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Online staff leave planner WhosOff.com shortlisted for the “Smarta 100, together with O2” Awards
Posted by Internet Business Press in Uncategorized, WhosOff.com on October 12, 2012
Canterbury, October 12th, 2012. Online staff leave planner WhosOff.com is through to the finals of the “2012 Smarta 100, together with O2” Awards, described by Smarta and 02 as “the ultimate index of the UK’s savviest, supremely disruptive, most resourceful and socially-beneficial small businesses.”
WhosOff.com, used by 800 companies around the world, 600 of them in the UK, will learn next month if it has gained the £10,000 prize as overall winner, or if it has won one of six special awards for innovation, technology, resources, marketing, people and social impact.
All winners will be announced at The Smarta 100 Awards final on Thursday, November 8th at London’s Proud2, The O2, Greenwich. Voting is already under way by judges Theo Paphitis (Ryman and Dragons’ Den), Sháá Wasmund (Smarta), Ben Dowd (O2 UK), Rowan Gormley (Naked Wines), Mike Soutar (ShortList Media), Thea Green (Nails Inc) and Alastair Lukies (Monitise). The £10,000 prize is courtesy of 02.
It is the second time in two months that WhosOff.com – used in 42 countries around the world, by start-ups, SMEs and blue chip corporations – has featured in a UK-wide award. In August, WhosOff.com was shortlisted for the Small Online Business of Year Award at this year’s National Business Awards in partnership with Orange, the winners of which will be announced on November 13th.
Philip Cross, co-founder of WhosOff.com, said, “Our staff are delighted once again to see their hard work recognised and get through to an award final. They have helped us take WhosOff.com from an idea to a global enterprise that generates income from each of the tens of thousands of users on it. This a great day for the company and British innovation.”
In total, 2012’s Smarta 100 are generating revenues of over £200 million a year and employing more than 1,104 people. Sixty six per cent of the 100 – WhosOff.com among them – are self-funded.
More at http://www.smarta.com/smarta100
About WhosOff.com
Founded in Canterbury, Kent, in 2006, WhosOff.com offers a free, two month trial period of its full service, to enable users to fully evaluate it. The app is currently used by more than 800 companies globally – 600 in the UK alone. Users include small businesses of four staff up to blue chip global companies with thousands of staff. WhosOff is a registered trademark in the UK and US. Web: http://www.WhosOff.com Email: phil@whosoff.com
About Smarta
Smarta is the UK’s leading online resource for start-ups, small business owners and entrepreneurs. Smarta also operates Smarta Business Builder, a cloud-based toolkit offering accounts, website, email, legal docs and business planning software from a single web page from £20 a month. Smarta was founded by Shaa Wasmund and is backed by some of the UK’s top entrepreneurs, including Deborah Meaden, Theo Paphitis, Michael Birch and Sir Richard Needham. At the heart of everything Smarta does is a commitment to encourage more people to start and grow successful businesses.
Smarta is supported by RBS, Intuit, NatWest, Viking and Mishcon de Reya.
About O2
O2 is the commercial brand of Telefónica UK Limited and is a leading communications company with over 23 million customers – read more about O2 at http://www.o2.co.uk/news
O2 runs 2G and 3G networks and was the first to trial 4G/LTE, reaching speeds of over 100Mpbs, as well as owning half of Tesco Mobile. It also operates O2 Wifi, O2 Health, O2 Unify, O2 Media and has recently launched the O2 Wallet. O2 employs over 11,000 people in the UK, has 450 retail stores and sponsors The O2, O2 Academy venues and the England rugby team.
Telefónica UK Limited is part of Telefónica Europe plc which uses O2 as its commercial brand in the UK, Ireland, Slovakia, Germany and the Czech Republic and is a business division of Telefónica SA.
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Note to the media:
For more information please contact:
WhosOff.com
Philip Cross, WhosOff.com, phil@whosoff.com +44 (0) 1227 764806
or see http://www.whosoff.com
Or Paul Whitehead, Western Associates PR
paul@western-pr.com (+44 (0)1403 711177
Smarta
Smarta press office contact:
Nick Giles (Seven Hills) nick.giles@sevenhillsgroup.co.uk
020 7199 2200
Or Henrietta Walsh (Seven Hills) henrietta.walsh@sevenhillsgroup.co.uk
020 7199 2200
02
O2 press office contact:
017535 656 56 pressoffice@o2.com
Dinamiks Ltd appoints Dawn Russell Consulting Ltd as a channel partner for its online employee performance management tool
Posted by Internet Business Press in Dinamiks, Uncategorized on August 15, 2012
August 15th 2012, Chichester. Dinamiks Ltd, the developer of Dinamiks, the online employee performance management tool, has appointed Dawn Russell Consulting Ltd – dawnrussell.org.uk – as a channel partner with a specialism in the SME and housing association sectors.
The appointment allows West Malling [Kent]-based Dawn Russell Consulting to provide Dinamiks as a new service offering.
Proven in the UK and across continents, Dinamiks is a UK-developed cloud application designed for use in employee performance management, talent management, identifying why some staff are star performers, compliance, the support of personal development plans – and ensuring all staff pull in the same direction to the benefit of the employer organisation.
Dawn Russell’s company joined the channel partner programme “first, because Dinamiks provides the tools businesses need to manage the performance process within their organisations, and secondly, because it aligns objectives to business goals, which focuses everyone on the main drivers for business success and growth, she said.”
Improving staff efficiency should be paramount at all times, but is especially so now, she said, adding, “I’m a passionate advocate of information and performance efficiency across a business. It’s particularly relevant in 2012 – and looking ahead to 2013 – when businesses need to make sure their staff perform the right tasks to ensure that all aspects of the business pull together.”
Dawn Russell
Shirley Barnes, Client Relationship Director, Dinamiks Ltd, welcomed Dawn Russell Consulting as a channel partner. “We are pleased to have Dawn’s company on board to let SMEs and housing associations know that Dinamiks can help them maintain or improve high levels of service while reducing costs or preventing them from rising,” she said.
About Dawn Russell Consulting
Founded in 2010 by Dawn Russell after working in blue chip management consultancies in London, social housing and financial organisations, Dawn Russell Consulting helps SMEs implement business and process changes, including analysing and assessing current ways of working, advising on service improvements and system and solution implementations; developing training materials and delivering training to staff; developing policies, procedures and operating manuals to support implementations and new ways of working – ensuring the full information management lifecycle is supported.
More via dawn@dawnrussell.org.uk
Dinamiks at a glance
Available 24/7 via secure web access; reduces costs and inefficiencies; develops and motivates staff; aligns employees’ objectives with the business goals; helps deliver up-to-the-minute appraisals and saves a huge amount of time in the appraisals process; helps in the setting up of competency frameworks; shows where training or coaching and/or other development is required; helps with compliance [including Bribery Act 2010 issues] and employment law; helps with ePDPs; identifies the stars and poor performers; aligns business goals and objectives to the annual Personal Development Review [PDR].
Dinamiks also provides for a personal development plan for recording progress against planned development targets. More at: http://www.dinamiks.com
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Note to the press. For further information please contact:
Dawn Russell, Dawn Russell Consulting,
Tel (+44) (0)1732 848374 | 07800 945116
dawn@dawnrussell.org.uk
Shirley Barnes, Client Relationship Director, Dinamiks Ltd
Tel (+44) (0)1243 538835 shirley.barnes@ikdevelopments.com
Or Paul Whitehead, Western Associates PR
(+44) (0)1403 711177 paul@western-pr.com
FORMAX places order for Dinamiks, the online employee performance management tool
Posted by Internet Business Press in Dinamiks, Uncategorized on June 28, 2012
June 28th 2012. After a three month evaluation of Dinamiks, FORMAX – a global manufacturer of reinforced composite materials used in the automotive, wind energy and marine sectors – has purchased a licence to use the online employee performance and talent management tool.
Developed by Dinamiks Ltd of Chichester, Dinamiks will be used by FORMAX to “standardise the company’s appraisal process across departments and achieve greater efficiency for all staff – management included, ” says Oliver Wessely, Managing Director. “These were the core business drivers behind our decision to use an online tool like Dinamiks.”
The three month trial came after the Leicester-based company researched a range of employee performance solutions.
Dinamiks was chosen “because it appealed as a user friendly, online and good value option and impressed us with the customer support provided during our trial period – which has continued to be similarly responsive now that our subscription has gone live,” Wessely said, adding:
“It can be run by managers almost totally on their own, which has the benefit of minimising the need for Human Resources staff to be involved in the appraisal process.”
Another benefit “is that the objectives set for senior managers have doubled as an agenda for monthly senior management meetings. That has helped with focus and ensuring objectives are attended to and met.”
Shirley Barnes, Client Relationship Director, Dinamiks Ltd, said FORMAX joins other leaders in their fields as users of Dinamiks, including firms in computer security, oil and gas, commercial property interior design, pharmaceutical manufacturing and marketing, and banking.
FORMAX is a leading global manufacturer of composite reinforcements, specialising in the production of lightweight carbon fibre multiaxials and highly engineered glass fibre and aramid fibres.
Dinamiks at a glance
Dinamiks is proven across continents, available 24/7 via secure web access, reduces costs and inefficiencies, develops and motivates staff, aligns employees with business goals, helps deliver up to the minute appraisals, improves HR processes, shows where training or coaching is required – and helps with compliance and employment law across sectors.
More about Dinamiks at http://www.dinamiks.com
More about FORMAX at http://www.formax.co.uk
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Note to the press. For further information please contact:
Or Shirley Barnes, Client Relationship Director, Dinamiks Ltd
Tel (+44) (0)1243 538835 shirley@dinamiks.com
Or Rob Wilder, Sales and Marketing Director, FORMAX (+44) (0) 1162 752 200 rob.wilder@formax.co.uk
Or Paul Whitehead, Western Associates PR, (+44) (0)1403 711177
paul@western-pr.com
Content provider Immediate Network Ltd signs up for Dinamiks, the online employee performance management tool
Posted by Internet Business Press in Dinamiks, Imediate Network, Uncategorized on March 27, 2012
March 27th, 2012 – Dinamiks Ltd, Chichester. Media content creator and provider Immediate Network Ltd has bought an annual licence to use Dinamiks, the online employee performance management tool from Dinamiks Ltd.
Guildford-based Immediate Network will use Dinamiks to set objectives for employees and monitor their performance against these, says managing director John Blauth, adding, “This will be good for the business because it will bring us greater efficiency and deliver extra clarity as to how we set priorities and manage projects to completion.”
Blauth was motivated to bring Dinamiks to Immediate Network “because small business MDs are often less than excellent at being strategic people managers – and I’m no exception.
“Immediate Network is first-class at delivering content and communications for our clients, but we could not claim that our staff management is as good as it should be,” he says. ” That will change and a structured employee performance and objectives tool like Dinamiks will help.”
Blauth chose the tool “after online research indicated it would do what we want and do it cost-effectively” – and plans to take a hands on approach, with his operations director, to its rollout. “The principle underlying Dinamiks is brilliant,” he says.
About Immediate Network
Founded by journalist Blauth in 2000 as a contract publisher, Immediate Network provides written content to the aerospace, automotive, engineering, scientific and media sectors. Services include content for e-newsletters, customer magazines, brochures, press releases, websites, social media and exhibition material. The company also provides clients with press and sector digests. More at http://www.inluk.com
Dinamiks at a glance
Available 24/7 via secure web access; reduces costs and inefficiencies; develops and motivates staff; aligns employees’ objectives with the business goals; helps deliver up-to-the-minute appraisals and saves a huge amount of time in the appraisals process; helps in the setting up of competency frameworks; shows where training or coaching and/or other development is required; helps with compliance [including Bribery Act 2010 issues] and employment law; identifies the stars and poor performers.
Dinamiks also provides for a personal development plan for recording progress against planned development targets. More at: http://www.ikdevelopments.com
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Note to the press. For further information please contact:
Shirley Barnes, Client Relationship Director, Dinamiks Ltd
Tel (+44) (0)1243 538835 shirley.barnes@ikdevelopments.com
Or Paul Whitehead, Western Associates PR
(+44) (0)1403 711177 paul@western-pr.com
The World Birthday Connection – launching worldwide February 29th, 2012, at www.wobycafe.com
Posted by Internet Business Press in Uncategorized, WobyCafe on February 27, 2012
February 27th, 2012. Chertsey, Surrey, UK. A new social networking website – WobyCafe [www.wobycafe.com] – is launched by The World Birthday Connection on February 29th 2012 and aims to connect those who share the same birthday wherever they are in the world.
The launch kicks off with a “leaperthon”* party in London on February 29th for those born on that leap year date. Membership of WobyCafe is free and the website can be viewed by members and non members alike, although members have privileges.
WobyCafe says the leaperthon will set a world record for the number of people born on a leap year attending a party. “Up to 50 have been invited and so far there is no world record for such an event – so we will set a record,” says WobyCafe spokesman Ian Lynch.
Originally the brainchild of a British musician, trombonist Allan Tidbury, WobyCafe points out that 19 million people globally share the same birthday every day, including 37,000 in London and 87,000 in Tokyo alone.
“Whether you are rich or poor, western or eastern, north or south, WobyCafe gives you the chance to say Happy Birthday to the world, to join in with other revellers and get curious about people from all walks of life,” says Tidbury. “You don’t have to be alone on your birthday or feel you can’t share it some more. http://www.wobycafe.com gives you the chance to connect with lots of people – from all walks of life around the globe – and celebrate.”
WobyCafe.com – the new place to social network and meet people who were born on the same day, starting this leap year — 29-02-12
More about http://www.wobycafe.com
Woby is short for World Birthday and WobyCafe stands for one World, one People, one Day, every Day. It is a website for connecting, sharing, watching, learning and having fun when celebrating your birthday.
“We live in a world of difference; different cultures, different countries, different languages, different genders and different viewpoints,” says Tidbury. “And yet, despite all our differences, we all have the common bond of our sharing a birth on this amazing planet.
“It’s a people’s project, where our intention is for people to be an active part of something that, in its own small way, can hopefully make a difference for a better world, break down barriers and allow all of us to have fun celebrating 365/366 days a year.”
History of the WobyCafe project
In 1977, Allan Tidbury and his brother Nick were clearing up after a Friday night in their parents’ pub in New Haw, England, following a birthday party celebration. Allan told his brother, “Imagine what the atmosphere would have been like if there had been lots of people all born on the same day celebrating their birthday together tonight.” Nick said “what a great idea”, and the brothers imagined how that might work. Like a lot of great ideas conceived on the fly, the idea soon slipped
into their subconscious, half forgotten.
Fourteen years later, the two brothers, who by now were both professional musicians, were touring in Switzerland and across the rest of Europe. Taking a much-needed break from their busy schedule, Nick remembered Allan’s original idea and the two began to make notes on how they could gather people together for a party, all of who would have been born on the same day.
In between gigs, they explored possibilities for how they could make this happen. Back in England, they met Rosemary Dodd, daughter of the cartoonist Maurice (co-creator of the Perishers comic strip) – www.toonhound.com/perishers.htm – and together they worked on designs that would one day contribute to the WobyCafe project.
So, the idea began to take shape – but it really needed the internet to be able to happen on a broad scale. In January 2011 Allan discussed the idea with a friend, Ian Lynch, public speaker, toastmaster and member of The Happiness Project, which runs courses on “happiness”. Ian said, “Allan you have to do this – it’s an idea whose time has come.”
The two shook hands on it and over the next 12 months a global team began to take shape, and on February 29th 2012, The World Birthday Connection becomes a reality.
Allan says, “WobyCafe is a project for a happier, more connected world. It’s a party for life, for the life of all of us.”
Web: www.wobycafe.com
For more information contact leila.wyatt@wobycafe.com
*Says Allan Tidbury, “The leaperthon aims to connect as many ‘Leapers’ – those born on the 29th – as we can from around the world, to create a wave that spreads from Kiribati, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, and New Zealand, to American Samoa, for a full two days of celebration. Taking into account the international date line, everyone’s birthday is actually celebrated over two days due to the date line – e.g. Fly from New Zealand to the Cook Islands and you can live your birthday again.”
Allan is an international trombonist who has performed extensively around the world at various levels, from pubs to international festivals, including Montreux Jazz Festival. He still plays in various bands, including the SkaSouls. http://www.theskasouls.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IylC6zLjhHg – and will perform at the leaperthon with The Fabulous Allstars.
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Note to the media: for more information please contact
Leila Wyatt, WobyCafe, on leila.wyatt@wobycafe.com or +44 (0)1932 560308
Or Paul Whitehead, Western Associates PR on paul@western-pr.com Or +44 (0)1403) 711177
It’s that time of the year, so – seven boxes to tick for employee performance appraisals, from Dinamiks Ltd
Posted by Internet Business Press in Dinamiks, Uncategorized on February 3, 2012
February 3rd 2012. Chichester, UK. The first quarter of any year is a common time to roll out, or start to plan, employee performance appraisals. If they are paper based, these appraisals will be a time-consuming and laborious task, says Dinamiks Ltd, which provides an on-line solution and is extending its free trial offer from the usual seven to 21 days, valid if booked by March 31st 2012.
“Employee performance appraisal and management can improve business performance by a typical 10-20 per cent,” says Shirley Barnes, Client Relationship Director, Dinamiks Ltd – developer of Dinamiks, the online employee performance management solution.
“In cases where over-manning or poor performance hasn’t been properly identified and analysed, the figure can be above 30 per cent.”
Barnes recommends employers tick some boxes in order to optimise appraisals – which, she adds, can easily be run on a continuous or regular basis when an online solution is used.
Boxes to tick include (i) Key competency or competencies – the things staff are good at e.g. time management and working well to deadlines (ii) Skillset per employee – from administrative and computer skills to leadership abilities (iii) Ability of staff to meet business goals and company objectives (iv) Ability of staff to work well in a team (v) Are training or coaching? (vi) Compliance. Does each employee conform to the company’s values and to any external standards? (vii) Are personal development plans required for recording progress against planned development targets?
“Two questions to ask are whether or not the company uses an offline computer-based or online system” says Barnes, “and, if not, does it want to take appraisals and employee performance management to a new level?”
Dinamiks is used by SMEs across the UK and three continents for their annual and more regular appraisals, and for employee performance management. It is also used by companies with a global reach for appraising and managing remote teams and individuals – allowing them to ensure that staff performance – including the ability to stick to targets and meet goals on time, is closely monitored. More at http://www.ikdevelopments.com
Dinamiks at a glance
Available 24/7 via secure web access; reduces costs and inefficiencies; develops and motivates staff; aligns employees’ objectives with the business goals; helps deliver up-to-the-minute appraisals and saves a huge amount of time in the appraisals process; helps in the setting up of competency frameworks; shows where training or coaching and/or other development is required; helps with compliance [including Bribery Act 2010 issues] and employment law; identifies the stars and poor performers.
Dinamiks also provides for a personal development plan for recording progress against planned development targets.
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Note to the press. For further information please contact:
Shirley Barnes, Client Relationship Director, Dinamiks Ltd
Tel (+44) (0)1243 538835 shirley.barnes@ikdevelopments.com
Or Paul Whitehead, Western Associates PR, (+44) (0)1403 711177
paul@western-pr.com
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