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yourpeoplemarket.comBased in Milton Keynes and founded by a team of recruitment experts, yourpeoplemarket.com is a new fixed fee online recruitment marketplace that connects employers and recruiters. Designed to take advantage of competitive market conditions, their online recruitment marketplace puts employers in control of the recruitment process, posting jobs at a fee they set, engaging with a recruitment community based on performance and complete transparency, and achieving significant cost savings.

As a company that has not only put marketplace transparency at the heart of recruitment – employers can, for example, rate recruiters on a range of criteria based on their own experience of using their services – www.yourpeoplemarket.com has brought a new approach to the online market whereby easy, quick data capture and the effective management of client communications is key to maintaining competitive advantage.

Yourpeoplemarket launch campaign emailIn light of this, yourpeoplemarket.com has adopted the services of Virtual Viewing’s EMMA (Email Marketing Assistant) email campaign and newsletter management system. Indeed, their use of EMMA has been both critical to the success of this young business and sophisticated in the use of some of EMMA’s more advanced features.

After initial consultation, during which we provided analysis and review of the initial yourpeoplemarket.com system build (focusing particularly on usability and functionality), we developed an HTML email newsletter template design that reinforced the website branding, and created an EMMA account.

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If you haven’t noticed, there’s a new section in our blog – Jobs (just follow the link at the top of the page) - where we will maintaining details of any current vacancies to join our Milton Keynes team.

We have two positions currently available:

  • .NET Web Developer
  • 3D Studio Max Modeller

and further details are given on the Jobs page. If you’re interested, please use the rest of our website and this blog to find out more about us and our work: we look forward to hearing from you.

Video is making a real difference to our online viewing experience, and many companies are now exploring the best way to incorporate video into their online presence. Online viewing is growing dramatically, providing significant and unique opportunities to grow brand awareness, convey company missions, values and ethos, promote both products and services, drive web traffic and uplift sales in B2B and B2C marketing – an opportunity that Virtual Viewing, working in partnership with A2S Works, can help you to realise.

They say a picture paints a thousand words: moving pictures say even more. The following video illustrates just some of the points we make in this article (as well as introducing us):

So where do you start? – read on to find out more.

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From the outset, the world wide web was designed to be a medium for collaboration and interaction: indeed, one of the main triggers for its initial development was to allow scientists to share their information and research with each other online.  This line of thinking has been traced back to a historically significant essay, As We May Think, written in 1945 by Dr Vannevar Bush, the US Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (a copy of this essay is still available online). Having directed the American scientific community to support the wartime effort, he was concerned with the peacetime application of technology to more constructive means: his ideas included a (hypothetical) model for a ‘collective memory machine’. The video clip below shows an animation – itself made in 1995 – that shows how his machine, the ‘memex’, might have looked and worked: it’s hardly as coolly iconic as an iPad, but modern technology has still barely scratched the surface of some of the ideas his essay contained.

We usually accept that widespread take-up and adoption of different technologies can be unpredictable (we’re still using fax machines, for example, but the idea of micro-payments has been explored for at least 20 years with little sign of mass take-up), but the speed – or lack of it – with which we adopt them can still be surprising. Sci-fi writer William Gibson once memorably observed that “The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed”, and a look at the invention dates of many everyday items does prove his point (sms messages, 1992; digital camera, 1975; GPS, 1978; credit card, 1950; mobile phone, 1947; microwave oven, 1946; robots, 1921; radio, 1895; battery, 1800).

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The Ilford Blueprint websiteAs you may have already read in an earlier post, we were proud to recently jointly unveil the Ilford Blueprint website with our development partners in the Planning and Regeneration Unit at the London Borough of Redbridge.

The product of several months’ working in a highly embedded way with the Unit on a true joint venture basis, the site combines our OSCAR content management system for ease and flexibility of up-date with groundbreaking use of our 3d modelling technologies. The whole project was supported throughout by our skills in project management, place making and urban design, as well as our in-depth technical capabilities.

The result – in the words of Chris Berry, the Borough’s Chief Planning and Regeneration Officer – provides:

… focussed, reliable, detailed and accessible technical information to a level not previously provided by a local authority. Virtual Viewing’s contribution to the Borough initiative cannot be underestimated:  their services and capabilities extended far beyond technical expertise, to include 3d modelling, urban design and bringing reality to policy-making, all of which were provided as a true ‘joint venture’ operation.

You can download (in PDF format) a copy of a promotional mailer that has subsequently been sent to several hundred members of the London investment and development community, providing a powerful testimonial for a project about which we are as proud as our development partners.

As you may have already read on our blog – or on theirs – our long-term clients, Lumbers Jewellers of Leicester, are undertaking an epic adventure to raise money for charity: they’re rowing – yes, rowing – from Lands End to John O’Groats. Or, as their strapline would have it, “1097 miles, 12 oars, 6 men, 3 weeks – and 1 boat!”. Celebrity Row, as the epic journey has been christened, is being undertaken in aid of four richly deserving charities: Rainbows Childrens Hospice, The Princes’ Trust, The RNLI, and The Samantha Dickon Brain Tumour Trust.

As one of the sponsors for this laudable endeavour, Virtual Viewing has been lending a very technological helping hand. We’ve set up a dedicated micro-site (click here to view in a new window), with its own blog (click to view), and its own Twitter feed. Since the crew set off on 29 June, we’ve also been sending out an email newsletter to over a 1,200 people to keep them up to date on their progress, and cross-referencing all this activity in Lumbers’ own email newsletters (compiled and despatched by Virtual Viewing, using our EMMA EMail Marketing Assistant service) and blog (also created and maintained by us).

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Responsible for inward investment and investor development, North London Business (NLB) is funded by both the London Development Agency and by Boroughs, and runs Property Linx conferences focused on maximising investment in infrastructure, residential and mixed used developments and allowing Boroughs to profile themselves to the investment community. Each conference attracts 200-350 invited property professionals, developers, agents, and landowners.

The most recent Property Linx conference, which was expanded to include an “Agents, Consultants and Contractors” corner, was held on 24 June 2010 with a focus on one of Virtual Viewing’s web development and 3d city modelling clients – the London Borough of Redbridge. Senior Borough politicians and staff from the Borough’s Planning and Regeneration team were among speakers at the event, which shone a spotlight on their plans for the development of Ilford Town Centre, its retail offering, quality of life and excellent transport connectivity.

The Invest Ilford WebsiteLondon Borough of Redbridge also used the event to launch a new website (opens in a new browser window), developed through a partnership with Virtual Viewing, that specifically targets property and investment professionals.

Fully manageable through our OSCAR content management solution, the fully bespoke site will enable the Borough to provide a wealth of up-to-date information on the local area (including demographic data and profiles of different property sectors).

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Northampton University has recently expanded its Portfolio Innovation Centre, based at the University’s Avenue Campus. Now trebled in size to a three-storey building, the centre offers working space and networking opportunities to some of the region’s most exciting creative, digital and design companies – a industry sector that over £600 million into the region’s economy ever year.

Naturally these include Virtual Viewing, who have recently opened an office in the Centre (you can contact us there on 01604 779026).

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Virtual Viewing has always been proud of its long history of ‘giving something back to the community’: even the extensive list on our website can give only a flavour of the degree of our involvement.  We’re equally proud to say that some of our clients are equally committed to the life of their own cities, and to raising welcome funds for deserving charities. Indeed, we’ve been working closely with one such customers, Lumbers Jewellers of Leicester, to help them to raise awareness – as well as funds – for a forthcoming charity event that certainly represents an ‘oarsome’ challenge.

Dominic Gommersall, Lumbers MDStarting on 29 June, a team of rowers – including MD Dominic Gomersall (shown left) and Watch buyer Paul Bassett (shown right below), as well as prominent Leicestershire businessmen and sporting stars – will row from John O’Groats to Lands End. The title of their most recent press release gives you a hint as to the scale of their endeavour: 1097 miles, 12 oars, 6 rowers, 3 weeks. And 1 boat…

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