MANHATTAN, Kan. (PRWEB)
October 18, 2020

CivicPlus is pleased to announce the 2020 Small Town America Civic Volunteer Award program winners. The initiative aims to shine a spotlight on the growing need for local engagement in critical civic roles. The top three winners include Rebecca Ketchum, President of the Norridgewock Historical Society from Norridgewock, Maine; Brian Shoemaker, Fire Captain, and Councilman from Gilt Edge, Tennessee; and Tammy Hutchinson, Hartwell Main Street Design Committee Chairwoman from the City of Hartwell, Georgia. These winners will receive cash awards of $10,000, $7,500, and $5,000 for their respective communities.

The top one hundred civic volunteer award winners will receive a new CivicCMS website, built by CivicPlus, at no cost, that will include a volunteer subsite to aid in future recruitment efforts. The complete list of all winners is available at civicplus.com/small-town-volunteer-awards.

“We need difference-makers in our communities now more than ever. It is an honor to support and recognize this year’s winning organizations and volunteers and their relentless commitment to civic philanthropy and activism,” said Brian Rempe, CivicPlus Chief Executive Officer. “CivicPlus is committed to giving back to our local civic organizations. All of this year’s winners inspire us to continue innovating technology to help them achieve their goals. We cannot wait to see how this year’s winners leverage their prizes to further their efforts.”

According to this year’s top prize winner, Rebecca Ketchum, the prize money and the new website from CivicPlus will be crucial in helping Norridgewock meet its engagement goals.

“I want to thank CivicPlus for this great award, which will make a tremendous difference to this community,” said Ketchum. “It will encourage everybody that they can make a difference, and it’s going to boost people up. We can do a lot with this, and I thank you all very much.”

To see a list of winners and the video recording of the virtual award ceremony, visit http://www.civicplus.com/small-town-volunteer-awards.

The Barton Russell Group administered the Small Town America Civic Volunteer Award.

About CivicPlus

CivicPlus provides integrated technology solutions for over 4,000 local governments and their over 250 million citizens. Its solutions enable municipalities of all sizes to rapidly and efficiently migrate traditional citizen services online to meet the new online imperative of local government. The CivicPlus Platform of software includes website content management, agenda and meeting management, parks and recreation management, citizen request and work order management, employee management, routine and mass notification software, and low-code development software. For more information, visit http://www.CivicPlus.com.

About the Barton Russell Group

The Barton Russell Group is the Nation’s leading small town and rural America consultancy. BRG has built, launched, and managed major branding and community and government relations projects, programs and services for Fortune 500 companies and others seeking to do good, while doing well. BRG was founded by Bart Russell, a nationally recognized expert on “everything small town” (its 32,000 communities and 120 million people). One former U.S. President called him “the voice of small-town America.”

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BOSTON (PRWEB)
October 16, 2020

Cybereason, a leader in endpoint security, today announced its lineup of events and activities in conjunction with National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Cybereason will be participating in a variety of virtual events geared to preventing cyberstalking, bringing equity into cybersecurity education and how to be more secure in a remote working world.

“Is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month still relevant? Yes, it is, but it should be more than an opportunity to bombard the rest of your company with reminders to be wary of phishing emails or to ‘think before you click.’ Instead, this is an opportunity to push the boundaries of cybersecurity awareness in three key ways: expand the audience for awareness, produce deeper and more meaningful messages and focus on solving for security issues through innovation, especially around emerging technologies,” said Sam Curry, Cybereason’s Chief Security Officer.

Featured events and activities include:

Monday, October 19, 9:00 am ET

Cyberweek Tel Aviv: Mor Levi, Cybereason’s Vice President of Global Security Practices, will join with other esteemed industry experts in a panel titled ‘Analogue Humans in a Digital World’ in which the panelists will discuss the minefield of security risks associated with remote working. How do companies ensure security for a workforce that isn’t always ‘security focused’? Joining Levi on the panel is Bruce Schneier, Fellow and Lecturer, Chief of Security Architecture, Harvard Kennedy School, Inrupt, Inc.; Chris Roberts, Hillbilly Hit Squad, Advisor, Researcher, Hacker and Christopher Hadnagy, CEO and Founder, Social-Engineer, LLC. Cyber Week Tel Aviv is one of the largest cybersecurity conferences in the world. This year the event is entirely virtual.

Wednesday, October 21, 1:00 pm ET

Cybertalks: A Daily Digital Experience: Lodrina Cherne, Cybereason’s Principal Security Advocate and Certified Instructor, SANS Institute, will give a standalone talk at Cybertalks titled The Language of Equity in Cybersecurity Education. The session will look at the global cybersecurity skills shortage and how it intersects with the worldwide movement for equity, inclusion and justice, and why it requires the security industry to support a diverse workforce. Cherne will offer ideas on how to create an inclusive environment for people traditionally underrepresented in security by changing the language we use in software, standards, and policy.

Thursday, October 22, 1:00 pm ET

Virtual Panel on Cyberstalking Prevention

On Thursday, October 22, 1:00 pm ET, Cybereason will host a virtual panel titled ‘Prevent Cyberstalking’ hosted by Lodrina Cherne of Cybereason. The esteemed panelists include Amy Harman-Burkhart, a former chief of the Cybercrime Unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) in Boston and Michael Maher, a detective with the Waltham, MA Police Department. Harmon-Burkart spent a decade investigating and prosecuting computer, intellectual property and financial crimes. Maher is an investigator in the Detective Division for Waltham Police Department. The two panelists will discuss their work in bringing a cyberstalker to justice in a recent federal case.

About Cybereason

Cybereason, creators of the leading Cybereason Defense Platform, gives the advantage back to the defender through a completely new approach to cybersecurity. Cybereason offers endpoint prevention, detection and response and active monitoring. The solution delivers multi-layered endpoint prevention by leveraging signature and signatureless techniques to prevent known and unknown threats in conjunction with behavioral and deception techniques to prevent ransomware and fileless attacks. Cybereason is a privately held, international company, headquartered in Boston, MA with customers in more than 30 countries.

Learn more: https://www.cybereason.com/

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Bill Keeler

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Cybereason

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BELLEVUE, Wash. (PRWEB)
October 15, 2020

Today Mobilize.Net announced they’re co-hosting a webinar with Snowflake: “Fast Track Your Migration from Teradata to Snowflake.” The webinar will be held on October 21st, 2020 at 10AM PDT (5PM UTC). Register for the webinar at https://mobilize.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pkEUMyfGSM-Qkra8DbKvYg.

Migrating from an on premise solution to a cloud platform is challenging. Database systems require migration of not only data and schemas, but also stored procedures and scripts. In this webinar, delivered by migration architects and cloud data experts, attendees will learn:

• 
  The steps in a successful migration process
• Overview of each step
• Insight into the most challenging aspects of a migration – what are the hard problems?
• Up close view of a specific migration (Teradata to Snowflake)
• Demo of tools that accelerate the conversion process

The webinar will be led by Matt Kvancz, Senior Director, Migration Strategy and Services at Snowflake and Brandon Carver, Mobilize.Net Technical Product Manager for Snowflake migrations.

“Mobilize.Net has been doing migrations for 25 years. We have built the top-rated migration software used by 80% of the Global 2000. Our software has migrated billions of lines of code and converted hundreds of thousands of applications to modern platforms,” said Tom Button, Chairman and CEO of Mobilize.Net. “We are very excited to help customers move from old systems to Snowflake Data Cloud and enjoy the benefits of a modern cloud architecture.”

About Mobilize.Net

Mobilize.Net accelerates and simplifies the transformation of software applications to .NET, web, mobile, and cloud platforms. Millions of developers have used Mobilize.Net technology to successfully modernize billions of lines of code. Mobilize.Net solutions enable customers to reduce risk, cost, and time while moving applications to the platforms businesses demand today. Mobilize.Net migration technology is Microsoft’s chosen solution for Visual Studio and MSDN customers. The privately-held Mobilize.Net is based in Bellevue, WA, and is led by former Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Tom Button. Find out more at https://www.mobilize.net

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NORFOLK, Va. (PRWEB)
October 15, 2020

College students, especially recently, are wondering: will I actually be able to form a connection with my professor if my classes are online?

ODUOnline’s assistant vice president for technology Dr. Miguel Ramlatchan conducted a study to find out. In a recent article titled, “Enhancing Instructor Credibility and Immediacy in the Design of Distance Learning Systems and Virtual Classroom Environments” which appeared in the Journal of Applied Instructional Design, Ramlatchan detailed what he and his co-writer discovered, and the results might surprise you.

“We found that camera angle was most important for the social presence of a class,” he said. “If there’s a really weird camera angle, looking at [the instructor’s] forehead or sinus cavity, it takes away from their credibility or their social presence.”

Ramlatchan and his team examined several aspects of online learning which may play a part in how a student may view the credibility of an instructor. It wasn’t subject matter or the academic program that created a disconnect, so don’t worry about “boring” material. The age group of the students, whether or not they were used to online classes, or what type of device they used wasn’t as important either. It was all about how the camera was placed.

“Eye-level is the best scenario,” said Ramlatchan, before describing that good “eye contact” for a professor in an online lesson can enhance verbal cues, visual cues, tone, and expression. “These are all important to communication in general,” he explains, “but especially instruction.”

Ramlatchan oversees Old Dominion University’s Academic Technology Services department, which supports technology for online learning. This could involve everything from making sure ODU’s online professors have the correct camera equipment to setting up and managing complex streaming events with hundreds of participants.

Old Dominion University, located in the coastal city of Norfolk, is Virginia’s entrepreneurial-minded doctoral research university and has been delivering distance-learning programs for 30 years. It offers more than 100 programs through ODUOnline in a variety of formats, allowing students to complete degree programs across the world. ODU serves more than 24,000 students annually by providing the same rigorous academics online and on-campus. Learn more about ODUOnline’s programs by visiting online.odu.edu.

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ATHOL, Mass. (PRWEB)
October 15, 2020

Elev8 Cannabis, an emerging adults-medical cannabis company with one dispensary in Eugene, Oregon, and three others to open by spring 2021 in Massachusetts, announced today the grand opening of its first Massachusetts dispensary. A ribbon-cutting ceremony begins at 1 pm at the dispensary. Its address is 243 Main St., in the city of Athol. Elev8 Cannabis is the first dispensary to open in the city and is the first African American-owned cannabis retail dispensary in western Massachusetts. With today’s announcement, Elev8 Cannabis becomes one of the largest African-American-owned cannabis chains and dispensaries in operation coast to coast.

Elev8 Cannabis Athol Grand Opening

The grand opening festivities will welcome customers inside its store with music, opportunities to meet the staff, and a chance to peruse and shop from an array of fully stocked shelves. Weedmaps swag bags will be distributed while supplies last. Visitors to the dispensary must be adults age 21 and older. The dispensary’s capacity is limited to 10 customers at a time. Everyone is required to wear a mask and practice social distancing. “As a Roxbury resident, I am especially excited to open my first Massachusetts dispensary in Athol,” said Seun Adedeji, the founder and chief executive officer of Elev8 Cannabis. “Not only will the Athol community have access to high-quality cannabis health and wellness products, but they will also have a sleek retail environment to experience it and shop.”

The dispensary occupies a 2,000 square foot renovated building designed to provide customers with a memorable retail shopping experience. The floor plan allows for ample spacing between customers to support the social distancing requirements while shopping, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. “All in all, we believe we’ve created both a safe and exciting retail space for the Athol community,” said Adedeji. “We’ve even added a few extras to elevate customers’ enjoyment factor, including several fun interactive stations to create selfies and pictures and to write messages.”

Support for Cannabis Grows

Elev8 Cannabis Athol’s grand opening comes at a time in the country as more Americans support legalizing marijuana. Approximately two-thirds of Americans say they support legalizing marijuana, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. “The steady transition to a legal, regulated cannabis market in Massachusetts is a good sign, particularly during this time of economic uncertainty and pain,” said Shaleen Title, a Commissioner of the Cannabis Control Commission in Worcester County. “As one of the people charged with ensuring that people of color and businesses of all sizes are encouraged and included in this state’s industry, it is heartening to see more minority-owned businesses like Elev8 Cannabis beginning to open, with many more licensed and in the pipeline to begin operating soon.”

The opening of two other Elev8 Cannabis dispensaries occurs next year in Orange and Williamstown.

About Elev8 Cannabis

Elev8 Cannabis was founded by Seun Adedeji in 2017 to bring a variety of high-quality health and wellness cannabis products to the public. To learn more about Elv8 Cannabis promotions and dispensaries, visit http://www.elev8cannabis.com

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GATINEAU, Quebec (PRWEB)
October 14, 2020

“It’s become clear that many organizations have seen the importance of IT asset management since we’ve been hit with COVID-19,” said Kelly Moodie, CEO of Provance. “Our cloud-based, real-time, IT Asset Management application ensures our customers are in a stronger position to support the business with human, infrastructure and asset mobilization during a crisis. As Provance IT Asset Management is native to the Microsoft Power Platform, both the business and IT benefit from consolidating applications on a single platform, reducing integrations with the Common Data Service, gaining predictive insights with Microsoft’s leadership in AI and analytics, and automating workflows to manage their assets and related security risks day to day.”

Provance IT Asset Management lets asset teams get insight into both active and inactive assets to support effective crisis management, security risks, financial analysis, budgeting and operational planning. With Provance IT Asset Management, teams can gain accurate and timely data, manage inventories, assign hardware and software, discover assets and standardize asset life cycle management processes. By having visibility and control of assets throughout their entire life cycle—from request to disposal—organizations can optimize asset use, reduce costs, mitigate crises and get the full value of their technology investments.

“Provance was born as an IT asset management software company and our 20 plus years of expertise in enterprise IT asset management has never been more relevant in today’s world.” said Moodie.

Provance IT Asset Management is available as a Power App, as an add on to Dynamics 365 Customer Service, as well as an integrated add on to our flag ship product Provance IT Service Management.

Also available on Microsoft AppSource.

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MCLEAN, Va. (PRWEB)
October 14, 2020

Ntiva, Inc., a leading provider of managed IT, cloud hosting, cyber security, unified communications and strategic consulting services, announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized Ntiva as a 2020 Triple Crowd Award winner.

CRN Triple Crown Award winners are among the largest IT solution providers in North America from a revenue standpoint on the Solution Provider 500 list, while ranking as one of the fastest-growing organizations in the channel with recognition on the Fast Growth 150 list, and have received the highest-level certifications from leading vendors on the Tech Elite 250 list. While it is an impressive accomplishment for a solution provider to earn a spot on any of these elite lists, being named to all three in the same year is a great honor that should receive special acknowledgement and celebration.

“We are incredibly honored to be a Triple Crown Award Winner for the third year in a row,” said Steven Freidkin, CEO of Ntiva. “This year has been a challenging one for many IT Solution Providers, and so we’re especially proud of our ability to continue to thrive and grow. Our hard working team and dedicated partners have been truly exceptional, providing around the clock support to our loyal clients throughout a very difficult period. It’s a fantastic acknowledgement of Ntiva’s hard work and dedication to be recognized yet again as one of the top growth companies in the channel.”

For the seventh year, the Triple Crown Award recognizes solution providers that hold themselves to the highest standard in the IT channel. It is awarded to the top solution providers in North America based on revenue, growth, and technical expertise.

“Triple Crown Award winners have attained the ultimate achievement — the trifecta — they are among the top solution providers in North America by revenue, have seen more substantial growth than many of their peers over the past year, and continue to establish and build upon the technical skills that help them provide customers with the highest level of service in the IT channel,” said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. “We are honored to award these solution providers the Triple Crown Award for their expertise and exceptional contributions to the channel, and we are excited to see where they go from here.”

This year’s Triple Crown Award winners will be featured in the October issue of CRN Magazine — they can also be found online at http://www.crn.com/triplecrown.

About Ntiva, Inc.

Ntiva is a trusted Managed IT and Cloud Services provider that offers managed IT services and support to businesses of all types, building and maintaining infrastructure, securing networks, and providing strategic technology expertise. Our team of world-class talent genuinely cares about the relationships we build and understands that response and precision are fundamental keys to a successful partnership. Ntiva’s ultimate objective is to help our clients leverage their technology investments to improve their business performance.

Ntiva Media Contact:

Holly Dowden

VP of Marketing, Ntiva, Inc. 703 891 0131 holly.dowden@ntiva.com

About The Channel Company®

The Channel Company® enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education, and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers, and end users. Backed by more than 30 years of unequaled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. http://www.thechannelcompany.com

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Natalie Demers, The Channel Company®

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