Archive for August 2012
Vote for Hilton as DNN Site of The Year & Visit Us at DNNWorld 2012
We are proud to announce that one of our hosting clients, Hilton Grand Vacations, is up for DNN Site of the Year. Please help them win by voting on Facebook. DotNetNuke World is the annual user conference specifically designed for developers, web designers, administrators, business decision makers, and end users on the DotNetNuke Platform. This…
Read MoreUser Experience Phase 2: Implementation
In our first article, we walked through the process of auditing and evaluating the User Experience of your website. In this article, we’ll map out an Implementation Plan to tackle the items that you identified in Step 6 as: Easily and immediately actionable. Worth implementing but requiring additional resources or time to roll out. The…
Read MorePutting X On Your Map: How To Think Like a Creative Strategist & Get Greater Response To Your Online Offering
By Dan Ray, Web Media & Design Manager, Ray|Collective, Inc. Before the Internet, ad agencies were staffed with the brightest creative minds and rarest designers in the world. Their strategy was straightforward: Interrupt them: make people stop and look at you. Designs and concepts had to be compelling, attractive and hit the mark. Seed thought:…
Read MoreGetting to Know Cara Pluff
Fearless Editor sat down with Cara Pluff, Applied Innovations’ Director of Marketing and Sales, to talk about Teamwork, Triathlons, Food, and Inspiration. Fearless Editor: Let’s start with some basic work facts. When did you start at Applied Innovations? Cara Pluff: A little over three years ago. Originally my focus was on building out sales structure…
Read MoreRecap of Hosting Industry Events in July
July was a big month for the Hosting Industry with the 2012 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto July 8-12 and HostingCon 2012 in Boston July 16-18. 2012 Microsoft World Partner Conference Toronto, July 8-12 Applied Innovations’ President and CEO Jess Coburn joined 15,000 of his closest friends from over 150 countries at this annual…
Read MoreCustomer Spotlight: TechKnowSys
Applied Innovations wanted to get to know a little bit more about New Jersey-based customer TechKnowSys and its founder Tom Murzenski. So we sat down together over some nice afternoon tea with crumpets. (Okay, not really… we had a friendly, efficient and ecologically sensible email interview… but crumpets sound delicious.) Applied Innovations: So when was…
Read MoreAll About User Experience – Part 1: Evaluation
Wikipedia defines the User Experience or UX as follows: “The way a person feels about using a product, system or service. User experience highlights the experiential, affective, meaningful and valuable aspects of human-computer interaction and product ownership, but it also includes a person’s perceptions of the practical aspects such as utility, ease of use and…
Read MoreGoing Mobile: Considerations for Reaching an Audience on the Move
It’s no secret that we’re a society on the move. Mobile devices, from smart phones to tablets to mobile computers, have dramatically changed the way we consume information, share experiences and make purchases over the past 5 years alone. Some interesting facts, figures and projections: Of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones in use, over…
Read MoreHow our IPS Protects our Customers
When we hire a new cloud hosting support engineer the first thing I like to let them know is that their job is exciting as they’ll be involved in cutting edge technologies. It’s a challenging job as every day they’ll be faced with a new issue they probably haven’t handled before and also a rewarding…
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