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Kotick Marketing Group, also known as “Kotick”, is a privately held full-service, multi-dimensional marketing firm based out of Pasadena, CA, ranked as #2,194 in the Inc. Magazine's list of 5000 Fastest Growing Companies. The agency’s focus lies in the strategic development of numerous industry brands and the creation of integrated marketing campaigns and promotions for Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) clients.
Kotick offers marketing-oriented services including strategic and brand development, web programming (including SEO/SEM, web 2.0, mobile applications, ecommerce, social media, internet marketing, online gaming, etc.), project management, market research and analysis, mobile marketing, viral marketing, promotional materials and events, direct mail, print and fulfillment.
Kotick has assisted the following companies with their marketing efforts: Nestle USA, Hyundai Motor America, Kia Motors, Phillips Industries, ARAMARK, Mikawaya (Mochi ice cream), JSL Foods, Inc., Sugar Foods, PowerBar, Sheer Bliss Ice Cream, King & Prince Seafood, Smart & Final, Warner Brothers, TriWest Healthcare Alliance, The Minka Group and Orange Coast Women’s Medical Group.
History
Kotick was established in 1998 by Nurit Kotick—a seasoned marketing professional with more than 25 years of combined experience working for companies such as Nestle USA, Knudsen Dairies and Gemstar Development Corporation. In 2000, Kotick moved from its original Montrose, CA location to its current offices in Pasadena, CA near the Rose Bowl, Old Town Pasadena, and the Norton Simon Museum.
Awards & achievements
Kotick ranked as one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine and received the 2008 Inc. Magazine 500/5000 Award. For three consecutive years, Kotick has been ranked in the Top 100 privately held, women-owned businesses by the LA Business Journal, and has been cited by Hyundai Motor America as an integral partner in ranking #1 as a recipient of the Carlisle Report for their Service Technician Incentive Program. In 2009, Kotick was recognized by Hyundai Motor America as a valued partner for over 12 years of consistent service. Most recently, Kotick is the recipient of the U.S. Commerce Association 2009 Best of Pasadena Award for Marketing Consulting.
Professional affiliations
Nurit Kotick belongs to the Women Presidents’ Organization and is certified as 100% women-owned business by Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). In her spare time, she volunteers for Hillside’s Youth Moving On, a organization assisting foster youth ages 18-21 to transition from foster care to independent living.
Kotick Marketing Group, also known as “Kotick”, is a privately held full-service, multi-dimensional marketing firm based out of Pasadena, CA, ranked as #2,194 in the Inc. Magazine's list of 5000 Fastest Growing Companies. The agency’s focus lies in the strategic development of numerous industry brands and the creation of integrated marketing campaigns and promotions for Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) clients.
Kotick offers marketing-oriented services including strategic and brand development, web programming (including SEO/SEM, web 2.0, mobile applications, ecommerce, social media, internet marketing, online gaming, etc.), project management, market research and analysis, mobile marketing, viral marketing, promotional materials and events, direct mail, print and fulfillment.
Kotick has assisted the following companies with their marketing efforts: Nestle USA, Hyundai Motor America, Kia Motors, Phillips Industries, ARAMARK, Mikawaya (Mochi ice cream), JSL Foods, Inc., Sugar Foods, PowerBar, Sheer Bliss Ice Cream, King & Prince Seafood, Smart & Final, Warner Brothers, TriWest Healthcare Alliance, The Minka Group and Orange Coast Women’s Medical Group.
History
Kotick was established in 1998 by Nurit Kotick—a seasoned marketing professional with more than 25 years of combined experience working for companies such as Nestle USA, Knudsen Dairies and Gemstar Development Corporation. In 2000, Kotick moved from its original Montrose, CA location to its current offices in Pasadena, CA near the Rose Bowl, Old Town Pasadena, and the Norton Simon Museum.
Awards & achievements
Kotick ranked as one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine and received the 2008 Inc. Magazine 500/5000 Award. For three consecutive years, Kotick has been ranked in the Top 100 privately held, women-owned businesses by the LA Business Journal, and has been cited by Hyundai Motor America as an integral partner in ranking #1 as a recipient of the Carlisle Report for their Service Technician Incentive Program. In 2009, Kotick was recognized by Hyundai Motor America as a valued partner for over 12 years of consistent service. Most recently, Kotick is the recipient of the U.S. Commerce Association 2009 Best of Pasadena Award for Marketing Consulting.
Professional affiliations
Nurit Kotick belongs to the Women Presidents’ Organization and is certified as 100% women-owned business by Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). In her spare time, she volunteers for Hillside’s Youth Moving On, a organization assisting foster youth ages 18-21 to transition from foster care to independent living.
Shair Siddiqui is a great modern poet. He started writing at an early age.
The original name of Shair Siddiqui is Abdur Razzaque , who was born at Calcutta (India) and migrated to Pakistan. His educational qualification is Master in Urdu literature. He started his practical life with government service, simultaneously worked as part-time lecturer in Dhaka Jagannath Collage. He was also associated with journalism, starting as sub-editor in daily ‘Pasban’ and daily ‘Angry’ of Dhaka. He has been the Editor Incharge of Urdu ‘Chitrali’, the most popular weekly of film and culture, published from Dhaka from 1967 to 1971 till the fall of East Pakistan. He Migrated to West Pakistan in 1973 and joined monthly ‘Shama’ Karachi. As a free-lancer he was associated with daily ‘Hurriyat’ and weekly ‘Paiman International’ Karachi. During his association with Radio Pakistan and PTV (Pakistan Television) Dhaka & Karachi, he wrote a number of songs, Ghazals, Geets and Script/features. He wrote songs for the first pop musical program ‘Sunday ke Sunday’ series of Karachi Television in 1973/74 and introduced with the song ‘Albela Rahi’.
Shair Siddiqui also wrote lyrics for the pop music cassette “Reflection” of Pakistan origin Canadian Singer Firdous Rajan released by Shalimar Recording & Broadcasting Company Limited of Pakistan. The same cassette was released by Magna Sound India, Mumbai with the title ‘POP TIME with FIRDOUS’.
Shair Siddiqui is also known as one of the pioneers of Dhaka film industry especially with reference to the Urdu films. He wrote stories, screenplay, dialogues and lyrics for a number of films, some of them are the first joint venture of East and West Pakistan Urdu film e.g. ‘Hamsafar’ the first colour film of Pakistan. ‘SANGAM’, ‘BHAIYA’, ‘COOLIE’, ‘PAISE’, ‘CARWAN’, ‘BEGANA’, ‘PAYAL’, ‘MAINA’, ‘MEHERBAN’, etc. The Qawwali of Bhaiya film ‘ Medinay wale say mera salam kah dena’ has been one of the most popular Qawwali for last three to four decades. The some other most popular songs of Shair Siddiqui are ‘Kahan ho tum chale aao mohabbat ka taqaza hai’ ‘ Hum tum jahan meelay thay phooloon ki rehguzar main’ sang by Shahnaz Bagam, Firdousi Rehmans’s voice ‘Waheen zindagi ke haseen khab tootay’, Rubina Bader’s ‘Jab sham ka anchal dhalkey’, Madam NoorJehan’s Apnay Hoae Paraee, etc.
So far his literary work is concerned, he has contributed his poems, Ghazals and literary articles in almost all the literary magazines of Pakistan and India.
Shair Siddiqui’s first collection of poems was ‘ Ankhoon me samandar - Ocean in the eyes’ published in 2004. His other books awaiting for publication are ‘Jigar-e-lakht lakht’, ‘Sunder ban main aag’ and ‘Meray hamdam meray dost’. Now, he is busy in writing his memoirs as ‘Jo ham pe guzri so guzri’.
The latest collection of poems of Shair Siddiqui entitled ‘Bujhte suraj nay kaha - Said the setting sun’ has been published by Rang-e-Adab Publication Karachi and is now available in the market.
The original name of Shair Siddiqui is Abdur Razzaque , who was born at Calcutta (India) and migrated to Pakistan. His educational qualification is Master in Urdu literature. He started his practical life with government service, simultaneously worked as part-time lecturer in Dhaka Jagannath Collage. He was also associated with journalism, starting as sub-editor in daily ‘Pasban’ and daily ‘Angry’ of Dhaka. He has been the Editor Incharge of Urdu ‘Chitrali’, the most popular weekly of film and culture, published from Dhaka from 1967 to 1971 till the fall of East Pakistan. He Migrated to West Pakistan in 1973 and joined monthly ‘Shama’ Karachi. As a free-lancer he was associated with daily ‘Hurriyat’ and weekly ‘Paiman International’ Karachi. During his association with Radio Pakistan and PTV (Pakistan Television) Dhaka & Karachi, he wrote a number of songs, Ghazals, Geets and Script/features. He wrote songs for the first pop musical program ‘Sunday ke Sunday’ series of Karachi Television in 1973/74 and introduced with the song ‘Albela Rahi’.
Shair Siddiqui also wrote lyrics for the pop music cassette “Reflection” of Pakistan origin Canadian Singer Firdous Rajan released by Shalimar Recording & Broadcasting Company Limited of Pakistan. The same cassette was released by Magna Sound India, Mumbai with the title ‘POP TIME with FIRDOUS’.
Shair Siddiqui is also known as one of the pioneers of Dhaka film industry especially with reference to the Urdu films. He wrote stories, screenplay, dialogues and lyrics for a number of films, some of them are the first joint venture of East and West Pakistan Urdu film e.g. ‘Hamsafar’ the first colour film of Pakistan. ‘SANGAM’, ‘BHAIYA’, ‘COOLIE’, ‘PAISE’, ‘CARWAN’, ‘BEGANA’, ‘PAYAL’, ‘MAINA’, ‘MEHERBAN’, etc. The Qawwali of Bhaiya film ‘ Medinay wale say mera salam kah dena’ has been one of the most popular Qawwali for last three to four decades. The some other most popular songs of Shair Siddiqui are ‘Kahan ho tum chale aao mohabbat ka taqaza hai’ ‘ Hum tum jahan meelay thay phooloon ki rehguzar main’ sang by Shahnaz Bagam, Firdousi Rehmans’s voice ‘Waheen zindagi ke haseen khab tootay’, Rubina Bader’s ‘Jab sham ka anchal dhalkey’, Madam NoorJehan’s Apnay Hoae Paraee, etc.
So far his literary work is concerned, he has contributed his poems, Ghazals and literary articles in almost all the literary magazines of Pakistan and India.
Shair Siddiqui’s first collection of poems was ‘ Ankhoon me samandar - Ocean in the eyes’ published in 2004. His other books awaiting for publication are ‘Jigar-e-lakht lakht’, ‘Sunder ban main aag’ and ‘Meray hamdam meray dost’. Now, he is busy in writing his memoirs as ‘Jo ham pe guzri so guzri’.
The latest collection of poems of Shair Siddiqui entitled ‘Bujhte suraj nay kaha - Said the setting sun’ has been published by Rang-e-Adab Publication Karachi and is now available in the market.
The Akelos PHP Framework is a PHP port of the Web application framework Ruby on Rails. Like Rails, Akelos claims to simplify and improve the process of developing database driven web applications.
It allows the programmer to create applications by writing less code than other similar Frameworks, requiring little or no configuration. It also has a code generating system for creating application skeletons or scaffolds that accelerates the process of creating CRUD applications.
Also known as Akelos, is an open source project written using the programming language PHP which is easier to deploy than Ruby. Applications written using Akelos follow the Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern.
Philosophy
Akelos as Rails follows the Convention over Configuration and Don't repeat yourself (DRY) philosophy.
DRY refers to the information being in one single place, avoiding ambiguities. Akelos components are integrated in a way that is not necessary to add bridges between them. For example, using the active record design pattern in the models, it is not necessary to declare the columns in the Class declaration, as they are automatically retrieved from the database table columns using PHP.
Convention Over configuration means that the programmer only needs to declare those aspects that are non-conventional in the application. For example, if we have a Product class for the model, the table in the database named products will linked to the Product model, as the convention establish that table names should be the plural of their models.
Only if we don't want to follow that convention, for example if we have a products_for_sale table, we would need to write code to glue that relation.
Sintags template language
Akelos has native support for writing multilingual applications, and in order to simplify writing multilingual views Akelos implements a template language named Sintags.
Sintags also allows helper calls in the views using eRuby syntax like in Rails, which makes it very convenient for reusing templates between both frameworks.
It allows the programmer to create applications by writing less code than other similar Frameworks, requiring little or no configuration. It also has a code generating system for creating application skeletons or scaffolds that accelerates the process of creating CRUD applications.
Also known as Akelos, is an open source project written using the programming language PHP which is easier to deploy than Ruby. Applications written using Akelos follow the Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern.
Philosophy
Akelos as Rails follows the Convention over Configuration and Don't repeat yourself (DRY) philosophy.
DRY refers to the information being in one single place, avoiding ambiguities. Akelos components are integrated in a way that is not necessary to add bridges between them. For example, using the active record design pattern in the models, it is not necessary to declare the columns in the Class declaration, as they are automatically retrieved from the database table columns using PHP.
Convention Over configuration means that the programmer only needs to declare those aspects that are non-conventional in the application. For example, if we have a Product class for the model, the table in the database named products will linked to the Product model, as the convention establish that table names should be the plural of their models.
Only if we don't want to follow that convention, for example if we have a products_for_sale table, we would need to write code to glue that relation.
Sintags template language
Akelos has native support for writing multilingual applications, and in order to simplify writing multilingual views Akelos implements a template language named Sintags.
Sintags also allows helper calls in the views using eRuby syntax like in Rails, which makes it very convenient for reusing templates between both frameworks.
The Orinoco Framework is an open source, object-oriented, full-stack web framework implemented in PHP and released under the MIT License. The framework follows the Model-View-Controller architecture and implements the Model 2 design paradigm. Like any other MVC frameworks, Orinoco Framework allows developer to create web applications using less code and easily maintainable project. The framework's goal is to help developers focus on the application design process rather than starting a project from its core which then help speed-up development time. Orinoco Framework has a built-in methods and functions for doing common web application tasks.
On July 15, 2009, new branch of the source from the truck tree has been created to further improve the framework. The latest branch version is 0.1.5 which can be checkout using any subversion clients.
History
Orinoco Framework was conceived in early 2007 by Ryan Yonzon and released as open source in August 2008. Orinoco Framework was then a part of an internal development in developing small and medium scale websites and web applications but then extracted for general purpose MVC web framework and later released as an open source project.
Features
* Very lightweight.
* Full-stack framework (Model, View and Controller).
* Integrated Object-relational mapping (ORM).
* Supports multiple table join.
* Clean and Elegant URL scheme.
* Pure PHP configuration.
* Customizable route and URLs.
* Can work with various AJAX libraries.
Technical overview
Like any other web frameworks, Orinoco Framework follows and encourages the use of the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern. But unlike other frameworks, it doesn’t provide any generators for auto constructing skeletal PHP modules or templates (such as scaffolding, CRUD UI, login system, etc.). But it provides an easy to configure PHP config files (database connection, route and application specific configs).
Orinoco Framework provides a full-stack solution for developers by integrating ORM modules and CRUD functionalities.
Orinoco Framework relies on Apache server to run and MySQL for its RDMS (future release will include support for SQLite, PostgreSQL and other open source RDMS). It is also tested to work with JQuery, Prototype and Script.aculo.us for Ajax.
On July 15, 2009, new branch of the source from the truck tree has been created to further improve the framework. The latest branch version is 0.1.5 which can be checkout using any subversion clients.
History
Orinoco Framework was conceived in early 2007 by Ryan Yonzon and released as open source in August 2008. Orinoco Framework was then a part of an internal development in developing small and medium scale websites and web applications but then extracted for general purpose MVC web framework and later released as an open source project.
Features
* Very lightweight.
* Full-stack framework (Model, View and Controller).
* Integrated Object-relational mapping (ORM).
* Supports multiple table join.
* Clean and Elegant URL scheme.
* Pure PHP configuration.
* Customizable route and URLs.
* Can work with various AJAX libraries.
Technical overview
Like any other web frameworks, Orinoco Framework follows and encourages the use of the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern. But unlike other frameworks, it doesn’t provide any generators for auto constructing skeletal PHP modules or templates (such as scaffolding, CRUD UI, login system, etc.). But it provides an easy to configure PHP config files (database connection, route and application specific configs).
Orinoco Framework provides a full-stack solution for developers by integrating ORM modules and CRUD functionalities.
Orinoco Framework relies on Apache server to run and MySQL for its RDMS (future release will include support for SQLite, PostgreSQL and other open source RDMS). It is also tested to work with JQuery, Prototype and Script.aculo.us for Ajax.