Health Hero Makes Company Health Fun
Posted on April 8th, 2015 by RESCUECOM
There are abundant corporate health and wellness programs for companies to choose from, but it can be difficult to engage employees when these programs are either too complicated or too simple, and many employees cannot even describe their company’s wellness program. The idea behind Health Hero is to use the power of social media to connect people through an online community and use that power to help create long-term healthy habits they can sustain long-term. It is an innovative concept designed specifically for businesses and the benefits and insurance industry. Health Hero makes company health and wellness fun, social and competitive, even rewarding employees for participating. Read more »
The Internet gives us access to a great deal of information that we need, but it is extremely useful for people who prefer to use it for creative means. Bespoke is an app that its creators call “the creative browser for visual minds” that lets you discover, collect, save, and share creative visual content. The first step in the app’s use is using its specialized browser with built-in creative tools to browse the web rather than a standard browser, which is how a user can discover content online that he or she likes and wants to use. You simply enter a URL or search term the same as you would use any other browser, find the content you want to work with, and easily save and organize it into “books” that you can choose to share with others or keep private. If you do want to share what you see, there is a built-in “share” button directly connected to any page you are on that will allow you to post it directly to social media, send it in an email, or send it to one of your books so that you can add your own creative touches later. 
There has always been a push to apply the latest technology to education because it is one of the most important thing in anyone’s life, and while policies, textbooks, and technology may change, teachers are the one constant in learning. Plickers works to empower teachers everywhere with the tools and data they need to teach better and smarter. The app’s developers created it based on a belief that teachers should not have to teach blind, data should not be overwhelming, and students should not be afraid of being wrong. Learning can be more effective when educators can measure their progress and use data as a starting point, not just an ending metric. It is different from other education apps in several regards, but mainly in that it lets teachers collect real-time assessment data without the need for student devices. 
In so many aspects of life, persistence leads to mastery. Agnitus is an app with a curriculum that utilizes this principle, providing proven techniques to help build basic skills that eventually prepare your child to learn reading, writing and arithmetic. Agnitus encourages learning and development in children in a fun way using three main elements: skills, curriculum, and reports. Children not only get interactive games and books that they enjoy, parents can know just how much their child has improved, in what specific areas, and what remains to continue improving. Unlike others like it, this app will send you progress and performance reports so that you know what areas to work on with your child. Another difference is that it not only teaches mathematics and other school subjects, but it also works to teach children important life skills such as persistence. An age-specific learning program that grows with your child however old he or she is, it offers continued benefits for many years. 
With the rising popularity of ride-sharing apps and the increasingly competitive market for such service, it is clear that these apps, which allow for cheaper and easier vehicle sharing or carpooling, are here to stay. CabEasy is one such app with the distinction that its service is available specifically to university students, and it is more effective than others of its kind in connecting users with a community of drivers and riders that they know and trust. Also unlike these other apps, users are not using their personal vehicles. Instead, it is an effective way of getting fellow students to split the cost of a taxi when all are going to the same destination. Users can be “ride pioneers,” who post rides for other riders to join, or ride joiners, who respond to these posts. As many people can take advantage of a ride share as are able to fit in the taxi, and students can save a great deal of money by splitting the cost of the ride anywhere they want to go with the added safety of numbers. 
Interning is a business method that has been in use for a long time, and it is extremely effective in benefiting both sides involved. Interns get a great deal of valuable experience, and many are often hired where they perform their internships or move on to a more fitting opportunity. Conversely, companies get help that is usually competent without having to pay the same salary as a regular worker, if any at all. Now, there is a new way to apply technology to this process for potential interns and companies in order to make the best partnerships. StudyHall is a data-driven solution that ensures businesses can hire the best students, who in turn can get jobs with the best companies. It is a talent engine that connects the best college students looking for internship opportunities with companies that are hiring. It works by using a patented algorithm that ranks the top twenty-five students from colleges and universities across the United States into categories such as hackers and social media experts. 
Despite the continuously growing importance of online communication, many people find themselves forced to deal with a mass of unread emails at work. It is a well-known fact that professionals in certain businesses, executives in particular, may spend the vast majority of their time communicating with others. Being able to stay on top of correspondences, both internally and externally, has never been more important. Unified Inbox is a cloud-based communications solution that works to fix this problem by allowing you to receive all of your incoming communications in a single inbox on any device, and send and answer messages using the best channels for your contacts. This includes any social networks, SMS, email, voicemail, IM, postal, and more. Not only that, but Unified Inbox uses “LifeModes,” which apply any information users send according to the mode of life that a recipient is currently in, such as “work,” “relax,” or “holiday.” 
Apps, social media, and personal interest websites are a fragmented collection of what many people bounce from one thing to another in order to access. The number of products and services media outlets, amateur-enthusiast blogs, brand-owned social media streams, retail and e-commerce vendors provide is practically innumerable. For someone trying to navigate this world, particularly on mobile devices, the experience can be daunting. Enter Krush, a single online destination for all of your interests. While so many channels fail to extensively reach the growing community of new and independent brands seeking to connect with a massive potential online fan base, Krush meets a growing need for any lifestyle. Its creators refer to it as “the lifestyle-driven marketplace,” where you can discover products and brands, build your personal style, influence the community and get involved with the creative process. It offers a vastly improved mobile shopping experience, one that is social at its core. 
Many people love to travel, and some simply must travel a lot for business. While going to conferences and meetings keeps many businesspeople quite busy on the road, there is a good amount of downtime that can present quite a challenge. While some planning a vacation may investigate a bit ahead of time, travelers are ultimately in cites that they are completely unfamiliar with unless they have visited previously. Services such as TripAdvisor are useful to a point, but much more is possible. This is where Voyajo comes in, giving you a deeper insight into the local scene wherever you go. It is a state-of-the-art world trip planner tool offering thousands of global destinations across six continents for planning your custom trip route and hundreds of ready-to-use trips designed by members and travel experts. 
Media spending on outdoor advertising reaches into the billions and continues to grow. ADstruc’s developers tout it as the easiest way to plan and buy outdoor advertising, bringing this potentially lucrative business further into the online marketplace. The startup works to make it easier for existing buyers to find and procure outdoor ad inventory and, beyond that, to increase the number of buyers of ad campaigns using outdoor advertising. In essence, ADstruc’s service could make buying billboards easy by offering a tech platform that automates some of the media planning and buying process.