Vivecoach launches gaming application designed to bring fun to corporate wellness.

Menlo Park, CA – Vivecoach recently launched its web- and mobile-based wellness challenge application to help companies engage employees in improving their health and well-being.  Gaming is rapidly evolving and changing the way people live all aspects of their lives.  Vivecoach’s application brings gaming to productive use in the workplace in the form of wellness challenges and competitions. 

Some examples of Vivecoach challenges include weight loss, walking (steps using pedometers), minutes of exercise, nutrition, and “Cold Turkey” challenges where participants give up things like dessert, junk food, or soda for a week at a time.  Vivecoach challenges incorporate gaming mechanics that make it rewarding and fun for individuals to participate: Challenge Walls for social engagement, real-time Leaderboards to spur competitive spirit, social and tangible Rewards, and a Personal Achievements section where people can be recognized for their progress, earn points and badges, and share their challenge successes on Facebook.

Corporations can drive employee engagement by linking challenges to corporate culture, teaming, and community building.  Vivecoach challenges are easy to customize and deploy.  They can be launched company-wide, or for any size employee group. Further, any employee can create his or her own challenge and invite colleagues to join. The viral nature of Vivecoach’s challenges drives high levels of engagement.

To date, many corporations that have invested in wellness programs have seen decreases in absenteeism and medical costs, but overall employee engagement and effects on the bottom have remained low.  “Companies have been trying to find the silver bullet for engagement and resulting behavior change and have so far been unsuccessful.” explains co-founder and CEO Doug Keare. “The only thing way to make it work is to tap into employee interests and make it fun” he adds.

Vivecoach  is a web-based application that works on any computer with internet, and on all mobile platforms including standard cell phones via text messaging, and as a web-based application on iPhones, Android-based smart phones, and tablets such as the Apple iPad or Samsung Galaxy.  Vivecoach requires no integration with existing data systems and can be customized to meet the needs of each client.

Vivecoach is currently deployed in leading Silicon Valley companies and is selling its service into companies with 1000 or more employees.  Pricing is on a per-employee-per-month basis with rates based on the size of the employee population and Vivecoach covers dependents for free.

About Vivecoach

Vivecoach, founded in 2008 in Menlo Park, California brings gaming to work.   Vivecoach’s fun web- and mobile-based corporate challenge platform helps corporations engage employees in any behavior change. Challenges bring gaming benefits to any activity where competition among individuals or teams, or even a group goal, can be used to motivate desired behaviors.  Vivecoach has combined the universal appeal of gaming with the convenience of mobility and the power of employee initiative to help corporations drive organization performance.

Putting Online- and Mobile-Gaming to Productive Use in the Corporate Environment.
www.vivecoach.com.

Environmentally conscious certified green recycler goes for gold in a tight economy

& B Enterprises is helping technology manufacturers generate cash flow during tough times while being environmentally conscious. The Green certified company buys electronics technology scraps and recycles the metals.

There’s gold, silver, platinum and other recyclable assets in the waste generated by electronics firms during the

manufacturing process which end up in landfills if they are not properly recycled. Up to 99 percent of these metals can be reclaimed by J&B.

Their facility processing capabilities include chemical stripping, melting, thermal oxidation, and base-metal recycling. In addition to gold, silver, platinum, and palladium, J&B also recovers copper, aluminum, tin, and lead.

J&B Enterprises has been maximizing the value of recyclable assets from makers of, semiconductor chips, printed circuit boards, microwave components, opto-electronics and other electronic products for more than 30 years.

“Companies could be losing twice by unknowingly throwing valuable materials in the dumpster and then paying someone to haul them away,” says Ken Epsman, president of J&B Enterprises. “We can perform a facility survey and identify materials containing precious metals that currently may be headed for the landfill.”

J&B Enterprises can also validate the efficiency of a company’s current precious metals recycler by running a side-by-side trial to make certain they are receiving the maximum value of reclaimed metals.

In addition, J&B can perform a one-stop recycling service, consolidating the number of suppliers and contracts that companies must deal with, improving operating efficiency.

Maximizing return is important, but not at the expense of the environment. J&B has gone to great lengths to ensure a clean, safe, and healthy environment. Its 22,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley looks more like a lab than a recycling center. “We provide environmentally safe precious metals reclamation,” says Epsman.

San Jose Green Data Center Company Launches Industry Leading High Efficiency Data Center Equipment Line

Green Rack Systems, Inc. (www.greenracksystems.com/) has announced a new green data center equipment line designed to help reduce IT system budgets while significantly reducing environmental impact at the same time.  An industry-leading team of data center experts backed by more than 50 years of combined experience, Green Rack Systems understands the incredible amount of energy required to run a full-scale computer data center.  Even small, in-house computer server and data systems can consume astonishing levels of energy in the span of a year’s time.  However, thanks to an ever-increasing demand for “green,” energy efficient systems, with its new low-power line of data center equipment, Green Rack Systems is now able to design, install, and maintain energy efficient data centers that consume just a tiny fraction of the resources previously required for full-scale IT rollouts.

“Our goal is changing the way data centers are built and operated, finally creating a 100% green solution for our customers” explains Mt. Gard, Technical Director of Green Rack Systems, Inc.  “From converting an existing data center setup to building brand new all-green turnkey solutions, Green Rack is proud to combine traditional green technology, such as recycled steel and plastic, with our cutting-edge data center equipment, which includes low-power consuming processors and memory, ultra high-efficiency power supplies, and even co-location in a completely solar-powered data center.”  Green Rack Systems is helping to lead the way the industry is adapting as going green becomes increasingly necessary. 

Through the cutting-edge low-power line of data center equipment just released, including low-wattage multi-core CPUs, low-voltage memory, low-power hard drives, and ultra-low consumption power supplies, Green Rack Systems is able to save customers more money than ever while significantly helping the environment at the same time.  Plus, as a business-to-business service provider, Green Rack Systems delivers a highly sought after 100% green solution to their customers; in turn, these customers are able to fulfill the demands and promises of being green to their own end-user customers.

San Jose, California based Green Rack Systems, specializes in creating, building, and servicing energy efficient “green” large-scale data center deployments for a variety of industries.   Relying on an expert team of data center engineers, the company enables green data centers across the nation.  For more information, call (408) 213-8144 or visit http://www.greenracksystems.com/.