CMS
September 16, 2007
Generally, a CMS has it’s focus on creating a website that will be populated and built by a group of users. These users, with different levels of rights and permissions, build the CMS and make it available internally in a company – via an Intranet, or externally to the world via the Internet. A CMS allows non-technical users to make changes to any existing content, or add new content, with little or no training. The system typically requires certain expertise to set-up and add features, but it is primarily a maintenance tool for non-technical administrators.
The unique and interesting element is that these users can be located at remote areas of the world and still build the website together.
A CMS website provides, at it’s core alone:
- Dynamic form builders
- Business or organisational directories
- Document management
- Image and multimedia galleries
- E-Commerce and shopping cart engines
- Forums and chat software
- and much more…
We are experts in Joomla! CMS – open source sofware which is available free under the GNU/GPL Licence Agreement. Further information about this is at http://www.joomla.org/content/view/5/6.
The software is free, the training manuals are available online, but many businesses and individuals still require a professional company like ourselves to configure the software and get the website to a “workable” state. We also provide regular training courses on Joomla! on both beginner and advanced levels.
Minister Tasneem Essop visits BWB
September 14, 2007
Yesterday Minister Tasneem Essop visited the Bandwidth Barn. The Minister was responding to an invitation to see what the Bandwidth Barn and Cape IT Initiative (CITI) were doing to improve, grow, and develop the ICT Sector within the Western Cape.
Viola Manuel, the Executive Director of Cape IT Initiative (CITI) and Odette Potter, the General Manager of the Bandwidth Barn spoke about the achievements these organizations have made, and the plans for the future.
Paul Vecchiatto from ITWeb, Tamara from Cape Talk, and Karen Smith from Die Burger were in attendance from the Media side.
Tasneem Essop is the Minister of Environment, Planning and Economic Development for the Provincial Government of the Western Cape.
Jayz Internet Solutions was fortunate to be one of the selected group out of the VeloCITI programme to attend the session with the Minister. It was pleasing to find the Minister so interested in our businesses, and also in the work of the Bandwidth Barn and Cape IT Initiative (CITI) within the ICT Sector.
Tiring Photo Shoot
September 13, 2007
I had a photo shoot this morning. I needed some corporate imagery to use, mainly online. Jayz Internet Solutions is one of the companies on the VeloCITI programme, CITI’s business acceleration project. As part of the programme we receive monthly sessions with Mignon Lotz-Keyser of PeerPower. The sessions are are focused around personal development, and at the moment we’re doing group analysis on Stephen Covey’s infamous “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” If you need a business support partner then please chat to someone at PeerPower. They’re doing excellent work, especially with entrepreneurs.
Why am I mentioning this?
Well a few months ago Mignon had a photographer come in on one of the group sessions. The photographer, Nazreen Essack, did a sterling job because we saw the photos published on PeerPower’s website shortly thereafter.
Nazreen’s business is called Nazreen Essack Photography, and I booked a shoot with her for this morning. Honestly, I was not going to blog about this, but I just couldn’t believe how much work it took on my part for just a one hour session. I was so tired. It’s actually not an easy task to try different shots and angles all the time. And for the photographer I’m sure it must be worse. Many of us think it’s just about clicking away at the camera – but it’s actually much more complicated. There’s a lot of skill required to be a professional photographer.
Well, as soon as I receive the CD of today’s shoot I’ll be publishing some photos online – so watch this space!
Business Partners
September 12, 2007
Do you want to become a Business Partner of Jayz Internet Solutions? Click here.
Industry Partners
September 12, 2007
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Training
September 12, 2007
We offer training in 3 different areas – Web 2.0, Web Marketing, and Customer Service.
Currently all seminars are conducted at the Bandwidth Barn (BWB) in Cape Town central. We are open to requests for seminars at other venues, please contact us to enquire.
During 2008 many seminars are planned for the Gauteng and KZN regions. If you want to have a seminar hosted at your venue, or if you would like to assist us in finding venues in these regions, please contacts us.
Click the links above for more details.
Social Networking in Plain English
September 11, 2007
This is a video produced by Common Craft. This video is for people who wonder why social networking web sites are so popular. One reason is because they solve a real-world problem: they make the invisible visible. We’ll let the video explain how it works.
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The Power of Social Media
September 11, 2007
The following presentation was done by Monty Metzger (and presented in May 2007 at the Media Meeting Mannheim, Germany). It demonstrates the impact of social media on marketing in the world today.
New Blog for Jayz Internet Solutions
September 9, 2007
We’ve launched a new blog for our company. Our business strategy has somewhat changed. We’ve now much more involved in Web 2.0 solutions – covering development, consultancy, and training.
The Web is really changing and people are using it on a much higher level than before. The problem is that most small businesses have no idea what’s going on – nor how to take advantage of this wave. This is where we’d like to help!
We are providing strategies and services for our clients that will a) allow them to understand how the technologies work, and b) allow them to take advantage of this “Web 2.0″ thing!
We’re also going to use this blog to provide information and resources to everybody online. We are priviledged to have a lot of useful material, and we also have a lot of experience that others may benefit from – so we’d like to share.
Happy reading…
