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Innovium Capital Corp.(TSX VENTURE: IN) announces that one of its investments, Seed Media Group, an emerging science media and entertainment company, has issued a fundraising challenge to visitors of its scienceblogs.com digital network. The challenge, enabled through DonorsChoose as part of their BloggersChoose initiative, allows bloggers and their readers to select and fund science projects for teachers and their students across the United States. To support this effort, Seed Media Group has pledged to match the first $10,000 raised during this project.

"At Seed Media Group and ScienceBlogs, our ambition is to improve science literacy," said Adam Bly, Founder and CEO. "By putting the fundraising and grassroots power of blogs to work, we can have an immediate impact on science education across the country."

The initiative at ScienceBlogs.com is called ...

Alesha Coleman, 18, of Philomath, Ore., is tasting sweet success, as she now is the proud owner of a MaggieMoo's International Treatery franchise, one of the top franchises in the super-premium ice cream category.

Named the winner of the MaggieMoo's and The Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL) Business Plan Writing Contest, Coleman was awarded the MaggieMoo's franchise on Thursday, June 29, at the opening session of the FBLA 2006 National Leadership Conference in Nashville, Tenn.

"I am so excited to be joining the MaggieMoo's family," said Coleman. "I can't wait to open my own Treatery and implement the ideas I presented in my business plan. Look out Oregon, MaggieMoo's is coming!"

FBLA-PBL members throughout the country were invited to submit a formal business plan for opening and operating a MaggieMoo's Treatery. The contest winner was awarded the choice of a MaggieMoo's franchise -- MaggieMoo's will waive the $30,000 franchise fee -- or a $10...

BlumbergExcelsior Inc., a leading provider of business and legal stationery, received three Certificates of Excellence on June 21 at the Engraved Stationery Contest sponsored by the International Engraved Graphics Association (IEGA). All three certificates were received for 100% engraved corporate identity systems that included engraved letterheads, envelopes and business cards.

Joe Maronna, Executive Vice President at Blumberg, said, "IEGA judges look for design excellence and quality of reproduction. I'm proud of our craftsmen at both of our engraved stationery printing plants since two of the winning engraved stationery packages were printed at our facility in Menands, New York and the third at our plant in Orlando, Florida." Blumberg has a third facility in Arlington, Texas that specializes in printing lithographic and thermographic professional and business stationery.

Jim Alimena, Director of Marketing added, "We...

Sage Software today introduced Client 1, Endeavor Commerce, InaPlex and QGate as Sage CRM Solutions Premiere Technology Partners. Premiere partners develop technology solutions that integrate with Sage Software Mid-Market CRM products including Sage CRM, SageCRM.com and Sage CRM SalesLogix to expand the automation of specific business processes and database administration capabilities. Six new value-add solutions addressing data cleansing and de-duplication, phone integration and quote-to-order processing have been designed by these partners.

"Premiere partners have a market-proven record of success enhancing CRM for our customers," said Elvin Monteleone, senior vice president and general manager for Sage Software CRM Solutions. Aligning with partners of this caliber brings even greater value to our customers. Our flexible CRM products can easily integrate with these best-of-breed applications that represent the highest quality offerings in their functional categories. We are commi...

Sage Software announced today the addition of seven new national business partners to the company's North American National Partner program: Atlantic Software Alliance; Automated Accounting Solutions (K & R Consulting/M&M Sales); BCS-Prosoft; Delphia Consulting; Dynamic Software Solutions; JMT Consulting Group; and NFP Consultants. National Partners offer superior support to small and mid-sized business customers by providing more resources and experience with a wider variety of Sage Software products and services.

"Sage Software is acutely aware that our success ultimately relies on the success of our 2.6 million customers in North America," said Taylor Macdonald, Sage Software executive vice president of channel and sales operations. "National Partners are strategically important, because they have a greater pool of experts that know how Sage Software can improve productivity for our mutual customers."

Sage Software National Partners have a minimum of three offices wi...

IPLogic, a leading communications technology solutions provider, today announced that the company was recognized as the fourth fastest growing company in Western New York by the Buffalo Business First in the FastTrack 50 awards. A June 15th reception revealed the publication's annual list, which is based on employee and total sales growth during the last three years. Since 2003, IPLogic has grown from 56 to 115 employees and has seen sales increase by 350 percent. The top three companies on the list were B2 Technologies, Golden Hire Consulting and MVP Networking.

"We truly appreciate the opportunity to be recognized alongside our peers for building a successful business in Western New York," said Kevin Kelly, IPLogic's vice president of sales and marketing and CMO. "This recognition and the recent VARBusiness awards are truly a reflection of our hard working employees and our proven ability to provide our ...

Venture capitalists meeting at the Venture Forum's first Silicon Valley event, June 28-29, will explore the $1.6 billion worldwide VC investment in clean technology and its implications for technology innovation and economic growth. The annual event, in its 11th year, (http://www.theventureforum.com/) will be held at the San Jose Convention Center. Registration for the two-day event is $795, at http://www.theventureforum.com/registration.asp.

Leading the examination of cleantech will be cleantech investment pioneer, Ira Ehrenpreis, General Partner at Technology Partners, a 20-year-old VC firm which made one of the first cleantech investments more than a decade ago. Half of Technology Partners' current Fund VII is dedicated to cleantech. Ehrenpreis leads the firm's cleantech practice and has served as Chairman of the Cleantech Venture Network Advisory Board and...

Close to 1,000 technology, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and life science innovators, venture capital firms, government agency representatives and corporate investors will meet in San Jose June 28th and 29th at The Venture Forum's (http://www.theventureforum.com/) annual event to connect early stage innovators with funding sources. Since its inception 11 years ago, The Venture Forum has facilitated $600 million in venture capital, corporate and government investment, thereby helping innovators move high-value technologies closer to commercialization.

"The venture capital funding stream has begun to flow again, so we felt the timing was right to move The Venture Forum from Los Angeles to Silicon Valley, the epicenter of innovation," says Rohit Shukla, founder of the Los Angeles-based Larta Institute which sponsors The Venture Forum.

During the two-day event, the Venture Forum will "offer seed and startup capital investors a glimpse i...

MWW Group (www.mww.com), one of the nation's top ten public relations firms, is the recipient of this year's prestigious Silver Anvil Award, sponsored by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). The firm won top honors in Marketing Consumer Services/Financial Services for its "Keep the Change" campaign, implemented on behalf of Bank of America. The Silver Anvil, which recognizes outstanding achievement in strategic public relations planning and implementation, was presented during the Silver Anvil Awards Evening held June 8 in New York City. MWW Group was also presented with Bronze Anvils for its public relations initiatives on behalf of Amazon.com and the Christopher Reeve Foundation.

"We are deeply honored to win the prestigious Silver and Bronze Anvils and I am extremely proud of our team for leading three incredible campaigns," said Michael W. Kempner, president and CEO of MWW Group. "The Silver Anvil is regarded as the preeminent achi...

Today, Lumetra announced L. Allison Snow, MHA, an accomplished healthcare leader, has joined the organization as Vice President for Quality and Performance Improvement. In this new role, Ms. Snow will lead Lumetra's business unit responsible for providing strategic quality improvement consulting to California's nursing homes, physician offices, hospitals, and home health agencies.

Prior to joining Lumetra, Ms. Snow was the California Regional Director for Clinical Quality Improvement and Clinical Process Improvement at Tenet Healthcare. At Tenet, Ms. Snow was responsible for the strategic direction, development, implementation, and results for clinical, quality, utilization, and operational services and staff for 20 acute healthcare systems. In addition, Ms. Snow was responsible for leading the organization to 100 percent compliance with the American Heart Association's "Get With the Guidelines" campaign; achieving five-star status from Health Grades; and developing and implementin...