New Signature has won five Silver Awards in the 2009 Davey Awards. The winners of The 2009 Davey Awards were announced today by the International Academy of the Visual Arts today, and ForeignPolicyI.org, InsideIran.org, and InsideHigherEd.com all won Silver Awards. With over 4,000 entries from across the US and around the world, the Davey Awards honors the finest creative work from the best small firms, agencies and companies worldwide.
We are excited that these websites, which we designed and developed for our clients, have been selected to receive this prestigious honor. The Davey Awards is judged and overseen by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), a 200+ member organization of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. The Davey Awards is judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only organization consisting of top-tier media, advertising, and marketing professionals from the world’s leading organizations and firms.
With a huge release of products launching from Microsoft over the next few months (including Windows 7), it can be easy to miss the strongest product they’ve updated which serves as the foundation for all the others, Windows Server 2008 R2.
Although the “R2″ title implies it’s merely an update release, the new features contained within R2 make it the most robust platform for businesses ever released by Microsoft. We’ve been running the version for several months now, and it bundles in features that commonly costs thousands of dollars into the core operating system. (more…)
Two of New Signature’s staff–David Geevaratne and Reed Wiedower–have earned the prestigious Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) credential to become part of the elite community of MCTs.
Microsoft Certified Trainers are the premier technical and instructional experts on Microsoft technologies, and are the only individuals authorized to deliver training for Microsoft Certification.
Windows 7 was released to the general public yesterday and on most fronts, it definitely shines. Here at New Signature, we have been testing it since the first early beta several months ago. This experience has helped us not only raise our awareness of its new features, but it has allowed our consultants to become support-certified before it was even released.
For the average user, Windows 7 offers several significant advantages over its predecessor, Windows Vista: (more…)
New Signature has created the “Ethics In Your State” online directory for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). This directory will provide state and local activists with the contact information they need to cooperate on projects, to seek out assistance from natural allies in their respective states, and to benefit from the experiences of other activists in their states and across state borders.
CREW has closely monitored government ethics, bringing egregious conduct to light and holding public officials accountable for their misconduct. CREW has focused primarily on the federal government, but in 2006, they launched a state-based project called Colorado Ethics Watch (CEW). CEW has been effective in holding public officials and organizations accountable for unethical activities that undermine the integrity of state and local government. CREW lacks the resources, however, to open similar offices in other states. As a result, they turned to New Signature to implement an online directory of state-based groups to assist CREW in identifying, challenging, and deterring unethical conduct by local and state government officials. Public officials held accountable for abusing the public trust at the local level are less likely to reach higher office, where they would wield greater power and have more opportunities to betray the public trust.
e21’s ground breaking website went live today. e21 is a new nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to economic research and innovative public policies for the 21st century. New Signature worked with e21 through our process driven approach to develop a website built on the Drupal content management system and that uses the jQuery JavaScript Library to provide substantial interactivity. Our approach in creating the e21 website was to blend robust functionality with practical usability to create an exceptional user experience. We employed the latest tactics, standards and technologies to build e21’s Internet presence. (more…)
As a Microsoft Gold Partner, New Signature gets to test drive products well in advance of their eventual release dates. One of the best beta products we have had the pleasure of testing has been Exchange Server 2010, the latest update to Microsoft’s email server.
It’s clear from the moment you download the product that it is different from previous versions of the Exchange server family: the total size is a mere 300 MB. By comparison, Exchange 2007 was 5.65 GB — almost 20 times larger! The installation is similarly streamlined. It is possible to get a working Exchange 2010 server installed and running in a matter of minutes.
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New Signature has earned both a Gold and Silver award at the 2009 W3 Awards. The Winners of The 2009 W3 Awards were announced by the International Academy of the Visual Arts today. Receiving nearly 3,000 entries, The W3 Awards honors outstanding Websites, Web Marketing, and Web Video created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers, and creators worldwide.
“We were incredibly impressed by the quality and creativity of this year’s entries. W3 winners continue to set the bar in Web development and design, push the limits of web advertising creativity and advance the use of web video. We are thrilled to have reviewed such a diverse and respected pool of work” said Linda Day, the executive director of the IAVA. “On behalf of the entire Academy, we congratulate this year’s W³ Award winners as they continue to advance Internet creativity and greatly contribute to the robust and ever-changing online community.” (more…)
