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Hawaii State Business Apps Earn Top International Award

Posted: 6/5/2012 Awards
Awards

The State of Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) was recently honored with two awards for its suite of mobile business applications. The mobile apps are the first of their kind worldwide and the first mobile apps launched by thestate.

The International Association of Commercial Administrators (IACA) awarded a prestigious 2012 Merit Awardfor Outstanding Innovation, one of the top international honors for business registries, to DCCA’s Business Registration…
Read more… Hawaii State Business Apps Earn Top International Award

DCCA BREG Wins IACA Merit Award

Posted: 6/1/2012 Awards
Awards

The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs’ (DCCA) Business Registration Division (BREG) received a 2012 Merit Award for its mobile application suite from the International Association of Commercial Administrators (IACA) at its annual conference. The award was presented at the annual IACA conference in Williamsburg, Virginia on May 21, 2012.

Per the IACA web site, the winners were evaluated based upon each project’s magnitude of change, time to implement, cost,…
Read more… DCCA BREG Wins IACA Merit Award

June Events

Posted: 5/30/2012 Volunteering
Volunteering

The official event for June will be a He’eia Stream Restoration near Kaneohe. Lynn will be the leader on this one as Rosie will be off clearing some trails with DLNR this same day.

Also, there is another beach cleanup on Sunday if anyone would like to go as an unofficial event. Beach cleanups are a blast, we had a great time at our first one and even got free…
Read more… June Events

Summary of May “George-a-pa-looza!”

Posted: 5/30/2012 Volunteering
Volunteering

Just a quick wrap up from the events in May.

Saturday

Rosie’s H.U.R.T. group put on a ‘Run for George!’ event Saturday morning. They ended up raising almost $7,000, every cent of which went to her buddy George who is battling cancer. About 75 runners come out and Rosie baked some impressive ‘George’ cake pops all while helping her friend Steve organize where the event. She also wore the famed…
Read more… Summary of May “George-a-pa-looza!”

DCCA BREG Wins Best Government Mobile Website

Posted: 5/5/2012 Awards
Awards

The Web Marketing Association presented the 2012 Mobile Web award for Best Government Mobile Website to Hawaii’s Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs for their business registration mobile app. Owners of the over 120,000 registered Hawaii businesses and anyone who needs to access business entity information for Hawaii businesses can now leverage any mobile platform (iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry) to gain access to the the State of Hawaii’s Business…
Read more… DCCA BREG Wins Best Government Mobile Website

New Event… Coin Drive

Posted: 3/28/2012 Volunteering
Volunteering

So we’ve been thinking… we really want to do a coin drive, but with a purpose. Something tangible we can move towards so we know where the coins we are donating are going. Plus we want to restrict it to a charity in Hawaii and ideally do another sort of adoption. We looked at adopting a reef, but that ended up being something in the realm of $10k +. Then…
Read more… New Event… Coin Drive

Waimea Valley Volunteer Day & Shoe Drive Wrap Up

Posted: 3/17/2012 Volunteering
Volunteering

On our Waimea day, Rosie was the first to arrive and spent 30 minutes wandering about and seeing peacocks walking all over like they owned the place and roosting in crazy high trees. The rest of HIC then started to arrive and Hoku, our volunteer organizer, came out to greet us. We didn’t find out till later in the day that it was actually supposed to be his day off,…
Read more… Waimea Valley Volunteer Day & Shoe Drive Wrap Up

Best Places to Work 2012 – Constant Innovation Helps Make Work Fun

Posted: 3/15/2012 Awards
Awards

Caryn Pang is fighting a head cold, but, despite the discomfort, she’s at work answering customer calls – and loving every minute. Pang and the two other customer-service representatives at the Hawaii Information Consortium handle up to 200 calls, emails and online chats a day from people needing information about a government service. “They have to force me to go home,” Pang says.

That says a lot about what it’s…
Read more… Best Places to Work 2012 – Constant Innovation Helps Make Work Fun

Beach Cleanup Complete

Posted: 2/22/2012 Volunteering
Volunteering

On February 18th, 14 of us gathered along with roughly 100 other like minded individuals to do a day of beach cleanup at Bellows Air Force Beach. The event was sponsored by Sustainable Coastlines.

The cleanup lasted from 10 – noon and resulted in almost 1,300 POUNDS of garbage being removed from the beach. It was a fantastic success and the day finished with a catered lunch for the…
Read more… Beach Cleanup Complete

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