Two industry powerhouses have joined forces to bring together the best of the best – the ACTE Global Education Conference and the Corporate Travel World Expo – into one location and one event. These two organizations partnering together offer you valuable resources and unparalleled networking opportunities not seen anywhere else in the business travel industry.

Once again, NFi Studios is honored to travel to Washington, DC on May 16th, to join with ACTE for their upcoming conference. NFi will be in charge of the International Business Lounge overseeing our paperless kiosks. NFi helped create ACTE Interactive and has been working for ACTE for five years. Our esteem for ACTE is constantly on the increase as we observe the phenomenal events ACTE organizes on a continuing basis. NFi maintains the ACTE website and works with ACTE on other projects.

For this conference, in celebration of ACTE’s 20th Anniversary, ACTE’s organizers are bringing their all-time best-rated keynote speakers to Washington. Dr. Kjell Nordstrom is one of the world’s top-ranked management thinkers and renowned guru of the new world of global commerce. As one of the most sought after speakers on any continent, Kjell’s electrifying, imaginative presentation will prove to be enlightening and inspiring.

Other keynote presentations and speakers include:

David E. Sanger, White House Correspondent, The New York Times. David E. Sanger covers the White House for The New York Times and is one of the newspaper’s senior writers.

Amber MacArthur, Technology Journalist and Social Media Expert. MacArthur currently hosts various shows for CityTV, including Webnation; she has also worked for the CBC, and G4techTV, the national channel devoted to technology.

Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Mexico to the United States. Ambassador Sarukhan is active in various organizations such as the Mexican Council on Foreign Affairs, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas.

Marion C. Blakey, President and CEO of Aerospace Industries Association. Ms. Blakey has held six presidential appointments, four of which required Senate confirmation. Ms. Blakey has also served at NHTSA, held key positions at the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the White House and the Department of Transportation.

Ambassador, John Bruton, Head of Delegation, European Union. John Bruton is a former Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach), who helped transform the Irish economy into the “Celtic Tiger”: one of the fastest growing economies in the world.

Michael Jackson, theotherMichaelJackson.com Michael Jackson has carved out his reputation as one of the best business-to-business speakers on the global professional circuit.

‘Twenty years after its founding, ACTE remains the primary resource for global corporate travel. Its vision and action has carried the industry through economic collapse, terrorism, pandemics, and other natural and manmade upheaval. The ACTE model has become the industry standard, its vision and action driving the industry through an age of uncertainty.’

Congratulations ACTE on your 20th Anniversary mile mark!

Launch a social-networking-based fundraising drive for your cause .. promote it over your network and voila you are raising money. This is the result of one of the newest buzz topics over the Internet described as Causes . Non-profits using Facebook can now access this very original mini-application within Facebook. Causes presents users with the opportunity to ‘group’ features, recruit new members, accept donations and most importantly create causes or tout an existing one.

Causes was built by Project Agape. Project Agape was co-founded by Sean and Joseph. In addition to being a co-founder of Project Agape, Sean is also a managing partner at The Founders Fund. Previously Sean was a co-founder of Napster, Plaxo, and Facebook.

“Facebook Platform presents an unprecedented opportunity to engage our generation, most of whom are on Facebook, in seizing the future and making a difference in the world around us. Our generation cares deeply, but the current system has alienated us. Causes provide the tools so that any Facebook user can leverage their network of real friends to effect positive change. Read the rest of this entry »

Media is proclaiming an economic recession in the offing. Under this cloud, marketers are being advised to build assets, not campaigns…hopefully, demonstrating a better use of funds. However one interactive marketer wrote,

‘Budgets are tight in light of the economic conditions as you surmise, but [the budget for social applications] has not been impacted. Interactive in general has been more protected than other comm areas and saw an increase.”

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For those who have been devoted to Windows OS and related networking the decision to transfer to Mac gives rise to some concern, confusion and frustration. The most recent popularity of Mac however, has many wondering if it is worthwhile to make the switch. It doesn’t take a whole lot of research on the web to find that there are pros and cons each way.

Many people remain married to their PC’s because…
• They’ve been using PC’s at home and work for years and feel it’s easier to stick with what they’re used to.
• They are not aware of the better alternative Apple can provide for them.
• They feel that Apple is too expensive for them (Not true, in fact the new MacBook’s offer more features and performance than the competition for a lower price.
• They feel that switching over is difficult and that they’ll be lost with a new way of doing things. Read the rest of this entry »

RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts. An RSS document (which is called a “feed” or “web feed” or “channel”) contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with web sites in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays. The initials “RSS” are used to refer to the following formats:

• Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
• RDF Site Summary (RSS 1.0 and RSS 0.90)
• Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91) Read the rest of this entry »