Intranets and Portals
– What are they? How do they work? How are Intranets and Portals used
in day to day activities across different industries and environments?

Each Tuesday from 2:00 - 4:00 PM REI holds REALNEO planning and
orientation sessions. These sessions are free and open to anyone
interested in this initiative - and excellent time to work with
volunteers on your Community Of Interest Links - feel free to come

Tuesday@REI: April 12: "The Gehry designed Peter B. Lewis portal to Industrial Innovation in NEO"

How do personal characteristics such as
intelligence, education and wealth contribute to disparate health outcomes?

Linda S. Gottfredson, Ph.D., professor
of education at the University of Delaware, and co-director of the
Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society, will
discuss this and related issues at the next program in the lecture series,
"Prescriptions for Change: Reducing Health Disparities in Our Community,"
presented by the Roundtable Community Council, a program of the Greater
Cleveland Partnership, and the Center for Health Disparities, a collaboration
between MetroHealth Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University.

The program will be held from 7:30-9:30 a.m., Wed., April 13, at The
City Club of Cleveland, 850 Euclid Avenue. It is sponsored by the St. Luke's and
Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundations. Tickets are $15 for City Club members and
nonmembers.

Register
here.
Dr.
Gottfredson has written extensively on the impact of general intelligence on
personal functioning in different life domains, including in school, on the job
and in health self-care. Among her recent publications is an article in Current Directions in Psychological
Science,
co-written in 2004 with Ian J. Deary of the University of
Edinburgh (Scotland), examining the theory that intelligence (as measured by an
IQ-type test) enhances individuals' care of their own health, because it
represents learning, reasoning and problem-solving skills useful in preventing
chronic disease and accidental injury and in adhering to complex treatment
regimens.

Creating Web User Interfaces that Work - After 10 years of changing web design trends, the
enduring truth is that web sites are most successful when form and function work
seamlessly together. A website’s orientation, the clarity of layout and
terminology, and a common-sense, visitor-oriented approach are consistently
rewarded by internal and external customers.

Work on your finance, marketing or business plans
twice a month at the E4S Study Hall Night. Working on your business is hard to
do when the demands of working in your business overwhelm your work day. Why not
commit to working on your business plans two nights a month with your friends at
E4S. You can work alone or bounce ideas off your peers. We will invite local
business development experts to be on hand to help answer your questions.

E4S Members in the Start-up, First Growth or Established Business categories
who are interested in finding time to work ON your business not just IN your
business.

David Cutler, professor of economics at Harvard University’s
Economics Department and the Kennedy School of Government, will deliver
the annual Howard T. McMyler Lecture. He will discuss the U.S. health
care system in a lecture, entitled “Your Money or Your Life� and
co-hosted by the Economics Department of Case’s Weatherhead School
of Management and by the Center for Health Care Research and Policy.
The talk will take place on Thursday April 14, 2005, 3:30 p.m. in the
Clark Room at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens. It is free and open to
the public

Community
Partnership for Arts and Culture and COSE Present:
The Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute

The growing visibility of sustainable development
creates new opportuinities for NEO. We have a strong foundation of
organizations committed to sustainability. We have a thick network of
committed civic entrepreneurs who know a lot about these issues. We can
move forward with an aggressive sustainable development agenda in NEO.

In support of the The Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute, held April 15 & 16 at CSU, there is a networking event, allowing current AEI “students� to get to know “graduates� and other artists in the community.

If you have any
questions please feel free to contact us at cpac2001 [at] aol [dot] com

Community
Partnership for Arts and Culture and COSE Present:
The Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute

The NEO Telework roundtable will expand the open source dialogue on
redefining Northeast Ohio as the world-leader in telecommuting - please
come together at this special Tuesday@REI.

Entrepreneurs for Sustainability (E4S) has
been collecting information about its members and who is in their
networks. At the April 19 E4S meeting, social networking expert Valdis
Krebs will unveil what this network looks like. And EcoCity Cleveland's
David Beach will discuss the potential for a GreenCityBlueLake Network
- a new network identity to provide context for sustainability in
Northeast Ohio.
5:30 - 8 p.m. Great Lakes Brewing Co. Tasting Room on Carroll Ave.
Click here for updated information or to register (free).

An Invitation to Discuss Regionalism on April 21
Please share this
email with your email lists. Thanks!

Regionalism. What does it mean? And
what does it mean for the nonprofit

Global marketing and global visibility are key competitive advantages in the global manufacturing market.  Please join us for discussions on:

• Global Supply Chain Management
• Lean Supply Strategies
  • Supplier Portal Advantages
    • Lean Time Reduction
    • Reduction in Transaction Processing Costs
    • Non-value added tasks eliminated
    • Inventory Reduction
    • Perfection Shipments from Suppliers Increased
• Local Case Studies
  • Bendix CVS
  • TS Trim Industries
• Lean Solution Demonstration
  • e-Ventus Supplier Portal

Discover how to increase Your Effectiveness, Efficiency & Competitive Edge

Drive velocity, visibility & value into your supply chain with a supplier portal and dramatically improve:

• Customer Cervice
• Inventory Turns
• Procurement Costs

Companies around the globe are experiencing the benefits of the e-Ventus Supplier Portal.  Read about one local client's success in the 2005 Winter Edition of the BaaN World Users Newsletter.

You are Invited to a

Resident Artist Showcase

April 25

Designing an open network to facilitate sustainability

This workshop will explore how an open network can provide a
strong identity and support collaborative action for sustainability in
Northeast Ohio. What would the network look like? What would it do?
What services would be needed to make everyone more effective?
Help design the action plan!
2 - 4 p.m. Cleveland Museum of Art, Recital Hall & Lower Level
classrooms.
Cosponsored by the Case Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI) and
EcoCity Cleveland (free).

April 26th, at 2
PM, at Burke Lakefront Airport, will be the first formal meeting of "Greater Cleveland Lead Advisory Council" (GCLAC) - this
meeting will be working sessions... action
oriented - time for talking and planning has passed.

Date and time:
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
4 - 6 PM
Levin College Atrium, Glickman-Miller Hall
1717 Euclid Avenue.

Wednesday's East Cleveland Extending Community Home Online (ECHO) meeting will be held from 9:30 to 11:00 AM at the McGregor Home - see http://www.mcgregoramasa.org/guest.asp and below for directions. We shall be the guests of McGregor CEO and President Rob Hilton, who will join us to discuss transforming the quality of life for seniors in this community.

 Advanced tips, strategies and techniques for building relationships and
growing your business. Sandra Yancey, Founder & CEO, eWomenNetwork,
is the featured speaker, along with special guests Kim Wheeler,
WKYC/Channel 3 News Anchor and Elizabeth Oliver, District President,
Key Bank.
Meet and interact with other dynamic women who want to learn about you
and support the growth of your business; Experience our Accelerated
Networkingâ„¢ process that allows you to promote who you are and what you
have to offer. Time: 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. $45 members. $65 nonmembers. 440-527-0480

NSF DAY at CSU
CSU Hosts National Science Foundation Regional Conference

On April 29, 2005, the National Science Foundation will be at Cleveland
State Uninversity. CSU is hosting this one-day workshop for the Northeast

A lifelong Cleveland
resident, Stuart Muszynski, cofounder and CEO of Project Love Remember
the Children Foundation, was a successful insurance executive until he
was struck with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 1992. His difficult
recovery and discovery of his family’s past in Poland is chronicled in
his book "Searching for Values: A Grandmother, a Grandson and the
Discovery of Goodness."

Ronald J. Alsop
News Editor and Senior Writer, The Wall Street Journal

Thomas V. Chema
President, Hiram College

Find out how and why in what will be the first Northeast Ohio Teleworking Summit sponsored by Regional Economic Issues (REI) @ Case, to be held Monday, May 9th from 8 AM to noon at the Metropolitan Campus of Cuyahoga Community College in downtown Cleveland. Directions to the event may be found at:

Everyone talks about ROI but how do you measure it in the online world. A panel discussion of this critical but hard to define question.

Senior Vice President, Consumer Health and Medical Care Advancement, UnitedHealth Group

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