New Year – new resolution – new email backup
Filed under: Conversation, Security updates, Thirdsector Systems
Our New year resolution is to keep our physical and cyber space desktops a bit tidier.
Pretty easy to implement in our various physical locations, but requiring a little more effort in e-space.
We use Mozilla Thunderbird as our default email client. We like it for its safe ease of use, ability to intuitively create folders and drag emails off the various servers across our partnership, so that our team members can consolidate their communication.
So far so good. We have recently implemented an email archive solution, to complement Thunderbird. Allowing individuals from their home offices, for example, a crucial back up of multiple emails from different sources, all into one folder or burned to a single dvd.
Partners chose Mailstore for use on their personal computers. A simple, easy to understand interface, which will back up and relocate not only Thunderbird folders, but also Microsoft Outlook, Express and Exchange, as well as Google Mail, IMAP and Pop 3 mailboxes and even Windows Live Mail.
We like it. You can find the freeware personal edition here.
You select the target folder to save to and declare the attachments you would also like archived, .pdf, .doc etc. Then back up.
Mailstore also offer business wide archival solutions on their website.
You can find the Third Sector Web home page here.
New search engines for the New Year
Filed under: Green computing, Search engines, Web services
Always with trepidation do we flag things as new. Such is the variety and flow of change available on the internet that we realise things we discover may already be old hat for our readers.
However, these we have recently found and have liked.
Joongel is a search engine which combines results from the ten most popular pages on any given theme.
You can use Joongel to select your search theme and it will consolidate the findings for you.
Dogpile is perhaps the most well known ‘search consolidator’, but we like Joongel too. There is a browser add-on for Firefox and IE7 too.
Tag Galaxy is another great find.
This is a diploma thesis project from Steven Wood of the Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Nuremburg.
Build using Papervision 3D and the Flickr API, Steven has integrated the concepts of web tags and the galaxy to present image search in a refreshing and engaging way. We loved it. Smooth rotations and quick image calls were available on our office high speed connection.
Definitely web search for the solar system – Tag Galaxy.
You can find the Third Sector Home page here.
Internet for news – main source for young people
The Pew Research Centre, a US based survey and opinion gathering firm, has recently published findings that show that for young people particularly, the internet is now likely to become their principal source of news and information – finally matching TV as the authoritative source.
Although a US based survey, we would contend that the trends indicated would also hold good for similar UK cohorts, such is the ubiquity of mobile phones and web access for young people.
Of the young people interviewed in December 2008, some six in ten individuals under 30 years of age said they now get their national and international news online. (59% of the surveyed sample).
In September 2007 in a previous survey, the young people canvassed stated that TV was their primary news and information resource. (68% of the surveyed cohort mention TV as a principal source, with only 34% leading with the internet).
This research stresses how important a web presence, aimed at young people, is for organisations and service providers in our sector.
You can read the full Pew Research Centre article here.
The Third Sector Web home page is available here.
Image/table source: Pew Research Centre, Washington, USA
‘The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It does not take positions on policy issues’.
Google image search maturing nicely…
Filed under: Conversation, Search engines, Web services
Having recently begun to offer ‘face’ image searching, Google have further updated their image search to include searches in the following categories….clip art and line drawings are added to the photo search ability.
Google says…’all of these options can be selected from the “Any content” drop down in the blue title bar on any search results page, or by selecting one of the “Content types” on the Advanced Image Search page.’
You can see the original Google blog announcement here.
The Third Sector Web home page is here.
Image by asifthebes
New regional office for Thirdsectorweb
Filed under: Conversation, Green computing, Thirdsector Systems, Web services
The Thirdsector team have been busy installing cabling, desks and communication systems in our new regional office this week – we now have a loft space in Cambridge, U.K. to support our clients and a growing number of supply partners in the Midlands and East Anglia.
Our web coding and creative team will now all be based in Cambridge, in an attempt to speed up turn-round times for projects and to ensure that any copy we receive is actioned for client sites as soon as possible.
Our mission – to integrate web, print and broadcast TV into a single solution for our clients.
Our new facility will help us to achieve that aim.
Our sister trading styles Dolphin book sellers and Dolphin book box will also have a presence on site.
We now have immediate access to spot bulk storage facilities, which will help our partnership to better deliver our large book orders, library and nursery refits and any returns required from our customers.
If you are in the eastern region and have a need for our web or communication solutions – the team will be happy to meet with you too.
Our location and messaging services can be found on our contact us page.
You can also see our full range of services on our partnership page at SmithMartin LLP.
You can visit the Third Sector Web home page here.
Letting go in marketing, client and partnership relations…
Filed under: Conversation, New Web Creations, Web services
We are all emersed in blogs, code, newsfeeds and Friday ftp fatigue – as any IT or web services provider should be.
Circulating round the office this week was an article from the Wall Street Journal, detailing a new report on the reluctance to take up ‘Web 2.0′ marketing tools in the wider business community
Although this work by academics Salvatore Parise, Patricia J. Guinan and Bruce D. Weinberg can conjure images of immaculately suited Wall Street executives, pondering the failure of the banking system perhaps – there is a real message in the article about how charity managers and service/education organisations can engage with their community of interest.
‘Let go’ seems to be the message.
Embrace and intertwine a weave of web mail, weblog, wiki and social networking solutions to engage in a dialogue with your community of choice. If millions of your potential service users can embrace Facebook, why shouldn’t they have a dialogue with you about your service.
Your organisational blog can offer, not only news and updates, but also an opportunity, if well structured, to elicit feedback from service users too.
This could be scary…we don’t necessarily recommend entering Second Life, as the article offers as a solution to finding new customers for your service, but a more expressive way of having a conversation with your audience can only benefit everyone.
You can see the original Wall Street Journal post here.
It’s hard work to develop and implement a Web 2.0 strategy – we have in our small way at Thirdsectorweb the infrastructure, the technology and the knowledge – which still did not stop some quiet irony as we espoused a wonderfully hypothetical Web 2.0 engagement framework for our clients in the heat of conversation.
Still, we take the Franklin D. Roosevelt of such activity – ‘…happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort‘.
We soldier on with undiminished passion for our partnership vision.
(Interests expressed: Thirdsectorweb is a provider of web design, hosting and communication solutions to the public, charitable, education and childcare markets in the U.K.)
You can visit the Thirdsectorweb home page here.
Image by eyeliam
Chrome no beta?
Filed under: Conversation, Search engines, Web services
Google has removed beta status from the Google Chrome browser.
The search engine giant claim increased speed, better stability and increased performance for video in the latest version.
Import and export of bookmarks is now available, always a great feature in browser rival Flock we thought.
!00 days and 10 million users – must be something good going on?
Read the official Google blog here.
You can visit our Third Sector Web home page here.
Read magazines – on Google
Filed under: Conversation, New Web Creations, Web services
Google have just announced that ‘magazine’ archive search is now available through the Google Book Searchpages.
After our recent post from Zinio Inside, Google now offer a timeline perspective on publications…a popular historical record unraveling before your eyes.
The timeline feature allows you search through and read publications from the beginning of the Twentieth Century, with Google map links offered for all the geographic locations in the magazine texts.
You can answer such questions as what was the latest technical innovation in 1953, or how did families spend their leisure time in 1962? Using contemporary sources…priceless.
Like all the most recent great Google archive innovations, in ‘accessible publishing’ for books, photographs and magazines the vast canon is highly Ameri-centric. But what a resource….we say?
You can read the original Google blog entry here.
Visit our Third Sector Web home page here.
Image: Google magazine archive/ circa 1911.
Quintura for Kids – tag cloud searching
Filed under: Conversation, New Web Creations, Web services
Quintura have recently updated their search offering to include Quintura for Kids.This safe search engine displays a clickable tag cloud, that allows the young user to call up relevant and filtered search results.
There are ‘cloud options’ on the page, offering sport, computers and online games and TV options.
The interface is nicely drawn, with a child-friendly feel, the results being displayed just below a traditional ‘search’ box.
We tested the site using the Opera 10 Alpha, see previous post – pretty slick, with very good range and depth to the results.
Could be the ideal search engine for that school project?
You can see the Third Sector Web home pagehere.
Opera 10 Alpha release now available for download
Filed under: Conversation, New Web Creations, Web services
Opera have only recently released Opera 9.62, but have quickly followed it up with a pre-festive holiday download opportunity for Alpha version 10.
The Opera blog emphasises speed of operation and the improvements offered by deployment of their Presto 2.2 rendering engine.
30% quicker downloads, automatic updates a la Chrome, with great scores on the Acid3 web standards compliance tests.
There is also, on the Opera Portal default browser home page a quick ‘get the news feature’ – allowing users to pre-select news sources for display when the browser opens. We liked that.
For the web developer there is the rendering engine’s ability to allow the use of Web Fonts and SVG font files on your web pages.
We have reviewed other Opera news recently…see Opera’s education programme , Opera 9.5 release, Opera integrates Haute Secure .
Give version 10 a try here – we thought it was pretty fast too.
You can visit the home of Third Sector Web here.
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