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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Abel Solutions gives Hands On assistance
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tech workers have a rep for spending long hours in the server room, in front of the terminal or in the lab, but one of the things we found in launching this feature is that lots of you are really involved in the community.
Abel Solutions, for instance, an Alpharetta IT company, is deeply involved with Hands on Atlanta, the community volunteering initiative, and encourages its employees to get involved in their communities as they see fit.
About 10 of the company’s 17 employees traveled to McLendon Elementary School in Decatur on Oct. 7 to remove overgrowth, plant flowers and shrubs and generally help beautify the grounds of the 48-year-old school.
It’s the sixth year the company has been involved in the annual volunteer day, co-founder Kevin Abel said.
How do you and your company get involved?
PHOTO CAPTION: Abel Solutions co-founder Kevin Abel and his son, Eric, haul debris at McLendon Elementary. (Photo by MICHAEL PEARSON)
Gadgets: Something for the golfers
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
What is it? A GPS range finder for golfers
Why do you gotta have it? It can calculate how far you are from up to 40 targets on any hole on almost any golf course while you sip a cold one, talk on the phone and watch your friend drop a nasty shot into the sand trap, that’s why. And with an additional annual membership, you can use it on virtually any golf course, whether or not it’s equipped with GPS technology.
Who’s gotta have it? Marcus Graham of Roswell, and about a zillion other golfers who just can’t quite get their minds, or their spouses, wrapped around spending nearly $400 on another golf gadget. “But this thing is really cool,� Graham pleads. We’re with you, brother.
Where can you get it? www.skygolfgps.com.
Is there a glitzy, shiny gadget out there that you’ve just gotta have? E-mail mpearson@ajc.com and maybe we’ll write about it.
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High praise for ChoicePoint
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
OK, so consumer and privacy advocates are a little lukewarm, but a major voice in the gay, bisexual and transgender community says Alpharetta’s ChoicePoint is A-OK.
The Human Rights Campaign has given the company a perfect 100 on its corporate equality index.
According to the Washington-based anti-discrimination group, ChoicePoint was one of 138 companies nationwide that received perfect scores for their treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees, customers and investors.
ChoicePoint, which collects and sells personal data, made news worldwide last year after revealing it had unintentionally sold personal data to identity thieves.
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A fine day to look for a new employer
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
How confident are you in your tech job? And if you’re looking, particularly on the Northside, how does the market feel?
As many as 500 people turned out at a recent technology job fair at Cobb Galleria Center, and despite some concerns about their current positions being outsourced or unsteady conditions in the contract market, most said they were optimistic about their prospects.
How about you?
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Job sends pair to 7 cities, 2 continents
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A couple of employees for a Roswell firm, Witness Systems, spend a month in Asia every year touting their business and its brand of workforce optimization. They just got back from this year’s trip, and they’re still working off the jetlag. It’s an experience one of them, Bill Durr, says he’d never have had a chance to have if he wasn’t working for the company.
The Texas resident made it through the coup in Thailand unscatched, while his partner, Ocsar Alban of East Cobb, learned to eat chicken feet and had a chance for a sit down with an Australian aborigine.
Assuming you ever get out from under that pile of work you’ve got in front of you, how has working in the tech industry changed your outlook and life?
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