Do you want to know what’s really happening throughout East and South East Orlando? Would you like to be informed when something is going on in your neighborhood? Insight Magazine is taking the next step in social media integration with their Insight Street Tweet Team on popular social media Web site, Twitter. The magazine is taking to the streets to deliver local news in real time to residents who subscribe to their respective neighborhoods starting this July. Twitter will allow residents who sign up to receive instant updates on their neighborhoods thanks to a new initiative by Insight Magazine. “The idea is to make news available... [Read more]
It has never been easier than it is today to have a personal online presence. Web sites like MySpace, Facebook, blogs and all sorts of other social sites allow anyone to easily share and publish anything online. People are uploading videos to YouTube.com, sharing photos on Flickr.com and finding interesting news on Digg.com. Consider going online and joining a community of like-minded people if you haven’t done so already. It can be a lot of fun and, honestly, quite rewarding. You can connect with your friends both locally and long distance. I’ve found that being online has not only strengthened local friendships, but I’ve also... [Read more]
It’s official, text messaging isn’t just for teens and college students anymore. A recent mobile market report found 50% of text users are aged 35 or older. No surprise, it also reported 75% are aged 25 and up. Verizon Wireless was recently the first American carrier to report the average SMS (Short Message Service) text messages sent by its subscriber base had passed one SMS sent per phone subscriber per day. “There are more than 255 million mobile phone users in the U.S. alone,” says Scott Meyer, senior partner of MyTxtConnect, a local Orlando text-based marketing company. “That’s roughly 85% of the population, and almost all... [Read more]
Opportunities in Information Technology (IT) continue to grow here in East Orlando. With businesses that already call Orlando home as well as those moving into the area, technology is playing a major role in how business is conducted. Today Orlando hosts a $13.4 billion technology industry that employs close to 53,000 people. Some of the leading segments include digital media; optics and photonics; modeling, simulation and training; aviation/aerospace; homeland security/defense; and information technology. In addition, the Burnham Institute is projected to create 300 research jobs, the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Medical School will... [Read more]
One of the original tech companies to blaze a path to Central Florida was Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin’s history dates back to 1909 when Glenn L. Martin organized a company around an airplane construction business. The Glenn L. Martin Company merged with American-Marietta Corporation in 1961 to become Martin Marietta, and then in 1995 with Lockheed Corporation to form the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Employing more than 4,800, the Lockheed Martin Orlando facility has been a part of the East Orlando community since the 1960s. The company has seen much growth while helping shape Orlando into a technology mega-center. Insight Magazine had the... [Read more]
