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KC3.net Newsletter - Spring 2008 Edition
Latest News: Newest Site Launched
New Online-Tool: Virtual exhibitions/tours
Get Connected! Web 2.0; Business- & Social Networking
Join Second Life and promote your company!
Accessible Content Management System - Lite Version
Manage Your New Website Easily!
BroadbandMax Short Term Contracts with Power!
Newest KC3.net site - West Midlands Training acms Website Launched
For over 15 years West Midlands Training has been delivering high quality, cost effective training to organisations across the West Midlands.
Through using qualified, experienced and innovative trainers and consultants, they have successfully met the learning & development needs of 100s of organisations in the public, private & voluntary sectors. This is the 1st of three websites to be launched by KC3.net for West Midlands Local Government Association (WMLGA). WMLGA chose acms as their preferred Accessible Content Management system for their suite of websites because it allowed a common system with single login functionality to administer all WMLGA websites.
The powerful acms database has been configured, in the case of the West Midlands Training website, to support their schedule of training courses, allowing users the convenience of a powerful search system and auto population of training course booking enquiries.
The role based security system within acms supports WMLGA configuration requirements to select which of their staff can update particular websites and website features within the WMLGA portfolio. Coming soon WMLGA new main website....
Visit West Midlands Training website
3B -New Online-Tool: Virtual exhibitions/tours 
There is a new way to illustrate your website and its content. If you're looking for more a dynamic website, interactive multimedia marketing is the fastest growing
marketing trend in business today. 3B is an interactive way for your clients to walk around your website via a virtual exhibition. It allows you to move around and watch the objects in the gallery space. Such Virtual Tours are a totally new way of exploring the Internet and can be an essential part of your
company's description.
The example below is of a simple Virtual Exhibition featuring KC3.net. To view this you will need to download the 3B browser and register
on the site - you also get to build your own avatar. Enjoy!
View KC3.net eBusiness Solutions in 3B!
Get Connected With Business Network Platforms
Xing and LinkedIn are two of the most famous business network-platforms. Your professional relationships are the key to your professional success. XING powers relationships for the world's business professionals. No two people are more than six degrees apart. XING AG's global network manages tens of millions of member-to-member connections across 16 languages and all industries, with "real world" events held around the world. XING makes your professional network an active part of your life. Far more than a directory of business contacts, XING enables its members to discover professional people, opportunities and privileges through its unique discovery capability and advanced contact management tools. Its novel approach to professional services has resulted in XING AG being named one of the world's hottest Web 2.0 startups by Business 2.0/CNN Money and one of Europe's "Top 100" by Red Herring.
LinkedIn is an online network of more than 20 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries. When you join, you create a profile that summarises your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you.Your network consists of your connections, your connections' connections and the people they know, linking you to thousands of qualified professionals.
Both platforms are free to join. They also offer paid accounts that give you more tools for finding and reaching the right people, whether or not they are in your network.
Visit Xing Visit LinkedIn
Get Connected! Social Network-Platforms
The Internet has moved on with the introduction of Web 2.0 or Social Networking as it is often referred to. The dramatic rise of Social Networking sites has raised the bar for all businesses utilising the Internet as a marketing media. Web 2.0 allows the users to interact in a social way, to become involved with the site. Commonly users can interact with their friends whilst on the site, hence Social Networking, this may be in real time or asynchronously, by leaving a message or commenting an a Blog entry.
Here at KC3.net we are helping our clients to use this technology to enhance their business by making the user experience more social. For example current eCommerce shopping is very much like ordering from a catalogue, great it's efficient but a little dull. Research has proved that people spend more time in a shop when they shop with a friend and that this extra time is directly proportional to the extra money they spend on the shopping. With Web 2.0 we can create a Social Networking shopping experience by enabling your shoppers to shop virtually with their friends!
Collect your Links! Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is a mechanism for users to collect links to their favourite web resources so that they are easily available anywhere in the world. Users can also share these bookmarks with others if they wish. A typical way to utilise Social Bookmarking is to insert a strip of buttons at the bottom of the page (or some other regular location). The buttons provide a quick and easy way for users to add your pages to their chosen Social Bookmark account.
Join Second Life and promote your company!
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of Residents from around the globe. From the moment you enter the World you'll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. Once you've explored a bit, perhaps you'll find a perfect parcel of land to build your house or business.
You'll also be surrounded by the Creations of your fellow Residents. Because Residents retain the rights to their digital creations, they can buy, sell and trade with other Residents. The Marketplace currently supports millions of US dollars in monthly transactions. Re-build your own or a similar company within Second Life and begin networking to benefit your own business. Enlarge and transfer your success to your real life and business situation! Visit Second Life
Product Overview: Accessible Content Management System - Lite Version
Manage Your New Website Easily
acmsLite provides you with an easy way to keep your new website up to date. You easily can add and update text, news, information, images and documents on your website with acmsLite. acmsLite is so easy to use - just like using a standard word processor. Because acmsLite is web-based, you can conveniently update your website from any computer via the Internet - wherever you are.
acmsLite Benefits
- Easy to use web-based system (secure log in)
- Edit your text
- Upload images and documents
- Add new pages, delete old pages
- Add key words /meta-data for search engine optimisation
- Spell checking
- Paste in content from other programmes (e.g. Word)
- Accessibility compliant to new DDA laws/eGif compliant
- One off Licence Cost per website, no upgrade fees.
- acmsLite features are built into your acms hosting package
acmsLite Website Packages
- Custom Website Design using your logo and company image
- acmsLite Set-up and Licence
- Web Promotion, SEO and Management Packages
- Hosting and .co.uk domain name registration
- Optional - Website Search
Contact KC3.net to discuss your exact requirements sales@kc3.net or 01544 231768
A website package with acmsLite is the perfect value for money choice. acmsLite provides you with the convenience and simplicity that will save you valuable time. acmsLite also keeps your website compliant with Internet standards and accessible to the widest possible audience. acmsLite complies with website accessibility DDA regulations to keep your website on the right side of the law. acmsLite: - Accessible Content Management System
Need More Functionality?
Should you need a dynamic database driven content management system with enterprise features, we have full acms, the "big brother" of acmsLite. Full acms supports multi-lingual websites, timed publish and expiry of content (including news and events), eCommerce, multi-level users and permission levels, work flow, rollback, plus more.
To see a few further examples of websites developed using acmsLite please visit:
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