After the coldest and most miserable start to summer in recent memory; the gods smiled on the Friday of the Gruden Christmas Party with a nice warm sunny day to put everyone in a festive mood for a great day ahead. It was “keyboards down” at midday as the party began with the first order [...]
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An insight into “Insightful Customer Engagement”, a Gruden/Adobe event
Despite the terrible weather we achieved a fantastic turn out to our joint event with Adobe called “Insightful Customer Engagement” at The Hotel Intercontinental, Sydney. It was exciting to have so many notable industry figures in the room taking an interest not only in Adobe technology but also in the concepts and strategies behind delivering Insightful [...]
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AMP’s Innovative Intranet
Congratulations to AMP who recently won an Intranet Innovations 2010 award! As the award states: “Australian financial services firm AMP delivered a major new version of the corporate intranet, ‘The Hub’. It enables employees to define the news and information they see on a day-to-day basis, and features a powerful, enterprise-wide, faceted search tool, all [...]
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Lost In Translation event a success
Our breakfast event on the 16th of November Lost In Translation was a great success. Despite the miserable weather there were a healthy number of people that braved the early hours to hear our expert panelists talk about “Marrying business systems with the way your users think”. Speakers included Mark Stanton – technical director at Gruden, [...]
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Gruden partner with Brightcove for its Australian launch
As reported recently in Adnews and Mumbrella; Brightcove are launching in Australia. Brightcove is an innovative global online video platform that is trusted by some of the worlds biggest media and business organisations including Fox, American Express, Virgin, Reebok, The New York Times and many more. Brightcove’s online video platform is the most widely adopted [...]
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Gruden Free Breakfast Event – “Lost In Translation” RSVP – NOW !!
Gruden would like to invite you to a free breakfast with business in mind! When: 16/11/10 Time: 7.45am – 9.15am Where: City Hotel – Kent St, Sydney RSVP: By 12/11/10 All too often when implementing online strategies, customer experience and business needs get “Lost In Translation” Over the last 10 years organisations have invested [...]
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The Race that stopped the office!
The annual Melbourne Cup office party was a great success. Organised by our enduring social committee of Frances, Ymania, Elly, Eva and Natasha the girls put on a delicious spread and a few afternoon drinks. The afternoon was also a great opportunity for an official introduction of Objective Digital who have recently moved into our [...]
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Gruden – ‘Dream Team’ For SkillsDMC Solution
At Gruden the greatest form of flattery is return business; and whilst we always aim to impress, the SkillsDMC site refresh was a definite standout. SkillsDMC is a not-for-profit skills council for the Resource, Infrastructure and Construction industry. It provides tools, research and competency based training for individuals, work sites, companies and industry as a [...]
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An interesting look at SMB use of social media !
With on going debate regarding the use of social media, this interesting post outlines the effectiveness of social media amongst small to medium businesses in Australia. Conducted by Optus for their Social Media Index, it states that of the 1/3 of SMBs that actually use social media sites 47% of those have sold products or [...]
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A little goes a long way – An Amway solution that impressed
Here at Gruden it’s not all about making the biggest and best sites and applications from the ground up. It’s the little things we can do to existing systems that can make all the difference… Amway approached us to create an offline order capturing system in anticipation of a 4 day Oracle outage. As Amway [...]