Big Chip Nominations

The first week of April means only one thing to the North West’s New Media Industry… who has successfully been short listed for the Big Chip Awards?

Well I am pleased to say that Virtuaffinity and PushON have followed on from last years success at the awards with not just one but two nominations.

In the category of Best Commercial Website Virtuaffinity has been short listed for their work on the Didsbury Magazine Online. And in the category of Best Rising Star I have been nominated for my work over the last year with PushON.

As you can imagine we are really excited by the news that we have been short listed for these awards and that a body of the industries finest has continued to like our work. The future is looking bright for both PushON and Virtuaffinity – and nominations at such high profile events as this will continue to help us show the North West that for a small firm we can compete and succeed against the big boys.

Read all the Big Chip Shortlists here.

The Team is Growing

Great News...

Yes we finally found someone to fill the positions advertised back in October.

At PushOn, Katrina has joined us from Code Computerlove in Manchester and brings some real marketing brains to our team. Check out Katrina's Blog to see what she has been up to and how she is getting on.

The guys at Virtuaffinity are growing too. Jim has joined them and brings a wealth of web development know-how to the team. You can have a read of all the clever things Jim gets up to at JimNeath.com

So it looks to be an exciting start to the new year. I look forward to updating you on how we're all getting on.

The PushOn blog has moved!!

Yes that’s right. Whilst we have nothing but praise for Blogger and the service it offers we have decided to move our Blog to http://blog.pushon.co.uk and use wordpress instead.

No Doubt I’ll be blogging about the functionality benefits soon enough!

The Battle of the Browsers

Well its a week of Internet browser launches. Microsoft launch its much awaited Internet Explorer 7 last week and hot on their heels is Mozila with its latest release of Firefox 2.0.

I haven't actually tested either of these browsers yet but from the outlook they seem to have taken the middle ground and developed many of the same features:

• RSS Feeds
  
• Tabbed Browsing
  
• Improved Security Features (anti-phishing)
  
• Print Previews

One feature that really stood out for me in the new Firefox release is the introduction of a spell checker. It claims to spell check anything typed into your browser; including webmail and even when blogging!

If anybody has had chance to test these new browsers I'd be interested to know what you thought about them.

PushOn gets a facelift...

The PushOn website has had a bit of a facelift. The boys over at Virtuaffinity have been working hard to give the site a new look.

The facelifted site is boasting a load of new Online Marketing Articles too so drop by and let the guys know what you think of the changes.