Texas Credit Union Foundation Honors Financial Literacy Champions

Farmers Branch, Texas (PRWEB) April 26, 2012

The Texas Credit Union Foundation (Foundation) honored the dedication, commitment and hard work of Texas’ best financial literacy advocates with the presentation of its annual FOCUS Awards during a special award ceremony at the Texas Credit Union League’s (League) 78th Annual Meeting & Convention in Galveston on April 18.

Generations Federal Credit Union in San Antonio was honored in the credit union category, while the Fort Worth Chapter of Credit Unions was recognized in the organization category. Kelsey Balcaitis with A+ Federal Credit Union in Austin received a Foundation Focus Network Member award.

Generations FCU was commended for its efforts to collaborate with private and public schools, as well as colleges and universities to ensure that students of all ages have access to the tools, resources and information to make smart financial choices. NerdWallet.com, an online financial literacy library, is just one of the programs offered by the credit union. Its’ “No Suckers Here” initiative is another. “No Suckers Here” is an employee-driven program that helps students in local high schools, colleges and universities understand basic financial concepts.

The Fort Worth Chapter of Credit Unions earned accolades for its sponsorship of a CUIVReality Fair. These financial reality fairs give young people the opportunity to participate in a hands-on event that guides them through the personal financial management process, including budgeting, saving and investing in a simulated real-world environment. The Chapter held the financial reality fair at two different local middle schools, reaching well over 300 students. CU 4 Reality is a turn-key financial education reality that is being made available to Texas credit unions thanks to support from the Foundation, Friends of Consumer Freedom and the National Credit Union Foundation.

Balcaitis was recognized for being a dedicated advocate for improving the financial knowledge of young people. Under Balcaitis direction, A+ FCU has run a hugely successful Youth Financial Camp for the last two years. In her role as community education specialist, Balcaitis developed the “Business Proposal Challenge” for the credit union’s first Youth Financial Camp in 2010. The goal of the challenge is to give campers hands-on experience with being an entrepreneur. For the 2011 camp, Balaitis developed the “Great Money Race,” a fun and interactive board game that tests campers’ financial knowledge and decision-making skills. In 2011, 117 young people attended the summer camp – that’s a60percent increase over the previous year.

About Texas Credit Union Foundation
The Texas Credit Union Foundation is the 501(c)(3) charitable foundation representing the state’s credit unions. The Foundation’s mission is empowering people to improve their financial well-being. For more information, visit http://www.tcuf.coop.

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BrideLive.com Offers Wedding Vendors a Way to Reach Out to Brides in Need

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 31, 2012

Planning a wedding is one of the most stressful events one may encounter throughout their lifetime. Tack on having a physical disability to this already overwhelming process and stress levels go up to an all-time high. When you are disabled, there is an unique set of barriers you must overcome, including all the physical, emotional and logistical matters involved in the wedding planning process. Chrissy and Derek Teitel of New Jersey have experienced these roadblocks first hand, and with the help of two innovative wedding vendors and a new product called BrideLive.com, they were able to have the wedding of their dreams.

Chrissy has been disabled her whole life. She was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder along with orthopedic impairments. Her husband Derek has Cerebral Palsy and uses assistive devices to get around. Unreliable public transportation and vendor locations with limited access made it difficult for the two of them to plan their wedding. Finding vendors that could meet their needs and provide support in an easy and accessible way was extremely important to them.

When they came across Red Bank, New Jersey based wedding vendor CLB Photography, Chrissy and Derek felt they had hit the jackpot. Not only were these two vendors located in the same office on the first floor of an accessible building, they also offered an unique service called BrideLive.com.

According to Chrissy, “We knew from the beginning that these two vendors were the ones for us. Using BrideLive.com allowed me to coordinate my wedding from the comfort of my very own home and computer. We never felt our disability was ever an issue. We are like every other couple in love (with a few adjustments) and these amazing vendors got us!”

BrideLive.com is a new web-based video conferencing platform, designed specifically for the wedding professional. Chrissy and Derek lived in two different locations; one in New Jersey and the other in New York. By offering BrideLive.com, Chris and Suzanne Lo Bue of CLB Photography were able to provide Chrissy and Derek with the unique service they needed to prepare for their wedding day. “It was wonderful to be able to have a live video conversation online with both of them at once”, stated Chris.

When asked what ways BrideLive.com was used with this couple, Chris went on to say “We pride ourselves on our photography timeline, which to us is essential to the wedding day. Our timeline allows us to maximize our time to photograph couples and get them back to enjoying their wedding as quickly as possible, without missing the party action. Using BrideLive.com with Chrissy and Derek allowed us to set-up our timeline and reassure them that there would be enough time to take all the photos they hired us for. I think seeing our facial expression put them at ease that we had a proper wedding day plan.”

About BrideLive.com

Headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California and based on technology that has been in development and commercial production for over eight years, BrideLive.com launched in 2011 as a custom software company and is frequently recognized for its rapid sustained growth, product excellence, and superb multi-media user interface. Through their cutting-edge technology BrideLive.com has been able to rendered a web-based virtual meeting space used by wedding planners, photographers, DJs, florists and other professionals in the wedding industry who trusted to leverage the power of online, personalized see to convert leads, grow sales, and salve clock.

For more information on BrideLive.com please visit http://www.bridelive.com or call 888.796.9906.

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Article by Brian Terrace

A SharePoint portal is a website that can be accessed with the help of a web browser and offers collaboration opportunities for exchange of information and vital documents. These are all controlled by the owner of the website. A SharePoint website can help you to manage a number of things. These include:

Discussion and management of ideas and the review of proposals and documents that form a part of the document library
Information sharing through blogs and other forums
Coordinating projecting by maintaining schedules and calendars



Office SharePoint is an extension of Microsoft’s attempt to create web-friendly products. The ancillary features of the products are extremely convenient and much more economical to use. SharePoint offers multiple benefits. SharePoint 2010 Development Services include:

A highly visible interface, which is production ready
It assist you to create diverse websites with the assisting of pre-existing templates
A highly customised interface that acts as a showcase for the different technologies
Comprehensive and complete business processes that tinned be smoothly integrated with the system
Comprehensive security of operations



SharePoint 2010 is often integrated with different content management systems. This enables the creation of dynamic websites along with menu-based applications and dashboards. Microsoft Office SharePoint is also known for the collaboration technology. A collaboration platform helps you to establish connection with people engaged in diverse aspects of the businesses in the enterprise and beyond it as well. The consolidation of different collaboration solutions into SharePoint 2010 enables the users to reduce costs, increased IT productivity, affordable maintenance solutions and comparatively low training costs.

No matter whether it is used as hosted services or executed on-premise; the integrated capabilities are increased with the help of search technologies and thus help to respond promptly to business needs. Office SharePoint facilitates a more productive process thereby enabling easy access to all the resources.

The Office Ribbon UI that forms an integral part of SharePoint helps to increase interaction with the rich integrated capabilities of SharePoint in an easy manner. This empowers users to enjoy a contextual and familiar experience.

The user enjoys multiple options when it comes to hosted and on-premise options. These days the IT infrastructure in an organisation needs to support scale agility thereby allowing the entire business collaboration suite to be scaled up and scaled out quickly. It offers IT with the option to choose whether to implement cloud or on-premise solutions. This easily enables to make optimum use of the resources.

Productivity and business collaboration has become integral to most business these days. IT departments are therefore required to carry out many more activities with the existing resources. These robust tools help all users including professional developers, end users, designers and power users to develop and customise out-of-box solutions.

Specific business needs can be addressed with the help of the SharePoint services. It comes with a set of tools and comprehensive features that enables users to generate no-code solutions. These solutions can thus be deployed in a secure and safe manner.

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Author Bio: Brian Terrace works as a business consultant. He advocates the use of Office SharePoint and other technologies to improve business collaboration.

It doesn’t matter if your organization is large or small, or if you have a complex network or have no server at all. Knowing about online collaboration tools can help organizations and individuals be more effective, for less money, especially when your staff is not located in one central location. In this webinar, Kami Griffiths interviews Jon Warnow from 350.org to learn about the tools that they use to accomplish their mission specifically Google Apps, Skype and Salsa Labs-Democracy in Action. We also hear from Jay Boren and Ronald Ho, from Google, who provide more information about Google Apps and the ways that nonprofits and libraries can take advantage of this suite of free tools. This webinar is ideal for decision makers, board members, accidental techies or anyone interested in learning how one nonprofit is successfully using online tools for collaborating.

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The SharePoint Extranet platform offers an intelligent collaboration tool that can be used to provide authenticated SharePoint access to all authorized external users via a secure extranet portal. The SP extranet feature grants unique levels of access to information based on specific extranet access permissions levels. And that’s not all. You can use extranet to provide useful access only to specific areas of the portal based on their roles.

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By integrating Microsoft InfoPath to the Microsoft SharePoint platform, organizations can integrate and optimize many business processes with ease and speed. ConvergePoint (www.convergepoint.com) shows how your business can leverage the Microsoft Office platform:

Creating extensible, modular, and portable Microsoft SharePoint portals: You can use Microsoft IP 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to create Microsoft SharePoint portals which can be used either at the enterprise or departmental level. These solutions can be extensible (in case you add capabilities with code), modular (where you create them from existing document library or list), and portable
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Maintaining WCAG 2.0: If your business needs to reach out to users with disabilities on your site or the intranet, Microsoft IP 2010 forms on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 tin help as they are now compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 AA. What’s more, such formed powered by Microsoft Server 2010 now work well with XHTML 1.0.

Making it easier for users to fill out forms within your SharePoint portal : You tin get end users to fill out forms with greater consistency, thanks to the enhanced parity between Microsoft forms in Microsoft Server 2010 and Microsoft InfoPath 2010 client forms. In both these environments, functionality that are available comprised amounted, bulleted, and plain lists; combo boxes; multiple-selection list boxes; hyperlink capabilities; picture buttons; choice section and regrouping; filtering functionality; people pickers as well as date and time controls.

Hosting forms on web paging: Using the Microsoft Form Web Part, you can now host your forms on web pages in the Microsoft Server 2010 easily. You can nowadays simply add the Microsoft Form Web Part to a particular Web Part page and point the same to your published form. You may even host any Microsoft browser form that has been already published to a Microsoft form library or list. You can also send or receive data by connecting it to other Web Parts on the page and use branding to design the look and feel of the forms.

Managing forms on the server easily: You tin manage Microsoft InfoPath forms as a true component of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Thanks to the new SPME (Microsoft SharePoint Maintenance Engine) Rules, it is ensured that Microsoft InfoPath forms are created in their farms correctly. An effective way of managing your Microsoft InfoPath forms is the use of Windows PowerShell as well as the scripting language, which is included in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

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Web conferencing software has come a very long way during the past decade and it is all due to the numerous advances made by software manufacturers from all over the world. In the beginning web conferencing used to mean basically low quality voice calls over the internet and perhaps even poor quality video feeds. Nowadays, however, the situation is completely changed and web conferencing sessions very much resemble the real deal. This actually means that a web conferencing meeting between a dozen, for example, participants now offers the same benefits one would get if he or she would be actually present in a conference room. Large screens and highly capable video imaging almost completely removes the sense of distance between the participants.

Due to the high speeds that are now feasible through broadband internet connections, the sound received from the other terminals is as good as the quality of your loud speakers. The security issues that were generally associated with any file transfers and document exchanges performed over the internet are now a thing of the past and there is nothing to fear anymore really. The web conferencing software you end up purchasing must reflect all your preferences and requirements and with the great variety of products that are now available on the market it would be virtually impossible to say that you had to settle for a product that did not fit all your needs in terms of technical features, pricing and so on. While web conferencing software is usually designed for large meeting groups that would include around a dozen or more participants there are also web conferencing software applications that are especially designed for smaller groups.

It goes without saying that the latter option would be far more affordable. This is one of the reasons why, before you even start researching web conferencing software providers, you need to accurately establish all your needs and technical requirements. It might not seem like a big deal, but in numerous countries around the world the internet services are not really up to date and it would be safe to assume that the transfer speeds are quite inferior to the broadband speeds we have all gotten accustomed to. This basically means that in the case when you purchase a high quality web conferencing software and use it to communicate with members that have low quality internet connections, you would be basically throwing a great deal of money out the window.

For companies, and large corporations web conferencing software can imply a significant investment due to increased security requirements and this need to correctly assess your requirements becomes all the more important. There are, as we all know, free web conferencing software solutions but as we all know when talking about important services and solutions, we get what we pay for so you cannot expect an increased level of security from a software applications that did not require any type of investment.

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Question by JASMINE M: Social Media and Networking?
Scenario: Imagine that you have been hired as a consultant for an university that wants to leverage social media and networking technologies to encourage the collaboration of students, and improve their overall sense of community. Analyze how the university might integrate at least two social media and networking technologies to accomplish their goals. Your analysis must cover the advantages and disadvantages of social networking. The president of the university also involve to know what the system development life cycle is, and how you thinking on bringing social networking tools to life within this cycle.

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Answer by jac the hat
you could set up a facebook page for credits and brickbats and what you want to change about the uni and what you always want to keep and a blogging site – If you let the students choose sub heading s themselves about what they want to talk about then you could have some editors from the student body assigned each week as moderators to make sure that the content is legal and about the uni and not about individual personalities.

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Question by Kulet.gal: Which web-based task/project management tool would you recommend?
Basically, I am looking for an easy-to-use tool for best collaboration. Here are the things I’d like to do:1. Be able to share information and files with collaborators. I currently use Google Docs – Spreadsheets & Documents for the most part. My problem with GDocs involve: File upload limit Some MS Excel functions are not supported by GDocs (I uploaded a workbook comprised several linked sheets and GDocs was unable to held the coupled information intact.2. I am looking for a task manager that would allow me to include links to registering when writing notes or status updates on a task so that others that are working with me on an intercommunicate can follow things easily.3. If that’s too much to ask, any web-based tool that works like MS Outlook’s calendar/task solution would be great.Thanks in advance for your help.

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try out open source download page – sourceforge.netHave a look at Project in a box and Moodle – may not do everything you’ve listed purchase worth a look. Check reviews first before downloading. Seems you need a combination of tooled or a custom built web tool. Open source certainly worth trying before you pay out big bucks!

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Free speech. That’s how I’d summarize it. There’s no need to get into legalities the concept of free speech is well explored in court cases and precedent.

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Organizations have acknowledged Virtual Meetings as one of the most powerful collaboration tool. With the help of conferencing services, it has now become possible for various organizations to take their businesses global with ease. Organizations faces no more obstacles to keep their distant clients well connected with their employees and organize meetings with them with no delays.

Due to the benefits of online conferencing, organizations now consider investing in these services as one of the most vital investments, required for maintaining efficient business communications. Business organizations get powerful conferencing solutions and other collaboration software installed in the offices so that their employees can easily share the common documents and stay connected to each other, no matter which part of the world they are located in. Online document sharing help teams to take quick decisions. It also facilitates the team members to work on the same documents and blueprints, even if they are separated by huge distances.

With the use of conferencing services, many individuals sitting in the same room can speak and listen over a single phone system, with ease. Organizations can now easily meet the challenge of getting individuals together for an important meeting or an online seminar, despite their varying locations. Now individuals do not have to travel vast distances for attending a meeting. They can participate in a meeting through their computers, while sitting in their own cabin. Therefore, online conferencing is also helping organizations to cut down traveling costs and save time as well.

There are many conferencing service providers available in the market. It is advisable to do preliminary survey in the market to find out the different conferencing service providers available and their packages offered. An organization needs to carefully choose the best service provider on the basis of their business requirements.
If an organization avails conferencing services from a right vendor, it will enjoy many benefits. The right conferencing service will help the organization to improve productivity, yet, save both time and money.

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Organizations have acknowledged Virtual Meetings as one of the most powerful collaboration tool. With the assisting of conferencing services, it has now become potential for various organizations to take their businesses global with ease. Organizations faces no more obstacles to keep their distant clients well connected with their employees and organize meetings with them with no delays.