A Simple Classification of Websites
Do you know that web has become so vast that now a classification has been devised to understand web better. One should know about the type of website visited. Here is the classification.
* Affiliate: Enabled portal that renders not only its custom CMS but also syndicated content from other content providers for an agreed fee. There are usually three relationship tiers. Affiliate Agencies (e.g., Commission Junction), Advertisers (e.g., Ebay) and consumer (e.g., Yahoo).
* Archive site: This kind of site used to preserve valuable electronic content threatened with extinction. Two examples are: Internet Archive, which since 1996 has preserved billions of old (and new) Web pages; and Google Groups, which in early 2005 was archiving over 845,000,000 messages posted to Usenet news/discussion groups.
* Blog (or web log) site: Sites generally used to post online diaries which may include discussion forums (e.g., blogger, Xanga).
* Corporate website: Used to provide background information about a business, organization, or service.
* Commerce site or eCommerce site: For purchasing goods, such as Amazon.com.
* Community site: A site where persons with similar interests communicate with each other, usually by chat or message boards, such as MySpace.
* Database site: A site whose main use is the search and display of a specific database’s content such as the Internet Movie Database or the Political Graveyard.
* Development site: A site whose purpose is to provide information and resources related to software development, Web design and the like.
* Directory site: A site that contains varied contents which are divided into categories and subcategories, such as Yahoo! directory, Google directory and Open Directory Project.
* Download site: Strictly used for downloading electronic content, such as software, game demos or computer wallpaper.
* Employment site: Allows employers to post job requirements for a position or positions and prospective employees to fill an application.
* Erotica websites: Shows sexual videos and images.
* Game site: A site that is itself a game or “playground†where many people come to play, such as MSN Games, Pogo.com and Newgrounds.com.
* Geodomain: Domain names that are the same as those of geographic entities, such as cities and countries. For example, Richmond.com is the geodomain for Richmond, Virginia.
* Gripe site: A site devoted to the critique of a person, place, corporation, government, or institution.
* Humor site: Satirizes, parodies or otherwise exists solely to amuse.
* Information site: Contains content that is intended to inform visitors, but not necessarily for commercial purposes, such as: RateMyProfessors.com, Free Internet Lexicon and Encyclopedia. Most government, educational and non-profit institutions have an informational site.
* Java applet site: Contains software to run over the Web as a Web application.
* Mirror Site: A complete reproduction of a website.
* News site: Similar to an information site, but dedicated to dispensing news and commentary.
* Personal homepage: Run by an individual or a small group (such as a family) that contains information or any content that the individual wishes to include.
* Phish site: A website created to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business (such as Social Security Administration, PayPal) in an electronic communication.
* Political site: A site on which people may voice political views.
* Pornography (porn) site: A site that shows pornographic images and videos.
* Rating site: A site on which people can praise or disparage what is featured (e.g. ratemyrack.com).
* Review site: A site on which people can post reviews for products or services.
* Search engine site: a site that provides general information and is intended as a gateway or lookup for other sites. A pure example is Google, and the most widely known extended type is Yahoo!.
* Shock site: Includes images or other material that is intended to be offensive to most viewers (e.g. rotten.com).
* Warez: A site filled with illegal downloads.
* Web portal: A site that provides a starting point or a gateway to other resources on the Internet or an intranet.
* Wiki site: A site which users collaboratively edit (such as Wikipedia).
Information Source: Wikipedia
Internet jobs: Content manager
Every company that has established a web presence has also experienced the problem of keeping information on their web site up to date. In the early days of web development, updates were usually performed by the web developer, which meant that changes could take from a few minutes to a few weeks before the changes would appear on the web site.
Because of increasing customer demands for up-to-date information, and to allow business users to keep the most up-to-date and accurate information on their web site, companies began to implement new applications called “Content Management Systems (CMS)”. CMS Systems are applications designed to permit business users to create, edit, update and/or delete information (content) from a web site without having to learn the underlying technology.
Though this greatly facilitated the ease with which companies could keep information on their web up-to-date, it also led to other issues, such as ensuring the validity of published information, ensuring only public information was published, and ensuring that an appropriate process was utilized to actually authorize all updates.
One formal title for this “gatekeeper” role is the Content Manager. The Content Manager is a management role meant to ensure that a formal method is followed when making changes to the company’s web site. The Content Manager, though not requiring a significant amount of technical know-how, must be familiar with internet security as implemented in the company’s web, however, content managers will rarely be actively involved in the technical management of the internet servers.
The content manager’s primary responsibility is to oversee the change management process for the web, validate and authorize all changes to the web information, and to keep an updated map of all information on the company web. Additionally, the content manager may be charged with maintaining a list of all users and/or groups authorized to modify the web data, and the appropriate list of authorizations required prior to implementation of the changes.
In today’s corporate world, the content manager fills a vital role in ensuring that confidential and internal use only information is not inadvertently placed in the public domain, while also making sure that information already publicized on the web site is as current as possible.
How to become an expert in content management systems (CMS) – Part 3
Almost every company that has established their own web site, has encountered the problem of keeping the information on the web up to date. In the early days of web development, content was usually refreshed by the web developer, which meant that changes could take from a few minutes to a few weeks before they would appear on the web site.
Because of the desire of many companies to have non-IT personnel make updates to the information on their web site, a new genre of applications was formed called “Content Management Systems (CMS)”. CMS Systems are applications designed to allow non-technical development users to create, edit, update and/or delete information (content) from a web site.
Though this greatly facilitated the ease with which companies could keep information on their web up-to-date, it also led to other issues, such as ensuring the validity of published information, ensuring only public information was published, and ensuring that an appropriate authorization’ process was utilized prior to making updates to certain information.
To resolve these issues, many companies implemented a new role for their web team, the role of Content Management specialist.
The CMS Specialist is a process management role designed to ensure that a formal method is followed prior to any changes occurring in information appearing on the company web site. In some companies, this position could also be called a gatekeeper’.
Though many consider this a technical’ role, the actual technical knowledge requirements of the CMS Specialist is very little. The specialist must be familiar with how internet security is implemented in their particular web system, and possibly even the directory structure of the web server, however, they will not be actively involved in designing web pages or administering web servers.
The CMS specialist will be charged with maintaining a list of all web information areas, a list of users and/or groups authorized to make changes in those areas, and also a list of the authorization required prior to changes being made.
For example, if a company has all of the Human Resource policies on line, a change may be implemented as such:
1. An Human Resources employee will create/modify the document that needs to be updated on the internet.
2. An Human Resources manager will authorize the update, send the document back for more modification, or possibly send to other HR managers for their input/approval.
3. Once all changes are satisfactory, the Human Resources authorized approver will approve’ the changes, and the update will be published to the internet.
If you did not notice, there were no members of the IT department involved in this process at all. The role of the CMS Specialist in this process was completed long before this update was even started.
In this situation, the CMS Specialist was first involved in ensuring that only an authorized person (the HR intern) was authorized to instigate a change in the web information, then once the changes were completed, the CMS system, as directed by the specialist, ensured that the changes were submitted through the appropriate approval process to allow only correct and appropriate data to be published on the internet.
Though the CMS specialist is correctly a part of the IT Department, it is not a true technical position.
Ccm (custom Content Management) Will Replace Cms
In the beginning of the internet everyone was impressed that your business even had a website. Now if you don’t people look at you rather funny. One of the biggest challenges with running an effective site is the constant expiration of content. Of course your some content won’t change but much of it needs to because its shelf life falls somewhere in between trendy fashion and daily newspapers. If you’re having to send updates to a web developer and wait for him to post it you are already behind the curve.
The big solution to this problem is a Content Management System, or CMS. The two most common CMS’s are Joomla and Mambo. They are boxed software packages that work by dictating the structure of your site. This gives users the ability to make changes by defining that the pages will be laid out in a specific way and that everything will be built just so. The problem with this is that it basically squashes graphic design and many times usability.
The way to overcome this problem is by using a CCM, a Custom Content Management. CCM technology can adapt to any page layout or design. CCM is a true content management platform. This means that you can do far more than change text and graphics. True content management means you can add and delete pages, reorganize the navigation and make changes to site optimization elements such as the titles, tags and descriptions. A CCM can adapt to your unique needs. Perhaps you want fresh graphics to rotate though on your site so that the look of your page stays current and appealing, CCM can do that.
CCM also gives businesses complete administration control. CCM allows for numerous user classes all with unique privileges and restrictions. The administration can even remove buttons entirely from view as opposed to simply graying them out so users don’t know what they are missing.
So what does CCM mean for your business? CCM lets the marketing department immediately implement correlated campaigns with new pages and interlinking. It allows HR to instantly post job positions with SEO. It lets sales make immediate product updates. In short, every department gets empowered to do the things they should’ve always been able to do while keeping the formats consistent and the site secure.
Prepackaged, cookie cutter solutions simply aren’t effective as every business has unique challenges and needs. Custom CMS or CCM is a tool that perfectly meets that demand by giving a set of tools that is tailored uniquely to the situation. So how is your website performing and how are your employees interacting with it? If the answer is unclear think about this: you’ll know a project is a success when you stop working on a project and it starts working for you.
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How to choose a content management system
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Content management systems for managing web sites don’t necessarily inspire the creative mind, but for many sites, they are the difference between a smooth ride and headache. Whether you’re thinking of buying an off-the-shelf package or designing one in-house, there are a few things to consider before you make your decisions. This article aims to explain the benefits of running a Content Management System and what you need to think about if you are considering using one.
Hand-crafting a big site is a thing of the past. It takes too long and there are so many ways in which it can go wrong. Time to buy a Content Management System? Probably, but wait! The software is only part of the job. You are going to have to think carefully about your needs, understand a bit more about what a CMS do, do some preparation before you start your project and change the way you think about HTML and graphical pages.
1. Understand the quantity and complexity of your content:
This is arguably the most important step in the process. How many things and how many types of things are you trying to manage? How much will it change and how often? Who are the content contributors? A thousand things of the same type is obviously easier to manage than a thousand things of ten different types. As you’re assessing your content, don’t forget to include multiple languages or localities – 100 things in 10 languages is actually 1000 things you have to collect, manage and publish.
2. Think about components inside your content:
If you work with the web, the concept of a page feels natural but there is more we can do if we think about the sub-components that make up a page such as individual news stories, adverts, products or calendar events. Some CMS manipulate pages but it can be more powerful to use a CMS that builds pages from these sorts of components perhaps letting the same information appear in different parts of the site or in different formats.
What sorts of components will your site contain? Press releases, tutorials, classified ads, messages, recipes, share prices, contact addresses? Well planned and organised content components will support your business as the business changes.
3. Design the database carefully:
Most CMS use a relational database such as Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL. Others will achieve the same effect using XML.
In a relational database, each component will be stored in a table with rows and columns – think of it like an Excel spreadsheet. Each
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How to become an expert in content management systems (CMS) – Part 2
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The best part about becoming an expert in Content Management Systems (CMS) is that the process is relatively easy and fast, even for someone without any coding skills. I started with Wordpress, for example, and with a little help from some friends knew how to do most everything with it within a week. CMS is ideal for people who want to create and manage websites independently without needing technical help, a computer specialist or even a knowledge of how to code. If you introduce CMS into an office setting, you can get everyone on-board and able to access, manage and change content with speed and ease. In this guide I will take you through the process of learning Wordpress. Wordpress is one of the most commonly used CMS interfaces and it is free. Once you have learned Wordpress you can go on to learn other CMS interfaces quite easily.
That being said, the best place to start is with a free CMS software package like Wordpress. Though Wordpress is technically oriented to bloggers, it is (1) a good place to learn CMS protocols and (2) highly adaptable to other kinds of web content. Wordpress.com lets you download everything in one simple bundle. All you have to do is FTP (upload) it to a given page on your website and it basically unZIPs automatically and becomes a ready-to-go page with a CMS interface. From there, you can look for free Wordpress templates (these are page layouts/designs) which you can upload to the template folder on your page. There are literally thousands of free templates to choose from, so you can probably find what you need for free – though if you want a customized or unique one you will have to buy that (from $50 and up per template, depending upon its features).
Once you have your Wordpress (or other CMS package) installed you should log into the control interface. In Wordpress, this is done by going to: www.mywebpagename.com/wp-admin . Once you are signed in you should familiarize yourself with the menus along the top of the page. These will let you change templates, add new posts or pages, and so on. It is worth taking some time trying out these various functions and reloading your page to see the results. You really can’t do any great harm to your new page, so the worst case scenario is that you end up having to delete it and upload the Wordpress package again.
After you have familiarized yourself with the basic layout and operation of your interface in non-technical terms, you can begin to explore some basic code changes
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Sites for freelance writers to earn money
Have you ever thought of teaching? As the writing industry changes, with many new on-line avenues for the freelance writer, there is a relatively new band wagon to jump on that is having great success. Ordinary people, who have gained expertise in a subject, are now able to share their knowledge with the huge population of the Internet. The creation of on-line teaching / school programs, which are loaded onto web sites, has opened up this new adventure.
These programs are free and open source e-learning software packages also known as Course Management Systems (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). The four top programs are Dokeos, ILIAS, Moodle, and Sakai.
In the past this was limited to Universities, and recognized base educational facilities (example: High Schools). Next to join the band wagon were many trade schools that realized the potential income boost from offering on-line courses. This was followed by private facilities that specialized in particular subjects. All of these were limited by having to offer accreditation and hiring only professional teachers.
Then the corporate community saw the value of these wonderful educational programs. Employees could be taught important subjects, in an online environment that tracked their performance, without the expense of actually sending them to a school. In addition a certificate could be offered at the successful completion of a class.
Moodle (moodle.org, a funny name) gained an edge that the others didn’t pick up on. They created software that could easily be understood, by the average intelligent person, which had a fair amount of web creation experience. They offered their program (free) through cPanel (a web creation platform) opening it up to the hundreds of thousands of Internet web-page creators. This put the power of e-Learning in the hands of the general public.
And this is where you – the freelance writer – comes in. Many of the general public learning platforms are looking for knowledgeable writers / teachers to share their expertise. How do you find these schools? Moodle’s listing of e-Learning environments (using their program) is public and you can most likely find a school that is offering information you love. Keep in mind that almost all of them pay a percentage of revenue generated from the class.
There is another opportunity for the very industrious writer. That is; creating your own e-Learning web site and running your own school. Yes, you have to have knowledge of web site creation, including (but not limited to) html, php, cgi, and working with MySQL data bases. But if you fit into this category you are limited only by your own imagination.
If you have the bug that makes you wish you could teach what you’ve learned, there is now a way to do it.
Your Website From the Ground Up in 10 Steps
So, you have finally decided to build yourself a website, but really have no idea where to start. The following 10 steps will give you some insight into what you need to address when creating a search friendly website from the ground up.
While this article is not an exhaustive lÃst of everything you need to know, it does touch base on many of the important aspects of creating a new website.
Step 1 – Keyword Research
Even before you choose your domain name, you should put a little time into some keyword research. Research all the possible keywords that will fit your industry and the website you plan on building. Having a clear idea of what your end targets are will make the rest of your job much easier and help things to just fall into place. Take a look at , written earlier this summer, for more help on this.
Step 2 – Domain Selection
If you already have an established brick and mortar business and the website will be an extension of that business, using your company name as the domain name is in most cases the best idea. If your company name is either irrelevant, or simply unavailable, you may want to consider a domain that has your target phrase listed as part of the domain.
A great example of this is if your site is focused geographically. Using the location as part of the domain when possible will give you a little extra juice with the search engines and help draw people to your site as they instantly can see the relevance in the domain.
Let’s say that you are building a website focused on your home town, “Somewhere USA”. A domain you may consider could be “Somewhere.com”; however, this would probably be already taken. Other options such as “SomewhereInfo.com” or “SomewhereGuide.com” may be good alternatives. The same goes for retail stores. “SomewhereCameras”.com or “SomewhereBakery”.com would also be good choices.
Avoid excessive use of hyphens; sometimes it is appropriate to use one, but if you can help it, avoid more than that as it can appear messy and even spammy in some cases.
Step 3 – System Back End
If you plan on having a large scale website that will grow and change constantly then you may want to consider a content management system (CMS) such as Joomla. If you decide to go this route, you want to ensure that whichever CMS you choose is search engine friendly and offers items such as unique title tags, custom URL’s, and full control over content, heading tags, image alt tags, etc.
Starting a website using a non-friendly CMS is like buying a car without an engine. Sure it may look great, but it won’t get you anywhere.
Step 4 – Site Structure & Navigation
This is really one of the most fundamental aspects of your site creation. If the structure of your site does not work well, then your site may be doomed from the very beginning.
Take a look back at your keyword research and brainstorm all the areas of your site that you may want to develop content for. In some cases you may find valuable keywords that would fit perfectly into a few pages of content for your site. If the phrase and the content would be a good match for the theme of your site, go ahead and note them as pages to create. Get a lÃst, or flowchart, of all the content you plan on adding and sort those pages into relevant categories.
Be sure your site files are saved in a way that makes sense – this includes both the file name, and the complete path to the file. Save files, including similar content in a relevant subdirectory, with simple file names representing each. Let’s take an example of an informational site dedicated to a specific geographic location. If you have a series of pages dedicated to recreation, you may save them as:
/recreation/parks.html
/recreation/trails.html
/recreation/beaches.html
Keeping your URL structure clean and tidy can not only help with search engine rankings, but it will give a good visual impression to the site visitor as well. Often, using each of these categories as main points for your primary site navigation may make the most sense.
Also be sure to keep your site relatively flat, with as few layers as possible. Don’t make the search engines follow a dozen links to get to the deepest levels of your site. Unless the site is literally tens of thousands of pages, there is no need to click more than 2 or 3 links to get to any deep content. The shorter the path to an internal page, the more credÃt by the search engines.
Step 5 – Navigation
When developing the end site, you also want to make sure that your site navigation is search engine friendly – this is critical if you ever want free organic listings.
If possible, use a text based form of navigation. You can use CSS to style the text links to fit into your graphical design. Text links are the best method, but image based navigation and even some forms of drop down menus are also search engine friendly.
If you choose to use image based navigation be sure to include image alt text relevant to the link to give something for Google to associate with the linked page. If you absolutely must use Flash, or any form of navigation not friendly for search engine spiders, be sure to supplement this with text based links on another location of the page.
Step 6 – Analytics
It isn’t ever too early to start thinking about your stats. Before your site goes live you must have some form of accurate analytics in place so you can measure your site’s traffic and progress.
There is an endless supply of analytics options out there to choose from. You can simply use the stats software that comes free with your web hosting, however, more often than not, they tend to be very basic with no flexibility. Advanced choices such as ClickTracks can give you rather in-depth statistics, but for a very small mom and pop operation it may be too expensive. Google Analytics, is a free option that can give you most, if not all the data you will need and does not require access to your raw log files.
If you do opt for an option such as ClickTracks, check with your host to ensure that you will have the raw log files you require. StepForth can also help you with your statistical analysis and offers a number of inexpensive .
Step 7 – Content Creation
Now is the time to get that new, fresh content posted to your site with the SEO in mind. Make sure that the content you write reflects your industry and target keywords. You don’t need to flood the content with your target keywords, but make sure they are in there a few times. When it makes sense to do so, also include some acronyms to help Google establish the overall relevance.
If you perform a search in Google for “~keyword”, any words that Google bolds in the search results will be acronyms that Google deems relevant. Include some of these where possible.
Step 8 – Basic SEO
Ensure that ALL pages of your site include unique and Meta Description tags. This is one of the core fundamental aspects of an optimized size and it does play a significant role in your search rankings. Make sure that these tags are not only unique but are accurate representations of each page. Also be sure to place your target phrase in heading as well as image alt tags where applicable.
Step 9 – Initial Promotion / Launch
Now that you have your new site all up and ready to go, you want to give it that kick start to help drive some traffic. It will be a while before the search engines fully index your site and even longer before you start to see organic rankings for your target search phrases. It is important to start off right away to get the ball rolling.
Start off by issuing a press release to announce the launch of your new business website. Press releases are a great way to get some traffic and a rather valuable first link into your site. Submitting your press release using a company such as PRWeb will get your link in the engine’s path and should help your site to be initially indexed by Google right away.
Next submÃt your site to some relevant directories starting with DMOZ. It can take months, even years, to have your site listed in DMOZ, so it is important to get it submitted right away. Consider submittÃng to other industry relevant directories. For some information on how to select the right directories take a look at Building Links with Directory Submissions.
Work on getting as many links from relevant industry websites as possible. The more links you can get from reputable sources, the better the overall performance of your site.
Step 10 – Ongoing Promotion
Once you have completed the site, the content looks great, and all appears finished, you’ve still got work to do. For long term success, especially for a brand new site, you need to continually promote your site. You should always be looking at ways to build your inbound links and your relevant content.
Consider creating accounts with various social media platforms to help promote your site. These can not only give you a link back to your site, but they can help you drive traffic and raise awareness about your business and product.
A site that is always growing, and always getting new links, has the best chance of getting a stable top 10 listing in Google
Print Automation for a Correspondence Management System in the Financial Services Sector
In this case study, we will explore how a financial services management company automated the printing aspect of their Correspondence Management System to improve the efficiency of the operation and reduce the costs associated with printing and distributing printed communications to their customers.
Company – This Company is one of the world’s leading providers of financial services for corporations, institutions and affluent individuals around the world. The specific entity within the company examined in this Case Study is one that provides fund management services for banks and financial companies around the United Kingdom.
Business Problem – The Company’s Correspondence Management System (CMS) requires many different types of letters to be printed on many different styles of letterhead stationery. Each bank they provide fund management services for has different letterhead paper and different business rules regarding additional pages of standard and/or variable information that needs to be bundled along with the letters being printed (this can be different by type of letter being printed within a single bank also).
To accomplish their letter printing, the CMS user would place the right number of pages of the appropriate letterhead and continuation sheets into a nearby printer, then print the document from within the CMS to the printer they had chosen. As they print they are hoping that:
Nobody else sends any letters to that printer in the meantime
They have inserted enough of the correct sheets of paper for the document being printed ensuring that the job is complete when printing is finished and the letter can be mailed to the end customer
This process is very labor intensive and time consuming, resulting in low productivity among the users of the CMS system, and is fraught with potential for error.
Key Challenge – The key technical challenge is the fact that the Windows Spooling system has no inherent functionality to determine if a particular form is loaded in a printer tray, which tray that is, and hold print jobs and only release them if and when the correct form is mounted in the printer. An additional challenge involved the low level of productivity of the staff utilizing the CMS because they needed to individually and manually manage their printed output to ensure it was correct before it was mailed to the end customer.
Technical Solution – The first step in implementing a solution to their challenge involved re-locating the CMS printers to a central location. Then they assigned a team of operators in the central printing department to remove the letters from the printers and assume the responsibility of ensuring that any other pre-printed documents or literature required is bundled with the letter before it gets sent in the mail. Additionally, the central printing department now manages the supply of letterhead paper and is in charge of mounting the paper in the appropriate printers as required. Note: There are over twenty different Bank’s the company provides its services for, each with their own letterhead, and some with their own type additional paper for multi-page letters.
Because the letter-creating employee no longer physically managed the paper and inserts that were appropriate for the letter, the customer also required the implementation of an Output Management System (based on OM Plus) to provide the overall control of the documents through their central printing department. OM Plus’ advanced software capability provides the needed central management and control to separate the creation of the document from the task of printing it on the correct letterhead and bundling it for mailing.
Example of how the Output Management/Advanced Print Spooler solution works
An employee creates a letter for an end customer for “Bank A†via the CMS application and prints the document to a central print queue.
The document is automatically searched and given a name that tells OM Plus:
a. Which bank’s customer is receiving the letter-Allowing OM Plus to know what form is required
b. What type of letter it is
c. Which department is submitting it
d. How the central print department operators must process it for mailing.
After the job has been searched and re-named the OM Plus Server scheduler system receives it.
OM Plus examines the arriving print jobs and applies business process rules based on what the name of the job tells it (see point 2 above). It does this by reading through a set of rules until it finds a match. The rules examine the title of the incoming document and apply attributes so that the OM Plus scheduler module will release the job to the correct printer tray where the appropriate letterhead is mounted. It also applies a more descriptive title to the print job so that central print operators can manage the jobs using the OM Plus management screen more easily.
This more descriptive title tells the print operators whether to print the job and mail it, or print the job and include standard enclosure documents or marketing materials or print the job and include specific other printed documents with the letter.
The operators monitor the printing via the OM Plus management screen to see what jobs are waiting, whether particular jobs have been printed successfully, and to tell OM Plus when letterhead has been changed.
When OM Plus is told that a certain letterhead is available in one of the printer’s trays, it then allows jobs requiring that letterhead to be released.
This OM Plus based output management/advanced solution results in much less reliance on the CMS users to have to manage the printing of their letters on the correct letterhead – leaving them to carry on with their work and improving productivity significantly. The central print management operators now focus on handling the letters being produced for the company.
Utilizing the Central Management screen within OM Plus, the central print operators review held jobs waiting for specific paper and load the paper into an available printer and allow the print to continue. No jobs are printed if OM Plus does not find the appropriate letterhead mounted in one of the central printers (eliminates waste, and removes the risk of sending letters to customers on the letterhead of the wrong bank).
Implementation – On site services including installation, system configuration, testing and user training were delivered by service engineers from our partner in the UK with offsite support provided by Plus Technologies. In this case, the implementation was completed and in production within two weeks of the order. As is the case with many implementations of our products, the customer requirements for handling of the documents and the processes associated with the documents evolved during the implementation. Due to the extremely flexible nature of OM Plus’ configurability, our service engineers and partner service engineers were able to address additional document delivery challenges quickly.
Plus Technologies Case Studies – The Plus Technologies case study series includes real examples of how companies use Advanced Spooling Solutions to streamline operations, reduce cost and/or add functionality to existing business processes. For more information on these case studies, contact Plus Technologies.
What are the traits of a good employer?
According to the States Services Commission of New Zealand, a good employer is defined in the State Sector Act as ‘an employer who operates a personnel policy containing provisions generally accepted as necessary for the fair and proper treatment of employees in all aspects of their employment’.
What makes an employer most sought after? What employer incentives attract employees?
Here are some:
- Provides a healthy work culture
- Presents opportunities of career growth
- Supports work-life balance
- Provides a stable, secure workplace with substantial retention rate and job security
- Competitive compensation, benefits and recognition for good work
And to sum it all you love working for a good employer.
“Salaries are a good thing, but it’s all about the feeling on the part of the employee that they’re part of the whole experience,” says Dennis Foster, vice president of enterprise technology planning and engineering and architecture at Washington-based Marriott International Inc., No. 19 on the list of best companies in IT in 2006.
Specific policies and philosophies that have made the Livonia, Mich.-based company the No. 1 place to work for two years running (see the full list of 100 Best Places to Work on this link http://www.computerworld.com/h tml/research/bestplaces/2006/b pchart_01_main.html ). Workers say they value their ability to take ownership of ideas and projects. They also like the flexible environment that helps them balance home and work. And they enjoy the collaborative atmosphere.
Recently, the $12 billion Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla group was judged the Hewitt Best Employer of India in 2007.
The two trends that sparkled through the employees’ survey were:
- Upwardly mobile employees seem to prefer challenges rather than a life time employment guarantee.
- Remuneration also was not the driving factor in the overall scheme for employees. Employees seemed to prefer assignments that led them to bigger roles in organizations over bigger pay packets.
(Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes .com/NEWS/India_Business/AV_Bi rla_emerges_as_best_employer/a rticleshow/1916240.cms )
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