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Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Here's to a great 2010

Hello, and welcome back to our blog. It's been a while since we posted for a number of reasons. Lack of planning & being pretty busy among them. But, following this tweet yesterday I am determined to stay on top of keeping the website up to date, including this blog and will be spending some time planning some great blog posts - including some guest bloggers!

2009 Highlights
Before we move on to 2010, here's a few 2009 highlights:

BSS celebrated 25 years in business, we celebrated our first year as Picseli & we launched a new division, The Document Management Company, following appointment as a Konica Minolta authorised dealer. I passed the Chartered Institute of Marketing's e-Marketing Award.

We met some lovely people, and launched websites for Village Homecare, Crimson Consultants, Vibe TV, Swansea Business Club and Morgan LaRoche, among others. Plus sponsored a website for the Llys Nini Animal Centre in Penllergaer.

The Way Ahead
So, here's to a great 2010! With a more positive atmosphere (despite the snow), some great new projects and products in the pipeline!

So, if there's anything you would like to see being blogged about, fancy a spot as a guest blogger or have a web design related question please leave a comment or get in touch via twitter.

Friday, 13 March 2009

The plumbers tap...

Like the plumber's tap that always drips, the web developers website doesn't get updated. The good news, I suppose, is that we have been busy and finding the time to suitably research a good blog post has not been available, so we decided that instead of writing useless posts we would wait until we had something useful to say. The problem with that however, is getting back into it.

No apologies
So, this is me getting back into blogging, with a promise to dedicate more time to it. I read on a blog somewhere (apologies if it's yours!) that bloggers shouldn't apologise for a lack of posting, so I won't.

What we've been up to
Here's a quick update on what we've been working on. Phase 1 of Vibe TV is live and our developers are working hard to add some super advanced functionality to the content management system. The new Swansea Business Club website is being built using Wordpress and will be live on March 27. The Llys Nini Aninal Centre's website is in development. iStar Showreel is also being developed in DotNetNuke. Some new designs are being done, but I can't say much about them yet and we've sent lots of proposals out - so fingers crossed!


Tuesday, 10 February 2009

Happy Safer Internet Day

Initiated by the European Commission, today is the sixth annual Safer Internet Day, highlighting issues to help keep your children safe online.

Around the world are a number of events goingon today to help raise awareness of the issues that could affect you and your children and how best to stay safe.

Teifion Davies, BSS' MD, was asked to contribute to an article in the South Wales Evening Post, which sparked this article and top tips to stay safe.

Do you have any suggestions?

Here are some scary security facts courtesy of www.getsafeonline.org:

23% of internet users were the victim of a phishing attack in 2008, compared to 8% in 2007

15% of internet users had their identity stolen or severely compromised in 2008

23% of internet users admit to posting details about themselves on social networking sites

66% of people use the same password for more than one website

There was a 66% increase in the number of computers that were infected with unwanted software in 2008

44% of small businesses in the UK have been the victim of cyber crime