In his first self-published effort, Mark Garrison take readers through a journey of rhyming lines covering many topics in -The Hidden Puzzle (ISBN 1-4116-2489-0, Trade paperback, 80 pp, 6"x9", $11.86). It starts off with the true story of what proceeded the poetry, followed by compositions that call upon the reader for their own interpretation.

A collection of poetry written after a seemingly simple yet life changing event in the authors past. This seemingly simple event began taking place when the author was 12 years old and continued through early adulthood. The bizarre event occurred daily and led to what could be classified as a paramount example of how truth really can be stranger than fiction.

On Wednesday, October 3 at Noon (CST), Marlon Jackson of the world renowned Jackson Five speaks candidly about the business of Diversity in Media and Entertainment on InsideDiversity - The Power of Intelligence™ with Host Carmen M. Carter, Founder and Chief Diversity Officer of the Multicultural Women's Council, live on the Voice America™ Network.

Marlon Jackson and his brothers, The Jackson Five, dominated the radio and music charts starting in 1969 on the Motown Record label. The Jackson 5 were the first American group to have four consecutive number one records that included "I Want You Back", "ABC", "The Love You Save" and "I'll Be There" giving them instant international recognition and fame. They have had the privilege to meet and perform for Heads of State and Presidents of many countries, performing twice for Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth; "The Royal Performance for the Queen's Mother" and "The Queen's Jubilee".

Tools aimed at getting sites pushed up on search engine results are becoming hot property as people search for that elusive winning formula to give their sites prominence on Google pages. This demand has resulted in a number of ‘plans’ or ‘strategies’ being developed to increase the change of achieving the result. Many of these don’t work and as a result the only winning is the individual or company that sells the ‘magic formula’.

What many of these strategies fail to do is focus on the one thing that the people at Google admit get the results. It is presumed by Google that the more incoming links a site receives the more relevant the site is to a users search requests. That is it, it is that simple.

Paula Duffy, a lifelong sports enthusiast and founder of Incidental Contact (an innovative program featuring sports seminars for women taught by women), has just announced the launch of her daily podcast which will provide the spoken word for her acclaimed sports blog, Your Daily Dose of Duffy."

The podcast and blog can both be found on the company's website at www.incidentalcontact.com and offer fans, both men and women, an innovative outlet to hear the latest in sports gossip, team stats, and player info from a woman's point of view.

Marketdata Enterprises, Inc. (www.mkt-data-ent.com), a leading independent market research publisher, has released a groundbreaking new 98-page market study entitled: Diet Food Home Delivery Services: A Market Analysis. This is the ONLY publicly available national market study about this $800 million business.

“The diet food home delivery or “home meal replacement” market in the U.S. is a niche segment of the overall weight loss market, appealing to the most affluent dieters. It has grown rapidly and attracted new competitors. NutriSystem and its heavy advertising, coupled with demand from convenience seeking, time-pressed moms, executives, working couples, the elderly and others, have fueled this growth. Several dozen companies compete, and the number is growing.”, according to Marketdata’s Research Director, John LaRosa.

California-based referral marketing distributor, The Landers Group, held its quarterly rally on March 11 at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. On the heels of a record-breaking sales quarter, 150 local independent Distributors and Leaders gathered for a day of mentoring and skill-sharpening.

The rally covered important issues, such as training techniques, client service standards maintenance, as well as personal development and advancement opportunities. In addition to these items, the rally celebrated the advancements of both Meredith Shippam and Tommy Morrissey to Assistant Manager. The Landers Group continues to support local businesses in the California-area through targeted community outreach programs that drive sales while helping consumers get more out of life.

MarketingPilgrim.com, the popular Internet marketing blog, founded and edited by Andy Beal, today announced its second search engine marketing scholarship contest.

The contest will run during April and May. Entrants are asked to submit an article on the subject of search engine optimization, paid search advertising or social media optimization. The winner will receive prizes valued in excess of $10,000, which include:

- A full conference pass to the Search Engine Strategies conference held in San Jose, this August.

- The winner's article will be published in the industry print magazine, Search Marketing Standard.

- Enrollment in a "Certified Search Engine Marketer Pathway" course at SearchEngineCollege.com

- One month of industry coaching and training from search marketing expert Andy Beal.

- One year of AdWatcher.com service (ad tracking and click fraud monitoring) and one year of AdScientist.com service (bid management).

- One year subscription to WebmasterWorld.com

- One year premium membership to SEOmoz.org.

- A free web analytics account from CrazyEgg.com.

- A one year Bizwatch account from BizResearch.com

- A one yearl subscription to the SEO project management site, SoloSEO.com.

- A copy of Aaron Wall's "SEO Book."

- A copy of Jennifer Laycock's book, "Small Business Guide to Search Engine Marketing."

- A copy of Andrew Goodman's book, "Winning Results with Google AdWords."

- A copy of Kim Krause Berg's books "Please Ring Bell for Service" and "How to Quench Your Web Site Visitors' Thirst"

- A cash prize ($100) courtesy of Cre8asiteforums.com.

- Clock and t-shirt courtesy of WeBuildPages.com.

- More prizes to be announced.

New York, NY (PRWEB) September 27, 2007 –- JWT, the largest advertising agency in the U.S. and third largest in the world, and subsidiary JWT Employment Communications, one of the world’s largest employment marketing and communications companies, were honored with the WPP Worldwide Partnership Program award which recognizes the value of groups working across marketing disciplines to deliver tangible benefits to clients. This specially created team achieved this award for their recruitment communications work produced for Shell, one of today’s leading energy companies.

Electric Pocket is today announcing a new version of PhoneFace, a speed dial application that launches phone calls, text messages and emails with a simple click on a contact's photo, for smartphones based on Google's Android operating system. The application shows photos of a user's friends to offer a fun and easy way to locate the right contact to call. PhoneFace even retrieves the most recent pictures of contacts from Facebook and Twitter.

PhoneFace is a photo-dial program for Android smartphones which automatically retrieves photos from Facebook or Twitter profiles

Business Computer Projects Ltd (BCP), the UK retail and supply chain solutions specialist, has implemented its Accord -- Retailer retail management solution at a number of MOD stores on behalf of managed services supplier, ARAMARK UK.

ARAMARK UK is the UK arm of the US based ARAMARK Corporation, a world leader in providing managed services to business. The company services many industry sectors -- Education, Healthcare, Hotels, Leisure, Custodial, the MoD and Offshore, to name but a few -- with an extensive array of customised facilities management services - cleaning, grounds and buildings maintenance, reception duties, janitorial services, etc. - as well as the traditional food service solutions on which the company was founded.

SocketLabs, Inc., the leading provider of on-premise high volume email marketing server technology for the Microsoft Windows platform, announced today that, Smart Button, the leader in customer loyalty and rewards solutions, has deployed SocketLabs Hurricane Server Platform to power the email marketing capabilities within its Smart Button Loyalty Platform.

Smart Button is one of the leading providers of customer loyalty and rewards solutions. Through its Smart Button Loyalty Platform customers from retail, gaming to sports teams have been able to create and manage a customer loyalty and rewards program that helps in customer acquisition, retention and increased profits. Through the Loyalty Platform Smart Button clients can send bulk marketing and special offer email messages to their customers who have signed up for the rewards 558 program.

The beginning of July saw mortgage rates reaching four-year highs. The increasing rates have contributed to the normalizing market. As a result, homeowners that are thinking of refinancing or prospective homeowners are better off shopping a lot of lenders to find the best rates.

RealestateloanS.com offers a solution for those that are looking for the competitive home purchase loans or refinance loans, but simply don’t have the time or resources to do it themselves.

RealestateloanS.com is a mortgage clearinghouse whose sole purpose is to find the best rates for its clients for FHA, zero down payment, sub-prime loans and more. They do this by searching the hundreds of lenders everyday. With one of the largest networks of real estate lenders and independent loan consultants in the country, their search can save current homeowners or prospective buyers thousands of dollars. Gil Kerbashian of RealestateloanS.com explains the common pitfall that most consumers find themselves in when shopping for home loans or commercial financing, “Most consumers believe all banks are the same.

Blog Marketing Journal, one of the most popular and influential blog marketing websites on the Internet, has added a new WordPress tips section to the site so visitors can learn how to use this wildly popular software more effectively for the construction of websites, audience engagement, and the creation of online communities.

WordPress is a free, open source, customizable software script that became available in 2003. Since its release, it has become the most popular blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of websites viewed daily by millions of people. The infamous software platform grew rapidly due to its stability and ease of use for novices to seasoned professional website designers. The software's open source allows anyone to view the software code and modify it for new and innovative applications.

Equivio, a provider of software for managing data redundancy, announced today that it has launched Equivio>Relevance™, an expert-guided system that enhances the eDiscovery process through automated document prioritization.

Traditionally, attorneys use keywords to pre-filter documents prior to detailed review. According to the TREC (Text Retrieval Conference) studies, the keywords method tends to miss most of the relevant documents, while yielding mainly irrelevant documents. As a result, only a fraction of the relevant documents make it to the detailed review stage, while most of the documents that are submitted to review are in fact not relevant.

Miami, FL (PRWEB) May 11, 2006 – Announcing the recent launch of NORDICetc.com – Scandinavian design home décor online. Founders Petra King and Mats Olsson, two Swedes transplanted to Miami, found it difficult to find well designed Scandinavian household goods at reasonable prices. Both had previous careers in multinational corporations and decided to set up NORDICetc.com, importing unique, affordable Scandinavian goods.

“We both have a passion for interior design and we missed the extensive selection available in Sweden. Our objective was to find boutique design companies producing high quality products that hadn’t yet reached the US market,” says Petra King, one of the two founders. “Scandinavia is filled with contemporary household goods that everyone can afford and we were surprised to discover how traditional and expensive things were here in comparison.”

Genuitec, LLC, a founding and strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, is sponsoring a Mobile Monday event in Dallas on August 3, at 7:00p.m. The meeting will be held at the offices of Big in Japan in the InfoMart, downtown Dallas.

The theme of the presentation is as follows:

The mobile application marketplace is dominated by Apple's App Store, but is the App Store the best model for corporations to distribute their mobile applications? Join Genuitec co-founder and vice president of product development, Wayne Parrott, and senior Eclipse developer, Greg Amerson, as they discuss the long term drawbacks of the App Store model and highlight the benefits of the Internet as the App Store of tomorrow.

Paradigm Diagnostics, developer of MEDEX - an advanced decision-support application for computer-aided medical diagnosis - has chosen Optimiser's Digital Management solution to handle its real-time software protection and electronic distribution requirements. The two digital pioneers, Paradigm having spun-off from the University of Western Australia and Optimiser a WAITTA 2004 Innovation Award finalist, will create Paradigm's digitally-managed eChannel for delivering state-of-the-art medical diagnostics software, updates and 24x7 access to medics around the globe.

Impact Achievement Group has been named among the top leadership development vendors in a new research report from Bersin & Associates, "High Impact Leadership Development: Trends, Best Practices and Industry Solutions."

The company scored impressively in the report's Leadership Vendor Market Map, alongside such industry veterans as AchieveGlobal, DDI, SkillSoft and CCL. These leading vendors are analyzed and profiled in research collected for the report by Bersin, a respected independent research firm focused on enterprise learning and talent management.

Leading online adult diaper retailer and incontinence care products developer SecurePersonalCare.com is adding to their popular line of super absorbency adult incontinence products with their latest creation: X-Plus Underpads. The third product addition to the X-Plus incontinence care product line features more than 5 times the absorbency of leading brands of underpads.

X-Plus Underpads - SecurePersonalCare.com

Normal underpads, which are used as a protective barrier to guard furniture and beds against damage caused by urine, are one of the most commonly-used incontinence care products. On average, underpads can absorb between 8 and 15 ounces of fluid, with the most absorbent underpads offering no more than 40 ounces of absorbency. The new SecurePersonalCare.com X-Plus Underpads feature up to 75 ounces of absorbency, which is roughly equivalent to most average adult briefs and diapers.

The latest stop on Recipezaar.com's popular Regional American Cooking Series is New England -- known for its history, its Ivy League schools and most importantly… its food! With recipes dating back to colonial times, cuisine in New England means more than just clam chowder. On this virtual culinary trip, the Web's largest user-generated recipe site, Recipezaar.com, showcases New England cooking at its finest. Take this journey and dive into Northeastern specialties, view and create New England cookbooks, and get the expert scoop from native New Englanders in Recipezaar's discussion forum.