New year, new goals,

Posted on | January 1, 2012 | No Comments

To all our clients’ and friends, we wish you a fruitful 2012.

Category: Communication, Press
Tags: 2012 > business > clients' > goals > Happy New Year > Johannesburg > new > South Africa

Happy Easter everyone

Posted on | April 18, 2011 | No Comments

Easter is upon us. Whether or not religion plays a part in your life, it affects both personal and business continuity. For some businesses, Easter is a great way to cash in on “bunny” merchandising. For service companies, downtime is costly.

Businesses – be sure to communicate to you new project dates to clients as well as noting all staff leave time.

Clients – take notice of the holidays and ASK if deadlines will be pushed out dude to them.

Staff - we know its fun to take holiday when the entire planet does, so plan in advance. There is nothing worse to your HR Manager or Line Manager when you call in “sick” the day after a long weekend.

Our message, planning ahead, you too can enjoy some downtime with family and friends and remember, this time of year is filled with people making silly judgements in error, especially on the roads.

Be safe. But most importantly, enjoy your holiday.

Category: Business, Media
Tags: downtime > Easter > Happy Easter > loss of income > merchandising > Press

How to identify a digital certificate

Posted on | April 9, 2011 | No Comments

The days of static information are almost gone. Why should it be any different when it comes to your business and it’s branding?

Users can easily copy your logo and use it inappropriately or pretend to belong to your organisation when they don’t. How can you protect your logo and digitise your branding?

Answer? By digitising it. Have your members display a Digital or Smart Logo instead.

How does a digital certificate behave?

Unlike standard logo’s, smart logo’s or Digital Certificates are clickable
They display via secure network
They cannot be copied
They use the http(s) protocol
The information is encrypted for additional security

Digital Certificates are usually quire expensive, but if you are a member-based organisation and would like to offer your members a more secure option, our new DigiCert product is almost available. Visit http://whitelabel.infointeg.com for more information or to be contacted when we’re live!

Category: Business, Communication, Marketing, Resources
Tags: 2011 > anatomy > behaviour > digital > digital certificate > dynamic > internet > network > secure > smart logo > static

Idea, startup and growth-stage finalists all gather at the 2010 CTEC awards

Posted on | April 22, 2010 | 3 Comments

Sitting in a room filled with the finalists all hoping to win the 1st prize in their categories, Infointeg sat patiently (along side their competitors all vying for the prize money and an opportunity to go to Barcelona) at the Bandwidth Barn today. The Cape Town Entrepreneurship Competition or CTEC was launched in February 2010 and today marked the prize giving event.

The competition which was launched as part of City of Cape Town’s initiative to position Cape Town as a leading enabler of entrepreneurship. The categories a business could enter are:

idea stage
start-up stage
growth stage

Infointeg entered the start-up stage category, and took 2nd place with Personera taking the 1st prize. Congratulations to all winners ツ.

For more information on the CTEC visit their website.
For more information on the winners, visit the Bandwidth Barn.

The Infointeg Editor

Category: Resources
Tags: business > competition > CTEC > idea > presentations

Our first eBook “Trust and the Internet”, free of course ..

Posted on | April 6, 2010 | No Comments

The CEO and I are on a fact-finding spree to find the good, the bad and the ugly online. Our first eBook “Trust and the Internet“, written by our very own CEO (Kevin Derman), highlights the problem of a growing internet and how to spot a scam. He also shows the differences between secure site and trustworthy information and concludes by sharing some tips on how to sharpen your online eye for trusted information.

Please check back regularly for more free eBooks and other “hot” topics.

Infointeg Editor and MD – Shana Kay

Category: Resources
Tags: eBook > free > internet > Trust

Sifting or searching? Use Google more effectively!

Posted on | March 8, 2010 | No Comments

The Internet can either be compared to a giant sieve, or a map where X marks the spot, the choice is yours, or is it? Searching the Internet for “freeware and diagrams” will result in well 100′s of thousands of search ….uhm results. How can we filter through the billions of pages for the answers we are looking for, but quickly and effectively.

The answer is, search better. Many people, including myself, fall into the trap of typing the most common words and expect the “Google-God” to read our minds. Unfortunately, (s)he needs more than that.

Here are some tips on how to use search engines like Google, more effectively:

keep it simple, if you are looking for a company, enter the name
search is case insensitive - it does not matter if you type “The Golden Child” or “the golden child”
keep it simple – instead of typing “what is the time in Cape Town”, “Cape Town time” will result in faster search results
be descriptive – a noun is different to a verb, a song is different to a jingle,
use quotes for phases – if you are searching for a particular phrase, using quotes tells the search engine to look for the exact phrase

I will add more tips on search in our next set of tips, until there, don’t let search engines get the best of you, get he best of of them.

Infointeg Editor

Category: Communication, Search
Tags: effective > Google > Search