Written by: Derek Yale
On Tuesday, April 5th, MetroStar Systems announced our support in the successful development and redesign of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) FCC.gov website into a new digital platform: http://beta.fcc.gov!
Written by: Derek Yale
Statement Arts, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing the creative visual & performing arts to underserved and/or low-income individuals, recently launched an online contest powered by Votridea, our Social Engagement Platform. The contest, titled “A Single Drop Of Water,” celebrates our most important natural resource — water!
Written by: Jenni Hubacher
MetroStar Systems is excited to launch our ‘Social Innovation Toolbox‘ that features three brand new products and services. The Social Innovation Toolbox features tools that offer creative and effective means to engage with and leverage your communities. Your community could be your fellow employees in your company, all of the Facebook fans on your fanpage, …
Written by: Jenni Hubacher
MetroStar Systems employee, Sergeant Ross Beurmann, who served in Iraq, was interviewed by MyFoxDC about our program, Vision 21CARE. This video has now been posted on the Battlefield Healthcare website relating to this very topic. IDGA’s 11th Battlefield Healthcare Summit will detail best practices and the next generation in combat medicine and rehabilitative care as …
Written by: Mahdi Gharavi
Well folks, here it is. We are in the lovely State Theatre in Falls Church, VA, and BlogPotomac has officially started. Keep up with what’s going on here, and search the hashtag #blogpotomac on Twitter. Our event emcees are Shonali Burke, Principal of Shonali Burke Consulting, and DC Hughes, Photojournalist/Multimedia Producer for Lemur News Images …
Written by: Mahdi Gharavi
These three things I know to be true: Death is inevitable, the tax man will come, and MetroStar will eventually succumb to the liveblogging bug. Can you blame us? The call is from the very last BlogPotomac (ever!). Who are we not to pick up? Yes, folks, this Friday, October 23rd marks the end of …
Written by: Daniel Nguyen
. . . MetroStar Systems is pleased to announce that our X-Life Games project has now surpassed 2,000 registered gamers from all around the world! Our registered gamers represent 99 different countries and many more different cultures. Here’s a list of the Top 5 countries and gamers representing X-Life Games: Egypt 438 Indonesia 323 …
Written by: Daniel Nguyen
MetroStar Systems‘ CEO Ali Manouchehri was recently interviewed by Doug Beizer of Federal Computer Week in an article titled “5 Reasons Why DOD Should Embrace Social Media (and 5 reasons why not)” The article lists 5 reasons why the Department of Defense (DOD) should embrace social media… Web 2.0 technology improves collaboration. It streamlines internal …
Written by: Derek Yale
Today, X-Life Games launches the “Who Am I?” Poetry Contest. The contest encourages you to use poetry to describe yourself on a global level while sharing ideas of tolerance and respect for other cultures, societies, and environments around the world. “X-Life Games has been such a fun and educational experience thus far for everybody involved, …
Written by: Daniel Nguyen
On August 27th, the Northern Virginia Ruby User’s Group (NovaRUG) will be hosting “Rails 101: Persistence Night.” This event consists of a number of talks geared towards new Rails developers, with all talks focused on persistence topics such as storing data in a database. David Keener will be rounding out the evening event with his …