Things are on the up here at Vision with Technology and we’re hiring for not one, but two new job vacancies! 

We’re looking for talented people to join the team in Islington, London. Head on over to our careers page and see if you, or anyone you know, fits the bill. The reasons why you should work here are pretty long too, but the biggest reason is, that despite making award winning websites, we’re nice to work with. We're looking for: - Business Analyst - Office Administrator (part-time)

So hurry along and get applying. I have some amazing stories to tell you by the water cooler!

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As we welcome in the New Year here at Vision with Technology, we will also be celebrating moving to our new home.

Over the weekend of 14th & 15th January 2012 we will be busy packing our boxes and moving across Islington to our new office, which is located minutes away from Caledonian Road station.

Take note of our new address as you may need it to get in touch with us:

Vision with Technology
United House
North Road
London
N7 9DP

Our telephone number remains the same: +44 (0)20 7354 4300.

If you have any questions about our move, please get in touch. We look forward to welcoming you into our new home soon!

 The holiday season is now officially upon us and here at Vision with Technology, it is safe to say that we’re looking forward to 2012. It has been an incredibly busy year during which we’ve worked on some fantastic projects and next year looks set to be even more exciting.

We will be relocating to a new office just off Caledonian road early in the New Year, so once we’ve settled in feel free to pop by and check out our new surroundings. In February we will be attending the eZ Partner conference in Lisbon and in April, we’re exhibiting at the 20th Internet World show. With these and lots of other activities planned, including our 10th birthday celebrations in October it should be blast. There is no doubt we’ll have more breakfast meetings in the future to celebrate the future release of eZ Publish 4.7 and 5.0 which are both scheduled to be launched in 2012!

In 2011 our business continued to grow and we saw the appointment of a number of new faces within the team. 2012 looks to be no different with continued growth on the agenda, so watch this space.

We will leave you all by wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season, whatever you will be celebrating, enjoy the time off work and be merry...2012 is going to be special!

Planning revamping your website in 2012 or just want to bounce some ideas around?Get in touch and see how Vision with Technology can help you.

Last week saw the UK launch of eZ Publish 4.6 at the PPA offices in London and what a way to kick things off in the UK!

The event saw Stuart Wilkinson: Global Manager of Media and Publishing and Bertrand Maugain: Director International Business Development, host and speak at the eZ Publish 4.6 launch and explain how the new eZ London office will being recruiting for a country manager and developers to help grow the eZ ecosystem in the UK within the coming year.

The much anticipated eZ Publish 4.6 was launched with a raft of features including the App readiness with a new "Mobile Kit" and the launch of two new eZ Market Place items: eZ Recommends/YooChoose and Odoscope.

YooChoose is a recommendation engine, that tracks a users behaviour to match content and recommendations based on their browsing habits. Odoscope is an analytics module that helps you understand the traffic behavior across all web properties within the organisation - particularly if you have multiple sites you are monitoring.

Demonstrations of some of the key “Web First” features were shown including case studies of companies who are using eZ Publish to publish online first then exporting the content to their print templates.

The main focus of the launch was to highlight that you can get your content working harder for the benefit of not only the users, but advertisers too.

Vision with Technology’s own Tony Wood took to the floor to talk about Paid Content Strategies. He identified the 5 main paywall strategies that Vision with Technology have encountered over the past 9 years as eZ Publish partners and how to get them to work for you. You can view Tony’s presentation below.

Iain Adam’s of Circdata, also gave a talk on Single Customer Views and how eZ Publish and your CRM can work together to provide you with a single repository of your users behaviour to give you the fullest insight into your customers.

To learn more about the features of eZ Publish Enterprise 4.6 and how it can benefit your website, please get in touch.

Read InPublishing’s round up of the eZ Publish 4.6 launch. 

Last month saw Vision with Technology turn 9 years old and we celebrated an incredible year the only way we know how to: by eating a 9 course meal!
 
Vision with Technology was founded by Tony and Helen Wood in 2002 and since its humble beginnings, the company has come a long way. We have an ever growing team and client base and our proud to be the leading provider of eZ Publish solutions within the UK.

This year has seen us develop the 'The Banker' website for the Financial Times which won the eZ Publish award for “site of the year 2011”. In addition we also delivered the high-profile Renewal Heat Premium Payment Application system for the Energy Saving Trust and developed and rolled out their new website.

As with most birthday's, we celebrated, but only after we had done a last minute deploy. We had amazing cupcakes made with little "9's" on them and had an incredible feast at Sen Nin, who happily created a custom made 9-course meal for us (a course for each year of the company) and tested our egg flipping skills. As food fatigue started to set in, we headed off to dance the night away.

With our 10th birthday next year, I better start preparing myself for a 10-course meal!

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If you’re interested in being a part of our great team then head on over to our careers page.

Last week saw people from across Europe gather for one of the best integrated marketing conferences at London's Olympia: mediaPro.

The turn out for mediaPro was fantastic, with brilliant talks and keynotes that had people queuing  including: Bauer Media, Shortlist Media, Nokia, Time Out, Arsenal, Google, 02, EMI Music and our very own Random House Publishing's Good Pub Guide, to name but a few.

Over at our stand we had lots going on with eZ Systems, from demonstrations to competitions to free chocolates, we also managed to squeeze in a survey on an abacus!

Whilst at mediaPro we were also proud to announce that the latest versions of eZ Publish, 4.6 will be released on Tuesday 22nd November 2011.

mediaPro was a nice way to end our conference-packed year. We had a blast and hopefully we'll see you there next year!

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mediaPro 2011 is a few days away and over at our stand with eZ Publish, A75, we're giving everyone the chance to win a Kindle!

Simply visit the stand and complete our survey on “New Industry Trends”, but this is no ordinary, boring survey: there is an old fashioned twist.

Once completed, make sure we take a picture of your survey and stamp your business card before dropping it in the box for a chance of winning a Kindle. We’re giving away one a day and will announce the winners at the end of each day. Terms and Conditions apply.

If surveys aren’t really your thing, don’t despair: everyone who drops past the stand will receive a treat, whilst stocks last.
 
We will have demonstrations of the latest version of eZ Publish Enterprise 4.5, across the show and our client Random House Publishing’s The Good Pub Guide are speaking on Tuesday 1st November at 11:25am in the Publishing theatre on Book to Digital - Creating a Digital Brand from an Annual Guide.
 
If you're short on time at mediaPro, why not arrange a meeting with us? Simply email me and I'll get back to you with a confirmation.
 
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About mediaPro

mediaPro runs from Tuesday 1st – Wednesday 2nd November 2011 at Olympia, London. Olympia is next to Olympia tube station.
 
Opening times: Tuesday 1st November 2011: 10:00 - 17.00  |  Wednesday 2nd November 2011: 10:00 - 17.00
 
Don't forget that registration for mediaPro is free and is one of the leading events for media and marketing professionals involved in digital, social and print media communications. It explores what’s changing in the industry and how the best brands and businesses are integrating their marketing communications and driving innovation.
For further information head on over to their website www.mediaproexpo.co.uk
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Terms & Conditions
1. The promoters of this competition are Vision with Technology Ltd, Aberdeen Centre, 22-24 Highbury Grove, London, N5 2EA, UK and eZ Systems AS, Klostergata 30, 3732 Skien, Norway.
2. This competition is open to UK residents aged 18 and over, excluding employees of Vision with Technology, eZ Systems, Rackspace and Demand Media, their immediate family and other persons associated with the competition. No purchase necessary.
3.  1 winner will be drawn at random from all business cards received at mediaPro at 17:00pm on both Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd November 2011 and will be notified no later than 19:00pm on the day of the draw. The prize of a Kindle ebook will be delivered within 45 days of notification.
4.  Only one entry per person and entries which are illegible or incomplete will be deemed invalid. Vision with Technology Ltd's and eZ Systems AS’ decision shall be final and no correspondence shall be entered into.
7. The prize winner will be notified by email or phone and they are required to accept their prize by return email or telephone call within 5 days of notification. In the event of non-acceptance within the specified period, Vision with Technology Ltd  and eZ System AS reserve the right to reallocate the prize and award it to the next randomly drawn, valid entry (and the same acceptance period, as provided under this condition, will apply).
8.  Entrants agree that Vision with Technology Ltd and eZ Systems AS may keep their contact information and contact them in relation to their products and services, unless entrants state otherwise.
9.  Vision with Technology Ltd and eZ Systems reserves the right to amend these terms at any time.

Welcome to eZ Future, the podcast that will keep you updated on the eZ Publish eco system.
From the latest releases reviewed right through to extensions and comments from the community.
In the show:

• eZ Future Hangout
• eZ Conference London 2011 roundup
• Community - latest contributions, interesting articles
• Upcoming events - eZ Conference

Listen to it here: http://visionwt.podhoster.com/  or iTunes    
Hosts: Tony Wood, Manpreet Dhesi from VisionWT.com
Special guests : Petri Mertanen,  Robin Muilwijk, Gilles Guirand

Feedback from previous show

From Nicolas Pastorino : Sound is much better - @All : fire this podcast in background as you are working on eZ Publish, you'll get a sweet impression of hearing a BCC news report, with only live reporters, only on eZ Community, and much funnier than BBC news reports.
 
Twitter 

Thank you to everyone who retweeted us including

Igor Vrdoljak @ivrdoljak
Robin Muilwijk @i_robin

In the Google+ Hangout

Petri Mertanan @mertanen

eZ Conference London

• Wednesday night speakers event
  • Sponsor ship drinks - big turnout for community, clients and partners - Rasmus (PHP Founder) there too.
• Interviews Robin Muilwijk (Award winner!) - Feedback from Gilles Guirand(Award Winner)
• (for once no interview with Nico) - sorry Nico
• Community track - explained
• Business Track - explained
• Conference slides - http://london2011.ez.no/Slides & photos http://london2011.ez.no/Impressions
• Conference winners http://london2011.ez.no/Awards/Awards-Winner-2011
  • FT Banker - Site of the year for FT. Partner - Vision with Technology
  • Odoscope - http://www.odoscope.com/eng/This-is-odoscope/Features?var=0 - Great analytics direct on your site

eZ Publish community greats (update on the last month)

• Nicolas Pastorino - Launching Content in mobility with REST and eZ Publish http://www.slideshare.net/jeanvoye/nicolas-pastorino-launchingcontentinmobilitywithrestandezpublish
• Great info on the Release Policy - http://share.ez.no/community-project/release-policy
• 2011.6 Community version release (bug fixes) http://share.ez.no/download-develop/downloads/ez-publish-community-project-2011.6/changelog-from-community-project-2011.5-to-community-project-2011.6
• Geir Arne Waaler call for better ideas for books - do we need them, are there better ways of doing it. This was in response to Tony’s call for signed copies when you bought eZ subscription (back in the day). http://share.ez.no/blogs/ez/printing-books-or-going-further
• Community minutes  - http://share.ez.no/blogs/share.ez.no-team/2011-july-11th-meeting-minutes

Thanks to: eZ Systems the makers of eZ Publish (ez.no) and Vision with Technology (VisionWT.com)

If you've seen the latest copy of Education Business magazine, you may have noticed that we were in their ICT section with Vision Discover!

We had a profile highlighting how eLearning can be easy learning with Vision Discover, an eLearning platform based on eZ Publish, which gives you the flexibility to a content management system to help keep all eLearning up to date and relevant.  

Education Business magazine provides comprehensive information for all within the Education sector and goes to over 9200 organisations! If you haven't had a chance to see us in there, you can view the magazine online at www.educationbusinessuk.net or read our article online.

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So another eZ Publish conference is over and what a year it was - possibly one of the best eZ Publish conferences ever!

The conference started with a bang at our meet the speakers drinks at Carbon. We were joined by, Greg McAvoy-Jensen, Simon Wan, Maxime Thomas, Bjorn Dieding, Gilles Guirand, Tony Wood, Martin Bauer, Paul Borgermans and Rasmus Lerdorf to name a few.

The first day of the conference saw Gaberiele Viebach kick off proceedings with her keynote "eZ Publish enables the next generation content business model - modern platform characteristics". Then people had to decide which track to attend for their next session: business or developer/community?

The talks on offer this year were some of the best the eZ conference has seen. On the first day of the conference we had talks from, Daniel Kraft from fridge & company tackling "Beautiful Dialogues in a Social World", Derick Rethans and "Profiling PHP Applications", Pete Dodds from the Financial Times talking about "Paid content at Financial Times", Brian Garvey from Rackspace discussing “OpenStack”, Simon Wan from Wall Street Journal in Asia leading a keynote on "The web strategy of the Wall Street Journal in Asia", and Paul Borgermans"taking eZ Find beyond search", to name a few.

The evening of the Thursday 16th June saw the legendary eZ Publish awards ceremony. It was held at Milbank Tower and guests were welcomed to a cocktail reception before the awards ceremony took place. Well done to all whom were nominated and a special hurrah to all the winners.

Blogger of the year
Ivo Lukac, Netgen (Croatia)

Tutorial of the year
Advanced development with eZ Find by Gilles Guirand (France)

Contribution of the year
SQLIImport by Jerome Vieilledent (France)

Community member of the Year
Robin Muilwijk (Netherlands)

Solution of the Year
Odoscope by Odoscope (Germany)

Rising star of the year
07 Web (Norway)

eZ Publish Enterprise Sales Person of the Year
Saurab Bhargava from Roundarch (USA)

Business Partner of the year
Orange Business Services (France)

The Digital Media Website Award
The Wall Street Journal Asia: jp.wsj.com (Japan)

Site of the Year
Financial Times, The Banker (UK)

The Honorary award
Greg McAvoy-Jensen, Granite Horizon (USA)

Once the awards ceremony was over, everyone headed to the after party which had some breath taking views of London. Once the party was over at Milbank Tower, most people headed back to Carbon to party until we were thrown out in the early hours of Friday morning.

Margaret Ann Dowling, Managing Director from Marquard Media Hungary, had a big job on her hands presenting the following morning's keynote, "The challenge of small and medium sized publishers : managing the content of many brands. The example of Playboy and Instyle at Marquard Media", but she did a great job and the added prize of spotting the mistake within her presentation with the winner getting a trip to the Playboy Mansion in Hungary ensured everyone started the morning on top form.

Again, Friday had an amazing line up of speakers including, Rasmus Lerdorf talking about "PHP in 2011", Marc Czieslick from Hyperload Design speaking about "From intranet via extranet to internet-projects in the financial industry", round-two for the community flash talks and not forgetting our ever own Tony Wood, talking about "lessons learnt whilst working with eZ Publish for 9 years and the results will benefit everyone" and Martin Bauer giving one of the last sessions of the day on "Scrum, The Financial Times & eZ Publish".

The conference closed with a Hackathon in the developer/community track and a break-out session for business partners.

A big thank you to the eZ conference organisation team and our co sponsors Rackspace, for helping make the eZ conference & awards 2011 here in London a blast!

I think I managed to get about 3 hours worth of sleep from Wednesday through to the end of Friday, but I wouldn't change a thing.... roll on next year...

Don't forget, you can vote for where 2012's conference is held (hint: Vegas) and give eZ your feedback on this year's conference. To re-live some of the memories from this years event, head on over to our eZ conference 2011 gallery.

Join in on the conversation from this years talks at Joind and give your feedback to the speakers.

Read what Daniel Kraft from ifridge & company had to say about the eZ conference and Nicolas Pastrino, eZ community director. To see videos from the awards ceremony, head on over to Alexandre's blog.

Make sure you listen to the next installement of eZ Future, we have interviews with Gilles and Robin!

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