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Big-D Construction, a Salt Lake City-based construction management company, named Gifford Briggs project development manager of its Lindon office. Briggs will oversee all marketing and project proposals, management of project pre-construction, and will be involved in all other aspects of business development.

Briggs, who holds a bachelor’s degree in construction management with a minor in business management from Brigham Young University, has worked in many different areas of the construction industry for the past 10 years — five of which have been at Big-D. He had served in the commercial construction sector as a project engineer, estimator, marketing manager, senior project manager and project development manager.

SLC advertising firm adds two workers — Love Communications, a Salt Lake City-based advertising agency, added two employees to its interactive services division. Jared McPherson was hired as its motion graphics designer and Mike Dodge, its Web developer.

McPherson will specialize in developing Web sites, banners and CD interfaces in media campaigns as well as in front-end Web development. Before joining Love Communications, McPherson was a motion graphics designer for McCann-Erickson. Dodge will be responsible for Web and IT solutions for the agency’s clients. Before joining the agency, Dodge was the Web developer for Clear Link Technologies, where he built Web application servers and managed highly sensitive and complex information relating to upcoming company projects. Prior to that, Dodge taught Web development at Brigham Young University.

BYU’s Romney Institute honors humanitarian — Carolyn Grow Dailey, president and CEO of Ascend Alliance, a Holladay-based humanitarian group, was named 2008 Administrator of the Year by Brigham Young University’s Romney Institute of Public Management. The award is given annually to an individual who has achieved distinction after many years of management in the public or nonprofit sector.

In her 17 years as an international humanitarian executive, Dailey has organized community development programs and leading internships. As president and CEO of Ascend, Dailey helps combat poverty in developing countries by implementing programs in education, enterprise, health and technology. She has previously served as CEO of Choice Humanitarian.

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Kronik media, the award winning web Design Company in London are now offering Joomla development and Joomla web design service for businesses small or large in UK. Joomla is a powerful content management system that can be used to design simple websites to large websites with complex functionality.

Kronik Media are offering services in all areas of Joomla development including Joomla template design, Joomla component and module development and also end to end website solutions powered by Joomla content management system.

Their new range of Joomla development service is designed to appeal to a diverse clientele form start up ventures and small businesses to established businesses with more complex requirements.

The spokesperson for Kronik Media added “We are already k known for our excellence in Web design, eCommerce and search engine optimisation. The past year has witnessed an exponential increase in demand for quality affordable website design. Our Joomla based websites offer powerful functionality that traditional websites cannot deliver.

Our Joomla website development service can meet the needs of businesses small or large whether the requirement is for a simple website design or design of a complex website. We also offer Joomla outsourcing services for other website design and software development businesses that may not have specialist Joomla development experience in-house. ”

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Minutes after attending a seminar titled “Use Social Networking to Your Professional Advantage,” I opened my e-mail and found two invitations to join LinkedIn.com networks.

One came from a person I’d had professional contact with previously. I clicked “accept” and went on to other things. I didn’t recognize the other name, so I closed the e-mail without response. And, thanks to Ellen Levy, I didn’t feel bad about the tacit rejection.

Levy, vice president of corporate development and strategy at LinkedIn.com, just presented an overview of Internet social networking sites at the Central Exchange’s annual Women’s Lyceum, an educational and networking event. Understanding that attendees came to the conference from many different backgrounds and levels of Web familiarity, Levy prefaced her user advice with a primer. First, she explained, there was Web 1.0 — the mostly one-directional flow of information over the Internet. Think of Web pages.

We’re now in the age of Web 2.0 — an era of two-way communication that in three years spawned a host of interactive social networking sites. A show of hands indicated that about half the people used LinkedIn, a professional networking Web site, to build business relationships.

Even if you’ve never been on a social networking site, you understand the concept: It’s a cyberspace handshake. It facilitates connections. It does what Rotary meetings, phone calls, cocktail parties and e-mail have done for years.

Let’s say Joe wants a job at Hallmark Cards. Joe doesn’t know anybody in the human resources department or target department where he wants to work. But he is good friends with Sally, who has a Hallmark Gold Crown store. Sally knows people in Hallmark’s retail division. One, Bill, is the main liaison with Joan in the human resources department. And Joan knows that Fred is exactly the right person for Joe to meet. Fred, meet Joe. Joe, here’s Fred, who has someone vouching for him.

I made up that scenario, but that’s the six-degrees-of-separation concept.

A professional networking Web site might help make the connections that have always been an essential ingredient in job hunting, business development and sales prospecting. (A user also can get a wealth of professional responses quickly when posting a question on the appropriate area of the site.)

Levy emphasized that Web-based networking sites are only as good as the veracity and relevance of the people using them.

A LinkedIn connection may not make sense if you accept an invitation to join one’s professional network if you don’t know the person or don’t have ties to one’s business skills or services. “It should be a tool to leverage relationships you already have,” Levy said.

And a good professional network site should never be confused with a social networking site such as Facebook. The purposes are completely different, she said.

A professional networking site can be a good way to put your business profile — basically your resume and the services you can offer — online, where they can be seen by millions of other site users. It can spread “the message of you” a lot further and faster than passing out business cards and shaking hands at meetings.

But as much as Levy championed the professional development possibilities of Web 2.0, she reminded attendees of something that most knew well: “Time is a scarce resource.” Use networking sites judiciously. Understand that others might not have the time you do to dig deep into the site. And, most of all, she said, don’t get sucked into making a contest out of how many “connections” you can list. It’s not a matter of quantity; it’s the quality that counts.

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On that date Cern, put the web in the public domain, “thereby ensuring that the world would have a single system for accessing the Internet, instead of a Microsoft Web, a Macintosh Web and who knows, perhaps even an Amstrad Web,” argues Gillies, who by the way is director of communications for Cern.

Cern’s Tim Berners-Lee recognized the need to manage the data on the web in a simpler way than the complex protocols that had limited the Internet to academics and government bureaucrats.

Encouraged by his bosses, he created the first browser on a NeXT computer using URLs, HTML and HTTP protocols.

Berners-Lee went on to head up the MIT-based World Wide Web Consortium that sets global standards for the web. Recently, he said that even after 15 years of existence and 165 million websites around the world the web is “still in its infancy.”

Berners’Lee argues that the web’s ability to engender collaboration could one day see the web being used to help manage the planet.

“What’s exciting is that people are building new social systems, new systems of review, new systems of governance.

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The results of Gov. Sarah Palin’s prenatal testing were in, and the doctor’s tone was ominous: “You need to come to the office so we can talk about it.”

Palin, known for a resolve that quickly launched her from suburban hockey mom to a player on the national political stage, said, “No, go ahead and tell me over the phone.”

The physician replied, “Down syndrome,” stunning the Republican governor, who had just completed what many political analysts called a startling first year in office.

She had arrived at the Capitol on an ethics reform platform after defeating the incumbent Republican in the primary and a former two-term Democratic governor in the general election. Her growing reputation as a maverick for bucking her party’s establishment and Alaska’s powerful oil industry quickly gained her a national reputation.

Now she is trying to balance caring for her special-needs child and running a state.

The doctor’s announcement in December, when Palin was four months pregnant, presented her with a possible life- and career-changing development.

“I’ve never had problems with my other pregnancies, so I was shocked,” said Palin, a mother of four other children.

“It took a while to open up the book that the doctor gave me about children with Down syndrome, and a while to log on to the Web site and start reading facts about the situation.”

The 44-year-old governor waited a few days before telling her husband, Todd, who was out of town, so she could understand what was ahead for them.

Once her husband got the news, he told her: “We shouldn’t be asking, ‘Why us?’ We should be saying, ‘Well, why not us?’”

There was never any doubt the Palins would have the child, and on April 18 she gave birth to Trig Paxson Van Palin.

“We’ve both been very vocal about being pro-life,” Palin said. “We understand that every innocent life has wonderful potential.”

Down syndrome is caused by the presence of an extra chromosome in the fetus’ cells. It’s a genetic abnormality that impedes physical, intellectual and language development.

The mother’s age is a large factor in the chances of having a Down child. Once a woman turns 40, the chances of having a Down child is 1 out of 100, according to the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

During her first year in office, Palin distanced herself from the old guard, powerful Republicans in the state GOP, even calling on tight-lipped veteran U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens to explain to Alaskans why federal authorities were investigating him.

She asked Alaska’s congressional delegation to be more selective in seeking earmarks after what came to be known as the “Bridge to Nowhere” turned into a national symbol of piggish pork-barrel spending.

She stood up to the powerful oil industry, and with bipartisan support in the statehouse she won a tax increase on oil companies’ profits.

She also found time to pose for the fashion magazine Vogue while she was pregnant, and she has been mentioned as a potential running mate for presidential candidate John McCain.

Three days after giving birth, Palin returned to work in her Anchorage office, accompanied by Trig and her husband.

This was not a mother’s typical visit to the office to show off the new baby; instead, she was serving notice that a child of special needs would not hinder her professional commitments.

“It’s a sign of the times to be able to do this,” she said. “I can think of so many male candidates who watched families grow while they were in office.

“There is no reason to believe a woman can’t do it with a growing family. My baby will not be at all or in any sense neglected.”

Neither, Palin said, will the state, as she prepares to lead deliberations for a multibillion-dollar natural gas pipeline. She calls it the economic future of the state, a means of getting North Slope natural gas to consumers throughout North America.

“I will not shirk my duties,” she said.

Other politicians have pressed forward with their careers despite jarring personal news.

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards continued with his campaign despite the return of his wife Elizabeth’s breast cancer, though he eventually dropped out.

Another elected official who has a child with Down syndrome said that Palin will probably have detractors, but that it shouldn’t change ambitions for the mother or child.

U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Washington state Republican, has just celebrated the first birthday of her son Cole, her first child, who was born with Down syndrome. She is busy campaigning for a third term, and Cole often travels with her between Washington, D.C., and the Pacific Northwest.

“Cole opened my eyes to the pain and trouble a lot of families endure,” Rodgers said. “He’s allowed me to see people and circumstance more deeply, and the generosity of people.

“It’s in human nature to focus on the negative, on what the person can’t do. In our mind, we are focused on what he can do, what he will be able to do and do very well.”

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