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Another year of support

Wyolution works with a few different clients to provide technical support for custom applications that our clients had written for them by vendors that are no longer in business.  Given the applications where critical to their business, support was a requirement to ensure day-to-day operations continued.  In addition, Wyolution was able to take over and enhance these product for our clients with features they needed to keep pace with their expanding needs and business directions.

One of those companies is Climb Wyoming.  Through their CLIMB Wyoming programs, they train and place single mothers in higher paying jobs.

Climb Wyoming

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Swift deploys their own online employment ads.

Employment online enhancements
Employment online enhancements

Building on early work that revamped Swift’s online classified solution, the new employment section, built by Wyolution, brings in house the ability for Swift to provide numerous features to users looking for employment as well as companies listing employment opportunities.  Featured companies, company profiles, top jobs and tighter integration with employment videos, provides Swift with the tools and resources to offer unique products in timely and unique ways.  A year ago, Swift paid vendors to list autos and employment ads, now the model has reversed.

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Visitor Management Software

Positive Proof InterceptWyolution helped Positive Proof develop its latest product offering, Intercept.  Leveraging today’s technology standards, customer feedback, national databases and legislative laws, Positive Proof’s Intercept system provides the following features and benefits to our customers

  • A turn key, web based application that provides ease of deployment and maintenance by using an Internet connection and a modern web browser.
  • State-of-the-art ID card reader for capturing driver’s license information and multiple forms of government–issued IDs for persons entering your campus, including three forms of Mexico-issued IDs. This is the next generation of optical reader (that is faster and) does not have moving parts, thus eliminating the need for calibrating and cleaning, giving the customer a product that will not wear out like conventional scanners.
  • Checks for registered sex offenders in state databases with multiple alert features.
  • Prints photo name badge for visitors and volunteers.
  • School-defined watch lists.
  • User level log-in security controls access to data.
  • Supports multi-lingual requirements for ease of use.
  • Enhanced reporting with the ability to define new reports.
  • Advanced import tool for updating students, teachers, volunteers, contractors and watch lists.
  • DYMO® Twin Turbo printer holds labels and plain paper simultaneously, thus allowing customer to save money when printing tardy slips and early dismissals.
  • Brightly colored, static-cling decals for school exits instructing visitors.
  • One-Step visitor sign-in sheets/labels for use when school internet is down or to sign-in large crowds.
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Heartland Payment Integration

Completed work on integration work for a client that uses Heartland Payment systems to process credit card transactions.  Client didn’t want to introduce another vendor like PayPal, so Wyolution worked to integration customers online sales with Heartland’s web solution.

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Wyolution works with Swift to offer new Social Hub

Wyolution, in conjunction with Swift Communications, recently launched a new Member’s Hub section of Swift’s 26 newspaper sites.  Along with a new homepage design, this represents an entirely new way for local readers to interact with one another, all centered around the content of the site.  In addition, members now have some of the abilities found on traditional social networking sites, like blogging, private messaging, and video and photo posts.

According to Abbey Smith, a Business Analyst for Swift’s Internet Ventures Group, “The Wyolution team always delivers great results for Swift Communications. Our latest project, which redesigned the homepage and added a section for user content for more than 20 news sites, is no exception. The custom-built comments database that Wyolution created provides the first link between social media and revenue for Swift Communications.”

As an example of one of the sites can be found at www.nrtoday.com.

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Wyolution wins Fremont County website bid

From the Lander Journal, September 27th, 2009 (by staff writer Martin Reed):

Lander-based Wyolution LLC in August landed a contract to redesign and maintain Fremont County government’s Web site.

Commissioners approved the contract not to exceed $10,000 after receiving a recommendation from a county committee.

The group included information system support manager Joni Miller and her counterpart at the sheriff’s office, Jesse Lyles.

The committee had interviewed five companies concerning the county’s proposed Web site rebuild and provided unanimous support for Wyolution (our emphasis), according to a memo given to commissioners in August.

In a letter to the county, Wyolution partners Mark Thoney and Jared Kail stated they will work on Web design, imlementation, maintenance, training and support.

“Wyolution has been committed to the needs of Wyoming businesses and organizations since 2005, and we continue to grow a strong and vibrant customer base that includes municipal, county, and quasi-governmental organizations,” according to their letter.

Their proposal for the county’s Web site includes individual pages for each county department all linked by a single home page.

“Each department will be able to asign its own content editors that are responsible for keeping the department’s information fresh and up-to-date,” according to their proposal.

Commissioners supported the creation of a strong Web site for the county.  “I think it’s a good way of promoting what county government is,” chairman Doug Thompson said.

The count’s current Web site is located at www.fremontcountywy.org.

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Did your “Send To -> Mail Recipient” option in Windows quit working with Thunderbird?

If so, then follow these steps to restore the functionality:

  1. Launch RegEdit (use at your own risk).
  2. Navigate to: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird in your registry.
  3. Check the key DDLPath.  If it is empty, then proceed, if not empty, then STOP, you have a different problem.
  4. If DDLPath is empty, enter the path to the file “mozmapi32.dll” (most likely C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\mozmapi32.dll)

This should correct the problem.

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Maintain an exact a copy of your files.

This is a great tool when used in conjunction with an external hard drive. It allows you to keep a very accessible copy of all your files on an external hard drive. No need for special backup software. No need to open archives or backups to find a file. Just navigate the 2nd drive to find your file.

NOTE: This tool does not version control or automatically create multiple copies of the file.

“This utility creates or maintains an exact duplicate of the original directory. ICE Mirror will compare the mirrored directory to the master directory and correct any disparities. ICE Mirror allows ultra fast mirroring because it performs incremental updates. In other words it only copies files that have changed. If only a few files have been updated, it performs very fast.

Also ICE Mirror allows making differential updates. The differential updates are very useful if you are use read-only media (CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, etc.). There are two steps in differential updates:

1. Comparison the master directory and the mirrored directory.
2. Copying all new files from the master directory to the secondary mirrored directory.

In other words it only copies files that have changed in the mirrored directory to the secondary mirrored directory.”

http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEMirror/IndexE.html

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What is taking up all that room on your drive?

WinDirStat
WinDirStat
Wondering why you have so little room left, then download WinDirStat at windirstat.info. It is free, open-source, and easy to use.

WinDirStat represents each file on your drive as a colored rectangle. The size of the rectangle indicates the size of the file compared to the other files. Click on the big blocks of color to find files that are no longer needed and that may be taking up valuable space.

NOTE: Be sure you know what you are deleting before you remove something from your hard drive.

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Wyolution helps launch C2, Classifieds Consolidation, for Swift Communications, Inc.

C2, Swift's New Classified System
C2, Swift's New Classified System

An entire new system was built, steering away from the traditional chronological list format of Craigslist and others, and designing an original system that gives more power and control to the user, while displaying more of the data visually. A very impressive feature is the gallery view, allowing users to see more images of listed items at once.

With C2, the listings within a given category are not merely listed; the user has the option to move between a list, a table and a gallery to view the information. In the gallery mode, only those listings containing images are loaded, and the images display in a photo matrix. As the user mouses over each photo, information is displayed in a floating window, such as ad description, price, and expiration date.

Swift Communications, Reno NV.

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Wyolution launches School2Parent.com

School2Parent.comWorking in conjunction with Swift Communications Internet Ventures Group, Wyolution launched a new site for 1st Hour called School2Parent.com.  1st Hour’s mission is “Student Success through Parent Engagement”, and School2Parent.com reinforces that mission by helping to connect school districtricts to parents through free eNewsletters.  Working against a tight deadline, Wyolution worked hand-in-hand with IVG’s designers and project managers to create an attractive, simple, but functional site that met the project requirements — including on-time delivery.

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Swiftcom.com Launched

Swiftcom.com
Swiftcom.com

In conjunction with Swift Communications and Plutonomy Design Studios, Wyolution, LLC launched the newly-designed Swiftcom.com website.  This represents a huge leap forward in the online branding of Swift Communications, bringing its corporate image in line with its newspaper and online content sites.  The new site implements industry-standard content editing software that allows non-technical staff to update the site any time, from any where.  Wyolution worked hand-in-hand with Swift’s project managers, designers and content editors to take the project from initiation through completion.