Israel@60: Hi-Tech Israel

I just came back from a trip to Israel. This visit was a planning trip for our community’s Mission to Israel, which will be held this coming November, in honor of Israel’s 60th anniversary. The theme for this Mission is the New Israel. And, new it is.

I was extremely impressed with Israel’s hi-tech corridor and the hundreds of companies there specializing in micro-computerization, SEO, as well as new concepts in agriculture and in bio-medical research. Did you know that Israel is the home of ICQ Technologies, one of the founders of Instant Messaging? Did you know that Israel is where miniaturized cameras for medical imaging were created? How about SanDisk, which pioneered flash memory data storage products? We also visited The Technion in Haifa which offers a Technological Incubator Institute which provides entrepreneurs with research facilities and funding where the germ of an idea can be explored and brought into existence. Some of the R+D currently being incubated include agricultural cloning (no pun intended) and laser optics.

Last week I also met with one of my daughter’s best friends, Libby (who I know since she was 8 yrs old and is now 26) who is currently working for an on-line casino web hosting company just outside of Tel Aviv, specializing in SEO (search engine optimization). As a long-time direct marketer, who occasionally guest lectures at the local college, this meeting really crystallized the global-ness of our marketing world in a different light for me. In my own work-world, I spend a lot of time optimizing the pages of the Dataman Group website, writing for the google spiders the way I have been taught in so many of the FDMA lectures I have attended. It truly heartened me to see that my young colleagues are doing the exact same thing in their work on websites in Israel, observing the same Golden Rules that we are taught right here on South Florida’s own High-Tech corridor.

For my colleague in the DM Industry, if you have any questions about the direct mail & telemarketing lists we offer, please visit the Dataman Group website at www.datamangroup.com. For my friends in South Palm Beach County, who have any questions about the Business & Technology Track we will be offering on Mission 60, go to our Mission Website. Or, call our office at (800) 771-3282 and just Ask DataDale.