In the dark ages (2005) when you wanted to tell the world about your latest success or correct a grammatical error on your website you had to understand HTML, hire an expensive webmaster or pay an outrageous sum to a programmer. Changing a few words, adding a page or uploading a picture was a cumbersome process. Hooray, Hooray, It's 2012 and we're practically living in the future! There is no reason for you or your organization to have an outdated and featureless website. A content management system, or CMS gives the most basic user the tools to manage a beautifully feature-rich website.
A CMS is a system that provides a collection of data and procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. Data can be defined as nearly anything, including: documents, movies, text, pictures, phone numbers, and more. Content management systems are used for enriching, revising, controlling and publishing that data. Working in conjunction with an elegant website design a CMS can help bring new traffic to and keep traffic on your site, leading to sales, donations, sign-ups or any other conversion metric. A custom Content Management System:
* Improves the ease of data input.
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team.
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* Is programmed to a specific website so there is no need for updates (ie open-source) or inactive
modules.
The price of a content management system varies based on a users needs, but the measurable return on investment should have you considering an upgrade. To find out how much a CMS will cost your organization, request a free quote.
Every first Friday of the month in Oakland's Uptown district music fills the air, food carts set up in the street and art galleries open their doors to the public for free viewings of local artists' work. Oakland Art Murmur supports art and cultural venues that are dedicated to increasing popular awareness of and participation in the arts of Oakland. The event promote the arts community through collective marketing and outreach efforts and organizes a monthly First Friday Art Walk event which is free and open to the public. In addition to the First Friday Art Walk event, many of the galleries that participate in Oakland’s highly popular Art Murmur gallery scene are extending their First Friday festivities to include Saturday hours, in what is hoped will lure in art enthusiasts who prefer a lower profile scene. The new Saturday Stroll is quieter and more focused on the art in the galleries. It will run every Saturday afternoon, from 1 to 5 p.m.
Oakland Art Murmur will hold a series of free, guided walking tours on the third Saturday of each month to introduce visitors to Oakland’s array of visual art venues. According to the organization's press release, tours are led by Oakland gallery directors, curators, writers and artists and are based on a different theme each time. The tour guide pre-selects five exhibitions that include work relating to the theme. At each venue, the group will enjoy a brief presentation about the gallery and the current exhibition from the gallery director and/or the artist whose work is on view.
Tour groups meet at Farley's East, a café with rotating art shows, at 33 Grand Ave., Oakland, just east of Broadway, at 2 p.m. Participants should be ready to walk a distance of four to eight blocks over the course of the afternoon. Tours are free and conclude around 4 p.m.
We have a soft spot in our hearts for the underdog city that we live and work in and were pleased to see Oakland, CA on the New York Times list of 45 places to visit in 2012. Always cast in the shadow of San Francisco, Oakland rarely gets the credit it deserves. Logo74 is a proud Oakland based business and we encourage you to visit The Town this year and find out for yourself.
#5 Oakland, CA
New restaurants and bars beckon amid the grit, and the city’s revitalized night-life scene has continued to smolder.
The historic Fox Theater reopened in 2009 and quickly cemented its status as one of the Bay Area’s top music venues, drawing acts like Wilco and the Decemberists. Meanwhile, the city’s ever more sophisticated restaurants are now being joined by upscale cocktail bars, turning once-gritty Oakland into an increasingly appealing place to be after dark. James Syhabout, the chef who earned Oakland its first (and only) Michelin star two years ago at Commis, followed up in May with the instant-hit Hawker Fare, a casual spot serving Asian street food. Big-name San Francisco chefs are now joining him. Daniel Patterson (of two-Michelin-star Coi) opened the restaurant Plum in late 2010 and an adjacent cocktail bar later, and another restaurant, called Haven, in the recently renovated Jack London Square last month.
Surprising as it may sound, colleges and universities seem to have finally figured out social media. Long berated for giving only the most modest efforts at developing an online presence, higher education is, at long last, taking the Internet seriously.
As a higher and higher percentage of high school students spend more time online (and on social media in particular), colleges have made the realization that they stand a far better chance of attracting new applicants if they come visit them on their own turf.
The big social media sites have all become darlings of academia, and students seem not to mind one bit—the most successful schools rack up thousands of Twitter followers, hundreds of thousands of Facebook likes, and millions of views on YouTube, likely in large part from current, prospective, and former students.And though a great many academies remain dinosaurs of Web 1.0, a few prestigious institutions have truly evolved into social media mammoths.
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Logo74 Launches Siluria.com
Integrating nanotechnology, biotechnology and chemical engineering, Siluria has developed a solution to the grand challenge of efficient manufacturing: the ability to produce chemicals and fuels from a cheaper, more abundant resource than oil. The company's economically superior, energy-efficient platform converts natural gas into the same materials manufactured today using current industry infrastructure. Siluria's world-class R&D and engineering teams are rapidly commercializing the company's technology to pilot-scale production in close dialogue with the world's largest chemical and fuel companies.
Logo74 created Siluria's branding profile that included a custom website design manageable through a tailored content management system; a new logo, business card, envelope, and lettearhead compliment and uniquely define Siluria's corporate identity.
