Archive | January, 2009

Get Featured on AppliedI.net and Make $25 in the process!

Applied Innovations is in the process of a website redesign and part of that process will involve revising our customer testimonials page. We’re changing the testimonials page by converting the testimonials into case studies where we’ll feature different hosting customers each month.

Every day we’re asked how to get a listing on the AppliedI.net website and a link. It’s no secret that the AppliedI.net website has a high ranking with the search engines and that a link from an established, trusted and high ranking website like www.appliedi.net will help your own search engine rankings. In addition, many of our clients offer services and products that our other clients would find useful and beneficial. These services include: web development, graphic design, marketing advice and services and various software offerings to just name a few. So here’s your opportunity to get featured and expose your company and resources to over 25,000 other websites and online businesses.  For your efforts we’ll not only feature you on our website but we’ll credit your hosting account with $25!.

What’s Required To Be Featured?

The requirements are pretty simple but here they are:

  1. You need to be an active customer with Applied Innovations. 
  2. We’ll ask that you submit a video testimonial. If you don’t have a digital video camera or don’t know how to take your video and put it online to send to us, NO PROBLEM! We have a few pocket video cameras and we’ll send one out to you to create your video with and then mail back to us (all postage paid by AppliedI).  
  3. We’ll send you an email interview. We’ll have our writers take your answers and write a compelling article around it and then send it back to you for your approval before posting it.
  4. We’ll ask that you send us a high resolution picture of yourself or your business. You don’t have to run out and hire a professional photographer, we’re all real people and we want real people photographs. It should just be a picture of you enjoying what you do.

That’s it. From there our experts will take that content create a new case study page around it and post it with your video testimonial and feature it throughout our site.

An Interview What Kind of Questions?

Everyone always worry about what they’re going to say or what they’re going to be asked. In this case, it’s quite simple. We want to tell your story. We want to know what brought you to Applied Innovations, how Applied Innovations has made a difference for your company and what is it that we do that you love the most about Applied Innovations. 

Video? What would I say?

Just like the Email Interview this would be your opportunity to tell your story about your company, how you came to find Applied Innovations and what impact Applied Innovations has had on your company. The great thing about video is now it’s personalized and it allows everyone to see a real person telling their own story.

Why are we doing all this?

Applied Innovation in a few weeks will turn 10 years old and we want to spotlight our customers and let them tell their story. Applied Innovations has already been about the customer and helping the customer solve their problems and then grow their business online. We think this is a great way to get this message out there and at the same time a great way to promote and say thanks to the people that have also helped us grow.

What do I do next? How do I get started?

Ready to get involved? Great! send us an email at sales@appliedi.net and we’ll get started immediately and in a few days your video testimonial will be online and live.

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Applied Innovations Sponsors Phizzpop Design Challenge Event

The Phizzpop Design Challenge is a Microsoft driven event designed to engage top designers and developer agencies in an adrenaline charged competition. On its second year round, the Phizzpop event will encompass design, innovation, development, and creativity to solve a unique design challenge emphasizing the use of Microsoft Software for design and development.

The Phizzpop Tour Event will be stopping in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Austin between November of 2008 and March of 2009.

Before each event, the agency teams will be trained on the newest Microsoft technologies. Then they will be given a Design Challenge to solve.

Each agency that wins its local event will be flown to SXSW (South by South West) event in Austin, TX to compete against each other.

Web professionals across the U.S. and from around the world can also get into the action with the PhizzPop Online for creative inspiration, training and exposure.

Each contestant will be presented with a Design Challenge, which can be solved however the group or individual wishes. Submissions may be hosted in the Appliedi.net servers at no charge. Most of the already submitted challenges we have seen were done using Silverlight. Microsoft Silverlight is a new cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for the web. It runs in all popular browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Opera. The plugin required to run Silverlight is very small in size hence gets installed very quickly. For those of you not familiar with the power of Silverlight we have put together a small yet powerful showcase for you.

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Hard Rock Memorabilia

Hard Rock Memorabilia allows users to browse through thousands of rock ‘n’ roll artifacts online.

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Turning The Pages

Turning the Pages 2.0 allows you to ‘virtually’ turn the pages of precious books. You can also magnify details read or listen to expert commentary on each page.

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Advanced Slideshow

An advanced slide show build done on Silverlight. Be sure to use the full screen option and interact with images.

In summary, Phizzpop is the design event of the year — a prestigious design competition combined with a social gathering for top web professionals, brands, designers and developers.

Applied Innovations plays a main sponsor role by allowing Phizzpop Design Challenge contestants to host their application on our servers at no cost.

Learn more about Phizzpop by visiting www.phizzpop.com

Learn more about Silverlight Hosting (supported on both Windows 2003 and Windows 2008) by visiting www.appliedi.net/silverlight-hosting

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Upgrading your WordPress Blog to the new 2.7 Version.

In this video we’ll walk you through upgrading your WordPress installation from the 2.6 version to the newer 2.7 version.  As with any web application it’s important to keep the software up to date and free of any software defects (bugs) or security vulnerabilities.  WordPress is in wide use and actively developed against and as such this is a process you’ll find yourself doing from time to time.

This video is a demonstration of one method to upgrade your WordPress installation.

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