A Few Clients Across Platform Nine
It’s been a good few months for Platform Nine.
We’ve recently taken on a few non-profits websites that have just launched. Green Collar CS on the recruitment front, and Melbourne University Rugby on the sports front. Both are being hosted on Platform Nine’s Free NFP/NGO Web Hosting Service.
W Consulting Services have had a great time working with Cronulla Yoga Studio, Cronulla Surfing Academy, St George and Sutherland Community College, White Horse Coffee and Two Sisters Chai Tea.
Website proposals were reviewed and recommended for St George and Sutherland Community College. A fun 300 pages of reading and making recommendations based on usability, web standards compliance, open source initiatives, cost, and social elements.
Cronulla Surfing Academy and Two Sisters were presented and started on social media strategies. Both websites were updated with SEO techniques, as well as ‘liberating’ content.
W also ran 3 networking and security roles. This entailed 2 Multi-state VPN Builds, 2 network design and migrationed with knowledge transfers and inhouse one on one training. 1 Linux and Windows Administration role, where I deployed wikis, blogs, and open source tools. With server locked down and enhanced functionality on existing network hardware as value added services.
Two Sisters and White Horse Coffee are now Blogging.
Cronulla Yoga and Two Sisters are now both on Twitter, with Cronulla Yoga regularly tweeting.
Running the company out of two office, with the head office now in San Francisco has been an exciting challenge. I’m encouraging those who are working with P9 to continue discussions over skype, phone, e-mail, and even Twitter.
I love it when they learn to fly
For the past few weeks I’ve been doing a day here and there on a client site. Initially a spec/redesign of their network. This turned into building the network, as well as training their IT guy. For a few weeks after the deployment I was getting calls from the IT guy about various problems.
Today it all changed. He fixed 2 really hardcore problems by himself. Using all the pieces he’s learnt over the previous month or so, today he put it all together and trouble shot advanced problems to resolution.
When we spoke today he told me he was ‘right from here’, and was comfortable running the network. Very happy to see him learn from never touched a router, to building routers, switches, and firewalls, as well as admin, install, and troubleshooting. All in 4 weeks.
First Wiki’s Deployed
Twiki Wiki was selected and deployed at one of our client’s. Management are rather impressed with it’s potential, and are excited about seeing it used.
It’s not a fast process, developing content, there’s also the retraining of people to document on the fly, but slowly people are starting to reference and edit/update.
I’m seeding the wiki at the moment, along with a few internal staff, with a formal launch in coming weeks.
Slowly Coming Together
The new Platform Nine Homepage is slowly coming together. It’s starting to get some content and some of the visuals. It’s probably a good time to say hey from the blog front also, as this is the first post. The blog’s to keep track of what P9 and it’s peeps are up to. Any wins, or interesting projects, as well as site and human updates. If you’re interested in what the P9 gang are up to, you’re in the right place.