Be Security Wise with Diane Griffin :
Have you always wondered how safe you were really ? Ever wondered about Security Clearance and it's process ?
Author Diane Wise talks to us about her Book " Everything You Wanted to Know About the Security Clearance Process, But Are Afraid To Ask: Professional Guidance for Obtaining and Maintaining a Security Clearance " and she has provided us with her musings .
"Everything You Wanted to Know About the Security Clearance Process, But Are Afraid To Ask: Professional Guidance for Obtaining and Maintaining a Security Clearance "
Bio:
Diane Griffin, President and owner of Security First & Associates, says her motivation for writing Everything You Wanted to Know About the Security Clearance Process, But Are Afraid To Ask: Professional Guidance for Obtaining and Maintaining a Security Clearance came from the more than two decades of people she has assisted, both in her role as a private security contractor, and as the head of personnel or security within major governmental contractors, in finding their way through the complicated security clearance chain
Synopsis:
If you have plenty of time to click around through myriad government websites and the patience to cut through red tape and make sense of confusing bureaucratic talk, you may be able to find some of the answers to your questions about the security clearance process,” Griffin says. “Chances are, however, that you will still be left with some of your questions unanswered, because there are some questions that the government just doesn’t address. So, unless you know someone who is well acquainted with the process from a first-hand perspective, good luck.
“What I sought to do was compile all of these answers into one easy-to-read compendium of advice and guidance, giving my readers signposts along the way to assist them in navigating through the clearance process. I believe I’ve come up with a volume that will greatly help its users, and being able to assist folks in working through this process is extremely gratifying to me.” GROUNDBREAKING SECURITY CLEARANCE EBOOK A ONE-STOP KNOWLEDGEBASE FOR THOSE CONFUSED BY THE SECURITY CLEARANCE PROCESS
Blog:
Today’s economy is one of the most difficult times in recent history to find work, and many people are not even making use of their college degrees as related to employment! The number of people unemployed is staggering, and the overall lasting impact on our nation as a whole is, I believe, still not completely understood. There is hope, however.
President Obama plans on hiring 270,000 people for federal jobs. Many of those positions will require a security clearance. These jobs will become available in varying fields, and encompass all types of skills sets. The war on cyber crime has been declared, but our country is facing a shortage of computer professional holding valid security clearances,
Federal jobs, as I am sure you know, provide an opportunity for a solid career path complete with its own set of benefits and rewards that are becoming less and less common as small business America is forced to spend less and less money on these things for its employees in a tough economy. As I mentioned, most of the federal jobs that will be available for your students will require a security clearance of some type. For those with the skills to obtain a high-paying or advanced position, higher and higher levels of security clearances will be needed. This is nothing new, but with the changes that have taken place since the Patriot Act was enforced, the process is quite complex. Many people are discouraged by this and end up taking jobs elsewhere as a result when they could be quite successful if they could just get past that initial phase of getting the security clearance.
For the past 20 years, I have been walking people through this process and helping them get on the right path to security and success. My company, Security First and Associates, has assisted individuals, government contractors, and entire companies in getting the security clearances they needed in order to get the job, be awarded that contract, or be able to continue working as a vendor to the federal government.
Security First & Associates. has compiled a comprehensive Security Clearance E-Book Guide with facts and FAQs including the following topics:
• Security Clearance Levels
• Security Clearance Process
• Security Clearance Denial
• Security Clearance Termination
The FAQs included in this document are questions clearance candidates have asked and we hope that they will assist you as you seek to obtain, maintain or re-activate a security clearance.
The security clearance process includes an alphabet soup of acronyms; in order to help you better understand the process, we have included a definition list of acronyms as well as a Glossary of Terms at the end of this handbook.
Everything You Need to Know About the Security Clearance Process, But Are Afraid to Ask is now available for $19.95, from my website, amazon & lulu.
Please put this facebook fan page code into the source code for her blog. The security first logo is already hyperlinked. Also can you please add her vbt banner if you have it finished.
Security First Associates
Promote Your Page Too
What Virtual Assistant Plus Offers :
Virtual Assistants Plus
Services
I am a former English and Computer teacher with a Masters Degree in Computer Science. I decided to get involved promoting authors and their books because I learned so much from helping my childhood friend, Trish Silver, author of When I Remember Love promote her book. We are primarily author's virtual assistants, but we will help anyone who needs our services. My former business was designing web sites for small businesses.
For the past ten years, one of my former students, David Schultz helped me with technology problems that I had encountered in my business and my classroom. When he was in 8th grade he learned complicated computer languages so that I could enter a project spotlighting my students work in a national educational contest. We won first prize over entries from over 200 schools nationwide. I am proud to say that David is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and has taken over the website division of our company. He is now in the process of designing a state of the art website for Virtual Assistants + that not only will promote our services but also our clients and their books.
Clients that buy the Book Promotion Package will have free advertising on the main page of the site. All other clients will have free promotion on the pages for the services they purchase. For example our book trailer video clients will have their videos promoted in our video gallery. Any of our services can be purchased separately. All Services are heavily promoted on the internet after completion.
Here are the services we provide:
1. Book Promotion Package Essentially we set you up on as many relevant sites that we can find with profiles and announcements of events. We join you up on relevant groups on the sites. We get you as many free or inexpensive promotions as we can.. This service is very time intensive and includes:
• Improve your rank on Amazon through reviews, tagging, groups, profiles
• Get you followers on twitter that can help you with book promotion
• Media Packet with Press releases
• Interviews
• Spotlights on an Author's websites.
• Free Banner ads and ads on appropriate pages on http://www.virtualassistantsplus.com (under construction) For instance if you have a video it will be promoted on the video page. If you have an e-book it will be included with a very large size book cover on the e-book page.
• Badge for your website to create back-links
• Low cost or free promotions on relevant sites.
• Format your book's word file so it can be converted to kindle, Sony Reader, IPad.
• Monitor and help you with your virtual tour.
• It also includes everything listed in the Web Design section below except the web site.
• We do all the work that you do not have time to do so you can write.
2. Our Website Design will be done by David Schultz. He is a graduate from Carnegie Melon and can work magic with a computer. Although he can design your website using numerous computer languages, I think the best design for authors is Word Press. He will design and implement a 3- 5 page Word Press website for $600.00. This includes:
• Search engine optimization using the most superior software available.
• Website assessment
• Website Traffic using the most superior software available.
• Blogs (When you update your blog it will go to about 32 social networking sites automatically.)
3. Virtual book tours I can get you a terrific tour with a $50.00 donation to the tour director (not me) and part goes for Cancer Research. I will monitor and help you with the tour.
4. Book trailer videos $200+ including a-d
• We create the videos. We have the best professional software to do this.
• We upload them to 30+ video sites
• We enter the videos into video contests
• We will promote the videos on a really a interactive video page on our new site.
5. Smashwords
• Smashwords will convert your book into an e-book in 11 different formats including Kindle, Sony, Epub, and for the Apple IPad at no cost. They will sell it in their online store, you get 80% and if it is formatted properly, they will put it in their premium catalog for and send it all over the world . They will also ship it to Apple, Sony, etc.
• Formatting your word file for Smashwords is a very time consuming endeavor. We I provide this service.
• The fee is $50.00 for the first 250 pages and $10.00 for per 50 pages after that. Graphic intensive or unusually formatted books may have an increased fee. I need to see your book for a final quote. I guarantee that your e-book is accepted into the catalog that goes all over the world. Free to Promotion Package Clients
6. Children's Books: Being a teacher trained in best practices in education, I provide special services for children's books. I have taught elementary, middle school, high school and was adjunct faculty at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee teaching the integration of technology into the classroom. My work has been written up on the US Department of Education's website at Brown University called, The Knowledge Loom.
This site highlights models of best practices in education based on research and standards based instruction. The services we provide for children's books are as follows:
i. Standards based lesson plans with grade appropriate targets for your state. $25.00 per plan.
ii. Projects for teachers or home schooling parent to implement based on your book applying the project-based learning model $100.00
iii. Web Quests $100.00
If there is any other service you need that is not mentioned above, please let us know, and we will try to provide it.
Janis Friesler
David Schultz
Virtual Assistants +
Author Diane Wise talks to us about her Book " Everything You Wanted to Know About the Security Clearance Process, But Are Afraid To Ask: Professional Guidance for Obtaining and Maintaining a Security Clearance " and she has provided us with her musings .
"Everything You Wanted to Know About the Security Clearance Process, But Are Afraid To Ask: Professional Guidance for Obtaining and Maintaining a Security Clearance "
Bio:
Diane Griffin, President and owner of Security First & Associates, says her motivation for writing Everything You Wanted to Know About the Security Clearance Process, But Are Afraid To Ask: Professional Guidance for Obtaining and Maintaining a Security Clearance came from the more than two decades of people she has assisted, both in her role as a private security contractor, and as the head of personnel or security within major governmental contractors, in finding their way through the complicated security clearance chain
Synopsis:
If you have plenty of time to click around through myriad government websites and the patience to cut through red tape and make sense of confusing bureaucratic talk, you may be able to find some of the answers to your questions about the security clearance process,” Griffin says. “Chances are, however, that you will still be left with some of your questions unanswered, because there are some questions that the government just doesn’t address. So, unless you know someone who is well acquainted with the process from a first-hand perspective, good luck.
“What I sought to do was compile all of these answers into one easy-to-read compendium of advice and guidance, giving my readers signposts along the way to assist them in navigating through the clearance process. I believe I’ve come up with a volume that will greatly help its users, and being able to assist folks in working through this process is extremely gratifying to me.” GROUNDBREAKING SECURITY CLEARANCE EBOOK A ONE-STOP KNOWLEDGEBASE FOR THOSE CONFUSED BY THE SECURITY CLEARANCE PROCESS
Blog:
Today’s economy is one of the most difficult times in recent history to find work, and many people are not even making use of their college degrees as related to employment! The number of people unemployed is staggering, and the overall lasting impact on our nation as a whole is, I believe, still not completely understood. There is hope, however.
President Obama plans on hiring 270,000 people for federal jobs. Many of those positions will require a security clearance. These jobs will become available in varying fields, and encompass all types of skills sets. The war on cyber crime has been declared, but our country is facing a shortage of computer professional holding valid security clearances,
Federal jobs, as I am sure you know, provide an opportunity for a solid career path complete with its own set of benefits and rewards that are becoming less and less common as small business America is forced to spend less and less money on these things for its employees in a tough economy. As I mentioned, most of the federal jobs that will be available for your students will require a security clearance of some type. For those with the skills to obtain a high-paying or advanced position, higher and higher levels of security clearances will be needed. This is nothing new, but with the changes that have taken place since the Patriot Act was enforced, the process is quite complex. Many people are discouraged by this and end up taking jobs elsewhere as a result when they could be quite successful if they could just get past that initial phase of getting the security clearance.
For the past 20 years, I have been walking people through this process and helping them get on the right path to security and success. My company, Security First and Associates, has assisted individuals, government contractors, and entire companies in getting the security clearances they needed in order to get the job, be awarded that contract, or be able to continue working as a vendor to the federal government.
Security First & Associates. has compiled a comprehensive Security Clearance E-Book Guide with facts and FAQs including the following topics:
• Security Clearance Levels
• Security Clearance Process
• Security Clearance Denial
• Security Clearance Termination
The FAQs included in this document are questions clearance candidates have asked and we hope that they will assist you as you seek to obtain, maintain or re-activate a security clearance.
The security clearance process includes an alphabet soup of acronyms; in order to help you better understand the process, we have included a definition list of acronyms as well as a Glossary of Terms at the end of this handbook.
Everything You Need to Know About the Security Clearance Process, But Are Afraid to Ask is now available for $19.95, from my website, amazon & lulu.
Please put this facebook fan page code into the source code for her blog. The security first logo is already hyperlinked. Also can you please add her vbt banner if you have it finished.
Security First Associates
Promote Your Page Too
What Virtual Assistant Plus Offers :
Virtual Assistants Plus
Services
I am a former English and Computer teacher with a Masters Degree in Computer Science. I decided to get involved promoting authors and their books because I learned so much from helping my childhood friend, Trish Silver, author of When I Remember Love promote her book. We are primarily author's virtual assistants, but we will help anyone who needs our services. My former business was designing web sites for small businesses.
For the past ten years, one of my former students, David Schultz helped me with technology problems that I had encountered in my business and my classroom. When he was in 8th grade he learned complicated computer languages so that I could enter a project spotlighting my students work in a national educational contest. We won first prize over entries from over 200 schools nationwide. I am proud to say that David is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and has taken over the website division of our company. He is now in the process of designing a state of the art website for Virtual Assistants + that not only will promote our services but also our clients and their books.
Clients that buy the Book Promotion Package will have free advertising on the main page of the site. All other clients will have free promotion on the pages for the services they purchase. For example our book trailer video clients will have their videos promoted in our video gallery. Any of our services can be purchased separately. All Services are heavily promoted on the internet after completion.
Here are the services we provide:
1. Book Promotion Package Essentially we set you up on as many relevant sites that we can find with profiles and announcements of events. We join you up on relevant groups on the sites. We get you as many free or inexpensive promotions as we can.. This service is very time intensive and includes:
• Improve your rank on Amazon through reviews, tagging, groups, profiles
• Get you followers on twitter that can help you with book promotion
• Media Packet with Press releases
• Interviews
• Spotlights on an Author's websites.
• Free Banner ads and ads on appropriate pages on http://www.virtualassistantsplus.com (under construction) For instance if you have a video it will be promoted on the video page. If you have an e-book it will be included with a very large size book cover on the e-book page.
• Badge for your website to create back-links
• Low cost or free promotions on relevant sites.
• Format your book's word file so it can be converted to kindle, Sony Reader, IPad.
• Monitor and help you with your virtual tour.
• It also includes everything listed in the Web Design section below except the web site.
• We do all the work that you do not have time to do so you can write.
2. Our Website Design will be done by David Schultz. He is a graduate from Carnegie Melon and can work magic with a computer. Although he can design your website using numerous computer languages, I think the best design for authors is Word Press. He will design and implement a 3- 5 page Word Press website for $600.00. This includes:
• Search engine optimization using the most superior software available.
• Website assessment
• Website Traffic using the most superior software available.
• Blogs (When you update your blog it will go to about 32 social networking sites automatically.)
3. Virtual book tours I can get you a terrific tour with a $50.00 donation to the tour director (not me) and part goes for Cancer Research. I will monitor and help you with the tour.
4. Book trailer videos $200+ including a-d
• We create the videos. We have the best professional software to do this.
• We upload them to 30+ video sites
• We enter the videos into video contests
• We will promote the videos on a really a interactive video page on our new site.
5. Smashwords
• Smashwords will convert your book into an e-book in 11 different formats including Kindle, Sony, Epub, and for the Apple IPad at no cost. They will sell it in their online store, you get 80% and if it is formatted properly, they will put it in their premium catalog for and send it all over the world . They will also ship it to Apple, Sony, etc.
• Formatting your word file for Smashwords is a very time consuming endeavor. We I provide this service.
• The fee is $50.00 for the first 250 pages and $10.00 for per 50 pages after that. Graphic intensive or unusually formatted books may have an increased fee. I need to see your book for a final quote. I guarantee that your e-book is accepted into the catalog that goes all over the world. Free to Promotion Package Clients
6. Children's Books: Being a teacher trained in best practices in education, I provide special services for children's books. I have taught elementary, middle school, high school and was adjunct faculty at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee teaching the integration of technology into the classroom. My work has been written up on the US Department of Education's website at Brown University called, The Knowledge Loom.
This site highlights models of best practices in education based on research and standards based instruction. The services we provide for children's books are as follows:
i. Standards based lesson plans with grade appropriate targets for your state. $25.00 per plan.
ii. Projects for teachers or home schooling parent to implement based on your book applying the project-based learning model $100.00
iii. Web Quests $100.00
If there is any other service you need that is not mentioned above, please let us know, and we will try to provide it.
Janis Friesler
David Schultz
Virtual Assistants +
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