Research-based Report Offers Proven Solutions to Overcome "Blind Spots" in Recruiting Technical Women to Increase Workforce Diversity and Innovation - http://bit.ly/zvrRgk
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology today released a new report that outlines four key areas where companies should focus their recruitment efforts to increase access to a range of technical talent available in a highly competitive environment. Solutions to Recruit Technical Women is the first in a series of reports offering solutions companies can employ to improve the recruitment, retention, and advancement of technical women.
When it comes to technical talent, industry recruitment and hiring practices have become highly complex over the past decades as the labor market for scientists and engineers has shifted from individual national economies to a truly global labor market. Multinational companies face significant challenges and competition to fill technical positions, and renewed talk of a “global war for tech talent” emerged shortly after the recent global economic downturn.
The Anita Borg Institute report points out that for both large and small organizations who invest in a recruiting infrastructure as well as outsourced recruiters and head hunters, there continue to be consistent blind spots in recruiting and hiring practices that prevent companies from tapping into the wide spectrum of technical talent available — men, women or underrepresented minorities.
Extensive organizational research indicates that these blind spots are concentrated in four areas that, if ignored, can negatively impact equity, productivity and innovation:
• Concentrating recruitment at a small number of sites;
• Narrow recruitment criteria;
• Hiring processes that are implicitly biased; and
• Lack of organizational infrastructure to support recruitment and hiring efforts that yield high returns to both talent and diversity.
Solutions to Recruit Technical Women is designed to help companies overcome these blind spots based on data-driven results in both academic research and corporate practice. The report features case studies from Cisco, IBM, Intel and Intuit, and provides strategies to enables companies to address each blind spot:
• Recruitment avenues: Companies should consider expanding recruitment channels such as reaching out to a broader array of academic institutions, developing internship programs, leveraging social networks and other ways that expand their pool of job candidates.
• Recruitment practices: Carefully examining internal recruitment practices and how they market job opportunities externally will have a significant effect on how potential talent views the company and considers whether to join a candidate pool.
• Hiring process: As companies begin to attract more diverse candidates, then it becomes important to focus on the hiring process itself to ensure a positive experience for candidates and to reduce the elimination of candidates based on implicit biases.
• Overarching considerations: Lasting change depends on a variety of factors such as implementing solutions not in isolation but in bundles, commitment to diversity from the top leadership down, setting and measuring against established goals, and longer term, helping to build the pipeline by funding or engaging in K-12 initiatives when interest in STEM educations and careers is all too often made or broken.
"The goal of our Solutions to Recruit Technical Women report is to help companies continuously improve and adjust their hiring practices and reduce barriers to attracting a diverse pool of top technical talent," said Telle Whitney, CEO of the Anita Borg Institution. "By doing so, they will see greater returns on their recruitment investment, enhance innovation levels, and position themselves to succeed in an increasingly competitive global market."
For more information:
• Top Ten Solutions to Recruit Technical Women Identified in New Research Report from Anita Borg Institute, press release
• Solutions to Recruit Technical Women, full report
About the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
The Anita Borg Institute provides resources and programs to help industry, academia, and government recruit, retain, and develop women leaders in high-tech fields, resulting in higher levels of technological innovation. Our programs serve high-tech women by creating a community and providing tools to help them develop their careers. The Anita Borg Institute is a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 charitable organization. Partners include: Google, HP, Microsoft, CA Technologies, Cisco, Facebook, First Republic Bank, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Lockheed Martin, Marvell, National Science Foundation, National Security Agency, NetApp, SAP, Symantec, Thomson Reuters, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Amazon, Broadcom, Motorola Foundation, Raytheon, Salesforce.com, and Yahoo! For more information, visit www.anitaborg.org.
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
@TreeHousei Webinars Offer Innovative Strategies and Best Practices for MarketingAutomation, PartnerMarketing and SocialMedia - http://bit.ly/gvaUgk
TreeHouse Interactive webinar series to address how to avoid marketing automation disasters, implement effective partner marketing, and 10 laws of building a successful online community - http://bit.ly/gvaUgk
TreeHouse Interactive™ (www.treehousei.com), the technology leader in on-demand partner relationship management (PRM) and marketing automation solutions, today announced the continuation of its popular webinar series for increasing sales, marketing and channel effectiveness.
TreeHouse Interactive’s educational webinar series is focused on helping companies increase their understanding of how to improve business processes for accelerated revenue growth. The webinars feature thought leaders who share their marketing, sales and channel expertise, and inform attendees of the latest trends and best practices.
Scheduled webinars include:
• Marketing Automation Disasters – February 29th, 1 p.m. EST
• Kick-Starting Your Partner Marketing – March 22nd, 1 p.m. EST
• The 10 Laws of Building a Successful Online Community – April 19th, 1 p.m. EST
Visit TreeHouse Interactive’s Resource Library to download past webinars.
Marketing Automation Disasters Presenter: Chris Frank – Director of Marketing, TreeHouse Interactive
Register: www.treehousei.com/company/marketing_automation_disasters_webinar.aspx
The majority of best-in-class organizations use marketing automation, yet less than 25 percent fully utilize its potential. Attendees will learn how to better leverage their marketing automation systems and avoid marketing automation disasters by addressing alignment, process and infrastructure issues that can often create difficulties.
About Chris Frank
Chris Frank is the Director of Marketing for TreeHouse Interactive. A marketing automation expert, Chris has spent years understanding and refining marketing automation and has helped hundreds of companies understand the strengths and weaknesses of their organization’s marketing plan.
Kick-Starting Your Partner Marketing
Presenter: Heather K. Margolis – Founder, Channel Maven Consulting
Register: www.treehousei.com/company/kick_starting_partner_marketing_webinar.aspx
If you are like most channel organizations, your partners don't have the sophistication, people power or motivation to market your products. In this webinar, channel expert Heather K. Margolis will discuss tips, creative ideas and technology for kick-starting successful partner marketing efforts and capturing more business in your industry.
About Heather K. Margolis
Heather K. Margolis is the founder of Channel Maven Consulting. She has led channel programs for companies like EMC, EqualLogic, and Dell. Channel Maven Consulting provides strategic channel and marketing consulting services to IT channel organizations of all sizes. Heather helps channel organizations build smarter channel programs, manage channel relationships to find added value, and engage their communities through social and traditional media.
The 10 Laws of Building a Successful Online Community
Presenter: Craig Rosenberg – Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Focus.com and author of The Funnelholic.com
Register: www.treehousei.com/company/successful_online_community_webinar.aspx
Many marketing departments are jumping on the community-building bandwagon. And guess what? They should. As more communities are built, more compelling metrics are starting to justify the movement: Community members engage with vendors 900 percent more than non-community members and community members spent 54 percent more money with vendors than non-community members. The quest for marketing departments has shifted from simply building a community, to how to build a successful community. In this webinar, the popular marketing blogger Craig Rosenberg will talk about his experiences building a community from scratch for Focus.com and how to effectively build a successful community.
About Craig Rosenberg
Craig is the co-founder and Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Focus.com. In this role, he is responsible for the entire revenue engine from the top of the funnel to close. Craig is also the author of the popular sales and marketing blog, The Funnelholic, where he writes about b2b marketing issues including demand generation and lead management. Prior to Focus.com, Craig worked for Sales Ramp where he designed, built and managed lead generation and inside sales strategies and processes for high-tech startups. During that time, Craig built lead generation machines at more than 25 different companies in a variety of high-tech verticals ranging from business applications to IT infrastructure.
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Resource Library: For more information about marketing automation and partner relationship management, visit the TreeHouse Interactive Resource Library.
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About TreeHouse Interactive
TreeHouse Interactive delivers enterprise-class hosted solutions to marketers and partner program managers. The company provides both marketing automation and partner relationship management (PRM) solutions to accelerate company performance. TreeHouse supports organizations ranging from start-ups to Global 1000 companies. For more information, visit www.treehousei.com or call 801.576.8428.
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TreeHouse Interactive and the TreeHouse Interactive logo are trademarks of TreeHouse Interactive. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.
For parties interested in marketing automation, demand generation, lead generation, partner relationship management, partner portal, PRM
TreeHouse Interactive’s educational webinar series is focused on helping companies increase their understanding of how to improve business processes for accelerated revenue growth. The webinars feature thought leaders who share their marketing, sales and channel expertise, and inform attendees of the latest trends and best practices.
Scheduled webinars include:
• Marketing Automation Disasters – February 29th, 1 p.m. EST
• Kick-Starting Your Partner Marketing – March 22nd, 1 p.m. EST
• The 10 Laws of Building a Successful Online Community – April 19th, 1 p.m. EST
Visit TreeHouse Interactive’s Resource Library to download past webinars.
Marketing Automation Disasters Presenter: Chris Frank – Director of Marketing, TreeHouse Interactive
Register: www.treehousei.com/company/marketing_automation_disasters_webinar.aspx
The majority of best-in-class organizations use marketing automation, yet less than 25 percent fully utilize its potential. Attendees will learn how to better leverage their marketing automation systems and avoid marketing automation disasters by addressing alignment, process and infrastructure issues that can often create difficulties.
About Chris Frank
Chris Frank is the Director of Marketing for TreeHouse Interactive. A marketing automation expert, Chris has spent years understanding and refining marketing automation and has helped hundreds of companies understand the strengths and weaknesses of their organization’s marketing plan.
Kick-Starting Your Partner Marketing
Presenter: Heather K. Margolis – Founder, Channel Maven Consulting
Register: www.treehousei.com/company/kick_starting_partner_marketing_webinar.aspx
If you are like most channel organizations, your partners don't have the sophistication, people power or motivation to market your products. In this webinar, channel expert Heather K. Margolis will discuss tips, creative ideas and technology for kick-starting successful partner marketing efforts and capturing more business in your industry.
About Heather K. Margolis
Heather K. Margolis is the founder of Channel Maven Consulting. She has led channel programs for companies like EMC, EqualLogic, and Dell. Channel Maven Consulting provides strategic channel and marketing consulting services to IT channel organizations of all sizes. Heather helps channel organizations build smarter channel programs, manage channel relationships to find added value, and engage their communities through social and traditional media.
The 10 Laws of Building a Successful Online Community
Presenter: Craig Rosenberg – Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Focus.com and author of The Funnelholic.com
Register: www.treehousei.com/company/successful_online_community_webinar.aspx
Many marketing departments are jumping on the community-building bandwagon. And guess what? They should. As more communities are built, more compelling metrics are starting to justify the movement: Community members engage with vendors 900 percent more than non-community members and community members spent 54 percent more money with vendors than non-community members. The quest for marketing departments has shifted from simply building a community, to how to build a successful community. In this webinar, the popular marketing blogger Craig Rosenberg will talk about his experiences building a community from scratch for Focus.com and how to effectively build a successful community.
About Craig Rosenberg
Craig is the co-founder and Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Focus.com. In this role, he is responsible for the entire revenue engine from the top of the funnel to close. Craig is also the author of the popular sales and marketing blog, The Funnelholic, where he writes about b2b marketing issues including demand generation and lead management. Prior to Focus.com, Craig worked for Sales Ramp where he designed, built and managed lead generation and inside sales strategies and processes for high-tech startups. During that time, Craig built lead generation machines at more than 25 different companies in a variety of high-tech verticals ranging from business applications to IT infrastructure.
Tweet This: @TreeHousei Webinars Offer Innovative Strategies and Best Practices for MarketingAutomation, PartnerMarketing and SocialMedia - http://bit.ly/gvaUgk
Follow TreeHouse Interactive on Twitter at: http://ping.fm/N4jIG
Resource Library: For more information about marketing automation and partner relationship management, visit the TreeHouse Interactive Resource Library.
Hyperlinks in this Press Release:
http://ping.fm/pUQLT
http://ping.fm/RPYVw
http://ping.fm/W2Y9g
About TreeHouse Interactive
TreeHouse Interactive delivers enterprise-class hosted solutions to marketers and partner program managers. The company provides both marketing automation and partner relationship management (PRM) solutions to accelerate company performance. TreeHouse supports organizations ranging from start-ups to Global 1000 companies. For more information, visit www.treehousei.com or call 801.576.8428.
# # #
TreeHouse Interactive and the TreeHouse Interactive logo are trademarks of TreeHouse Interactive. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.
For parties interested in marketing automation, demand generation, lead generation, partner relationship management, partner portal, PRM
Friday, February 17, 2012
@Gridstore named Red Herring Americas Top 100 finalist for their Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/wzKR4V
GRIDSTORE NAMED FINALIST FOR THE RED HERRING AMERICAS TOP 100 AWARD FOR ITS SCALE-OUT NAS SOLUTION
Mountain View, Calif. – February 17, 2012 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out storage solutions, today announced that the company has made the Red Herring Americas Top 100 short-list for its scale-out NAS solution. Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy.
The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scalability and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations that struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the problems associated with clustered storage approaches. The result is a disruptive storage platform designed from the ground up for the virtual data center that eliminates 20 years of legacy technology and eliminates the virtualization roadblocks of cost, complexity and performance that has limited wider adoption of the virtualized data center.
Finalists have made it through two of three phases. In phase one, judges eliminated companies based on viability of the business model in terms of technology focus and innovation, or lack thereof. The remainder of the companies left went through phase two, which consisted of a peer review where the judges reached out to experts, i.e., the venture capitalist community or analysts from large investment and consulting firms, to discuss the viability of a company’s business model and growth/revenue projections, the competitive landscape, and the big picture in that company’s sector.
“It is an honor to be named a finalist by Red Herring for the Americas Top 100 award,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO Gridstore. “This further validates our position as a game changing, scale-out storage solution that eliminates the complexity, risk and limitations of traditional, cluster-based storage models. With Gridstore, organizations now have an enterprise-class, scale-out NAS that delivers the simplicity and reliability they require - at half the cost of standalone NAS offerings.”
The finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at Red Herring Americas in Los Angeles, May 21-23, 2012. The top winners will be announced at a special awards dinner on May 23.
Tweet this: @Gridstore named Red Herring Americas Top 100 finalist for their Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/wzKR4V
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About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in grid based, scale-out storage products. The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2009, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/o4h5u
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Ventana Public Relations
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The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scalability and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations that struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the problems associated with clustered storage approaches. The result is a disruptive storage platform designed from the ground up for the virtual data center that eliminates 20 years of legacy technology and eliminates the virtualization roadblocks of cost, complexity and performance that has limited wider adoption of the virtualized data center.
Finalists have made it through two of three phases. In phase one, judges eliminated companies based on viability of the business model in terms of technology focus and innovation, or lack thereof. The remainder of the companies left went through phase two, which consisted of a peer review where the judges reached out to experts, i.e., the venture capitalist community or analysts from large investment and consulting firms, to discuss the viability of a company’s business model and growth/revenue projections, the competitive landscape, and the big picture in that company’s sector.
“It is an honor to be named a finalist by Red Herring for the Americas Top 100 award,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO Gridstore. “This further validates our position as a game changing, scale-out storage solution that eliminates the complexity, risk and limitations of traditional, cluster-based storage models. With Gridstore, organizations now have an enterprise-class, scale-out NAS that delivers the simplicity and reliability they require - at half the cost of standalone NAS offerings.”
The finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at Red Herring Americas in Los Angeles, May 21-23, 2012. The top winners will be announced at a special awards dinner on May 23.
Tweet this: @Gridstore named Red Herring Americas Top 100 finalist for their Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/wzKR4V
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/VVxbG
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in grid based, scale-out storage products. The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2009, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/o4h5u
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Media Contact:
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Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
@Gridstore named Red Herring Americas Top 100 finalist for their Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/wzKR4V
GRIDSTORE NAMED FINALIST FOR THE RED HERRING AMERICAS TOP 100 AWARD FOR ITS SCALE-OUT NAS SOLUTION
Mountain View, Calif. – February 17, 2012 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out storage solutions, today announced that the company has made the Red Herring Americas Top 100 short-list for its scale-out NAS solution. Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy.
The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scalability and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations that struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the problems associated with clustered storage approaches. The result is a disruptive storage platform designed from the ground up for the virtual data center that eliminates 20 years of legacy technology and eliminates the virtualization roadblocks of cost, complexity and performance that has limited wider adoption of the virtualized data center.
Finalists have made it through two of three phases. In phase one, judges eliminated companies based on viability of the business model in terms of technology focus and innovation, or lack thereof. The remainder of the companies left went through phase two, which consisted of a peer review where the judges reached out to experts, i.e., the venture capitalist community or analysts from large investment and consulting firms, to discuss the viability of a company’s business model and growth/revenue projections, the competitive landscape, and the big picture in that company’s sector.
“It is an honor to be named a finalist by Red Herring for the Americas Top 100 award,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO Gridstore. “This further validates our position as a game changing, scale-out storage solution that eliminates the complexity, risk and limitations of traditional, cluster-based storage models. With Gridstore, organizations now have an enterprise-class, scale-out NAS that delivers the simplicity and reliability they require - at half the cost of standalone NAS offerings.”
The finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at Red Herring Americas in Los Angeles, May 21-23, 2012. The top winners will be announced at a special awards dinner on May 23.
Tweet this: @Gridstore named Red Herring Americas Top 100 finalist for their Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/wzKR4V
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/MjRix
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in grid based, scale-out storage products. The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2009, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/5p30r
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scalability and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations that struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the problems associated with clustered storage approaches. The result is a disruptive storage platform designed from the ground up for the virtual data center that eliminates 20 years of legacy technology and eliminates the virtualization roadblocks of cost, complexity and performance that has limited wider adoption of the virtualized data center.
Finalists have made it through two of three phases. In phase one, judges eliminated companies based on viability of the business model in terms of technology focus and innovation, or lack thereof. The remainder of the companies left went through phase two, which consisted of a peer review where the judges reached out to experts, i.e., the venture capitalist community or analysts from large investment and consulting firms, to discuss the viability of a company’s business model and growth/revenue projections, the competitive landscape, and the big picture in that company’s sector.
“It is an honor to be named a finalist by Red Herring for the Americas Top 100 award,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO Gridstore. “This further validates our position as a game changing, scale-out storage solution that eliminates the complexity, risk and limitations of traditional, cluster-based storage models. With Gridstore, organizations now have an enterprise-class, scale-out NAS that delivers the simplicity and reliability they require - at half the cost of standalone NAS offerings.”
The finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at Red Herring Americas in Los Angeles, May 21-23, 2012. The top winners will be announced at a special awards dinner on May 23.
Tweet this: @Gridstore named Red Herring Americas Top 100 finalist for their Scale-out NAS solution http://bit.ly/wzKR4V
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/MjRix
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in grid based, scale-out storage products. The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2009, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/5p30r
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
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