MiPro Gives Back: weekend voting recap

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MiPro Gives Back: weekend voting recap

Relatively slow weekend in terms of voting volume, but the landscape continued to solidify. Reminder: voting closes April 6 @ 5:00 EST.  One week left! Previous daily data can be found on MiPro Unfiltered’s main page.  (Scroll down through the posts.)

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MiPro Gives Back: voting results as of March 27

Here is today’s top 10 update.  It’s a shootout.  Clearly there are community recruitment efforts going on, which is something I see flow across Twitter and Facebook all day.  Total votes as of this writing: 9,448. Reminder: voting closes end-of-day on April 6th.  Lots of time left to drive votes to your favorite charity. Also,

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MiPro Gives Back: voting results as of March 26

Here are the standings as of 9 AM this morning.  There’s clearly quite a bit of word-of-mouth activity going on, and the results are pretty evident.  Total votes so far: 7,448. Again, get the word out. I simply can’t say this enough. Previous summaries: March 25 March 24

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MiPro Gives Back: voting results as of March 25

As promised, I am going to try to tally the top 10 charities on a daily basis until April 6, when voting closes.  Here are today’s results as of 9 AM EST: I can’t say this enough: the leaders are those who are really being creative and getting the word out – among their employees,

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MiPro Gives Back: voting results as of March 24

Due to numerous requests to provide some idea of the vote tally from our MiPro Gives Back charity project, here are the top 10 vote-gettering charity organizations as of March 24, 10 AM EST.  To vote, go to MiPro Gives Back. Again, following up on the sentiments of this post: get the word out.  I

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MiPro Gives Back nominations now closed, but man, what a great ride

Thanks to everyone for submitting your nominations to MiPro Gives Back. Over our two week nomination period, we saw unprecedented levels of activity from the web and social media community. Even in times like these, it’s incredibly encouraging and heartwarming to see people take a moment out of their day to nominate a charity that’s

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Twitter vs Enterprise Software

Ok.  That probably got your attention!  Thomas Wailgum’s recent post entitled Wake Up People! Forget Twitter and iPhone Apps, and Focus on SAP and ERP Apps had the same impact on a few of us here in the office at MiPro Consulting. Wailgum’s title is provocative.  More importantly however, his blog’s point is on target. 

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Business Intelligence in the real world: aligning metrics (Part I)

In last week’s post, we discussed embedding Business Intelligence (BI) into the business process in order to create a workflow that is more value-add and beneficial. Now that we have explored that concept, I want to look at BI as a mechanism to make all areas of business strategic and value-add. So, work with me

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Using Business Intelligence to Survive the Recession, Part II

In my last post, we took a look at what BI is and isn’t and how it can really be used to make real-world business decisions.  I promised you an example to help illustrate my point, so here we go. Let’s take a buyer of raw materials in a production facility.  If that buyer is

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Using Business Intelligence to Survive the Recession, Part I

There’s mainly one question being tossed around these days, at least as we hear it: how do companies not only survive but improve during times of economic recession? One tool that can certainly assist is Business Intelligence (BI).  When one says BI, there are many reactions from “what is that?” to “oh right, you mean

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