Charting the story of Infoworks Labs' quest to bring the techniques of PaperBuilding and Software Generation to the world of enterprise apps for tablets and mobile devices.... Very soon we'll post here the thinking behind our interest in Enterprise Apps and the moves we took to lay the foundations. 

We're looking for a very special person…

Are you bright, diligent, good on the phone? Do you have some awareness of databases and good ICT skills? Would you like to work part-time from home, answering & logging calls, and then resolving them?  You'll gain technical and project management skills and we'll give you opportunities to develop those skills. Interested? In the first instance please send an email to jobs@infoworks with following:  1. Subject: "Re Software Support (home-worker) (wsr2)" 2. A one-sentence explanation of why you're interested in this role 3. Your favourite joke + a one-sentence explanation of what appeals to you about it 4. Your cv attached as a PDF 5. Confirmation of your eligibility to work in the UK   Look forward to hearing from you - thanks!



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Part-time project management, s/w support/development & general assistant...

The NFWI test system is currently available by clicking here 

It’s a cry we sometimes hear, and no wonder really. Access databases seem to spring up and multiply like mushrooms. You can clear them away – mop them up into your main system. But if your main system is slow to adapt, isn’t a nimble conduit for your business processes… they’ll be back and much harder to get rid of the next time. I often talk to IT/IS managers and was told by one who took care of 300 users that they didn’t know exactly but they thought they had around 100 Access databases inside the building! That’s a logistical nightmare, but it’s capped by one beloved national institution which I’ve sworn never to name who told me they  had over 900 databases - we were actually looking at a database to record their databases(!). Don’t get me wrong – I believe Access has its place, and for very small organisations & ‘guerrilla’ business functions it has historically been the only viable route.  In fact we support some small organisations who’ve used their Access database for over 10 years - they succeed by the intelligent use of their application... ie working around it. ...

This is a great chance to meet sector movers and shakers from different IT-related disciplines (Infoworks, Sayer Vincent, Charity Technology Trust, Microsoft & Co-Op Systems) and network with 100 delegates with similar concerns to yours from similar 3rd sector organisations. It's the one place you can find out where technology is taking us, where Microsoft wants to take the sector, how to ensure your next big project doesn't take you down, how to take all your services to the cloud, what it takes to be a cloud facing organisation and how old 90% of all data is - unmissable! This is the 3rd year Co-Operative Systems (Infoworks' sister company) have organised this event and I've found the presentations and debates to be really enlightening. It's at Microsoft's UK head quarters in London, just outside Victoria station - now we all know there are different views about Microsoft in this sector, but one thing can't be denied... Their sandwiches aren't bad, and this is a free event - places are limited and...

There are a host of different offerings from free to quite dear, but the for a moderate volume the emerging consensus is that MailChimp takes some beating. It helps with everything:

Content creation – using snappy templates and no coding required

Distribution – including easy up load of email addresses, extensive monitoring of take-up, easy opt out

Integration – links with facebook et al, survey monkey, eventbrite  

Accessibility - you can distribute the full glossy or a plain text version of your newsletter

Customization – covering emails and the newsletters themselves can hold the equivalent of mail merge fields (tags). It’s not as extensive as the direct hooks into the database you’d see in an Infoworks Action-Message Module, but hey... it’s pretty powerful in its own right

Best of all – it’s free if for up to 2K subscribers and 12K mailings per month! Check it out at mailchimp.com



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Need to specify requirements for 3rd sector CRM system?  Writing an invitation to tender? 
... you simply must check this out!