Mobile Growth Trends Up Up Up

Global mobile traffic has continued to grow rapidly in 2012, as expected. As of last month, it is estimated that internet traffic from mobile devices grew to 13%. This represents a growth of 200% in the last year alone! Based on the combined web statistics of our clients, mobile devices account for nearly 20% of web traffic in Australia.

Mobile device users often express their frustration about websites that seem to load slowly on mobile devices, the difficulty in navigating the site, and hard to read information. Many websites simply won’t render correctly on mobile devices, leading to lost opportunities. Browsing and purchasing online on-the-go is an ever increasing trend, one that we think many Australian businesses aren’t taking seriously enough.

We're here to help. We have created several painless ways to make your mobile presence eye raising and effective. Send a meeting request to us to lock in your new year mobile success to sales@organise.net.au

Community IP TV - Coffs Harbour, Australia

Being part of a community gives life a rich dimension. Yet organisers have always struggled getting their message to their own communities of interest and recruiting from the broader public.

One innovative city Coffs Harbour, on the beautiful Australian east coast is surfing the wave, literally.

There are of course many ways of getting community messages out there, some more effective than others.
We've all seen the creative hand drawn poster at our local super market announcing a school performance or church fund raiser, sometimes they just hit the mark, other times they become covered in other pin-up sheets for window washing or amazing get rich quick schemes.
Others turn to community radio to get their message out to their public. It's a complex task to set up a radio station and expensive and time consuming to get it right.
Most popular these days is the email newsletter. OMG this is a headache, yet it has been one of the Internet's massive growth areas for 15 years... "Please stop" I hear you cry!
Now people are dabbling in video production, using YouTube etc. to distribute the good word and showing off some of their winning ways. Video is potentially very effective, as the growth in video views online has skyrocketed in line with faster networks and great archive services. Many internet users have YouTube accounts with some attempt at home video. So much so that YouTube is the world's second largest search engine, after Google itself.
Yet how to produce, find, organise and/or distribute your videos is a challenge. YouTube encourages browsing and you can find yourself totally lost, watching videos of obscure fishing lessons from Iceland or some such. Fun, yet not entirely community building.
One innovative local community took the challenge of building their community online with a good quality, well organised solution called PixelMache.tv .
The result is SwitchedonCoffs.tv an evolving community internet delivered TV station with six channels full of interesting content ready for their community to watch, produce and publish.

Check out the channels and some of the quality articles that have been produced by this innovative community. Contact them for more information or contact Organise.net.au to have them start your own IPTV channel. Training, equipment, support and system all inclusive.

Teamwork in the Cloud

Much is written and talked about the so called Cloud. It's a soft and fluffy term at the best of times and as witnessed here is full of mixed metaphors and analogies.
OI has been working with cloud technology for years and we know it CAN work if applied in a sensible collaborative fashion.
More importantly we should ask "what is it and what can we use cloud technology for?"
Cloud technology is best described as shared services through the use of internet servers that are located, not in your office but somewhere out in internet server world. This somewhere is The Cloud, you can see it but not touch it is how the analogy goes. In fact your data and services can be hosted anywhere really, as long as they are reassembled and delivered in the right place at the write time.  The focus is on the service NOT the physical infrastructure. After all it is services that are important, be it important emails, document access or computational processes that give you the answer you're looking for. In other words it allows us to concentrate on working together to get things done, some would call this "Teamwork".

We're pleased to be the lead Australian distributor of the successful cloud based collaboration tool called vTeam. As the name suggests the vTeam helps manage groups of people in a collaborative framework that get things done, without the usual technology confusion. It works from anywhere on the internet of any device.
The service can be used to coordinate groups as large as 100,000 people or teams of three or more. It's been applied in industries as diverse as construction, education, volunteering, community engagement, sport, dramatic arts and travel.  The service can be white labelled to create a seamless integration with your existing web or mobile services and is simple to set up and manage.

Contact us for a run through of this fantastic cloud based collaboration tool.

OI featured nationally for advancing telework

Organise Internet has been featured on a new national Telework website ( www.telework.gov.au) as part of a campaign put together by governments and companies from around Australia. The campaign will climax during the National Telework Week, November 12-16 .

Our Principal Consultant and co-founder Dave Abrahams was asked why supporting a flexible work culture is part of supporting staff and how, in a broader sense, telework will help get people off the roads and rail and back into their local communities.

OI's Technical Manager Craig speaks about his regular telework and why it works for him, his family and the company.

We don't think it's such a big change to our innovative culture where supporting the team is the heart of all we do.

While many companies around the country are outsourcing their skills to offshore third parties, effectively diluting their innovative energy, we've decided to build our team by adding flexibility. The team may not be always (or ever) in the office but we want them always to be part of the team.

With the NBN investment, we're building our work culture toward a future that will be increasingly locally based with a global reach. Ask us about some of the cloud technologies and innovations we're working on that will work for you.

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