Publicity

Publicity and final preparations were well underway before our arrival, and are now getting perfected as we are down to the final days.  Next Friday's final presentation will be a formal event with each team presenting a summary of their proposed solutions.
Recently our local contact advised there will be a simultaneous translator available, with ear plug-ins and all equipment around that is required. We will be able to speak in English with no interruptions, while the clients, key players, and Gov't representatives will get our information in their local language.
After finding ourselves both in the IBM Brazil Intranet news and the local Diario de Pernambuco, there will be even more publicity for us and our clients which aids the NGO's to get into the right public focus & support their goals.

http://www.diariodepernambuco.com.br/nota.asp?Materia=20120522115947

Via Google Translate:

Developing skills of business management, by enhancing or creating technological tools such as websites, spreadsheets and other services performed by nonprofit organizations (NGOs), is the intent of the program Corporate Services Corps (CSC) from IBM, which landed with approximately 15 professionals on the last Monday in Recife.

With the project, the company hopes not only to integrate their professional work undertaken by these organizations in Pernambuco, as well as exploring the potential of the state to market of new information technologies, already recognized internationally.

One of the institutions favored by the selection of the U.S. company is the Children's House Project - Pernambuco organization that develops supportive activities focused on the reform of shelters and artistic skills of young people at least 10 years.

According to the managing partner of the NGO - Patricia Chalaca,  the visit will allow an expansion and better management of services provided by the organization as well as having a better control of the activity performed by volunteers as the hospital Unimed Aracaju, which maintains a partnership with the Institute since 2010, for assistance in the health of children and youth in the city. "The four weeks that the three IBM employees here will serve to improve our online service, which now boasts 16 member institutions, in order to clarify the data of social invested in these places," says Patricia.

To Alcely Barroso, the IBM Executive of Citizenship in Brazil, the project, which has featured the participation of 145 employees aims, and to promote an exchange of expertise between the professional manufacturer of computer peripherals international and local organizations, the promotion of culture solidarity and development of the entrepreneurial potential of these institutions. "Since 1999, we developed this project, and has given enough results with regard to optimizing the services offered by NGOs The employees come from 15 different countries and how Troop Corporate Social Action plan to solve the problems through the development of sites and optimization of the channels of these organizations with new technologies, among them, social networking, "she confirms.

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