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Author: ManojRanaweera

Founder & CEO of UnifiedVU

Rebranding – Budget vs no budget, freedom vs. constraints

Published by ManojRanaweera on February 10, 2010

It is no surprise to my regular readers that Northern StartUp 2.0 is currently going through a rebranding and repositioning exercise. Whilst there is a lot to talk about why this is taking place, I thought of highlighting few discussions I had on Twitter about rebranding and repositioning with an international software house which has also gone through a rebranding exercise recently. Here is my situation: no budget but total freedom. Here is the situation of the software house: large budget (assumption) but constraints due to history and stakeholders. With my total freedom, and given I am lazy (or clever,…

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Never ending wordpress theme changing

Published by ManojRanaweera on February 10, 2010

Since I restarted blogging few months back, I have been looking for the ultimate wordpress theme. I must have changed themes more than I have blogged during this short period. To my surprise, I came across a theme today titled “Smells like Facebook” by Ainun Nazieb. Strangely, I find it intriguing and satisfying. Perhaps its the familiarity. But it sure will confuse few people when they come across it for the first time! Let’s hope this theme will last longer than the last dozen or so I experimented with.

What can you do today with edocr.com?

Published by ManojRanaweera on February 7, 2010

To help our customers maximise the use of edocr.com, I am in the process of preparing a check list. The key question asked here is what can you do with edocr.com today (not tomorrow!)? Create your account Claim and update your company profile – at this point, you become a customer of edocr.com under edocr Essential or edocr Managed pricing plans Manage employee accounts by adding/removing accounts to company profile Upload documents Distribute documents Interact with documents Join Groups Run marketing campaigns Respond to prospects Use API for auto publishing where it makes sense Use support desk in regular basis…

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Next Generation Broadband Access – Building the Case for Regional Investment

Published by ManojRanaweera on January 26, 2010

On 15th Jan, I attended an Insider Breakfast event held at Bridgewater Hall hosted by Michael Taylor and his team. Read Insider – Morning with who’s who of Manchester Corporate Sector for my coverage of the event. Following on from there, I am running an event on the Next Generation Broadband Access jointly with DC-KTN. Event details are below and I hope you will be able to join us on the 22nd Feb at eOffice Manchester. Please visit DC-KTN to register for this free event. This event gives you the opportunity to have your say on what the future of…

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Northern StartUp 2.0 Website is Under Attack!

Published by ManojRanaweera on January 26, 2010

For the last five weeks, Northern StartUp 2.0 website has been under attack by spammers. The spamming was related to opening accounts, about 5 every hour, which has resulted in over 1000 new accounts. Less than 1% of these accounts have actually added any comments, but if they all did, the site will be overwhelmed by spammed comments. Here are some facts about the site: Drupal 5.3 Accounts are needed to comment Based on various suggestions via Twitter and from Ixis IT (previous website development team) and CTISN (current website development team), following changes were made: Captcha Recaptcha Mollow Akismet…

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Tech CEO Round Table Discussion

Published by ManojRanaweera on January 16, 2010

I (NS20) hosted a round table discussion yesterday at Horwath Clark Whitehill’s offices in Manchester. This was an by invitation only session with no none tech CEOs. Prior to the kick off, Ed French of EV Group (venture capitalist) dropped in to have coffee, and later on, Steve Livingston from HorwathCW dropped into join the conversation. The participants were: Duncan Stockdill – Javelin CRM Katrina Delargy – Tiyga Craig Taylor – Thingymail Richard Francis – Makeurmove.com Manoj Ranaweera – edocr.com John Brickley – Whamoosh.com Whilst the contents of what was discussed remains confidential, there are few issues worth bringing out…

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Insider – Morning with who’s who of Manchester Corporate Sector

Published by ManojRanaweera on January 16, 2010

As Michael Taylor, Editor of the North West Insider introduced me at the yesterday’s Insider Breakfast event, “where’s Manoj, a short chap, ah there he is”. Luckily, Sean Fensom, Chairman and Digital Veteren of Manchester Digital later came to my rescue as he is shorter than me. At this point, I felt a whole lot better, having cocked up my earlier question to the panel, which Dave Carter, Head of Manchester Digital Development Agency responded by saying that if we want help, talk to the VCs. Unfortunately, there are only two VCs in town (EV Group and YFM Private Equity). They…

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3 Day Conference in Manchester Showcasing local and international software companies?

Published by ManojRanaweera on January 16, 2010

Just an idea at this stage, but have approached a group of early stage companies in the USA to sound it out. The objectives: Promote companies and products – an exhibition Build partnerships with startups from Manchester (edocr.com, JavelinCRM, others), London and rest of the UK API Explosion – Get the tech community involved Tour of local tech hubs for those thinking of setting base in the NW Get the public sector involve, so that we can explore incentives for setting up Perhaps a three day event: Day 0 – Check-in to hotels Day 1: Registration, local tours, Dinner Day…

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Salesforce.com Integration Options

Published by ManojRanaweera on January 7, 2010

Sales leads – new revenues for you! It probably does not come as a surprise to those who are misfortunate enough to follow my tweets, that we, at edocr.com have embarked on a major programme to deliver real measurable value to an existing asset you have, but probably was never trully aware of its full potential until now. Yes! we are speaking about the documents (pdfs) you produce daily, weekly, monthly and/or annually to communicate with prospects, customers, suppliers, shareholders, government, authorities, and anyone else that you need to communicate with, without dilvulging confidential information. Among these documents are the…

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