Posts filed under 'Technology'
Posted: July 31, 2008: 1:19 pm
Bond Clinic, P.A. is featured in the July issue of Exec US digital magazine. The article explores the clinic’s strategy on technology, patient care and customer service.
Exec US magazine is a digital Business-to-Business magazine focused on organizational strategies and operational management techniques. Published by White Digital Media, Exec US targets industries such as construction, energy, food and beverage, healthcare, manufacturing, etc. The magazine has an average of 260,000 subscribers in the US and Canada who receive the magazine through e-mail communications and blog postings. Sixty-eight percent of the publication’s subscribers are companies with more than $50 million in annual revenue.
The photographs in the article are by local photographer, Mike Potthast of Potthast Studios. Founded in 1948, Bond Clinic is currently celebrating its 60th Anniversary.
You can view the digital publication here.
At the link provided, you can read the article in plain text or click on the thumbnail of the cover of the magazine to view the digital version of the article with photos. To view the entire Exec US magazine, click on Magazine in the left side column.
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Posted: July 7, 2008: 1:30 pm
Recent decisions to brand the new Polk County USF Campus with the “Polytechnic” term were followed by the release today of a new logo for the facility shown below in the horizontal format.
The campus received preliminary funding from the legislature this year and, to date, the Central Florida Development Council, City of Lakeland and Lakeland Regional Medical Center have announced approximately $10.5 million in additional support. The campus will be Florida’s first polytechnic center within the state university system. Considering this focus it seems reasonable to expect that industry looking for graduates from this curriculum will seek to locate in this area.
USF Polytechnic should serve as an exciting new addition to Florida’s public university system and wonderful asset to Polk and Central Florida. We look forward to the Phase I ribbon cutting and welcome the development of this outstanding new educational asset.
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Posted: June 10, 2008: 7:32 am
Center Opens in Six Ten Corporation’s “Inland Fiber and Data Technology Park”
Located Downtown
T3 Communications, Inc. based in Fort Myers has opened its second data center in Winter Haven. Together with 6/10 Corporation, T3 Communications has designed its data center (pictured at right) to serve SMB, Enterprise, Government and carrier customers as well as others in need of a secure site for IT infrastructure and disaster recovery needs. This data center features redundant power and cooling systems, high-speed fiber connectivity to the Internet and 24/7 monitoring and surveillance. Located downtown the structure is category 4 hurricane wind load certified and more than 140 feet above sea level.
The technical description of the new center is carrier neutral data and enterprise collocation data center. Adam Sewall, president and CEO of T3 notes, “In order to meet the demands for expansion of advanced data and voice services to businesses in Florida, Winter Haven has proven to be an ideal location.”
Carl J. Strang, III, president of the 6/10 Corporation said, “T3 has built an advanced data center in our Inland Fiber and Data Technology Park located in downtown Winter Haven. We are pleased to add T3 to the growing list of technology companies that have chosen to locate in Polk County. Our inland location and proximity to the Tampa and Orlando markets make Polk County a logical choice for next generation technology providers such as T3.”
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Posted: January 11, 2008: 4:45 pm
Winter Haven Web develpment firm cnp_studio, a division of Clark/Nikdel/Powell Advertising has just completed consulting work providing blog technology to Yahoo!. The company’s revised and redesigned “Yodel Anecdotal” blog was unveiled Friday, January 11 just after noon PST.
cnp_studio worked with California-based Voce to produce the new blog platform, touted with their first post “Now with more cowbell.” The cnp_studio team included Nick Gernert, Sean O’Shaughnessy, Mike Pretty and Pete Schiebel. Josh Hallett, a part of the Voce team was also involved with the project. This is the second major blog platform the local company has completed having been involved with the Sony Playstation Blog in 2007.
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Posted: October 30, 2007: 9:34 am
Construction is set to being in January 2008 on this 45,000 square foot $4.8 million Health and Science complex at the Ridge Career Center on Lucerne Park Road (SR 544). The two-story facility will include classrooms and other meeting space designed to serve the school’s growing health and science professional sector.
The new facilities should be ready for occupancy by fall 2008.
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Posted: June 27, 2007: 3:19 pm
On June 11, Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) launched their official Playstation.blog. The site attracted more than 500 comments in the first 24 hours … and two Winter Haven technology firms had a hand in that launch.
The blog uses a WordPress platform (as does this blog) and features a number of enhancements. Josh Hallett (Hyku.com) handled design and the web development team at Clark/Nikdel/Powell’s cnp_studio handled all back end development including customizing WordPress.
It is Sony Corp’s first “official blog” and is hosted on their servers.
Hallett posted the local involvement on the Sony project on his blog earlier today.
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Posted: : 3:18 pm
I’m not sure if “emerging” is the best word to describe Winter Haven’s technology-based businesses but there is a growing concentration and sophistication in this sector. It’s not new … thinking back 10 to 15 years to Ingram Leedy’s “iThink” dial-up, Josh Hallett’s “webcode” (that designed our first Web site) and Mike Kingham’s “Datalink” off-site data back up service — computer and internet entrepreneurs have been calling Winter Haven home for two decades.
More recently downtown has become the “digital interchange” for a number of major fiber optic network providers including: FPL Fibernet, Level 3 Communications; Time Warner Telecom and Verizon (who are all those people outside my window?!!).
As a result, this resource has attracted companies such as Amstec, CertaData, cnp_studio, ColoFlorida, LLC (Leedy), Cyberlink1, Doculex, Inc., Hyku, Inc. (Hallett), Kingham Software, Inc. (Kingham), Lebhar Friedman, Inc., Nuvox, Prism Technology Solutions, Sprint Nextel and techIT Solutions. (The names in parentheses are those original technology folks mentioned earlier.)
In addition to strong local and statewide client networks, Winter Haven technology companies are bringing their expertise to national brands. We asked our technology members for insight into their client base and you may be surprised by the variety. For example, techIt Solutions/Global Enterprise Solutions has brought their expertise to clients such as The Walt Disney Company, Apple Computers, Nike and the Cork School of Music in Cork, Ireland. Hyku, Inc. has served such enterprises as Yahoo, Sony, Unisys, Sea World, DOW and General Motors. cnp_studio has provided web development for Sea World, Prudential Tropical Realty, Sony and the University of Florida.
And when we asked the sector what they considered their greatest challenges several said, “overcoming the belief that the expertise is not available locally.”
All of this seems likely to be complemented by the potential focus of the new campus planned for Polk County that appears will be named USF-Polytechnic.
That has a nice ring to it.
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Bond Clinic, P.A. is featured in the July issue of Exec US digital magazine. The article explores the clinic’s strategy on technology, patient care and customer service.
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