Day 1. new site. new beginnings

Today we started our first full day of development on the new site. After a few early, and persistent, teething problems we finally got a site that’s looking fresh and new while still sticking close to its traditional roots.

The challenge has always been to find a balance between the artisic funk, which comes from being a student site, with professionalism which begs to be taken seriously. In this new site we feel we have achieved that brilliance and can’t wait to share it.

Look forward to a site more colourful, more interactive, more clean and most of all more eye candy.

So now that we have the foundation set, the following weeks and sessions will see content being sourced to the site, small tweaks being implemented, testing of functions and eventually integration with the yola site’s and social media platforms. 

All of this ready to launch SOON 

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The GEM Team

It's all marketing you know

innovation gets you nowhere without promotion and execution, the charming triplets of success.
Edison had it, Steve jobs had it and Google oozes it but not it's GEM's chance to show that we got it.

We are  excited to bring you the latest news on our own site but a big part of the move is to make sure that our brand is strengthened. Its with this in mind that we met with our marketing guru Ismail Fadal to create a Marketing startegy. The meeting was one of the best GEM has held and produced alot of ideas that will be executed in the following weeks.

These ideas include:
More Visibility on Campus
Promotions
Social Media growth and networking
Homesite appeal
Staff recruitment


Watch the site and the world around you to see this in action
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GEM Team

we going to big school !

What a pleasant surprise it was  to recieve an email today from Woza Online; a recently launched initiative by Google, Vodacom and the South African Department of Trade and Industry to promote small business going online. 

"Dear Global Edge Media,
 As one of the earliest businesses to have published your Woza Online site, we’re happy to notify you first that you may now activate your free .co.za domain by visiting the link on your Woza Online website admin page under the “settings” tab.
Sincerely,
The South African Business Woza Online Team"

So there we are boys and girls. The GEM show is now swimming big on it's own domain.
Watch this space for details and remember you heard it here first!