It's not every day one of my clients makes the news

"MRSA infections troubling, but not surprising"

Stories By DAWN ZERA Times Leader Correspondent

An antibiotic-resistant infection nicknamed MRSA, an acronym for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infection, has made headlines recently. But local medical professionals have known for years that there has been an increase in patients with MRSA.

Kevin Buck, principal of California-based Emergent Success , conducted training sessions on MRSA last week at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Plains Township.

Continue reading at timesleader.com

Emergent Success Launches ES-Extranet, an Innovative Online Collaboration Tool

SOURCE: Emergent Success, Inc.

Sep 26, 2007 14:32 ET

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - September 26, 2007 ) - Emergent Success Inc. today announced the launch of ES-Extranet a proprietary web-based collaboration tool for use by their clients, partners and consultants. Since the email "inbox" was not designed as a collaborative work environment, this technological solution creates the open space where discussion, calendaring, asset sharing and other collaborative activities are easily practiced and navigated.

Emergent Success, Inc. is a collaborative consulting company that facilitates dialogues to assist clients in solving their real-time problems. Even though the preference is to do this work in vivo, the addition of the ES-Extranet will allow anyone involved in a current collaboration to participate in an asynchronous manner. The principals at Emergent Success believe that in the same way that there is enormous value in gathering people together for in-person dialogues, there is also significant value to "virtual" dialogues. Principal Kevin Buck explains "Experience has shown that to engage people with an online tool once you have engaged them in person maximizes any collective effort -- it is not an either/or, but a both/and."

With an eye to collaborative integrity, Emergent Success engaged with David Muro, designer, and Jules Gravinese, web developer, to co-create this new tool. Each brought the best of their knowledge and experience to bear as they developed the intuitive feel and ease of use of this online workspace. Since collaborations are an iterative process, we look forward to the ongoing learning for our company, consultants and clients.

About Emergent Success, Inc.

Emergent Success assists clients to solve their real-time issues by liberating the collective wisdom, talent and energy from within their organization for the emergence of strategic success. Its senior consultants facilitate collaborative dialogues that create systemic integration amongst the unintended silos present in most organizations. The Company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA with consultants located across the United States. www.emergentsuccess.com

New Demo Posted: JavaScript driven real-time image blur

I took the blur used in the the Javascript based real-time image reflector demo to a higher level.

Thinking of how an art program might blur an image, I came up with a rather simple sounding solution. Replot the same image off-center with a certain amount of opacity many times. With that solution, why couldn't it be done with javascript? It can! Take a look...
View the Javascript based real-time blur demo

Compressed Prototype and Scriptaculous

Just a little site news. Don't get too excited.

WebVeteran.com is now using the compressed versions of Scriptaculous and Prototype , as packaged by Steve Kallestad .

I've opted to use prototype.js 1.50 rc2 and scriptaculous 1.7 beta 2 because:

  • These versions of both packages together do not exhibit some flaws is later versions
  • This compressed version... actually works.
So go ahead and enjoy a webveteran.com that loads 130KB faster =)

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