LONDON, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- MrTed Limited, the leading provider of Talent Acquisition Solutions, today announces a strategic alliance with StraNeo, which will become the exclusive representative of MrTed for the Nordic region. MrTed and its solution suite MrTedTalentLink(TM) support large and corporate enterprises with their challenges on talent acquisition. With this strategic regional alliance partnership, MrTed is able to ensure their audience throughout Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.

"This strategic alliance underlines the importance of the Nordic market for MrTed," says Robert Adema, Director Sales and Marketing. "We see the Nordic market is maturing and companies putting strategic talent acquisition issues at the top of their agenda."

LONDON, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Sustainability Now event tackles vital issues facing those creating an eco-friendly built environment and offers carbon coaching

A free-to-access virtual event to be held next month will explore the quest to design and build sustainable buildings, cities and communities.

The conference, called Sustainability Now, is to be held over two days and will include a unique mix of content and media on green design and construction.

Taking place on 1 and 2 July, the event is produced by leading UK business magazines Building, Building Design and Property Week. It is already proving popular -- over 1,800 construction, architecture and property professionals have already signed up to attend the event.

ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Harps are generally known as an instrument of the elite: enormous, expensive, and difficult to play. That will change if North Carolina harpist and teacher Pamela Bruner has her way.

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Bruner became enchanted with the Celtic harp at a Renaissance Festival, bought a small harp and a book, and taught herself to play. She has now recorded over a dozen CDs, and performs and teaches at harp conferences. "People would tell me they had always wanted to play the harp, and ask how long it took me to learn to play. I realized how many folks shared my love for the harp."

MUMBAI, India, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Tata Interactive Systems' Story-Based Learning Objects (StoBLs(TM)) Help Clients Worldwide to Adapt a Time-Tested Methodology to Enhance Learning

Global learning provider Tata Interactive Systems' (TIS) Story-based Learning Objects (StoBLs(TM)) have been recognized for their ability to enhance the learning experience and improve the learner's ability to retain information.

Although a relatively new concept, StoBLs(TM) have become a popular learning trend with organizations ranging from Transportation and Logistics companies to Financial Advisories, and even Airlines.

LONDON, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Education and Research Sectors Have Until July 31st to Decide on Future Access to Learning Materials

The UK Access Management Federation has reported rapid growth as the deadline approaches for the further education (FE) and higher education (HE) sectors and the publishing industry to decide on future access to learning materials. Education institutions and publishers have until July 31st to join the Federation. Joining the Federation offers members the option to transition to new open standard access management systems that are SAML compliant, such as Shibboleth.

LONDON, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Academic Advisor of top-performing Oxford Marketing College, Professor Malcolm McDonald , the FTSE 100 Guru and international marketing consultant to the operating boards of several of the world's leading multinationals will speak about 'Marketing past, present and future', at the University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, on the 30th June. The lecture will begin at 6.30pm.

The lecture is part of a series of talks to celebrate the 10th Birthday of Oxford College of Marketing and to introduce the new London part time evening programme for the Professional Certificate and the Professional Diploma in Marketing.

LONDON, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

CodeStreet, the leader in market data development and operations tools, introduced the first fully integrated capacity planning and latency benchmarking test solution for the RMDS platform, allowing financial firms to use latency as the criteria for evaluating their infrastructure performance under specific stress conditions. The capacity planning and latency monitoring facilities are components of CodeStreet's Market Data Works (MDW) suite.

AMSTERDAM, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Social Media Will Have Major Influence on key Aspects of Research Within Five Years

LONDON, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Traditional Networks More Restrictive

Social networkers across Europe are three times more frustrated by spam and advertising (36%), than the security of their personal information (11%), according to research by Wadja, the mobile web, media and messaging service.

The research of 500 social networkers across Europe into mobile living and mobile social networking also indicates that almost a fifth (19%) are frustrated by not being able to contact their friends on other social networks.

Alex Christoforou, Managing Director at Wadja comments: "Most social networks are too restrictive, with applications and features designed to be used by close circles of friends."

TEL AVIV, Israel, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Netafim - the world's largest company providing smart water solutions for agricultural industries - has announced that it has joined the CEO Water Mandate organization. This move comes at a time when the entire world must deal with serious water shortages which affect, among other things, food production and sanitation.

Netafim President and CEO, Ofer Bloch was among the chief executive officers of 19 corporations to call on G8 leaders to actively address the issue of water use and shortages during their upcoming Hokkaido Toyako Summit on 7-9 July in Japan. The business leaders all support the UN Global Compact's CEO Water Mandate, launched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in July 2007.