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Are you responsible for managing your company or organisation's websites? In the recent SilverStripe newsletter we announced a survey for website managers. Whether you're running your site on SilverStripe technology or not, we want to hear about your ... [More] experiences – particularly any problems you might have with performance and robustness of the sites you manage. We're listening! We are looking for the best place to focus our efforts next, and we'd appreciate if you could take a few moments to answer some quick questions in a survey. Initial results are encouraging with the majority of respondents reporting no or infrequent problems of performance and robustness, although noting that when something does happen it can have a major impact. When filling out the survey, you can be as anonymous as you like. Any questions you answer will help us a lot. If you haven't already filled it out, you can start the online survey here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2fCLUylyq3MEwKgx3rz_2bEyg_3d_3d Thanks! [Less]

Are you responsible for managing your company or organisation's websites? In the recent SilverStripe newsletter we announced a survey for website managers. Whether you're running your site on SilverStripe technology or not, we want to hear about your ... [More] experiences – particularly any problems you might have with performance and robustness of the sites you manage. We're listening! We are looking for the best place to focus our efforts next, and we'd appreciate if you could take a few moments to answer some quick questions in a survey. Initial results are encouraging with the majority of respondents reporting no or infrequent problems of performance and robustness, although noting that when something does happen it can have a major impact. When filling out the survey, you can be as anonymous as you like. Any questions you answer will help us a lot. If you haven't already filled it out, you can start the online survey here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2fCLUylyq3MEwKgx3rz_2bEyg_3d_3d Thanks! [Less]

We are very proud to announce the opening of SilverStripe Australia Pty Ltd! We have had many people in Australia tell us that they would love to have a SilverStripe team local to them to help out with their SilverStripe website development efforts. ... [More] We listened and now SilverStripe has a Melbourne office.  SilverStripe Australia is headed up by Shane Weddell. Shane is an Aussie who has deep knowledge of the CMS market and technology in Australia. He has well over a decade of project management experience dealing with complex projects. His extensive PM experience coupled with his recent sales leadership roles combine to make him the perfect person to head up SilverStripe Australia. Owen Windsor and Marcus Nyeholt bring heaps of deep site development and system architecture experience to the Melbourne office. Shane will continue to build up his team in Melbourne by adding developers so they can deliver sites locally to Australia. Our Australian partners will rely on the SilverStripe Australia office for assistance, and likewise, SilverStripe Australia will rely on our Aussie partners for help as needed. You can continue to count on us here at the Head Office in Wellington for all the great web application development and website work we're known for. If you're in Australia, feel free to contact Shane in Melbourne when you want a local SilverStripe team to help out.  Welcome to Shane, Owen, and Marcus! We'll try to keep the Aussie jokes to a minimum, or at least we'll make sure they're really funny. [Less]

We are very proud to announce the opening of SilverStripe Australia Pty Ltd! We have had many people in Australia tell us that they would love to have a SilverStripe team local to them to help out with their SilverStripe website development efforts. ... [More] We listened and now SilverStripe has a Melbourne office.  SilverStripe Australia is headed up by Shane Weddell. Shane is an Aussie who has deep knowledge of the CMS market and technology in Australia. He has well over a decade of project management experience dealing with complex projects. His extensive PM experience coupled with his recent sales leadership roles combine to make him the perfect person to head up SilverStripe Australia. Owen Windsor and Marcus Nyeholt bring heaps of deep site development and system architecture experience to the Melbourne office. Shane will continue to build up his team in Melbourne by adding developers so they can deliver sites locally to Australia. Our Australian partners will rely on the SilverStripe Australia office for assistance, and likewise, SilverStripe Australia will rely on our Aussie partners for help as needed. You can continue to count on us here at the Head Office in Wellington for all the great web application development and website work we're known for. If you're in Australia, feel free to contact Shane in Melbourne when you want a local SilverStripe team to help out.  Welcome to Shane, Owen, and Marcus! We'll try to keep the Aussie jokes to a minimum, or at least we'll make sure they're really funny. [Less]

If you're based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you now have local access to professional SilverStripe services! Quinn Interactive is a 15-year-old company specialising in website development. Quinn has a talent for both design and CMS ... [More] implementations, and has worked with organisations like LEGO and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Quinn's skills and experience make them an excellent addition to our SilverStripe Partner Program. We have worked with developers at Quinn to ensure that they have an appropriate level of knowledge in our software. We encourage you to contact them if you want a San Francisco company to build a website or web application on the SilverStripe platform. Phil Quinn, president of Quinn Interactive, met with us recently. He took the opportunity to explain why he felt SilverStripe is such a good choice for his firm and his customers. Welcome Quinn!   [Less]

If you're based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you now have local access to professional SilverStripe services! Quinn Interactive is a 15-year-old company specialising in website development. Quinn has a talent for both design and CMS ... [More] implementations, and has worked with organisations like LEGO and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Quinn's skills and experience make them an excellent addition to our SilverStripe Partner Program. We have worked with developers at Quinn to ensure that they have an appropriate level of knowledge in our software. We encourage you to contact them if you want a San Francisco company to build a website or web application on the SilverStripe platform. Phil Quinn, president of Quinn Interactive, met with us recently. He took the opportunity to explain why he felt SilverStripe is such a good choice for his firm and his customers. Welcome Quinn!   [Less]

We're extremely proud that a website built by SilverStripe was recognised at the inaugural New Zealand Internet Industry Awards this month. The Ministry of Health website thelowdown.co.nz won the Societal Impact award. The website provides young New ... [More] Zealanders at risk of depression with a source of inspiration, information, and online counseling – and is seen as having saved young lives from suicide.  The website is highly interactive and contains a lot of engaging video content thanks to the involvement of two agencies, Draft FCB and Oktobor. Information about the website is available in our case study of The LowDown. The awards evening brought together over one hundred of New Zealand's top minds in the internet industry. The evening was a thoroughly enjoyable formal dinner at Parliament, with Vint Cerf presenting awards and speaking on how internet use has evolved and grown. The internet industry awards were in memory of Liz Dengate Thrush, an internet entrepreneur, and wife of Peter Dengate Thrush, the current chair of ICANN. We'd also like to extend our congratulations to DigitalNZ and Xero for winning the education and business categories respectively.   [Less]

We're extremely proud that a website built by SilverStripe was recognised at the inaugural New Zealand Internet Industry Awards this month. The Ministry of Health website thelowdown.co.nz won the Societal Impact award. The website provides young New ... [More] Zealanders at risk of depression with a source of inspiration, information, and online counseling – and is seen as having saved young lives from suicide.  The website is highly interactive and contains a lot of engaging video content thanks to the involvement of two agencies, Draft FCB and Oktobor. Information about the website is available in our case study of The LowDown. The awards evening brought together over one hundred of New Zealand's top minds in the internet industry. The evening was a thoroughly enjoyable formal dinner at Parliament, with Vint Cerf presenting awards and speaking on how internet use has evolved and grown. The internet industry awards were in memory of Liz Dengate Thrush, an internet entrepreneur, and wife of Peter Dengate Thrush, the current chair of ICANN. We'd also like to extend our congratulations to DigitalNZ and Xero for winning the education and business categories respectively.   [Less]

At the end of August New Zealand's first Open Government Data Barcamp will take place at the National Library in Wellington. The barcamp is an open, participant driven event organised and run by people who have an interest in making government-held ... [More] data freely available. As an open source company and one of the sponsors of the event, SilverStripe strongly stands behind the open data philosophy.  We believe that collaboration fosters innovation and that taxpayer-funded data should be available without restrictions over the Internet. While data itself can do a lot of things, it needs to be put into context to be useful for others; having data freely available allows people to create value and develop innovative services and applications. Government agencies, as part of their work, collect a substantial amount of non-personal data - from geospatial and environmental data to statistics. In most cases public money is spent to research and obtain this data, so it should be accessible for everyone to use. SilverStripe works with a range of government agencies helping them to make their data available for citizens in a meaningful way, enabling them to collaborate constructively and make use of the data on a personal, regional, and national level. To find out more about the New Zealand Open Govt barcamp go to http://groups.google.com/group/nzopengovtbarcamp [Less]