Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Testing MarsEdit markdown
Monday, 7 December 2009
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Focus on…Construction
The construction industry is under many different pressures. Climate change fears have governments worldwide looking to the construction sector to be energy efficient, and, as a potentially hazardous industry, construction businesses are also under pressure to prove the highest levels of health and safety and to strive for improvement. In addition, there are the financial strains of the recession.
One answer to these different pressures is to turn to quality for help. Louise Jones, senior quality engineer for Balfour Beatty, is clear about the benefits. “At the moment quality is all about integrated systems. A focus on safety and the environment is hugely important and by integrating ISO9001, ISO14001 and OHSAS 18001 everybody can work to deliver these objectives.”
Quality in construction is not a new concept, but is has gained a higher profile over recent years. Louise explains: “Quality is being taken more seriously because it reduces costs and gives confidence to the client. The role of quality is to ensure you’re delivering what the client wants by having the right systems in place.”
From Quality World October 2009, p44
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Monday, 2 November 2009
Telemage Launches New Web Presence
Press Release - 9th December 2009
The E-Learning consultancy business – Telemage Limited - today announced that its new Website is going Live on Friday the 10th of December 2009. The web presence reflects Telemage’s progress in its first year of operation which has been marked with a number of successful initiatives and on-going project work for both the Corporate and Government sectors.
Over time the company plans to act as a hub for E-Learning communication in the UK and has introduced both a new Blog and Forum for E-Learning professionals whether they are on the client or the supplier side of the industry.
The company’s key activity is high level consultancy services provided through its unique and expanding network of E-Learning and L&D consultants, most have over 25 years in the E-Learning sector.
Jamie Macaulay, founder and Managing Director of Telemage said “…much of our work in the past year has been research, formative and targeted at an understanding of key market sectors. Along with significant project work we are now ready to ensure that we contribute to the corporate development of E-Learning in the UK.”
Peter Fullen, co-founder and Business Development Director commented that “…whilst much of our consultancy work is in the corporate and government sectors we have developed strong links with a number of E-Learning suppliers and have been assisting in extending their product and marketing outreach..”
Checkout the Microsite feature which is a mechanism for Telemage to pass on its search engine optimisation expertise to clients so as to increase traffic to supplier client web sites and open up new business opportunities.
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
New GR news
Gibbons Roscoe test post
Its Wednesday
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Telemage website is almost ready to launch
Monday, 7 September 2009
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Monday, 10 August 2009
Quay Arts presents Digital Kraft
Quay Arts presents Digital Kraft; a series of creative adventures into all areas of the digital age, exploring photography, animation, filmmaking, VJing, Graf Art and heaps more. Whether you use these tools for work or just for fun this is your chance to learn, play and explore your creative potential. Embark on a journey into the exciting realms of digital art.
11th to 13th August £120 – INTRODUCTION 2 Digital Kraft
An adventure in drawn animation, this 3 day course will introduce you to the techniques used in traditional cell animation and explore digital editing equipment to produce a short collaborativemovie which you can upload to you facebook or youtube. We could be looking at the next generation of Matt Groenings!11th to 13th August £150 -DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & EDITING
This course offers an introduction to working in the digital domain, combining the effective use of state of the art digital cameras with a comprehensive introduction to the industry standard image-editing package.
14th August £50 – 21ST CENTURY MARKETING – FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE & TWITTER14th August £50 – 21ST CENTURY MARKETING – FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE & TWITTER An intensive introduction to the new essential marketing tools for creatives, all the tools you know you should be utilising in your marketing strategy but your sure twittering is something birds do.
15th August £30 -ADVENTURES IN ANIMATION
August Creating handmade puppets inspired by the great outdoors to create a short stop motion animation edited in iMovie software, a great journey into animation for budding young creatives.
17th August £25 -GRAF ART & XTREME FILMING
For the price of a new Etnies Tshirt you can have a masterclass with local skate legend John Cattle. An action packed day divided between learning the spray can techniques of Graf art and capturing live skate footage all to be edited down into one fresh mini urban art skate film.18th August £30 – DIGITAL DJING
More and more DJ’s are now digital DJing, instead of carting around crates of irreplaceable vinyl. Imagine never going out of time, playing more than two records at a time, the possibilities are endless. . . .
[From Quay Arts presents Digital Kraft]
Friday, 3 July 2009
Design Tip: SEO and Your Navigation Tree
If you have a large Web site, then you've probably organized it into a tree structure. You've probably also added search capability to the site. Unfortunately, these two features can be enemies of each other.
Getting lost within a Web site is a common complaint from Internet users. Visitors often come across a useful page while browsing, and then forget where to find it by their next visit to the site. If the structure of the Web site isn't clearly defined, finding a page again can be an impossible chore.
To get around this problem, Webmasters organize their sites into some sort of logical navigation system. That structure often takes the form of a tree, with tree branches defining different subjects and categories. Webmasters spend a lot of time defining these tree structures to make sure they work.
In some ways a search engine is a barrier to navigation.
But, after spending a lot of time defining this structure, Webmasters promptly short-circuit it by providing search capability.
Search is a handy for any big site, but in some ways it's the enemy of good navigation. Yes, it helps visitors find information the first time, but it gives them precious little help in finding it again. Search engines lead people to pages without showing them their context within the rest of the site. If a visitor finds a page through a search, finding it again means having to remember exactly what search query they entered the first time around. That's not an easy thing to do.
For that reason, it's a good idea to mark each of your pages to show where it lies in your site's navigation system. If your site is organized as a tree, then each page should show the path back to the home page.
For example, suppose your page gives installation instructions for a software package. You might label it with this navigation mark:
Home / Software / User's Manual / Install
Put this navigation label near the top or bottom of your page for easy reference.
If visitors navigate your site by drilling down categories, this type of navigation mark is useful. If visitors navigate your site using a search engine, it's absolutely essential. The navigation mark shows the page's location within the site. So visitors who jump to the page from a list of search results have an idea where it lies within the overall structure. That gives them a chance to find it again later.
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Rotary.org: News
Warwick Castle dazzles Rotarians
Rotary International News -- 22 June 2009
Rotarians explore the grounds of Warwick Castle. Rotary Images/Monika Lozinska-Lee
More than 6,000 Rotarians stepped back in time to enjoy medieval England. On 21 June, during a host-ticketed event at Warwick Castle for attendees of the 2009 RI Convention in Birmingham, Rotarians were treated to a display of old Engl [From Rotary.org: News]
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
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Saturday, 14 March 2009
Isle of Wight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The heritage of the island is a major asset, which has for many years kept its economy going. Holidays focused on natural heritage, including both wildlife and geology, are becoming a growing alternative to the traditional seaside resort holiday. The latter has been in decline in the United Kingdom domestic market, due to the increased affordability of air travel to alternative destinations.
Tourism is still the largest industry on the island. In 1999, the 130,000 island residents were host to 2.7 million visitors. Of these, 1.5 million stayed overnight, and 1.2 million visits were day visits. Only 150,000 of these visitors were international visitors. Between 1993 and 2000, visits increased at a rate of 3% per year, on average.
[From Isle of Wight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
To find out more about the Isle of Wight, grab this great book.
"Walk the Isle of Wight" (Martin Simons)
iPhone sales grew 245% in 2008 - Gartner - Apple 2.0
iPhone sales grew 245% in 2008 - Gartner
2008 Smartphone shareApple’s (AAPL) iPhone was the fastest-growing smartphone of 2008, despite end-of-year sales that failed to maintain the blistering pace set in July with the launch of the iPhone 3G, Gartner researchers reported Wednesday.
“Apple’s initial sell-through dropped significantly as sales fell during the fourth quarter,” Gartner said. “Nevertheless, Apple maintained its third position in the global rankings.”
[From iPhone sales grew 245% in 2008 - Gartner - Apple 2.0]
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Twitter has increased 10-fold
UK Internet traffic to Twitter has increased 10-fold over past last 12 months, according to Hitwise. For the week ending 17/01/09 Twitter ranked as the 291st most visited website in the UK. And this is before that Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross moment on BBC one, when there was a almost a complete minute when Stephen and Jonathan discuss twitter and what it is. Outside of the technorati and alpha geeks, Twitter is starting to attract celebs including John Cleese, Britiney Spears and Bobby Llewellyn among many others. On Backstage we're also seeing much more projects using Twitter as the network. This is certainly a trend to watch for the future.
[From backstage.bbc.co.uk :: Backstage Blog ::]
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Sunday, 1 February 2009
Valentines Day is comming!
Great gift ideas of Valentines Day
Find great Valentine’s Day gift ideas for him, for her, and for you Valentine’s Day Gifts They’ll Heart… at Prices You’ll Love
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Keynote ‘09 support coming soon to SlideShare
Keynote ‘09 support coming soon to SlideShare: "
In case you’ve missed the announcement at MacWorld, Apple released a new version of their productivity suite iWork ‘09.
This has resulted in a change in the way Keynote files are saved and our converter chokes on them when you upload one to SlideShare.
We’re working on the problem and should have a fix out soon, stay tuned!
"(Via SlideShare Blog.)
Monday, 26 January 2009
What is a gravatar?
What is a gravatar?
A gravatar, or globally recognised avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on blogs?
How do I get a gravatar?
Signing up for a gravatar.com account is FREE, and all that’s required is your email address. Once you’ve signed up you can upload your avatar image and soon after you’ll start seeing it on gravatar enabled blogs!
Panoramic views of the inaugural ceremony and parade.
The 44th President
Views From the Crowds
Click image above, then when the new page has opened, click and drag your mouse over the image to move your view in any direction.
Sunday, 25 January 2009
Sunday, 18 January 2009
Saturday, 17 January 2009
SSDCC website update
Sandown Shanklin & District Camera Club
New website update.
I have made some major changes to the SSDCC website and emailed the URL to the comity to have a preview before the meeting on Monday.