Monthly Archives: November 2011
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November 27, 2011
New Signature’s Christopher Hertz Speaking at Microsoft Western Europe: Windows Intune Partner Academy
By New SignatureChristopher Hertz will be one of two featured speakers at the Microsoft Western Europe: Windows Intune Partner Academy in Amsterdam on Friday, December 9th 2011. This exclusive Microsoft in the Cloud event provides a hands-on workshop to enable Europen partners to master Windows Intune from a business and marketing/sales standpoint. The event is from 08:30 – 17:00 at the Sheraton Amsterdam Airport Hotel & Conference Center. The Windows Intune Partner Academy will answer some key questions:
- What is Windows Intune? How is it connected to the Cloud?
- How can I transform my business from on-premise to cloud, and how can Windows Intune help?
- How can I build a profitable practice around Windows Intune?
- How is Microsoft going to invest in my business, helping me to become successful with Windows Intune?
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November 21, 2011
New Signature Launches Trade Adjustment Assistance Website
By New Signature
The Trade Adjustment Assistance website launched today to help workers start a new chapter. New Signature designed and built this online resource to help explain and promote the Trade Adjustment Assistance program. The project was spearheaded by the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute in collaboration with a number of other partners. The project was funded by the US Department of Labor under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.Since the 1960s, the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program (TAA) has helped millions of trade-impacted workers who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own start a new chapter in the new economy by providing a path for employment growth and opportunity. Administered by the US Department of Labor, the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program is a federally funded program that provides long-term training benefits, health care support, job search and job relocation allowances, and income support for TAA certified workers. Once certified, workers must then separately apply for each benefit. Though the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program doesn’t replace the good job lost due to foreign trade policies, it does help the trade-impacted worker get back on their feet.
The website includes a wide array of information on the program, including compelling video narratives of impacted workers from across the nation.
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November 18, 2011
New Signature Helps Working America Launch NineDemands.com
By Craig Zingerline
New Signature teamed up with Working America to design and launch the “Nine Demands of the 99%” petition website. The web application collects petition signatures from public supporters for the 99% movement going on across the country right now. The application supports co-branded partner pages so that petitions and content management. As of now, Working America has partnered with eight other organizations including Daily Kos, AFL-CIO, National Employment Law Project, Stand With Wisconsin, California Labor Federation, North Carolina State AFL-CIO, Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans and AFSCME.The petition page was designed with two clear objectives:
1 Make the petition process straightforward, with a very clear call to action.
2 Integrate social media on both the landing and success pages. This helps to spread the petition reach.
The petition application was created on an accelerated schedule, and went from concept to launch in less than three weeks. The results have been fantastic, with the primary petition page receiving more than 4,400 Facebook likes and shares within 24 hours of launch. This represents a social participation rate of one in four visitors!
The primary petition page received over 4400 Facebook likes and shares within 24 hours of launch. This represents a social participation rate of one in four visitors!
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November 14, 2011
New Signature Teams with Inside Higher Ed to Relaunch Website
By New Signature
New Signature teamed up with long time client Inside Higher Ed to launch the third major iteration of this highly popular online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education. The New Signature team collaborated closely with the Inside Higher Ed team to migrate the website from its eZ Publish platform to a Drupal 7 publishing platform.The revamped website provides visitors with breaking news and feature stories, provocative daily commentary, areas for comment on every article, practical career columns, and a powerful suite of tools to help higher education professionals get jobs and colleges identify and hire employees. The website has been designed to make it an online gathering place for all of the many constituents and diverse institutions that make up the rich web of higher education.
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November 8, 2011
David Geevaratne Represents New Signature on CRN’s Best of Breed Club 2011
By New SignatureDavid Geevaratne has been named to CRN‘s Best of Breed Club 2011 and represents New Signature on this presitigous and influential body. The Best of Breed Conference gathered a group of leading solution providers, technology vendors, and industry visionaries to address the challenges and opportunities in the market today. David Geevaratne was one of the leaders tapped by CRN to engage in discussions to set the channel agenda for 2012. All of the Club members, including New Signature, are among the ranks of CRN’s VAR500, Tech Elite, Fast Growth, and Next-Gen lists.
CRN.com delivers strategic information and useful business tools that Solution Providers and other Channel professionals use everyday. The technology reseller Channel is a world-wide community of product resellers (known as Solution Providers), product vendors, distributors, and customers that account for approximately two-thirds of all technology products and services sold each year. UBM Channel’s platform of business tools, live events, sales enablement sevices, market intelligence offerings, and multimedia outlets are designed to help the Channel grow and profit.
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November 2, 2011
“Cloud on Your Terms: 30 Days about the Cloud” Shaping Up to be a Great Resource
By Christopher HertzBrian Lewis, John Weston,and Kevin Remde at Microsoft have just started the “Cloud on Your Terms: 30 Days about the Cloud” blog, but I can already recommend it as a great read. The first two posts, “The Cloud on Your Terms Part 1 of 30: What Cloud is Right for You?” and “The Cloud on your terms part 2 of 30: What is a Hybrid Cloud?“, are well written and to the point. Recommended reading for anyone who wants to understand the “cloud” and how Microsoft cloud services provide cost savings, agility and scalability that are simply too powerful for any company to ignore. The term “cloud” is a nebulous one, and the authors quickly debunk this term in the first post, discussing IaaS, PaaS, vs SaaS, and public cloud, private cloud vs hybrid. I am looking forward to them digging into the “technologies to really help you deliver the Cloud on your terms to your business”.
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New Signature CEO Christopher Hertz Speaking at IT Nation 2011
By New SignatureNew Signature CEO Christopher Hertz will be presenting on the “Partner Best Practices for a Thriving MSP Practice around Microsoft Online Services” session with Microsoft’s Chris Large at IT Nation 2011. The session will focus on new opportunities to understand and leverage understand Office 365, Windows Intune and Dynamics CRM Online. The panel will take an in-depth look at how partners are successfully building and growing a highly profitable business around Microsoft cloud services. This session will focus on the following:
- Partner Opportunity: Enabling partners to compete and win in 2011 and beyond
- Microsoft in the Cloud: Building momentum with Microsoft’s Cloud Offerings
- Learning from Success: Leveraging partner best practices to build your business with Online Services
The session is on Friday, November 11th, Round 6, 2:15-3:15pm – Room: Vesey. Hope you can attend!
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November 1, 2011
Microsoft Windows Intune Partner Hub Launches and Features New Signature
By New SignatureThe Microsoft Windows Intune Partner Hub launched today. Microsoft Partners can learn about the business opportunities Windows Intune provides them and how the new release of Windows Intune can deliver an even richer experience to their customers. Partners can use the website to take advantage of all of the various and diverse Windows Intune resources available. New Signature is a Microsoft Cloud Accelerate Partner and leading Microsoft Partner that has already made Windows Intune an important part of the value that we can provide to clients.
The Microsoft Windows Intune Partner Hub features the video of New Signature CEO Christopher Hertz and Jon Roskill, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft discussing how Microsoft Partners and their customers are winning with Windows Intune.
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New Signature Websites Bring Home Four Wins at 2011 Davey Awards
By New Signature
Food & Water Watch’s Factory Farm Map, ioby, Oceana’s Adopt-a-Creature and HeadCount / State Radio’s Take Action for Troy Davis websites have won 2011 Davey Awards. With nearly 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. New Signature is proud that these groundbreaking websites we designed and built for our clients have been honored by the International Academy of the Visual Arts:- 2011 Gold Award: Factory Farm Map in the “Websites – Activism” Category
- 2011 Silver Award: HeadCount / State Radio’s Take Action for Troy Davis in the “Websites – Activism” Category
- 2011 Silver Award: ioby in the “Websites – Charitable Organization” Category
- 2011 Silver Award: Oceana Store in the “Websites – Charitable Organization” Category
“The International Academy of the Visual Arts was honored to have once again participated in the International Davey Awards competition. We were truly amazed and excited at the overall caliber and quality of this year’s pool of entries” noted Linda Day, Executive Director of the IAVA. She added “The Davey Awards serves as the benchmark for recognizing creative excellence and continues to raise the bar in honoring the best work from small agencies and firms worldwide. Congratulations to the “Creative Davids” at the forefront of their industry, helping to push the limits in creativity and design.”
The Davey Awards exclusively honor the “Davids” of creativity, the finest small firms, agencies and companies in the world. David defeated the giant Goliath with a big idea and a little rock – the sort of thing small firms do each year. The annual International Davey Awards honors the achievements of the “Creative Davids” who derive their strength from big ideas, rather than big budgets. The Davey Awards is the leading awards competition specifically for smaller firms, where firms compete with their peers to win the recognition they deserve.
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Join New Signature Today at the 2011 Salsa Community Conference #salsa2011
By New SignatureNew Signature is the premier sponsor of 2011 Salsa Community Conference taking place today at the Woolly Mammoth Theater in Washington, DC. We are also the official sponsors of the “Festive Fiesta” being held from 6:30-9:00pm tonight.
If you are attending please join New Signature’s session “Making Magic with Salsa”. We will explain how you can do more with Salsa than you thought possible. Explore tips, tricks and techniques to get the most return on your investment. This is from 1:45pm-2:45pm today.
You can also engage our expert panelist on the “Engagement: Climbing the Ladder” panel with Food and Water Watch and Mobile Commons. Someone signed a petition, attended an event, made a donation but you want more. Learn how you can take your supporters to the next level. This is from 3:15pm-4:15pm today.
Hope to see you there!