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Alexandria-based Women in Technology (WIT), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to offering women in all levels of the technology industry a wide range of professional development and networking opportunities, has begun accepting nominations for its Seventh Annual Women in Technology Leadership Awards. The awards ceremony will be held May 18 in McLean, and nominations will be accepted until March 31.

Data Frenzy, a job distribution and resume management company, announces that the Data Frenzy Resume Aggregate Manager (RAM), a method of searching multiple resume sources. It has retrieved over 10,000,000 resumes on behalf of RAM Clients. The technology powering the RAM indexes all resumes from all sources, then displays them in rank order of relevance to the User's keyword terms.



LRP Publications, a trade show, magazine, internet, newsletter and book publisher based in Palm Beach Gardens, acquired the HRO World Conferences and Expositions, including, New York HR Week, LA HR Week and HRO World Europe, from Unicomm, LLC and Outsourcing Today, LLC.

QuietAgent.com, an internet recruiting technology that offers employers Anonymous Candidate Sourcing capability, advised that its unique mutual-interest matching tool offers the ideal solution for contractors and agencies affected by the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) new internet recruiting ruling.

The OFCCP ruling that takes effect Monday 6 February 2006 relates to the required collection of gender, race and ethnicity information used to investigate potential discrimination during the hiring process, and was drafted in response to new challenges presented by the collection of internet based job applications.

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US:

• Keane Inc. Utilizes StoryQuest, iPods and Podcasting to Support Sales Training and Organizational Change   Keane Inc., a $900 million dollar IT service provider headquartered in Boston, MA, announced that it is utilizing StoryQuest Inc. a leading provider of mobile audio training, to deliver sales, marketing and change management programs. To support this program, Keane has purchased over 100 Apple iPod Nanos and distributed them to their global sales and management staff to access the content produced by StoryQuest. Specifically, StoryQuest is harvesting Keane's intellectual capital in the form of peer-based spoken stories, around customer sales, internal processes and successful sales strategies. (StoryQuest)

• Many Companies Still Working Hard for Katina Survivors  Operation HOPE Will Work with the Clinton Foundation, ACORN and Leading Financial Services Companies in Effort to Help Hurricane Katrina Survivors Take Advantage of EITC (BusinessWire)

• WorkForce One has $250,000 available to train workers  WorkForce One is offering two services aimed at helping local businesses upgrade the skills of existing workers. More than $250,000 in Employed Worker Training (EWT) dollars are available to businesses looking to train employees to further their advancement within the company. These dollars are available to qualifying for-profit, non-profit or government agencies in Broward County, Florida. (Miami Herald)

UK:

• Allied Healthcare International, Inc. to Host Fiscal 2006 First Quarter Results Conference Call  Allied Healthcare International, a provider of flexible healthcare staffing services in the United Kingdom, will host a conference call Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 12:00 PM EST to discuss the Company's financial and operating performance for its fiscal 2006 first quarter, ended December 31, 2005. Allied Healthcare invites all those interested in hearing management's discussion of the quarterly results to join the call by dialing 877-407-9205. Visit the site to accesses the information in a variety of forms. (Business Wire)

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Researchers Say ... JupiterResearch Finds Spam is Shrinking While Email Marketing is Growing Modestly

JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation, forecasts that email marketing spending will grow from $885 million in 2005 to $1.1 billion by 2010, and the volume of spam messages per consumer will decrease by 13% a year during this same period. According to the new report entitled: "U.S. Email Marketing Forecast 2005 to 2010," the overall growth of the market will be marked by growth in spending on retention, acquisition and transactional email. Filtering improvements made by Internet service providers are credited with the expected decline in spam. The average active email consumer will see a drop from 3,253 pieces of spam in 2005 to 1,640 pieces of spam in 2010. JupiterResearch is a leading authority on the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer technologies on business.

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