The UKFast Newsletter 2007
The big news this month is to announce the winners of the UKFast Internet Awards. We have seven terrific winners and you can find out more about them in the Spotlight section.
There’s also a quick round up from City Tower, a tech tip about support over the festive season and an inspiring marketing interview with Chris Moss the mastermind behind the launches of both Orange and 118 118.
There have been some very exciting developments at UKFast this month, including the addition of a whole new team within the creative division.
Neil’s tech tips continue with a note on security through obscurity and our marketing minute concentrates on the over 50s who account for more than half of the UK’s disposable income.
This month we hosted the Sale Sharks Insider Club, which brings together all the sponsors of the Premiership team outside the Edgeley Park setting. We filmed the night and you can get a flavour of the event by clicking through to the newsletter.
Over at City Tower, we’ve been recruiting again in all areas. In particular, we’ve been taking on new programmers to continue improvements to your Client Area. Our tech tip gives you some advice on choosing secure passwords that are also memorable.
The Marketing Minute gives a valuable insight into encouraging online word of mouth and the Spotlight looks at a new presentation package that blows PowerPoint clean out of the water.
Finally, our hot topic this month looks at the latest tricks cyber criminals are using to capture your identity and download viruses to your computer.
September was a busy month for UKFast! Lawrence Jones, our managing director featured on the television and the radio. In addition to this, he won the coveted Institute of Directors title of Manchester's Young Director of the Year.
Our UKFast football team also went head to head with other rival ISP's in the ISPA Charity Cup tournament.
Some sound DNS advice from our technical director Neil Lathwood makes up the tip from the techies and the marketing minute provides techniques to boost conversions.
Under the spotlight we have Motoring.co.uk, the fastest growing motoring portal in the UK. Finally, our hot topic focuses on the legal issues concerned with banning Facebook from the workplace.
August at UKFast saw the opening of our famous Internet awards, this year we've introduced a brand new category so why not see the newsletter for more details on whether you are eligible.
The top tip looks at secure working on the technical side while our marketing team brings you the latest on getting the most out of online video advertising.
Dan Innes and Halogen are under the spotlight this month and we've included some of his diary extracts of his Big Four Challenge. Last but not least, the hot topic is on censorship and whose responsibility it is to regulate the Internet.
The July edition of the newsletter focuses on our partnership with Manchester City Council and property developer Ask:Goodman to build an internet exchange that uses green technology to minimise carbon emissions.
The tech tip is about monitoring to stay ahead whilst using CTmonitoring for a higher level of control. Marketing can be enhanced by utilising wikis and the spotlight is on Printerland and their strategy of celebrating success ethically.
Finally we share our observations on the continued growth of the British internet.
This month's newsletter introduces a whole host of extra automated services available for server customers, there's a double tech tip about Locking Down work stations and Microsoft hoax emails and the marketing minute looks at Internet adspend.
The Xtreme Everest project is the subject of our spotlight in June and Richard Turner's account of his journey to Base Camp as part of a medical research project is well worth a read.
We look at new directives for Internet retailers in the hot topic informing you of the twelve steps to PCI DSS compliancy.
The May newsletter looks at UKFast's new paperless invoicing system as well as changes to the client area offering improved functionality.
The tip from our technical team regards extraneous programmes running on servers and our marketing minute and spotlight create an e-learning special this month.
Due to new laws coming into force before the end of the year, the hot topic focuses on the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive.
We also support the Madeleine McCann poster appeal.
April@UKFast looks at the steps we have taken to reduce the carbon footprint in the hosting world, concentrating on Ecoservers.
The technical tip is about filtering your technical Google searches for better results, while the marketing minute looks at the added considerations when you are marketing a service rather than just a product.
The spotlight on the client is on our 2006 Online Functionality winner VRM Swansea and the hot topic looks at the BBC and whether it is in danger of promoting and creating business monopolies as it develops its online offering.
The big company news in March relates to our Cisco and Microsoft developments that are complementing our own in-house innovations to add extra layers of security to the UKFast network.
The top tips regard monitoring server log files and the best ways to use social networking sites to promote your business.
The client focus this March is on NWJazzWorks and the Manchester Jazz Festival, while the hot topic covers consumer confident and the online environment.
February has seen the start of a new recruitment drive at UKFast as well as success with the ISPA awards, winning the Best Business Host accolade for the third year running.
The newsletter also looks at using virtual private networks for added security and taking your corporate social responsibilities seriously and to the best advantage.
The hot topic this month discusses the need for mobile security now that our telephones are becoming on-the-go organisers and many people are using them to communicate with their servers and beyond.
A lot of work has gone into introducing new tools to the private Client Area on the website this month. Also online, UKFast displayed its commitment to the hosting industry by winning a bidding war for domain name servers.co.uk.
The technical tip encourages us to help the cyber detectives using The Phishery and the Marketing Minute is about techniques to create 'stickiness' on your website.
New laws for displaying company information on websites prompt a hot topic about helping online visitors to find your contact details and the levels of trust born from this practice.
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If you would like to send your questions to the UKFast team please email Jonathan Bowers and we will have your questions answered in the newsletter by our technical and marketing teams.
