Christine Woods is the President of Carolinas Captioning & Real-Time Text Service and co-developer of the 1Capapp, which she created with C. Jeanette Christian of 20/20 Captioning & stenoCART. Carolinas Captioning is headquartered in North Carolina and offers real-time text transcription; real-time closed captioning; off-line roll-up captions; real-time text … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2013
How to Create an Amazing Infographic
Today, "infographic" has become a generic term for all information visualizations, but the true definition of an infographic is a data visualization. They should tell a story and visually lead the audience through an organized structure of data and theories. They should also look great. Those are just a few of the suggestions that Brian Wallace of NowSourcing, Inc. shares in … [Read more...]
A Lack of Gender Diversity in Leadership Is Hurting Companies
In a new research study, Women Wanted: How a Renewed Focus on Culture Can Break the Diversity Stalemate, PA Consulting Group analyzed the performance and workplace equality of 50 leading organizations to determine what the relationship is between high-performance cultures, the number of women executive teams, and the gender diversity challenge. The research team focused on … [Read more...]
Men Receive Bonuses 3 Times Higher Than Women in Finance Industry
A new survey by Lloyd Morgan, a recruitment agency, found that men in the finance sector in Australia are not only more likely to receive bonuses than women (52% for men vs. 44% for women) but those bonuses are also triple the amount paid to women. To make matters worse, the bonus gap in the finance sector is actually increasing. Last year, the gender pay gap in finance … [Read more...]