by sarah on February 2, 2012
Three winning teams will compete in the Global Finals for a chance to have their solution implemented at Habitat for Humanity, Solar Aid or One Laptop per Child through a US$1 million grant
The Hult Global Challenge (Hult GCC) invites college and university students from around the world to solve the world’s most pressing social challenges. Through a strategic partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative, the Hult GCC has committed to working with fellow CGI commitment makers on solving real-world social challenges.
From now until February 25, online entries are open for teams of students from around the world. Voting for the online competition takes place between February 25 and March 9, with plenty of time before the Global Finals on April 26.
Speakers and guests for the Global Finals include President Bill Clinton and Dr. Muhammad Yunus. The event is an opportunity for participants to connect and learn from global business leaders. Participants also have the chance to meet like-minded change-makers, forging opportunities to collaborate on future projects.
Last year’s case studies were based on the challenge of providing clean water in partnership with Water.org, founded by Gary White and Matt Damon. While only one winner from each track will be selected, it is only the start for innovative ideas. Regional winners from Boston were so passionate about the team’s pilot idea last year, they went on to pitch the idea to venture capitalists and found additional funding for their project.
Check out their video for a more in depth explanation of the Hult Global Case Challenge.
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Online Contest
by sarah on January 30, 2012
Here are a few contests running right now that we can’t get enough of:
Freescale’s Smart Pundit 2012 Contest – Who do you follow to keep up with smart device news? Freescale has a list of 20 and they’d like your help picking the ultimate five. Go ahead, tell them who you think knows and shares the most about smart device news!
Foxy’s Winter Vegetable Recipe Contest – A lucky winner will receive a Kindle Fire each week for the four weeks of February. Entrants are encouraged to share their favorite winter vegetable recipe. We look at this as a contest where everyone wins, as we can’t wait to read all the recipes.
Revelation Massage’s Valentine’s Day Contest – If you are in the Lewiston/Auburn area of Maine, you can vote on the inspiring stories in a contest celebrating Love. Entrants have a chance to win massages, chocolates, wine, several dinners and overnight stays in local hotels. We love reading the stories posted for each entry!
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by Mike L on January 27, 2012
We’re just about half way through the winter with only a light dusting of snow. Since we’re not out on the slopes, we’ve had time to make some more updates. Over the last four weeks, many of these updates were behind the scenes focused on performance, but there are a handful of helpful ones on the front end too. Here is a review of some of the more significant changes:
When WizeHive is used to deploy an online application, the application requests an email address as a login ID and a password. By default we confirm the password and if someone forgets the password it’s easy enough to reset it. But if someone makes a typo entering their user id we have no easy way for our client administer to help them out. Inevitably, 3 to 5 people out of 2000 applications make a typo while entering their email. So we now have a setting that allows our login screen to request a confirmation of the email address. This way, even if someone types in their ID/email once; the system will catch it unless they type it into both fields incorrectly. While we have this as a setting you can turn on or off, we will highly recommend to our customers to leave it on.
Most customers use our “Actions” app to email groups of people, copy data, move data, and print in bulk. This release includes a refresh of the look and feel of this page. As shown in the picture below, the whole screen has received a face lift, including how we list out the field that you can embed/merge into your email:
Next up are some upgrades to our form builder. In our prior release we added the ability to copy and paste a group of fields multiple times into a form by highlighting them and dragging the group into a new place on the form. This release, we’ve changed the paste function so it automatically names the new field similar to the old one (that was copied from) but increments a number after it. So Project Name would become Project Name 2, etc. as fields are pasted in.
We’ve also added an interface to a feature previously only available to implementation people, which is the ability to hide a field from limited users. If you build a form and want to have judges, board members or anyone else log into a portal to rate and review applications, you can easily hide sensitive data fields like a social security number or financial data when viewed through the portal.
