WisBusiness: New software aims to help small firms with client relationships
By Christine Fox
For WisBusiness.com
MADISON – A new software application, designed to help professionals manage pertinent client relationship information, will soon hit the market for small businesses. The product allows users to track breaking news on their contacts and respond using intelligence that relates to the individual.
The startup company, mendotasoft LLC, has developed the product as a...
Better Business Bureau: Habitat for Humanity used in work-at-home scam
Milwaukee, Wis. – The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau is issuing an alert regarding a current work-at-home scam using a well-known charity, Habitat for Humanity.
The Wisconsin BBB was notified by a consumer who answered an advertisement in her local newspaper for a work-at-home job as a Regional Donations Coordinator for Habitat for Humanity International. She applied for the job via...
MGE: Named a national green power leader
Madison, Wis., April 20, 2009—Madison Gas and Electric's (MGE) Green Power Tomorrow Program has the second highest participation rate of all investor-owned utilities according to an annual assessment by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewal Energy Laboratory (NREL). MGE's program also is ranked sixth of all utilities in green power sales as a percentage of total retail electricity...
UW-Madison: Engineering student picked for entrepreneurs’ program
CONTACT: Steven Skroch, 414-840-5807, spskroch@wisc.edu
MADISON - Steven Skroch, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student in biomedical engineering, is one of five students nationwide chosen to help inaugurate an international program in entrepreneurship by the Kansas City-based Kauffman Foundation.
Skroch was chosen from among 160 applicants nationwide and will participate in a five-month program in Singapore to learn about the Asian...
UW-Madison: Announces Brazil Initiative
CONTACT: Severino Albuquerque, 608-262-2528, sjalbuqu@wisc.edu
MADISON - The University of Wisconsin-Madison Brazil Initiative will bring faculty and alumni together with private foundations, Wisconsin businesses and state agencies to help the state better understand and engage with this emerging global economy.
It follows the success of the China and India initiatives, launched in 2006 and 2007, respectively. The launch coincides with...
DWD: Governor Doyle makes Wisconsin employment website, JobCenterofWisconsin.com, official site for recovery jobs
Contact: Dick Jones, Agency Liaison, 608-267-4780
On the web: http://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dwd/newsreleases/2009/042009_recovery_jcow_exec_order.pdf
Executive order requires recovery project contractors to use site, post openings
MADISON – In a move to help the unemployed find work and get the economy back on track, Governor Jim Doyle today announced an executive order requiring all contractors and subcontractors involved in recovery projects to post job openings on JobCenterofWisconsin.com,...
UW-Madison: Sustainability to be focus of annual bioethics forum
CONTACT: Karin Borgh, 608-277-2508, karin.borgh@BTCI.ORG
MADISON - Sustainability will be the focus of the eighth annual International Bioethics Forum to be held in Madison Thursday and Friday, April 23 and 24.
The forum, sponsored jointly by the BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute (BTCI), Promega Corp. and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, is intended to provide the public with access to accurate scientific...
