Apr 20 2010

Use of web publishing software continues to grow

Category: Corporateadmin @ 9:00 am
The content management software marketplace grew approximately 5% in total software revenue for 2009, according to a just released study by Gartner, one of the world’s leading information technology research and advisory companies. It cited increased use of imaging, records management and Web content management technologies as maintaining overall market growth.
Komosion’s web content management software, Komodo CMS, is part of this growth story and continues to win awards. It was judged the most innovative communications software in Victoria in the most recent Australian Information Industry Association’s iAwards and, in December, it was one of two Australian software solutions among the finalists in the communications category for the the Asian Pacific ICT Awards.

v6_logo_v1The content management software marketplace grew approximately 5% in total software revenue for 2009, according to a just released study by Gartner, one of the world’s leading information technology research and advisory companies. It cited increased use of imaging, records management and Web content management technologies as maintaining overall market growth.

Komosion’s web content management software, Komodo CMS, is part of this growth story and continues to win awards. It was judged the most innovative communications software in Victoria in the most recent Australian Information Industry Association’s iAwards and, in December, it was one of two Australian software solutions among the finalists in the communications category for the the Asian Pacific ICT Awards.


Apr 19 2010

What’s informing Komosion’s thinking?

Category: Corporateadmin @ 10:19 am
Here are five facts or insights which illustrate what’s informing Komosion’s thinking:
1. The head of Australia’s largest media agency, Harold Mitchell, described the growth of online as “phenomenal” with its share of total ad spend reaching 25% by 2013. “It took TV 25 years to get to around 20%-plus of all ad dollars, but what happened with the Internet was amazing, because at the end of 2008 it was at 14% and by the end of this year it will be over 20% (of total spend).” (March 23, 2010, B&T)
2. Budget airline Jetstar has revealed it is shifting up to 40% of its marketing budget to social media and online in the next financial year. (March 23, 2010, B&T)
3. Interactive marketing agency leaders excel at Innovation, Integration, and IT. They use technology as one of their foundations and prefer relationships to campaigns.
4. Data knowledge is key to strategy. Customer and other analytics provide insights to create business value
5. Digital organisations can enable and/or provide solutions tailored to specific business objectives. This can include marketing oriented solutions to increase the revenue for a specific product line or self-service solutions designed to increase profitability.

Here are five facts or insights which illustrate what’s informing Komosion’s thinking:

1. The head of Australia’s largest media agency, Harold Mitchell, described the growth of online as “phenomenal” with its share of total ad spend reaching 25% by 2013. “It took TV 25 years to get to around 20%-plus of all ad dollars, but what happened with the Internet was amazing, because at the end of 2008 it was at 14% and by the end of this year it will be over 20% (of total spend).” (March 23, 2010, B&T)

2. Budget airline Jetstar has revealed it is shifting up to 40% of its marketing budget to social media and online in the next financial year. (March 23, 2010, B&T)

3. Interactive marketing agency leaders excel at Innovation, Integration, and IT. They use technology as one of their foundations and prefer relationships to campaigns.

4. Data knowledge is key to strategy. Customer and other analytics provide insights to create business value

5. Digital organisations can enable and/or provide solutions tailored to specific business objectives. This can include marketing oriented solutions to increase the revenue for a specific product line or self-service solutions designed to increase profitability.


Apr 15 2010

Change your font and save dollar$

Category: Corporate, Designadmin @ 12:48 pm

A US study has found that you can save money on ink cartridge costs by using size 10 font Century Gothic. (And let’s face it: NONE of us work in the completely Paperless office yet.)

Printer.com conducted the test with the Canon Pixma MP 210 for home users and the Brother HL-2140 laser printer to test business use.
They found that Century Gothic returned 31% savings in both printers.

“For the average private user, printing approximately 25 pages per week, this will easily generate a net reduction of US $20 in a year. A business-user, printing approximately 250 pages per week, could save $80,” wrote the Printer.com blog.

“If your organization uses multiple printers, you can save hundreds of dollars per year doing nothing more than picking a more economical font.”

Thom Brown, an ink researcher at Hewlett Packard told the Associated Press that a font with “”narrow” or “light” in its name is usually better at saving ink than its “bold” or “black” counterpart.typeface

FONT SAVINGS:
1. Century Gothic
2. Ecofont
3. Times Roman
4. Calibri
5. Verdana
6. Arial
7. Sans Serif
8. Trebuchet
9. Tahoma
10.Franklin Gothic Medium


Apr 08 2010

Facebook a bigger hit than Google.

Category: Boffinry, Corporate, Marketing, Socialadmin @ 12:31 pm
Facebook > Google graph.

Facebook > Google graph.

For a full week in mid-March, social networking site Facebook.com replaced search engine behemouth Google.com as the most visited web site in the United states.

According to Hitwise, an online monitor, Facebook.com received 7.07% of all internet traffic, just ahead of Google.com which had 7.03%.

The figures do not take into account searches made through the Google toolbar, or people accessing Gmail or Google maps.

With the web now potentially more sociable than searchable, marketers will certainly start to view Facebook as a proper marketing platform.

Let’s face it, the advertisements on it are pretty hokey at the moment!