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WebNow is pleased to announce that we are sponsoring the Hosting and Re-Development of the “Consider Us” website.

About Consider Us

The Consider Us campaign has been conceived and developed by Zoom Advertising, part of the Ogilvy group.

  The campaign calls for children, between six and eighteen, to explain in 20 words why world leaders should consider them when signing their climate change treaties. What is precious about our world? Why is it worth saving?       These messages then appear, in real time, on a dedicated website, serving as a voice of the generation with the most to lose.

  A TV, radio and print campaign will advertise Consider Us; a ‘guerrilla' campaign masterminded by Heart (the social enterprise hub that incubates new social enterprises) includes a chalking project, whereby messages are chalked up in the communities and a greening/planting project. Two dedicated websites are now live for the posting of messages. A social media campaign using free MXit and website banner advertising makes up a full digital media campaign to support Consider Us.

Parents, teachers and children are being encouraged to participate in the campaign so that these messages can be delivered to the world's financiers, who can deliver them to the United Nations Climate Change Conference that is currently underway in Copenhagen.

Follow the campaign on www.considerus.org or www.considerus.mobi.

Jean-Pierre Dumont, CEO of WebNow,  on sponsoring the online channel for Consider Us: “ I can certainly see that the “Consider Us” project is an extremely worthwhile initiative and our organisation would definitely like to be associated with it and assist where we can. “

We will be using an Enterprise hosting infrastructure that will be tailored to suite their specific needs such as anticipated increase in global site activity and subsequent load.

On the Web Development side, WebNow has a proven track record in the design and development of content management and database driven websites. We have made a name for ourselves by providing best of breed solutions for brands such as Toyota.

In addition WebNow will also be advising on the correct and most effective use of social media networking.

We are developing a flexible yet robust framework to support the site now and into the future!

Please view www.considerus.org and make a difference.  

I read an article on Biz-Community yesterday regarding trends in 2009 and the opportunities created by those trends.

The article speaks about what analyst firms like Gartner have been saying for years:

• People are on the move and prefer to work from where ever they are instead of a fixed location.
• Employee measurement and tracking systems need to be changed from how long an employee sits in an office for to a performance based measurement system.
• Office space is expensive; as is office furniture and your customers don't want to pay a premium for your services to fund this expense.

When you look at businesses in South Africa, there are very few that have embraced this concept and allow employees to telecommute and rather have a true virtual office or a hot desk system (a desk that any employee can use when they are in the office).

Yet as a business in South Africa you have the tools to offer this to employees, there are a range of broadband  offerings available from ADSL to HSDPA, employees can use VoIP and instant messaging to communicate with internal as well as external customers, and collaboration platforms such as Microsoft's SharePoint enable effective remote working.

In an era where talent is scarce, giving all your employees ADSL at home and launching a telecommuting program will be seen as a perk and will attract new talent, besides the fringe benefits of saving your business money as you require less space, and saving the environment by reducing carbon emissions caused from commuting.