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World Wide Web News
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May 15, 2012 |  |
 Many businesses have a "launch it and leave it" attitude when it comes to getting the most from their website. This approach generally results in websites that offer no return on the initial investment and end up being a great big waste of everybody's time. To get the most from your site you need an ongoing strategy. |
May 14, 2012 |  |
 Interaction with and the use of cyber space and its services is becoming increasingly harder to avoid, but must and should this be at the expense of our privacy?
The presence and impact of cyber space is ever-increasing. Accessing products and services using cyber space is fast becoming the norm rather than the exception, from children playing games and chatting on social networks to adults accessing banking services and booking holidays on line. |
May 02, 2012 |  |
 The Ripe NCC training event is taking place in Belfast this week, hosted by Tibus.
The Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) is an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation that supports the infrastructure of the Internet through technical coordination in its service region. Essentially it determines policy for IP addresses and associated issues - the very building blocks of the Internet. |
 The Northern Ireland Website Scrappage Scheme has officially launched and offers all businesses the opportunity to ditch their old website and receive up to £1,000* discount off a new site until the end of May 2012.
The scheme is being offered by one of Northern Ireland’s leading web design and development companies, The Web Bureau, and is open to all organisations and entrepreneurs in Northern Ireland offering them the opportunity to trade in and move up in the online world.
Paul Haslam, Director of The Web Bureau, which specialises in web design, e-commerce, content management, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and bespoke web software said:
“Your website is the first port of call for many potential customers or stakeholders and first impressions last. |
 Bangor-based company Omnisoft Services Ltd has created 14 new jobs in an expansion driven by the growth of its web design services and the development of a new product for the educational market.
The expansion is being supported by Invest Northern Ireland, which has offered £44,000 of support for 11 of the jobs through its Jobs Fund scheme.
Omnisoft Services was set up in 2009 to provide web design services but has recently diversified into web-based games for children and social media management strategies. |
April 11, 2012 |  |
BT Infinity 2 downstream speeds roughly double to up to 76Mbps
BT Infinity 2 offers UK’s fastest upstream speeds of up to 19Mbps[1]
BT Infinity 1 upstream speeds to be up to five times faster than before
BT Retail has turned up the speed dial in the broadband battle by announcing a range of speed increases for its customers for no extra cost. Customers signing up to BT Infinity 2 from tomorrow (April 12) will benefit from downstream speeds that are roughly double those on offer today – up to 76Mbps rather than up to 38Mbps. The newly revamped service will also offer the UK’s fastest upstream speeds of up to 19Mbps. |
April 11, 2012 | |
 We’ve been working closely with the GAA to make some major changes to the Cúl Camps online booking system this year. The Kellogg’s company in Ireland has signed a 3 year sponsorship deal with GAA Cúl Camps and with this change, have been opportunities to raise the profile of the website via on-pack promotions.
Working with Kellogg’s advertising agency in London, we defined the integration platform for ensuring that all on-pack codes were synchronised with the online booking engine. |
April 05, 2012 |  |
 Frazer Kidd & Partners, a leading commercial property consultant firm based in Victoria Street, Belfast, have just launched their new property website. The site, created by Legato Solutions, has been custom designed to meet the specific requirements of Frazer Kidd, incorporating location maps, image slideshows, social media integration and more.
Mark Cunningham of Frazer Kidd is very happy with the company’s new web presence.
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 The internet continues to attain more and more users each passing year and online retail is growing faster than any other retail sector in the UK. Expect this trend to continue and your business needs to be part of it.
The Boosting Business through Technology campaign by Invest Northern Ireland encourages local companies to invest in technology, by offering advice and support. |
 An innovative, live blogging event from inside the new Titanic Belfast will allow hundreds of thousands of potential GB and European visitors a chance to experience the iconic new attraction – online – before members of the public actually get to step through the doors. This sneak preview – a world first for a visitor attraction – is being organised by Tourism Ireland one full day in advance of the official opening, as part of the countdown to the highly anticipated opening of the iconic new attraction.
At 11:00 am on Friday 30 March, six bloggers will enter Titanic Belfast and will blog live – in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch – for two hours on www. |
March 27, 2012 | |
 Horizon Print is a digital and print solutions company based in Ireland. A leader in their field they required a top website to match their status.
It was important that on arrival to the homepage visitors are made aware of all of Horizon’s capabilities. |
 Invest Northern Ireland encouraged local companies to fully utilise online selling to increase exports, at a major eBusiness conference held this week at the Ramada Hotel, Shaw’s Bridge.
Over 350 local companies discovered how to take advantage of new techniques to improve their online marketing and increase sales via the internet.
Leading web technology and service providers including Google, Facebook and Sage Pay provided businesses with an insight into how they can benefit from the opportunities available through new digital media channels. |
March 20, 2012 |  |
 We are delighted to have been selected to manage the technical strategy account for Fáilte Ireland, following a full technical agency review. The selection will enable i3 Digital to extend its existing relationship with Fáilte Ireland and work with the organisation to consolidate existing trade web channels onto a single platform in a way that no other agency can.
Fáilte Ireland currently depend on sixteen standalone trade websites to provide visibility and access to the range of Fáilte Ireland services available to the trade. |
 RepKnight, developers of innovative solutions that monitor and analyse traffic on the web, has won a prestigious Irish Technology Leadership Group/Irish Times Technology Award, winning in the Mobile/Social Media/Web category. The awards recognise the most innovative technology companies on the island of Ireland, and were presented during the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) Innovation Summit, which was attended by over 800 top executives, entrepreneurs and venture capital investors operating in Silicon Valley.
Commenting on the achievement John Hartnett, President and Founder of the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG), said: "I would like to congratulate RepKnight on winning the Mobile/Social Media/Web category at the fifth annual Irish Technology Leadership Group/Irish Times Technology Awards. |
Around 250 local companies attended Invest Northern Ireland’s Online Marketing Conference in March 2009 to hear how George Wright of US company Blendtec achieved a 700% increase in blender sales by using the latest online sales and marketing techniques. Pictured with Mr Wright is Tracy Meharg, Invest NI’s Managing Director of Innovation and Capability Development.
Information and communication technology (ICT) can offer real benefits to your business, and investments in new technologies often have a direct effect on profitability. |
Derry, Northern Ireland. March 7th 2012. SellerExpress are pleased to announce the launch of their highly anticipated eBay integration module this week. |
February 29, 2012 | |
 In October 2011, Haldane Fisher decided they wanted to add to their website with a section dedicated to offering advice to the self-build market within Northern Ireland. With a wealth of knowledge and expertise available within the Haldane Fisher group they felt they could offer valuable help to those wishing to take on the task of building their own dream home.
The content is tailored to suit the typical self-builder doing research themselves, creating project plans and investigating house builds, and who will eventually likely defer to a Tradesperson. |
Minister Michelle O’Neill has launched a careers event which is being held at CAFRE, Greenmount Campus on Wednesday 29 February.
The careers event aims to provide Greenmount students with the opportunity to meet with employers in the agri-food industry, discuss employment prospects and the skills and qualifications required for a range of vacancies. A number of industry organisations from the agri-food, landbased technology, agricultural engineering and horticulture sectors will participate in the event. |
February 20, 2012 | |
 We partnered with Weavers Court business park to design, build and manage the first ever 10G business park. This was a ground-breaking 50:50 venture agreed in July 2011, delivered in November and officially launched by the US Consol Kevin Roland this month, February 2012.
Weavers Court is a campus-style business park situated in the heart of Belfast. |
 Intellectual Property (IP) is the name given to all creative ideas and expressions that have commercial value. Most nations have recognised the value to their economic success of attaching legal rights to IP including patents, know-how, copyrights and trademarks. Each has a distinct application, business value and set of protocols but for the purpose of this week’s column I am going to touch specifically on patents – their creation, exploitation and role in open innovation. |
February 13, 2012 |  |
 Belfast-based Internet marketing and social media consultancy, Octave Online Communications, has launched a new guide for businesses and organisations on social media policy. The guide is designed to help senior managers and directors in corporate, public sector and government organisations understand more about social media risks and how they can develop a social media policy for their organisation. Social media policies define what is acceptable and unacceptable from employees representing an organisation through social media channels or their own personal profiles and from members of the public who post comments to an organisation’s social media profiles. |
February 08, 2012 |  |
 There’s a famous saying, “Perfection is a journey, not a destination”.
With that in mind, Spiral Hosting has just reached a very significant milestone on their journey – their ‘Liberty’ server has had a 100% uptime for in excess of 1 year.
Managing Director Peter Armstrong said, “We’re very pleased with the server’s speed and performance, particularly throughout the last year. |
February 06, 2012 |  |
 Imagine that you provide catering equipment to the Education sector.
An unexpected sales opportunity turns up in your Google Analytics. It shows that Castlereagh Collage has spent 8 minutes 41 seconds on your website and viewed nearly four times more web pages than the average visitor. |
January 18, 2012 | |
It has just been announced that i3, formerly Biznet IIS, has been shortlisted in three categories in the Kentico Site of the Year Awards 2011.
The Kentico "Site of the Year" contest seeks out the best Kentico CMS web site implementations and we are honoured to be shortlisted as finalists in three categories:
MyUs.com - Best E-commerce Site (view case study)
Titanic Stories - Best Travel site (view case study)
What's on Derry/londonderry - Best Mobile site (view case study)
It's up to the public to decide who wins the award and it only take a few minutes to vote, so please vote at:
http://bit. |
Those whose New Year resolution is to take the step into setting up their own business will welcome the launch of a new section on Invest Northern Ireland’s nibusinessinfo.co.uk website. |
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