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| Welcome to the Christmas edition of the SpiderGroup Newsletter. We've had a really exciting month, with some fabulous activity in the press and great business opportunities, we hope you find it interesting, fun and informative and remember, if there is a topic or technology you really want to hear about, let our News Team know or you can jump onto our website at www.stretchingtheweb.com. We hope you enjoy this issue and encourage you to pass it onto friends and colleagues so they can subscribe. Subscribe to our newsletter | ||||||||||
Read All About It!
Look who's in the news this month! Yep, that's right; we got our mugs in the paper, recognition for the work we've put in to our stretching the web® brand. The premise of the business section in the Evening Post this week was effective marketing and how promoting your business and your brand leads to increased sales and ultimately business success. One of the articles highlighted Virgin and the value Richard Branson placed on marketing and publicity to establish it as one of the worlds most recognised brands today, a worthy support act to the piece on SpiderGroup as we righteously claim the front cover with stretching the web®.The article exposes a rare and privileged interview with Paul Griffiths, the manager and evangelist of our flagship product; spider office™. Paul delivers the key messages for the product and describes the activity and commitment we put into delivering those messages to our potential customers. Superb publicity for SpiderGroup in itself, it’s hardly surprising that I weaseled myself into the shot for good measure! To see what Paul has to say click here Dan Hancock, Director 
Web Portals: Changing Business - Part 1In my last piece about web portals I gave a brief introduction into what they are and some examples of how they can be applied in various business situations, if you haven’t read this then don’t worry, I’ll provide a bit of background before I begin.Web portals are places on the internet where you can share information with other people in a secure and structured environment. They can be as simple or advanced as you need them to be and provide real benefits to small, medium and corporate enterprises by centralising business information, keeping it safe and backed up automatically and allowing people to access information and tools from anywhere in the world over the internet. Portals are a means of bringing people together and businesses will often have a separate portal for each of their stakeholders, for instance a client portal for the delivery of information and services to their customers or a company portal to improve collaboration and knowledge sharing within the organisation. Web technology is extremely flexible and if implemented correctly, a portal can be the solution to any information management or communication limitations you have in your organisation, the trick is identifying what these limitations are in the first place. Continued Dan Hancock, Operations Director Showcasing: Achieving the DifferenceAchieving the Difference is a partnership of marketing practitioners, delivering work to clients in the UK and overseas. In order to improve process efficiency in a largely remote-working and collaborative environment, and to steal a march on competitors in terms of client project management and bid capability, they turned to SpiderGroup for a technical solution that would support those goals.
The answer was SpiderGroup’s spider office™ a hosted email, web and business portal service that provided an access-from-anywhere corporate desktop, advanced file sharing and document control, as well as virtual team and client rooms – password protected collaborative workspace for team and customer access to specific project documentation and workflow. Add to this the ability to share calendars, contacts and tasks online, and Achieving the Difference have a system that really does make a difference. According to Managing Partner Clive Lewis, the spider office™ has revolutionised the way Achieving the Difference is able to work: “By keeping all critical company documents in a shared workspace, we have instant access to key data from wherever we are working, via a simple web browser. Pulling together expert teams to solve client problems is now faster, more cost-effective and easier to manage; in fact, we recently secured a large contract with a district council that involved integrating multiple expert input from six different practitioners. We pulled the winning bid together in record time and without having to meet face-to-face, all achieved ‘virtually’ in real-time, online. What’s more, when one of our partners recently moved to Spain, we were able to continue with business as usual thanks to spider office™, Spanish broadband and some inexpensive webcams. SpiderGroup talk about energising IT for business, and that’s exactly what they’ve done for us.”.
Coming in the Next Edition of SpiderGroup Newsletter... Project Management for Donkeys, Mobile Email and Me and Larry takes up golf |
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