Strategic Innovations, Inc.

Strategic Innovations is proud to announce that President Jeff Causey will be volunteering for the rest of this semester with the Junior Achievement program in Alamance County, NC. Jeff has agreed to serve as a volunteer consultant for a JA "Company Program" course at Southern Alamance High School .  The Company Program may be the one program that most people think of when they hear of Junior Achievement - students getting together to create, manage, and operate a company.  The course has evolved over the years and is now able to be taught within the school day (so as to reach more students, instead of being limited to only those who could make after school meetings).

In taking on this challenge, Mr. Causey hopes to set an example and demonstrate the value of community involvement and volunteerism.  And of course, he hopes to have a positive impact on the youth who will be in the class and participating in the project.  Be sure to check back here at the site for updates on how the course progresses.

According to studies of users and their software, most of you reading this site are doing so on a computer running Windows and you are probably using some version of Internet Explorer (IE) to access this web page.  If you have been following tech news lately, you also know that Microsoft recently released a new service pack (a bunch of patches bundled into a single file) to update Windows XP.  This was done to help address the many security flaws that exist in Windows and in IE.

In fact, IE's security flaws have become so numerous and so problematic, that the United States Emergency Computer Readiness Team (US-CERT) recently recommended computer users avoid IE, as noted in this vulnerability note :

Use a different web browser
There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, the graphical user interface (GUI), and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites. Such a decision may, however, reduce the functionality of sites that require IE-specific features such as DHTML, VBScript, and ActiveX. Note that using a different web browser will not remove IE from a Windows system, and other programs may invoke IE, the WebBrowser ActiveX control, or the HTML rendering engine (MSHTML).

Strategic Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of a new web site for the Town of Kenly, NC, located at www.townofkenly.com .  This is the first ever web site for the Town and helps move this small, wonderful community into today's electronic age.  Strategic Innovations, Inc. provided all services related to the deployment of the site's content management system, graphics package, coordination of domain names, and is providing web hosting services for the Town.

If you need a web site, want to redesign your site, assess its usability, or just need some information about effective web sites, please feel free to contact us.

Strategic Innovations, Inc., President Jeff Causey is planning to participate in the upcoming Mission Man triathlon to be held in Burlington on July 31st.  The 750m swim/15m bike/5k run triathlon has been setup by Front Street United Methodist Church and will be the first running of the event.  In entering the event, Mr. Causey has decided to seek pledges to help support the work of Bellemont United Methodist Church and the Alamance Partnership for Children, Inc. (for which Mr. Causey is currently serving as chairman).  This is an exciting opportunity for Mr. Causey and Strategic Innovations to give back to the community.

If you are interested in supporting Mr. Causey in his attempt to complete his first ever triathlon, please contact him .

[UPDATE - 8/4/2004] - Mr. Causey successfully completed the Mission Man Triathlon on July 31st. He finished in a total time of 2 hours, 39 minutes, and 4 seconds. Thanks to all of those individuals who supported Mr. Causey and the organizations he was supporting through his pledge drive.