Squiz Present: Online Information Strategies

• Auckland - Wednesday, April 28
• Wellington - Thursday, April 29
  

Join us for a full day of free seminar sessions focused on winning strategies to help your organization achieve your objectives and succeed online.

Find out more about Online Information Strategies seminars, or contact Campbell Gillett or Kathy Olsen on (04) 805 0098.

Squiz NZ now Enviro-Mark Bronze certified

Squiz NZ recently achieved Bronze-level Enviro-Mark certification,

The Bronze-level certification requires a third-party audit against compliance to the most commonly applicable environmental, health and safety legislation of New Zealand. An annual audit is required to maintain the certification.

The certification was achieved with the help of Greater Wellington's eMission programme, and we are now working along with the 20 businesses enrolled in eMission, towards the Silver and Gold Levels of Enviro-Mark certification.

Upcoming events

If you're attending these upcoming industry events, drop in and say hello to us at the Squiz stand.

ALGIM Web Symposium

Duxton Hotel Wellington
170 Wakefield Street Wellington, May 3 - 4.

Visit the ALGIM Web Symposium website.

The 2010 NZ CIO Summit

SKY City
Corner Victoria and Federal Streets Auckland, July 20 - 21.

Visit the CIO Summit website.

MySource Matrix 3.26.2 released

The core download of the MySource Matrix Content Management System (CMS) version 3.26.2 was released on March 8. New features include the premiere of the Funnelback Search integration for indexing and searching of content housed in a MySource Matrix system.

Who are Squiz Labs and what are they up to?

Squiz Labs is the development and research arm of Squiz. Greg Sherwood and his team develop and maintain all of Squiz's enterprise-class software.

Squiz Labs blogs about their work in progress… a useful way to see what’s ahead in Squiz technology. For example, development of a bridge between MySource Mini and MySource Matrix so that MySource Matrix content can be brought into a MySource Mini system.

This particular development will be great for organizations that want to use the Mini’s slick and user-friendly editing interface – for example to quickly create campaign micro-sites, with the option to re-use corporate content.

Squiz re-badged

Late last year, our designers in Wellington, Sydney and London were tasked with updating Squiz’s branding. The new logo (as used on our website, top left of banner) was unveiled late last year, and is being rolled out in all our offices.

New MySource Matrix sites

Check out some of the great new sites from New Zealand and around the world running on MySource Matrix:

New Zealand

• Cutting edge science and renewable biomaterials with Crown Research Institute SCION
• Tait Radio Communications promotional website for public transport operators
• Manufacturing Knowledge HERE - a collaborative project between New Zealand’s universities to help manufacturers access their expertise, courses and facilities.
• Manukau Institute of Technology is using MySource Matrix to run their main Internet site, intranet and their soon to be released student portal.
• The University of Waikato, Faculty of Law.
  

Australia

• New information website for visitors to Western Sydney's capital Parramatta
• The first stop on the world cycling calendar, the Tour Down Under is the biggest cycling race in the southern hemisphere and the only UCI ProTour race outside Europe and your chance to get up close and personal with the best in world cycling
• MySource Matrix was the obvious choice for powering the Australian Governments Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy website
• Collaboration and Document management specialist Objective use MySource Matrix to run their corporate website

Europe

• The digital switchover in the UK is big news http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/
• All eyes will be on the next UK election and MySource Matrix is powering the Electoral Commission website
• One of the UK’s leading independent financial services providers Hargreaves Lansdown required high levels of security, excellent performance and integration with a number of third party systems and web services
• Europe's Famous Hostels use MySource Matrix to power their website which includes a secure booking system

More gongs for Radio NZ

Congratulations again to Richard Hulse and Radio NZ team for winning two of the inaugural ONYA awards – for Best use of HTML and CSS and Best Accessibility. As Marketing Magazine’s Stop Press column points out, "…That makes for a very jam-packed awards shelf at RNZ headquarters. Last year RNZ snapped up the award for Best Radio Website at the 2009 New Zealand Radio awards, Best use of Open Source Software in Government in 2008…and Best Website Design at the 2007 Qantas Media Awards."

Professional Web Content Management Training

Squiz is running the following training courses in June 2010 at our training lab in Wellington.

Code	Course title	Date
MATR 101	MySource Matrix Fundamentals	June 22
MATR 102	MySource Matrix Advanced WYSIWYG	June 23
MATR 210	MySource Matrix Packages - CMS	June 24
MATR 210	MySource Matrix Packages - CMS	June 25
MATR 201	MySource Matrix Content Administration	June 28
MATR 202	MySource Matrix CMS Administrator	June 29
STATS 103	Website Statistics	June 30

NB. Please be aware that training course MATR 201 - MySource Matrix System Administrator Concepts which used to be a two day course has now become 2 one day modules MATR 201(MySource Matrix Content Administration) and MATR202 (MySource Matrix CMS Administrator).

View Training Courses / Training Schedule / Training Registration Form

Eligible Bachelor

Bachelor of Business Information Systems that is...Big Squiz congratulations to Mohamed Hassan from our Implementation Team who has just graduated from Massey University with a Bachelor of Business Information Systems and a Business Computing and Business diploma.

Mohamed arrived in New Zealand from Somalia in 1997 and is a passionate believer in the power of education.

New Faces @ Squiz

Sales & Marketing Communications Manager Campbell Gillett joins us from a similar role with Emap (UK).

After 12 years in London, Cam decided late last year to return home to Aotearoa with his German Fräulein Nina to live the kiwi dream of a ¼ acre, two goofy dogs and space to breathe.

Linux Conf 2010 iPOD Touch Winner

Congratulations to Sergio Sclovich who was the winner of our iPOD Touch prize draw at the recent LCA2010 open day in Wellington.

LCA2010 was a great show case for the industry and we were proud to be supporters and sponsors of this year's event.

If you weren’t able to attend this years event, check out the LCA2010 website for great content, reviews and info on next years conference.

NZ school goes totally open source

As a developer of open source software, Squiz loves to hear open source success stories. Albany Senior High School’s story is one: Read the full CIO Magazine Article here.