Diary for January 2010
26th Social Enterprise - Starting in Social Enterprise
Starting in Social Enterprise Do you have an enterprising idea to benefit your community or the environment? Trying to find out how to get started in social enterprise? This workshop will help you turn your plans into reality. http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/eventdisplay?site=106&r.s=sl&r.lc=en&itemId=5001431752...
20th Guerrilla e-marketing seminar
Join us for an in-depth seminar looking at E-Marketing. http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/eventdisplay?site=106&r.s=sl&r.lc=en&itemId=5001416310...
4th Alacrify is now open
Alacrify is now open following a Christmas holiday...
4th Business Advice Clinics
What is the clinic? Aimed at business owners or managers, the clinic is a one-to-one 90-minute meeting with a Business Link adviser. They will review key areas of your business and any issues you are facing - identifying activity and support that will help improve performance. http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/eventdisplay?site=106&r.s=sc&r.lc=en&itemId=1083557917...
1st Closed for the holidays
Alacrify is closed for the holidays. This is until the 4th of January....
27th Qianlong Vase on Sale at Dukes Auctions
We've just uploaded a new page on the Dukes Auctions website to promote the sale of a very beautiful vase at their next auction. The page was made to coincide with the publication of an advert in the press and features a slideshow of the various aspects of the vase, plus an enlarge and zoom function to allow potential buyers to inspect it in close up. You can view the page here and see the zoom-magnify options yourself... http://www.dukes-auctions.com/auction-highlights.php...
26th SSL IE File Download Problem and Solution
We've just installed an SSL certificate for a client whose website has a built in file manager. Each file download is passed through a series of PHP scripts to analyse the origin of the download and so on. To do this the file itself is read through PHP and held in a cache (as far as IE is concerned anyway). When the SSL was installed this system broke with Firefox behaving normally, but IE giving a message indicating that the file could not be found. The solution was, in the end, quit...
21st Making the Most of Social Networks
We've just been helping out Bay Publishing with setting up new social networking identities. Today we embedded links to these on their websites. In addition to the four magazines and company website we've also added them to the multi-language health and safety supplies directory that they also publish online. Together we agreed that the most suitable networks to engage in are LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. This gives Bay Publishing a simple way to get connected to people in the health and sa...
18th Useful Excel Worksheet Comparison
One of our current projects involves comparing multiple datasets from a csv database extract to show which records have been removed or updated. To do this there is an original worksheet that gives the default baseline data on a given date. Then a second worksheet is copied into this file for comparison. This happens on a weekly reporting cycle. I hunted for a method to find any original records that had been deleted in the weekly report. I found a great little tutorial that did the trick...
13th Three New Sites Launched
We've just launched new sites for three local building compaines. Check them out here: www.moxomglass.co.uk here: www.moxomjoinery.co.uk and here: www.ricardobuilders.co.uk We hope you'll look them up for your next building project, particularly if you're seeking a company that specialises in traditional techniques and period homes. From Ricardo Builders' site: 'Ricardo Builders Ltd are a traditional building company based in Dorchester, the county town of Dorset, working throughout th...
5th A Handful of Recent Good Reads
A quick list of recent books that I've enjoyed reading over Christmas, not business ones this time, just for pleasure! .. oh ok, here's a few bestselling web design books from Amazon too. Amazon.co.uk Widgets...
4th 2010 Bank Holidays
After some scrabbling around in Outlook and on the web for the 2010 public holidays in England and Wales I finally arrived at this list. 1st January 2010 - New Years Day 2nd April 2010 - Good Friday 5th April 2010 - Easter Monday 3rd May 2010 - May Bank Holiday 31st May 2010 - Spring Bank Holiday 30th August 2010 - August Bank Holiday 27th December 2010 - Holiday in lieu of Christmas Day 28th December 2010 - Holiday in lieu of Boxing Day I hope it helps save you a bit of time! Hap...
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