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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.  

Finally someone is combining products to suite your needs. We offer you an entire Business Start up kit. 

The most important part of any business is an identity. One of the key products we offer is a registered .co.za domain as well as a one page website. This is what’s needed in today‘s world. You have to establish a presence on the internet if you want to succeed. Another important aspect is to have a stable and fast internet connection. We offer a 1gb Adsl connection in this package. You will be able to anything from internet banking to promoting your company with this. We top it off with hosting for an entire year, included is 5 email addresses.

So in short, the complete Business Start up package. All of this for the amazing price of R1699 including VAT.

You can change these offerings as your business needs grow and we will assist and advise to make this a smooth transition.

To end off, ask yourself one question: Do you want to be successful?

This is the package that will get you there!

Please view our website for more info or contact sales@webnow.co.za.

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