Counterpart International would like to acknowledge and thank all who were involved in the creation of Social Networking: A Guide to Strengthening Civil Society through Social Media. This guide is a result of collaboration and input from a great team and group of advisors. Our deepest appreciation to Tina Yesayan, primary author of the guide; and Kulsoom Rizvi, who created a dynamic visual l…
The sudden explosion of mobile devices has made mobile apps development one of the hottest career fields for programmers. The global smartphone/tablet market shared by multiple platforms posed a serious question to mobile application developers and companies, as every mobile platform has different development frameworks and programming languages to develop native applications. How can we achiev…
Pioneered by the Open Handset Alliance and Google,Android is a popular, free, open- source mobile platform that has taken the wireless world by storm.This book and Android Wireless Application Development Volume I:Android Essentials provide comprehensive guidance for software development teams on designing, developing, testing, debugging, and distributing professional Android applications. If y…
Even in the early 19th century, John C. Calhoun described the United States as divided between the "tax payers and tax eaters." And today, we can use that same analysis. Ludwig von Mises called the battle between these two artificially created groups a "caste conflict," in contradistinction to Karl Marx's class conflict. There can be no natural class conflict in society, since the free market …
Management Accounting Best Practices provides the answers to all of these ques- tions(andover100more)that showboththeaspiringandseasonedaccountanthowto set up and manage an accounting department. Furthermore, when other members of the management team come calling with questions, the answers now lie on the ac- countant’s bookshelf. The information in this book is culled from eight of the autho…
Over the last few decades project management has moved from its roots in industries such as construction and defense into the main- stream of American business. Many different industries, in particular the service sector, rely heavily on project management as an integral part of a successful strategy. In support of the widening importance of project management, a number of important professiona…
Network security experts agree that well-run corporations need a written security policy. The policy sets appropriate expectations regarding the use and administration of corporate IT assets. However, the conventional w isdom holds that composing and maintaining these documents bog down in a morass of bureaucratic inefficiency and pointless wrangling, which never ends and produces nothing usefu…
Internet advertising is a multi-billion-dollar industry, as is evident from the phenomenal success of companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and continues to grow at a rapid rate. With broadband access becoming ubiquitous, Internet traffic continues to grow in both volume and diversity, providing a rich supply of inventory to be monetized. Fortunately, the surge in supply has been accompanie…
Social media sites and other Web 2.0 technologies, such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, offer health communicators powerful new channels to deliver relevant and targeted health messages, often facilitated through trusted sources, when, where and how users want information. Since these technologies are newly emerging and are unfortunately prone to security vulnerabilities and attack vectors, m…
Not-for-Profit Accounting Made Easy is a plain-language, easy to understand explanation of the various accounting and financial reporting practices of not-for-profit organizations. It is designed for all those individuals who have contact with these organizations—management and staff, board members (particularly audit committee members), consultants, donors, creditors—who should understand …
The disarmament and repatriation of the armed groups or the so called negative forces in eastern DRC pose a major challenge for the region. Such groups, which include the former Rwandan army, Forces Armées Rwandais (ex-FAR/interahamwe) and Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) that sought sanctuary in DRC, are the main causes of insecurity that have prompted armed incursions into DRC by b…
Salesforce.com is a CRM package as well as a Platform as a Service (PaaS). PaaS means the Salesforce platform can be used to build custom applications apart from a CRM. Salesforce.com is a SaaS plus PaaS. Software as a Service (SaaS) is used because of its ability to provide an out-of-the-box ruleset to manage CRM core functionalities, and PaaS is used because of the platform that can be used t…
The divorce revolution of the 1960s had two principal effects. One was in the enactment in most states of “no-fault” divorce laws, whereby marital breakdown either became the sole ground for divorce, as in California, or where a “no-fault” ground was added to the traditional “fault” grounds for divorce (adul- tery, extreme cruelty, and desertion), which were made much easier to prov…