU-Asymmetrical Transceiver Unit ";

Asynchronous Data Transmission";

Async-Plesio-Sync-Isochronous ";

ATM-Asynchronous Transfer Mode Cell";

ATM Cell with MPLS Label";

AAL-ATM Adaptation Layer";

ATM Multi-Service Switches";

ATM Tutorial-UNI-NNI, etc.";

ATM-Virtual Paths & Channels";

Auth-X";

ACD-Automatic Call Distributor";

Automatic Callback - CLASS Feature ";

ANI-Automatic Number Identification";

ASON-Automatic Switched Optical Network";

AS-Autonomous Systems

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Block";

Backhaul";

Back-off Window-CSMA-CD";

Backplane ";

BECN-Backward Explicit Congestion NOtification ";

Bag-Telephone Pole Connector";

Bandwidth Hertz/cycles";

Bandwidth options";

Bandwidth-DSL ";

Bandwidth-POTs ";

Baseband modulation ";

Battery-Backup-UPS-Uninterruptable-Universal Power Supply";

Baud - Baudot - Hertz";

BNC-Bayonet Neil Concelman Connector";

BNC example at work";

BICC-Bearer Independent Call Control ";

BPSK-Binary Phase Shift Keying - FSK-PAM";

Birefringence";

BISYNC-BInary SYNChronous";

Bit";

Bit coding-encoding";

BER-Bit Error Rate";

Bit Padding, Stuffing 0-Bit Insertion";

BPRZ-B3ZS-B8ZS-Bi-Polar 3/8 Zero Subsitution";

Blade Server-RAID-Server ";

Bluetooth";

BGP-Border Gateway Protocol";

BGP: AS-Autonomous Systems";

BGP: Closest Neighbor Preference";

BGP: Community";

BGP: Confederations (Interior AS)";

BGP: Confederations, Benefits of";

BGP: Local-Preference";

BGP: Lowest IP Preference";

BGP: Lowest Origin Type-Value";

BGP: MED-Multi-Exit Descriminator";

BGP: MED: External-Internal Preference";

BGP: Next Hop Attribute";3

BGP: Origin Attribute";

BGP: Peer Group";

BGP: Road Rules (Routing)";

BGP: Route Availability";

BGP: Route Theory";

BGP: Selection Processes";

BGP: Shortest Path";

BGP: Explain \"Speak\"";

BGP: Weight or Metric";

Border Internal Gateway Protocol";

Boring-Cable Trenching";

BORSCHT-Central Office Switching";

Bridge-Tap (large file)";

Bridge Loop - VLAN";

Broadband modulation ";

Broadcasting-Multi-Unicasting";

Bubble Switch: Optical";

Building Wiring Tutorial";

Bursty data ";

Bus (PC) Architecture ";

Bus Topology - Star, Ring-Loop, etc.";

Business-Residential Lines ";

Business Lines/Trunks - T1-ISDN ";

Busy Hour Studies - basics ";

Byte or Octet";

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Cable Connections LAN ";

CEV-Cable Equipment Vault";

Cable Modem ISP Access (CATV)";

CMTR-Cable Modem Telco Return";

CMTS-Cable Modem Termination System";

Cache-Content-Case Study ";

Cache-Proxy Server-Overview ";

Cache - Satellite";

Call Block/Trace/Priority/Callback ";

Call Center - ACD";

Call Waiting";

Call Waiting Internet";

CallerID";

Call Sequencer-ACD-Automatic Call Distributor";

Carrier Hotel";

CSMA-CD-Carrier Sense Multiple Access";

Casting";

CAT5-Category 5 Twisted-Pair Wiring";

Cell: ATM";

Cell: ATM with MPLS Label";

Cell: Padding";

Centrex-CENTral office EXchange";

Centrex-IP Switching";

CO-Central Office-overview";

CO-Central Office Switching";

CPU-Central Processing Unit Concepts";

CPU-Functional Processes";

CHAP-Challenge HAndshake Protocol";

CAS-Channel Associated Signaling";

CSU-DSU-Channel Service Unit";

Channelized Trunks/Channels ";

Chromatic Dispersion";

Circuit-switching";

Class 5-4 Central Offices";

CBQ-Class-Based Queuing";

CCC-Clear Channel Capability";

Client-Server Computing";

CWDM-Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing";

Coaxial Cable: Thicknet";

Coaxial Cable: Thinnet";

Co-channel interference";

CDMA-Code Division Multiple Access";

Cold-Hot Potato Routing ";

Collapsed Backbone - Link Aggregation";

COLO-Co-Locator-Location Facility";

CIR-Committed Information Rate";

CLLI-Common Language Location";

CM-Communicatons Module (5ESS)";

Community (BGP)";

CATV-Community Antenna TeleVision";

CATV: Next Generation Network";

CATV-Amplifier";

CATV-Cable House Drop";

CATV-Cable Modem Frequencies";

CATV-Cable Tap";

CATV-HFC converter & coupler";

CATV-ONI-Optical Network Interface";

CCI-Co-Channel Interference";

CCK-Complimentary Code Keying";

CLEC-Competitive Local Exchange Carrier ";

CODEC-COmpression-DECompression";

CTI-Computer Telephony Integration";

Concatentation";

Coding: T1-BPRZ-AMI-B8ZS";

Conduit - Building Wiring Tutorial";

Confederation(s): Explain";

Confederations, Benefits of";

Connection-Oriented Connection-Less";

Connector: BNC";

Connector: RJ-45";

"Connector: RJ-48 ";

Constellations-QAM/QPSK ";

Contention Window-CSMA-CD";

Cookies, getting a good fortune";

CR-LDP Constraint Based Routing Label Distribution ";

CR-LDP (MPLS signaling) ";

Content Distribution Networks ";

Content Proxy Server ";

Content Case Study ";

Convergence-Route Flapping";

Crossbar Switch - Circa 1936";

Cross Box";

Crossbar Versus Bus Topology ";

Crossconnect-Digital Access";

CrossOver LAN Cable";

Crosstalk-RFI-Radio Frequency Interference ";

CLASS-Custom Local Area Signaling Services ";

Cut-Through LAN Cable ";

Cycles-Hertz";

Cylinder-Hard Drive ";

CRC-Cyclic Redundancy Check ";

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

D4 Superframes - Extended ";

Dark Fiber-POS-Packet-ring Over SONET";

DB-9 Data Bus 9 Connector ";

DCE-Data Communications Equipment ";

Data Encapsulation ";

DES-Data Encryption Standard ";

DLCI-Data Link Connection Identifier";

Data Packet - basics (packaging)";

Data Routing";

DOCSIS-Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications";

DSU-CSU Data Service Unit";

DTE-Data Termination Equipment ";

DIA-Dedicated Internet Access ";

Delay Dial signaling ";

Demarc-Demarcation-66 Block";

DOS-Denial of Service-Spoofing";

DWDM-Dense Wave Division Multiplexing";

DWDM Switch - Example";

DWDM-SONET-SDH";

Dialback - fault-tolerant backup";

DNIS-Dialed Number Identification Service";

Dial-in-MODEM-MOdulator-DEModulator";

Dial-in-RADIUS-RAS-Remote Access Dial-In User Service ";

Dial-Rotary - Dial M For Murder-Video";

Dial-Stepper - Dial M For Murder-Video";

Diameter Protocol";

Differential Data Transmission";

DGD-Differential Group Delay";

DiffServ-Differentiated Services";

DiffServ - At Work";

Digital-Analog Basics ";

DACS-Digital Access Crossconnect";

DAFS-Digital Access File System";

D-AMPS-Digital Advanced Mobile Phone ";

DAM-Digital Asset Management";

Digital Certificates ";

DLC-Digital Loop Carrier";

Digital Signal: Transmission Network";

DS1-Digital Subscriber Level 1-T1";

DS3-T3-Frame - T-2";

DSL-Digital Subscriber Line Details";

DSL-Bandwidth ";

DSLAM-DSL Access Multiplexer-Basics";

DSLAM-DSL Access Multiplexer-Details";

xDSL & POTS access to the ISP";

Digitizing ";

DBS-Direct Broadcast Satellite";

DID-Direct Inward Dialing";

DSSS-Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum";

Directional CATV coupler (large file)";

Disco-nnected";

DSF-Dispersion Shifted Fiber";

Distance Vector Routing Protocols";

DVMRP-Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol";

DQDB-Distributed Queue Dual Bus";

DNS-Domain Name Service-Server";

DTMF-Dual Tone Multi-Frequency";

DPSK/DQPSK-Dual Binary-Quadrature Phase Shift Keying ";

Dumb Terminal-Telnet, SLIP";

DTM-Dynamic Transfer Mode";

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

802.1p/q Ethernet with QoS";

802.1d Transparent bridging";

802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi-Wireless Fidelity";

802.16 Ultra-Wide Bandwidth";

802.17 Resilient Packet Ring";

802.1x-Auth-X";

E-commerce Case Study";

Edge-Access Routers";

E-Learning Content Case Study ";

Electrical Breaker-Backup Generator";

Electro-Magnetic Noise Signal-to-Noise ";

Email-SMTP-Simple Mail Transport Protocol ";

Encapsulation-Introduction";

Encapsulation-IP";

ESP-Encapsulation Security Payload";

Encoding - bit";

EO-End Office (large file)";

Erlang-Poisson ";

Encryption-Public-Private ";

Erbium Doped Laser Amplifier";

Ethernet: Metro";

Ethernet: Thin-net";

Ethernet: 10BASE-T";

EoMPLS-Ethernet Over MPLS";

Ethernet Packet";

Ethernet: Gigabit Frame-Packet";

Ethernet-Packet-ring Over SONET";

Ethernet: Thin-net";

Ethernet: 10BASE-T";

Ethernet: Comparison 1 & 10 Gigabit";

Ethernet Virtual Connections";

Exabyte";

Explicit-Source Routing ";

ESF-Extended Super Frame ";

EAP-Extensible Authentication Protocol";

Exterior Gateway Routing Protocols ";

Extranet-Intranet ";

Extreme UltraViolet Lithography ";

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

4B/5B encoding";

4-Wire-2-Wire Loops - Introduction";

40 Gigabit interface";

FAS-NFAS-Facility Associated Signaling";

FEXT-Far End Cross Talk";

FARSITE-Global Storage Concept";

FCAPS-Fault-Configuration-Accounting";

FC-Fiber Channel-iFCP, FCIP, iSCSI";

FDDI-Fiber Distributed Data Interface";

Fiber-Optic: Chromatic Dispersion";

Fiber-Optic: Modal Dispersion";

Fiber-Optic Cable: What is it?";

Fiber-Optic Cable: Single-mode";

Fiber-Optic Cable: Multi-mode";

FTTH/C-Fiber-To-The-Home/Curb";

FTP-File Transfer Protocol";

Firewall-Mantraps";

Firewire - IEEE 1394";

Flags - Asynchronous Data ";

Flapping-Convergence";

Flashhook signaling ";

Flooding in content delivery nets";

Flow Control";

FA-Foreign Agent-Mobile IP";

FX-Foreign eXchange";

FECN-Forward Explicit Congestion NOtification ";

FEC-MPLS Forwarding Equivalence Classes ";

Frame Relay Tutorial ";

FRAD-Frame Relay Access Device ";

Frame Relay Frame ";

Frame Relay CIR-Committed Information Rate";

Frame with MPLS ";

Frame Relay Pricing Elements ";

Frame: X-25 ";

Framing Bits - T-1-ISDN-PRI ";

FSO-Free Space Optics ";

Frequency ";

Frequency - Hertz";

FDD-Frequency Division Duplexing ";

FDM-Frequency Division Multiplexing ";

Frequency Hopping - CDMA ";

FM-Frequency Modulation";

Frequency Pattern Cell Re-Use ";

FSK-Frequency Shift Keying - PSK-PAM";

FBTC-Fused Bioconical Tapered optical Coupler ";

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G.7xx - Audio & H.323 - Multi-Media";

GMLC-Gateway Mobile Location Center";

GMSK-Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying";

GPRS-General Packet Radio Service";

GPRS-TDMA - Time Slots-Frames";

GMPLS - Generalized MPLS";

GFP-Generic Framing Procedure";

GRE-Generic Routing Encapsulation";

GRE in action";

GEO-Geo-synchronous Orbit";

Gigabyte";

GE-Gigabit Ethernet Frame-Packet";

Gigabit ethernet LAN Service";

Global Storage Concept-FARSITE";

Googolbyte";

GSM-Global Standard for Mobile";

GSM-TDMA-Time Division Multiple Access";

Grid Services Architecture";

GRID-GARA-SNAP-Protocol";

Grooming - Optical Crossconnect";

Ground Start Signaling ";

Guardband-FDM-Frequency Division Multiplexing ";

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

H.323 - Multi-Media conferencing";

Half-Tap-Bridge-Tap (large file)";

Handshaking - Modem Communications";

Hard Drive";

Hard Drive-Cylinder ";

Headend-CATV-Community Antenna TeleVision";

Heatsink";

Hertz";

Hidden Station Problem Wireless LAN";

Hierarchical Proxy Server-Array ";

Hierarchical Topology ";

HDLC-High-level Data Link Control";

HDTV-HDMI-High Definition Television Multimedia";

HUNE-High-frequency Unbundled Network Element";

HA-Home Agent-Mobile IP";

HLR-SS7 Home-Visitor Location Register";

HomeRF-Radio Frequency-Superframe-Subframes";

Homing-Single-Multi ";

Honeypot-Network Intrusion";

Hop-by-Hop & Explicit-Source Routing ";

Hoot-n-Holler multicast networks ";

Hot-Cold Potato Routing ";

Hubs";

Hub go-ahead topology";

HFC-Hybrid Fiber Coaxial network";

HFC-CATV converter";

HTTP-Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol";

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Immediate Start signaling ";

Inband signaling ";

ILEC-Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier ";

Infiniband-DAFS-Digital Access File System";

IGBT-Insolated Gate Bipolar Transistor";

IM-Instant Messaging ";

IAD-Integrated Access Device ";

IAS-Integrated Access Service ";

ISDN:Integrated Services Digital Network vs POTs-Plain Old Telephone Service";

ISDN-Integrated Services Digital Network - BRI";

ISDN: BRI-Basic Rate Interface Packet";

D-Data-Delta Channel";

ISDN: FAS-NFAS-Facility Associated Signaling";

ISDN: Packet Format";

ISDN: PRI-Primary Rate Interface";

IVR-Interactive Voice Response";

IFS-Inter-Frame Spacing - CSMA-CD";

Interlaced Scanning - video";

IGRP-Interior Gateway Routing Protocols";

IMT-Inter-Machine Trunk ";

IDF-Intermediate Distribution Frame ";

Internet-Introduction";

Internet-AS-Autonomous Systems";

ICW-Internet Call Waiting";

Internet Centrex-IP Switching";

Internet Address Classes A-B-C-D-E";

ICAP-Internet Content Application Protocol ";

ICMP-Internet Control Message Protocol ";

IDC-Internet Data Center";

Internet Edge-Access Routers";

IeX-Internet exchange Points";

iFCP-Internet Fiber Channel-iFCP, FCIP, iSCSI";

IGMP-Internet Group Management Protocol ";

IGMP at work ";

IKE-Internet Key Exchange";

IKE-ESP-Ecapulation Security Payload";

IPv4-Internet Protocol Version 4";

IPv4 Packet with Diffserv";

IPv4-MPLS-Multi-Protocol Label Switching";

IPSec-Internet Protocol Security";

IPv6-IP Packet Version 6";

lIPX-Internetwork Packet Exchange Packet";

lISP-Internet Service Providers: How They Work";

ISCSI-Internet Small Computer System Interface";

ITAD-Internet Telephony Administrative Domain ";

Intranet-Extranet";

Iso-Sync-Async-Plesio ";

IMUX-Inverse Multiplexer";

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Jacks and Cable Connectors";

JFK-Just For Keying (IP Security)";

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Keep Alive packets";

KSU-KTS-Key System Unit-Telephone System";

KVM-Keyboard Video Mouse Switch";

Keys Public-Private";

Kilobyte (KB)";

LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

LASERs/LEDs-Light Emitting Diodes ";

Layer 1: Physical OSI Model";

Layer 2: Data Link OSI Model";

Layer 2: L2TP Tunneling Protocol";

Layer 2 versus Layer 3 VPNs";

Layer 3: Network OSI Model";

Layer 4: Tranport OSI Model";

Layer 5: Session OSI Model";

Layer 6: Presentation OSI Model";

Layer 7: Application OSI Model";

Leaf & Root in Ethernet Virtual Connections";

Least Significant Bit signaling";

Line-Loops and Trunks";

LOS-Line of Sight & Muti-path ";

LFAP-Lightweight Flow Admission Protocol";

LAPD/B-Link Access Protocol B/D-channel";

LAPD-Link Access Procedure SONET";

Link Aggregation - Collapsed Backbone";

LCAS-Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme";

Link State Routing Protocol";

Liquid-Crystal Switch: Optical";

Load Balancing Server";

Loading Coil - Loaded Lines ";

LATA-Local Access Transport Area ";

LAN-Local Area Network Cable Connections";

LAN Segments";

LAN Switch";

LAN Switch - Tutorial ";

LAN Switching";

LAN: TLS-Transparent LAN Service";

LEC-Local Exchange Carrier ";

Local Loop - Introduction ";

Local Loop-UNE-Unbundled Network ";

LMDS-Local Multipoint Distribution Service";

LNP-Local Number Portability ";

Location Server ";

LLC-802.2 Logical Link Control ";

LD-Long Distance";

Loop Start Signaling ";

Loop Topology - Star, Ring";

Loop-Line Sharing-Splitting";

LEO-Low Earth Orbit";

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

MDF-Main Distribution Frame ";

Managed Services-VLANs ";

MIB-Management Information Base ";

MIB another view";

Manchester coding - NRZ-NRZI";

Mantrap-Firewall ";

MAC-Media Access Control Addressing ";

MAC-Media Access Control CSMA-CD";

MDI-Media Dependent Interface";

MDIX-Media Dependent Interface Crossed (X)";

MGC-Media Gateway Controllers";

Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)";

MEGACO-MEdia GAteway COntrol";

Media Gateways in action ";

Megabyte (MB)";

Mesh-String-Ring-Collapsed Ring Networks";

MOSFET-Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor";

Meters-Markers-DiffServ";

Metrospace Ethernet";

MAE-Metropolitan Area Ethernet";

MEMS-Micro-Electro Mechanical Switch: Optical";

Microprocessor - Functional Processes";

Mobile IP-Internet Protocol";

MLR-SS7 Mobile Location Register";

MODEM-MOdulator-DEModulator";

Modem-Handshaking Communications";

Modem Spoofing-Telnet, SLIP";

Modulation-AM-FM-PAM";

MP3-Motion Picture Experts Group";

Multi-Access-Tenant Router";

Mbone-Multicast backbone ";

MFO-Multicast Fan Out ";

MOSPF-Multicast Open Shortest Path First";

Multicast-Packet-ring Over SONET";

Multicast-PIM-Protocol Independent";

MSDP-Multicast Source Discovery Protocol";

Multicasting-Uni-Broadcasting";

Multicast Trees - Source, Shared ";

MMDS-Multi-channel Multipoint Distribution Service";

Muti-drop data networks ";

MED: Multi-Exit Descriminator";

MED: External-Internal Preference";

Multi-Homing ";

Multi-path wireless transmission ";

MIMO-Multiple Input Multiple Output";

Multiplexing-Quantizing";

Mux-Multiplexing ";

Multiplexing Split ";

Multiplexing-Statistical";

MPLS-Multi-Protocol Label Switching FEC ";

MPLS: Explicit-Source Routing ";

MPLS: Frame with MPLS ";

MPLS: IP Packet-IPv4IPv4 with MPLS";

MPLS: IP Network Before MPLS";

MPLS: Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)";

MPLS: Labeling ";

MPLS: Label Swapping ";

MPLS: LERs & LSR Routers ";

MPLS: LERs-Label Edge Routers & LSRs Talking";

MPLS: Trunks & Paths";

MPLS: Trees ";

MPLS-Multi-Protocol Lambda Switching";

Multi-Service Switching - Intro";

MSDT-Multi-Systems Digital Terminal";

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Nx64 Services Provisioning ";

NACSE-TECHtionary Certification Program";

NetBios-Network Basic input-output system";

NAP-Network Access Point";

NAR-Network Access Register";

NEXT-Near End Cross Talk";

Network Address Translation";

Network Demarcation";

NIC-Network Interface Card";

NIC and CSMA-CD-Carrier Sense Multiple Access";

NIDS-Network Intrusion Detection Systems";

Networks: Next Generation";

NOC-Network Operations Center ";

NNI-Network-to-Network Interface-ATM ";

Next Hop Attribute";

Nonce-Keys Public-Private";

Noise-SNR-Signal-to-Noise Ratio - RFI-EMI-EMP";

NRZ-Non-return to Zero & Inverted";

NDSF-Non-Dispersion Shifted Fiber";

NZDF-Non-Zero Dispersion Fiber";

Number Portability ";

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

1FR-1MR-1FB-1MB ";

1x, 1xEX, 1xRTT, 3x, 3G Wireless";

110-66 Block - MDF-Main Distribution Frame ";

Octet or Byte";

Off-Net-OnNet";

OPX-Off Premise eXtension";

Online Stock Trading";

OSPF-Open Shortest Path First";

OSPF-MOSFP- Overview";

OSI Model-Open Systems Interconnection";

OSI Model - Explained in more detail";

OSI Model In A Minute";

OSI Model with LAN Protocols";

OSI Model SS7 Layers";

OSI Model Sub-Layer 1 Concepts";

OSS-CO-Operational Support Systems";

OADM-Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer";

Optical: Array Waveguides";

Optical: ASON-Automatic Switched";

Optical Cable: What is it?";

Optical Cable: Single-mode";

Optical Cable: Multi-mode";

Optical: Chromatic Dispersion";

Optical: Cross Connect";

Optical: Fused Conical and Optical Couplers ";

Optical: Generic Framing Procedure";

Optical: Modal Dispersion";

ONI-Optical Network Interface";

Optical Switch: Bubble";

Optical Switch: Example";

Optical Switch: Liquid-Crystal";

Optical Switch: MEMS";

Optical Switch: Thermo-optic";

Optical Transponder";

OVPN-Optical Virtual Private Network";

Optical: WARP-WAvelength Routing Protocol";

Origin Attribute (BGP)";

OFDM-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing";

Outside Plant (circa 1900)";

Out-of-band & Inband signaling ";

Outoing business Lines/Trunks - T1-ISDN ";

Overlay Area Codes-LATAs ";

PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

Packet: ATM-Asynchronous Transfer Mode";

Packet: CR-LDP (MPLS signaling) ";

Packet: Diameter Protocol";

Packet: Ethernet";

Packet: GFC-Generic Routing Encapsulation";

Packet: Gigabit Ethernet Frame-Packet";

Packet: HDLC-High-level Data Link Control ";

Packet: L2TP-Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol";

Packet: LAPD/B-Link Access Protocol B/D-channel";

Packet: ISDN-Integrated Services Digital Network";

Packet: ICMP-Internet Control Message Protocol ";

Packet: IGMP-Internet Group Management Protocol ";

Packet: IP-Internet Protocol Version 4";

Packet: IPv4 with Diffserv";

Packet: IPv4IPv4 with MPLS";

Packet: IP Version 6";

Packet: IPX-Internetwork Packet Exchange Packet";

Packet: NetBios";

Packet: OSPF-Open Shortest Path First";

Packet: Point to Point Protocol";

Packet: PPTP-Point to Point Tunneling Protocol";

Packet: RSVP Description";

Packet: RIP-Routing Information Protocol";

Packet: SMB-Server Message Blocks";

Packet: SNMPv2 ";

Packet: SS7";

Packet: SCTP-Stream Control";

Packet: TRIP Keep Alive Header";

Packet: TRIP Open Header";

Packet: TRIP Route Header";

Packet: TRIP Update Header";

Packet: TCP Protocol";

Packet: Token Ring";

Packet: Tunneling Protocol - RFC 1701";

Packet: UDP Packet";

PBCC-Packet Binary Convolutional Keying";

PING-Packet INternet Grouper";

POS-Packet-ring Over SONET";

Packet Switching-overview";

Pair-gain DLC-SLIC-MSDT";

Parallel-Serial Transmission";

Parallel power system";

PON-Passive Optical Network";

PAP-Password Authentication Protocol";

PCMCIA-NIC & CSMA-CD";

Pedestal";

Peer Group-Border Gateway";

Peering ";

Peer-to-Peer PC LANs ";

PHB-Per Hop Behavior";

PVC-Permanent Virtual Circuit";

PAN-802.15 Personal Area Networks ";

Personal Computer Bus Architecture ";

PC Bus Versus Crossbar ";

PCS-Personal Communications Service";

Petabyte (PB)";

Phantom power system";

PM-Phase Modulation";

PSK-Phase Shift Keying - FSK-PAM";

Phontonic Layer - 10/40 gigabit";

Phonotic Layer Multiplexing";

Physical Media Sub-Layer 1 Concepts";

Plesio-Iso-Sync-Asynchronous ";

POTS-Plain Old Telephone Service";

Plenum - Return Air HVAC ";

Poems - A Few Bytes ";

POP-POT-Point of Presence/Termination ";

Poission-Erlang ";

Polarization Mode Dispersion";

Policing Traffic-Shaping";

Policy-QoS Manager";

Ports-introduction";

Ports Speeds - Frame Relay ";

Ports-TCP-UDP";

Power-Packet powerline technology";

Power-Phantom-Parallel";

Powerline (electrical) access to ISP";

Powerline: Spike ";

Powerline: Sag ";

PBX-Private Branch eXchange";

PBX - indepth";

PL-Private Line ";

PL-Private Line International";

PVC-Private Virtual Circuit";

Progressive Scanning - video";

Protocol Conversion-Routers";

PIM-Protocol Independent Multicast";

Provisioning";

Proxy Server-Overview ";

Proxy Server-Transparent Cache ";

Proxy Server-DNS ";

Proxy Server-Array-Hierarchical ";

PITN-Public Internet Telephone Network";

PSTN-Public Switched Telephone Network";

PSTN-(photos-large File-be patient)";

PSTN-Offload-Voice-Data Over IP Solution";

PAM-Pulse Amplitude Modulation - FSK-PSK";

PCM-Pulse Code Modulation ";

PUNI-Public/Private User-Network ";

Pullcasting in content delivery nets";

QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ

Q-in-Q Ethernet with QoS";

QSIG-CAS-Channel Associated Signaling";

QoS: Quality of Service in BGP";

QoS: Broadband Content View";

QoS: Policy Manager ";

QoS: in MPLS";

QoS: Plannning for";

Quantizing ";

Quantizing-MP3 ";

QAM-QPSK-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation ";

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

RFI-Radio Frequency Interference-Crosstalk ";

RADIUS-RAS-Remote Access Dial-In User Service ";

RAM-Random Access Memory ";

Rate Centers-LATAs-Overlay Codes ";

Rate Policing";

RTP-Real Time Transport Protocol ";

RTCP-Real Time Control Protocol ";

RS-232-IEEE 1284-Connectors";

RS-422-423-485-Multidrop networks";

RAID-Redundant Array of Independent-inexpensive disk drives ";

RJ-45 Registered Jack Connector";

RJ-48 Registered Jack Connector ";

RCF-Remote Call Forwarding ";

RC-Remote Control ";

RT-Remote Terminal vault";

RP-Rendezvous Point (Multicasting)";

Replication content servers ";

RSVP-ReSerVation Protocol Packet Description";

RG-Residential Gateways";

Residential telephone lines ";

RPR-Resilient Packet Rings ";

Reverse Battery signaling ";

RPF-Reverse Path Forwarding";

Ring Down Circuit";

Ring Down-OPX-Off Premise eXtension";

Ring-Collapsed Ring Networks";

Ring/Progress telephone tones";

Ripper-MP3-Motion Picture Experts";

Riser Conduit - MDF-Main Distribution Frame ";

Roaming Wireless Communications";

Root & Leaf in Virtual Connections";

Root-Trusted Certificates";

Rotary Dialing and DTMF-Dual Tone Multi-Frequency";

Round Robin ";

Routers";

Routers-Access-Edge";

Router Multi-Access-Tenant ";

Route Availability";

Route Theory";

Router 'Eyes-On' Tutorial ";

Routing: Road Rules";

Routing Basics ";

RIP-Routing Information Protocol";

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

66 Block";

Sag (Powerline) ";

Sampling-Quantizing-MP3";

Satellite - Cache";

Satellite - Direct Broadcast";

Satellites: Intersatellite links";

Satellites: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)";

Satellites: Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)";

Satellites: Geo-synchronous Orbit (GEO)";

SCART connector";

SSL-Secure Sockets Layer(ing)";

Security Keys Public-Private";

SAR-Segmentation And Reassembly-ATM";

Self-Healing SONET-POS-Packet-ring Over SONET";

Serial-Parallel Transmission";

SLIP-Serial Line Interface Protocol";

Server: Introduction";

Server: Load Balancing";

Server: Location SIP ";

Server: RADIUS-RAS ";

Server: Blade-RAID ";

SMB: Server Message Blocks";

SCP-Service Control Point ";

SNAP-Service Negotiation & Acquisition Protocol";

SIP-Session Initiation Protocol";

SIP - In Action ";

Shaping-Traffic Policing";

STP-Shielded Twisted-Pair Wire";

SMS-SS7 Short Messaging Service";

SNR-Signal-to-Noise Ratio - RFI-EMI-EMP";

STP-Signal Transport Point";

SSP-Signal Switching Point";

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Dating or Whatever You Call it - is Hard

2016-06-05T06:51:00.000-07:00

One of the hardest aspects of a real relationship is keeping it as passionate and all-consuming as it was when it first started. After breakups and divorces, many couples say it just didn’t work anymore because they had lost that spark. As years go by, it can be difficult to remember why you got together in the first place. Keeping a real relationship can take some work, but it is worth it. Here are some things you can do to make it last.

Prioritize your relationship – A relationship isn’t something that you get and then don’t have to take care of anymore. It takes a constant effort to keep both sides together.
Don’t hold grudges or keep score – We all make mistakes, that is something that proves we are human, but so is forgiveness. Just because the love of your life forgot your birthday, doesn’t mean that you get a free pass to hurt him or her back. It’s better to be understanding of what is going on with both people.
Learn to compromise – There are always a few hiccups when two people get together to share a life. Whether that is deciding what holidays to celebrate in a multi-culture household, or understanding that work schedules are very different. It’s best to learn to give a little now and again.
Respect your partner – Taking another’s trust holds some responsibility on your part. You may not always see eye to eye, but being angry beyond words and still having enough respect for your partner to tell them you need a timeout will mean a lot to them later. Respecting your partner at other times can also play a big role in your relationship, whether that is around friends, neighbors, at home, and even out and about.
Be open to real conversation – Something about communication is hard for people to fully understand. Have an open door policy with your partner. If something was said that hurt your feelings, you should be able to express that. You should also, in turn, listen to what your partner has to say.
Have fun and play games – It shouldn’t be all work to be around each other. When it started, there was a lot of fun, and there is no reason that there still can’t be. Make it a date!
Don’t forget to be intimate – Every person defines intimacy different, from going all the way to holding hands while taking an evening walk. Whichever form of intimacy you prefer should be a part of your everyday life with your partner.
Have your own space – Call it a man cave or woman cave, but each person should have their own safe space. It can be a after-fight cool off zone, craft spot, beer during the game, or whatever you want that you and retreat to when you need some time away.

Relationships are not always easy, and they have their highs and lows. But with a little work and communication, you can continue in a happy and real relationship with the love of your life.
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Twitter Takes Flight – Are you Going to Soar or Sink Your Business Webcast

2016-06-05T06:41:00.000-07:00

We present a short 17-minute podcast of a webinar on Twitter. Click here for webcast.

If you still ask “why” Twitter, the answer is both easy and hard.
The easy answer is – it is the new way to connect with your customers and provide customer service as they don’t complain by just calling you they increasingly complain via Twitter with the famous hashtag #fail which can go viral.
If you think it is just for promoting your corporate blogs and blather, you are likely missing out on how customers really feel about you, this is the hard answer because customers just buy from someone else.
Click on any image for PDF of slides only (no audio).
If you need help with Twitter email cross@gocross.com

MedsMinders Library on Health, Care Giving, Wellness, Fitness and other topics

2016-05-11T08:03:00.000-07:00

Making Mouth Magic

2016-04-16T12:36:00.001-07:00

Every year the routine is the same. You go to your dentist for your annual or hopefully every six months cleaning and the same questions are asked. Have you been brushing your teeth twice every day? The answer is usually mostly yes though more and more people say no. Most people find time to brush their teeth twice a day, and might miss one of those on occasion. Next is the big question. Have you been flossing daily? Only about 40%₁ of Americans floss regularly. Many of those who don’t will try to pass it off that they floss often enough to count, even if it is to keep from getting a scolding lecture from their dentist. Most of those people don’t realize that just because they don’t see a difference when they do floss, that the dentist will know by looking that they don’t floss.

Brushing your teeth is great for the part of the teeth that you see BUT there is a whole other part to the tooth that you should be cleaning that can only be reached by floss, your dental hygienist, or your dentist. Tartar build up, gum disease, cavities, and halitosis (bad breath) all begin under the gum line and in that narrow alley between teeth. A tooth brush cannot reach in there to scrub off the biofilm that develops and houses bacteria. Mouthwash can do great things, but it cannot break down that strong film on its own. You clean half of your teeth with brushing, but the hard to reach half should be cleaned by flossing.

Flossing is an important part of the health of your mouth, but it is also vital to your overall health. There are many health conditions that are affected by the health of your mouth. A healthy mouth reduces the risk of heart disease. Infections can gain entry to your cardiovascular system through your mouth. Once an infection makes it into your blood system, it is easily carried to many organs and body systems. Diabetics can also have infection complications and it is more difficult for them to fight infections, which is why it is important to keep their mouth healthy with proper brushing and flossing.

Research suggests that it takes 21-31 days to form a routine habit. It’s never too late to start flossing. Setting an alarm or reminder on your phone, putting the floss where you will see it, and using MedsMinders to remind yourself for the first couple weeks are great tactics to get into the habit of flossing. If you have a hard time flossing or don’t know what kind of floss to use, ask your dentist. Your dentist will be happy that you are trying to floss and can show you the proper way to floss and any tricks that might help you.

Sources:

1. http://www.ada.org/en/publications/ada-news/2014-archive/october/survey-finds-shortcomings-in-oral-health-habits

Managing Migraines

2016-04-16T12:33:00.002-07:00

Migraines are one of the most difficult to manage conditions out there. They are far more complicated to treat than a headache. With a headache, you can take a pain reliever and go about your day, but with migraines, it’s usually not that simple. Migraines can be forming because of a number of different triggers that range from your sleep patterns to what you had for breakfast. Without knowing the cause, your doctor can only treat the symptoms, which is not the best plan to managing a condition that can impact your quality of daily life.

1. The best way to discover what is causing your migraines to keep a migraine diary. In this diary it is best to keep a daily log of what and when you eat, drink, weather, emotions, events, schedule, and even exercise. Then also record when you have a migraine. After a while, you should be able to find a pattern.

2. For women, it could be hormonal. Sometimes it can be difficult to link migraines to hormonal cycles, because you might have a migraine during part of your cycle that isn’t as obvious. Once you determine that your migraines are linked to your hormone changes, you can prepare for it. Certain hormone therapies can reduce or even prevent migraines. Ask your gynecologist if they have any recommendations.

3. Like everyone says about everything, avoid stress! More and more conditions are being linked to stress. Whether stress can cause or just exacerbates your migraines, it is usually recommended to learn how to respond to stressful situations since you cannot always avoid them. How you respond to a stressful event can have a lot of impact on you physically and emotionally.

4. Diet and exercise are also important. Not only can certain types of foods trigger migraines, but not eating can also have a big impact. Fasting and skipping meals can trigger a migraine, so you might need to change your eating habits. Exercise is great for you, but are you getting the right kind of exercise? Weightlifting can put a lot of strain on your body and it might be unnecessary if it causes migraines for you. There are calisthenics exercises that can build the same kind of muscles without the extra strain.

5. Keep on schedule with any medications or supplements prescribed by your doctor. If you are taking preventative medications or supplements to prevent you from getting a migraine, then taking them late or missing a dose can also trigger a migraine. It is important to keep on schedule, and investing in a good reminder program can make the difference. If you carry a smartphone with you, add an app like MedsMinders that will give you a reminder of what to take and when to take it. It can also include any special directions like it must be taken with food.

Don’t hesitate to take your migraine diary with you to your doctor’s visit. It can help you and your doctor determine how to prevent more migraines from happening. Treating the symptoms is the second step in treating a chronic condition. Preventing it is the first!

Fitness Trackers - Wearable Tech High Margin for Error

2016-03-29T12:36:00.000-07:00

Portions from MobihealthNews - A new paper published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that, when it comes to measuring energy expenditure, many leading fitness trackers have a margin of error of about 200 calories per day in either direction.

The study was conducted by Japanese researchers led by Haruka Murakami from the National Institute of Health and Nutrition in Tokyo. Nineteen participants, aged 21 to 50, wore 12 fitness trackers a piece, a mix of popular consumer devices (Fitbit Flex, Jawbone UP24, Misfit Shine, Epson Pulsense PS-100, Garmin Vivofit, Tanita AM-160, Omron CalorieScan HJA-403C, and Withings Pulse O2) and devices more often used in healthcare (Panasonic Actimarker EW 4800, Suzuken Lifecorder EX, Omron Active style Pro HJA-350IT, and ActiGraph GT3X).

This study examines the accuracy of total energy expenditure estimates made by wearable devices compared with measurements made using the metabolic chamber and doubly labeled water methods.

Accurate estimation of energy expenditure is a key element in determining the relationships between aspects of human behavior, physical activity, and overall health.¹^,2 Although wearable devices for estimating energy expenditure are becoming increasingly popular, there is little evidence regarding their validity.³^,4 This study was performed to examine the validity of total energy expenditure estimates made by several wearable devices compared with gold standard measurements for a standardized day (metabolic chamber method) and free-living days (doubly labeled water [DLW] method).

In the metabolic chamber test, the Withings and Jawbone devices underestimated expenditure by about 270 calories while both Omron devices overestimated calories by about 200 calories. The other devices all fell in between that range, with the Panasonic and Epson devices the closest to the standard.
In the urine test, on the other hand, all the devices underestimated calorie output, by margins ranging from 69 calories short (the Omron Active Style Pro) to 590 calories short (the Jawbone UP24).
Researchers noted a few factors that might have contributed to the disconnect, including the fact that participants couldn't wear the trackers all the time. They also noted that they tested only a healthy weight population, and that future studies should include overweight participants as well.

As the saying goes, "when the going gets tough, the weird turn pro" time for these devices to be really professional and really do their job.

In addition, your fitness tracker should be used with MedsMinders to track your vitamins, supplements, and other meds.

Better Sleep – Top 10 Checklist

2016-03-29T08:12:00.000-07:00

We would not be surprised that there the number of sleep apps would certainly be on the top ten categories for all apps. The following are some ideas we have incorporated into a new app for iPhone/iTouch and iPad called iSleepTrack. The key features are Snooze, Snap and Sleep. The Snooze feature is designed to let you get your “cat nap” anytime; you can select your snooze time and a wakeup vibration or tone/tune. The Snap feature is a new feature not found in any sleep app we have found so far. Snap is really a “snap out of it” feature that you put in your shirt pocket and when no motion or limited motions are detected, it gives you a vibration or tune/tone. Designed to help you overcome falling asleep in class or on the job, it should not be used while driving (we don’t need any lawsuits). In addition to sleep tracking and logging features, Sleep offers you a scheduling tool and other tools which may be found in other sleep apps. The key point is we have incorporated extensive sleep research into our app.

Better Sleep – Top 10 Checklist

Apps & Ideas for Getting Better Sleep – Top 10 Checklist

This is another attempt to help you get not just the sleep you think you want but the rest you need. We have reviewed more than one hundred other articles, conducted our own research and developed some new ideas on helping you. Here is our Top-10 Checklist for getting better rest and sleep:
1 – Learn to Relax – transition to sleep – music – visualizing
2 – Stress Management
3 – Power Nap-Snooze Tips
4 – Sleep Schedule & Diary
5 – Drowsy
6 – Throughout the Night – Ceiling time
7 – Staying Alert – Snap Out of It
8 – Room or Environment
9 – Eating to Sleep
10 – Sleep Apps
1 – Relaxing – Not surprising the hardest thing people face is learning how to relax. This is not sitting and watching TV, reading a book, exercising or yoga, reducing alcohol/caffeine intake or any number of other techniques. Relaxing to sleep is something completely different. Sleep relaxation is getting the mind to rest in order that the body will rest. That is, we really don’t need a lot of sleep but often need a lot of rest and often look to sleep aids to help them. Drugs and even vitamins designed to help people sleep generally don’t work and resulting side effects like other drugs often have disastrous results such as sleep walking, falling asleep while driving, headaches and others. They can also have a placebo effect of implying they help but really do not. One of the simplest techniques is to listen to calming music and by creating your own mind-quieting sound. Meditation, often considered something mystical is merely creating your own sound or chant which you combine with deep breathing to relax the body and slow the mind from racing out of control. If you find yourself back worrying, then repeat the sound or chant. It is not easy but often very worthwhile
2 – Stress Management – Some people talk their way out of stress. For many simply telling another person their problems reduces their own stress. Stress can occupy an already busy mind. That is, the mind works all the time whether you are awake or sleep. Some research suggests that we make even make better decisions when we “sleep on” the problems. Not saying we all do but certainly the mind works on the problem even when we are not thinking about it. Reducing stress by listening to ocean waves, gentle blowing wind or other restful music allows the mind to not be so obsessed by the problem you are facing. iSleepTrack has a selection of meditation-expert recommended sounds to help you take your mind “off” what you are stressed about.
3 – Power Naps – Snoozing – Few would doubt that short power naps or snoozes are a good way to reduce stress, digest a meal and other benefits. Students are often seen snoozing in the library between classes, workers take a nap between business meetings and there are increasing reports of drivers falling asleep while driving cars. Worse are cases where airline pilots fall asleep during flight. However, there are a number of studies and real-life examples that show taking “cat naps” improves alertness, reduces fatigue and increases energy. This is not the “coffee break” approach but in iSleepTrack the snooze feature is designed to help you get those “power naps” between meeting, classes and other busy moments of the day. The Snooze feature gets you in the mood for short resting periods. In other words, the concept of iSleepTrack is to recognize the major elements of your day and incorporate features to help you better manage your energy levels and biological needs for rest.
4 – Sleep Schedule & Diary – Nearly all the research we found on better sleep techniques mention maintaining a regular sleep schedule and suggest you set the same time to sleep every day. It is doubtful that anyone will be able to do that even if they tried. At the same time, people generally go to sleep within an hour or so nearly every day because there biological clock tells them to. One of the interesting aspects of sleep patterns is that there are “morning people” who go to bed early, get up early and are most productive early in the day and are done for the day around 4 PM or so. The opposite are “night people” who go to bed late like midnight or later, get up late and are most productive later in the day. From our research, nearly 70% of people are night people while the remainder are morning people. A few say they are both but generally are really night people. Often couples who live together find themselves at opposite ends of the morning-night person scale. This makes for complex sleeping arrangements if one person is a morning person and the other a night one. Setting a schedule may also be more important for one rather than the other and even when they do adjust their schedules getting rest or going to sleep may also be difficult. In iSleepTrack, there is a log of your sleeping or resting periods. We have also found that many people sleep in 3-4 hour segments. That is, they go to bed early and get up and work again from 2-4AM and then back to bed for another respite. iSleepTrack helps you track your rest periods and from the vantage you can make better decisions regarding your rest/sleep schedule.
5 – Drowsy
Few doubt that we all get drowsy at some point throughout the day. Meetings, classes or just working at a desk are especially difficult for most people who find the topic(s) boring and the speaker/teachers equally so. Studies show that people drowse because they need more information at a faster rate to stay alert. Looking at it another way, we can read five times faster than we can hear and we can capture visual-action even faster. This means sitting around listening to a teacher or a business presenter is very boring because we want more information to keep our mind busy. To overcome boredom or rather overcoming being drowsy can take many forms. Being busy, walking around the block, or taking notes in class or a meeting, for example, provides a record of the meeting. This is a simple tool to wake yourself up but also how you interpreted the meeting which whether in court, to share with others who are not there or confirm with management what actually took place.
6 – Throughout the Night – Ceiling time
Ceiling time is time during the night when you find yourself wide awake (insomnia) staring at the ceiling. Some people just lay there; others get up and read, watch TV or do something else. Going back to sleep is what is desired but the mind is ready to get up and get going. Getting rest is what is really needed. However, how do you get the rest you need. You may not really need all the sleep you need or that you should sleep in intervals rather than one long stretch. Studies suggest that not that long ago when humankind was still living without shelter in forests or trees, we didn’t not get that much sleep for fear of being attacked or eaten. This suggests that one biological tool in the form of snoring provided a simple means of driving away predators. In addition, after exhaustive search and study of more than 300 citations, where there are hundreds of detailed articles, books and remedies (including 300+ patents) on snoring, there was no research on the origins or etiology of snoring. There was only one hypothesis other than the fact that men snore more than women by almost 2:1, that snoring could be associated with male-female attraction (men defended women at night by snoring). Our theory stands that snoring as a means to prevent attacks from predators or other humans. Few would argue that snoring is a real bother even cause for divorce or other inter-personal problems. If snoring is a bother, than there are herbal, prescription and even surgical means to correct sleep apnea. As one source noted, wild animals do not snore as they sleep in the ventral (crawling) position. Humans and some bull dogs (and a few others) prefer sleeping supine (on your back) the primary cause of snoring. Sleeping on your back, causes the jaw to drop, the tongue to fall backward and vibrate resulting in snoring. There are other contributing factors such as weight, tonsils, adenoids, age and others which increase noise, duration and type of snore. The other impact of snoring resulting in not getting enough sleep can be critical causing the person to fall asleep on the job, driving a vehicle, even while waiting for the traffic light to change. Then there are the social faux pas of falling sleeping while talking to a spouse, in class/meetings, movie theatres and other events. While the loudest snoring on record is 87.5 decibels (source: Snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Fairbanks and Fujita Editors on page 3), there are many other reports of snoring above 80 dB like that of a garbage disposal or vacuum. Meanwhile if you find yourself staring at the ceiling, we suggest you get up, occupy your mind with your problems or issues and return to sleep when you are really tired not when you think you are.

7 – Staying Alert – Snap Out of It
Staying alert is more than a double shot of espresso. You can fall asleep anytime. In a recent survey, 90% of all college students said they had fallen asleep at least once in class. While few admit to it, studies show students fall asleep or “nod out” at least once a week in class. In a recent evening class of only five adults, one of them fell asleep right before my eyes. I would like to think my class was more entertaining than that, she admitted that she had been up for more than twelve hours without a break and was really tired. The purpose of the Snap feature in iSleepTrack is to provide you a tool when you do fall asleep. Snap or rather “snap out of it” provides a vibration or optional ringtone/music tune to provide a gentle or louder means to stay awake.
8 – Sleeping Room or Environment
The room or environment you attempt to sleep has a major impact on your ability to sleep. If you are in the airline industry or spend your life in “red eye” flights, you know how to sleep in a narrow airplane seat or worse on an airport bench. One simple solution even if you are in a great pillow-top bed in a cool bedroom is to quiet your body to the point of resting or sleeping. Research studies suggest that room conditions including outside noises can have a profound impact on sleep. There are soothing relaxing ambient music pieces in iSleepTrack to help you find that quiet time.
9 – Eating to Sleep
Eating too much or too little is a “chemistry experiment” which can get out of control quite easily and have a negative impact on sleeping. Drinking too much alcohol or caffeine has obvious effects. However, eating to sleep starts by keeping a diary of your diet and resulting sleep patterns, is recommended. The adage, if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it certainly applies to getting better sleep. iSleepTrack has a simple diary and notepad system so you can keep notes about all your activities. We have found that notes on exercise, sleep and diet often result in finding a better way to manage your energy, alertness and sleep patterns. In addition, snoring is three times more common in obese persons.
10 – Sleep App
http://medsminders.com/

MedsMinders Meds Reminder App for iPhone/iPad Reviews

2016-03-29T08:06:00.002-07:00

NEW Independent Review – “I work in home health and my patients sometimes forget to take their medications. We’ve tried setting alarms on their phones, but that doesn’t remind them of which specific medications or special directions. Do you know how hard it is to try and locate an empty medicine bottle in the house of a man with Alzheimer’s Disease? Talk about a needle and a haystack. This app has really helped since we can put all the special instructions, dosage, the RX #, and pharmacy to reorder the medication. Thanks for the great app! It’s a life saver, literally.” A.W.

Independent review – “I love this app! It really helps me remember to take my meds and vitamins helping me with a my diet/fitness program. Super helpful too when traveling thru different time zones especially when you are on a 12 hour regime. If you need to take a pill every four or so hours, no problem. Just set it and forget it! I use it for my cat too. My cat caregiver never missed a dose!” S.A.
MedsMinders is an iPhone/iPad app designed to help/aid users and caregivers in managing their medications, therapy, diets, drugs, pain, therapies, healing, infections, prescriptions, scripts, treatments, allergies, vitamins, herbs, herbals, supplements, health aids and other medical, health, alternative medicine to provide reminders and alerts for users, patients, therapist, pharmacists, practitioners, family members, caregivers, and other health aid helpers to reduce side effects, disease, effects, injury, impact, emergencies, trauma and other impacts. There is a FREE version along with small fee versions.
MedsMinders is also designed specifically for those over-40 and others who are visually-challenged and with near blind eyesight. With extra large fonts for both iPhone and iPad; MedsMinders is designed to be used without the need for “readers” (reading glasses).
For example, according to the FDA-Food and Drug Administration, “a majority of patients reported experiencing at least one side effect due to their medication (86.19%) resulting 60% lower complete adherence and significantly increased dropout rate of 74%.
MedsMinders is part of a family of apps including BiEyes, iFlipTips, iSleepTrack, RewardsVIPClub, and many others from TECHtionary.
You can get help/support and offer ideas/suggestions at cross@gocross.com.

MedsMinders is an ideal app for use with Synthroid, crestor, Ventolin HFA, Nexium, Advair Diskus, Lantus Solostar, Vyvanse, Lyrica, Spiriva Handihaler, Januvia, Lantus, Abilify, Symbicort, Tamiflu, Cialis, Viagra, Suboxone, Zetia, Xarelto, Bystolic, Celebrex, Nasonex, Namenda, Flovent HFA, Oxycontin, Diovan, Thyroid, Voltaren Gel, Nuvaring, Afluria, Dexilant, Benicar, Proventil HFA, Humalog, Novolog Flexpen, Novolog, Vesicare, Premarin, Benicar HCT, Lo Loestrin Fe, Lumigan, Namenda XR, Humalog Kwikpen, janumet, Pataday, Ortho-Tri-Cy Lo, Travatan Z, Combivent Respimat, Toprol-XL, Pristiq, Invokana, Minastrin 24 Fe, Strattera, Seroquel XR, Vytorin, Focalin XR, Dulera, Levemir Flexpen, Zostavax, Avodart, Pradaxa, Chantix, Eliquis, Humira, Levemir Flextouch, Levemir, Victoza 3-Pak, Combigan, Exelon, Tradjenta, Premarin Vaginal, Enbrel, Onglyza, Ranexa, Truvada, Welchol, Linzess, Latuda, Alphagan P, Viibryd, Effient, Norvir, Amitiza, Azor, Advair HFA, Uloric, Lotemax, Myrbetriq, Asmanex Twisthaler, Epiduo, Xopenex HFA, Durezol, Patanol, Atripla, Aggrenox, Exforge, Humulin R, Carafate, Novolog Flxpen Mix 70/30, Relpax,