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Auza.Net will showcase its Internet enabled services designed for SMEs on July 21-25, 2010 at the Island City Mall during the DTI sponsored Sandugo Trade Expo.  The company will highlight its Website Management service which is a cost effective way of publishing a website with the assurance that technical support is available for updating the contents and software running the site.

The company will also provide demos of its various services like Online Advertising, Internet Access Service for remote areas, customized WiFi Zone login system.  A special demonstration for a web based financial system will also be available for testing.

Products such as Uninterruptible Power Supplies and spare batteries, outdoor WiFi Access points and AVG anti-virus software will be available for order with discount.

Availability of Internet access has increased tremendously in the past few years that more and more homes and individuals are connecting to the Internet at affordable costs.  This has increased the use of the Internet by consumers who are looking for products and services.

Bohol SMEs have started to adopt online marketing to take advantage of the Internet in their marketing efforts.  Resorts and restaurants, traders of handicraft, real-estate agents and business organizations like the Bohol Chamber of Commerce have started to tap this relatively new media to help get more customers.

A company website is one of the primary tools that can be used for online marketing.  The reach of a company’s website is virtually unlimited and it levels the playing field, giving the small firms and new entrants the same potential market reach as the large and established competitors.

Due to the large number of websites already published, it becomes important that the company’s website get as much exposure as possible and this is accomplished by publishing a page in various online business directories, classified ads websites and to advertise on other websites that publish news and information.  For Bohol, websites like www.BoholBiz.com, www.BoholClassifiedAds.com, www.BoholNewsDaily.com and www.DYRDAM.com are ideal for reaching out to Boholanos who are regularly looking up for news and information about Bohol.

For more information about online marketing, please visit the Auza.Net booth during the Sandugo Product Expo at the Island City Mall on July 21 – 25, 2010.

Voting for the entries of the Summer 2010 Website Design contest has started on July 3 and is conducted on Auza.Net’s Facebook page for the contest.  The entry with the highest number of votes will get a 20% for the Popularity criteria.  To vote, please go to http://links.auza.net/ayfH8s.

Entries will be judged as follows:
1. Compliance to requirements: 40%
2. Relevance to sponsor’s line of business: 10%
3. Aesthetics and user friendliness: 30%
4. Popularity: 20%

The winning entry will be announced On July 21, 2010 at the Auza.Net booth during the Sandugo Product Showcase 2010 sponsored by the Department of Trade and Industry at the Island City Mall.  The developer of the winning entry will receive Php5,000 cash prize while the company or organization who sponsored the entry will receive a free one year Website Management Service subscription from Auza.Net.

Auza.net hosted websites www.dyrdam.com and www.boholnewsdaily.com recorded user traffic several times than normal daily traffic due to the interest of many Boholanos around the world on the first automated elections on May 10, 2010

DYRD-AM Worldwide Broadcast peaked 7200 page views on May 10 2000 users online and 5000 thousand clicks on the play button of the live and recorded broadcasts.  This is at least 5 times normal daily traffic.

Bohol News Daily peaked at almost 5000 page views in a 24 hour period between May 10 to 11 when it started to publish the unofficial tally of the COMELEC results based on the official website that published the precinct counts.  This number of page views is 20 times higher than normal.

Most users did not notice slowdown of the sites.

This unprecended capability of Auza.Net hosted websites to survive usage spikes is proof of the company’s robust server infrastructure hosted at a US facility.  When the Boholanos needed to get information about the elections, the websites did their job.

Auza.Net completed its selection of students who will undergo its Summer 2010 OJT Program on March 31, 2010. More than 30 applicants were screened and interviewed from Bohol Island State University, Holy Name University and University of Bohol.

16 promising students qualified for the program and will start their OJT program on April 5, 2010. The company’s summer OJT program has been a successful project allowing its trainees to be highly qualified job applicants to various IT companies upon graduation.

The students who qualified, in alphabetical order, are:

The trainees should report to Auza.Net Internet Media Center at the K of C Recreation Center on April 5, 2010 at 10AM for the orientation.

Auza.Net is now accepting applicants for its Summer 2010 OJT Program. The company’s OJT program has been very successful with most of the OJTs landing jobs right after graduation. The program exposes the students to various technologies ranging from physical computer networks to plugin development for websites. This year’s program will focus on template development for Wordpress. This will give the OJTs exposure on various web technologies, especially on Wordpress which is already very popular among bloggers. Some OJTs may also work with the company’s network administrators on special projects.

To qualify, the students must be incoming senior students (incoming 4th year if taking a four year course or incoming 5th year if taking a five year course) and with good moral character. Interested students may submit their application letter, resume and transcript of records to:

The OJT Program Director
Auza.Net Internet Media Center
K of C Recreation Center

Please indicate in your application letter and resume the reasons why you should be considered for the program.

Auza.Net has released another free online service called PRCPassers.com, a fast search engine for names of board examinees who passed the PRC exams. It is still in its beta stage which means there are still improvements being done but the site is already usable by the general public. The service is unique compared to all other websites that publish lists of board exam passers because it is a real search engine where you simply type in the last, first or middle name or any combination of these and the results are shown immediately. The user is no longer required to click several links before finding the list of names which can take quite some time.

PRCPassers.com keeps an index of the board exam passers allowing for a very fast search, while providing the user a link to the official results on the PRC website so the results can be verified. In contrast, the other websites that publish the board exam results simply copy the data and republish them.

The search engine is a customized Wordpress plugin that includes a very fast search algorithm developed specifically for this type of index. It also performs the indexing everytime a new list of board exam passers are published by the PRC. Even though the plugin performs complicated functions, the development period was relatively short, a total of 5 working days only. This is because the developer only had to develop the functions that are specific to the search engine. All other functions like authentication and database abstraction are already handled by Wordpress (http://www.wordpress.org), a very popular content management system.

Auza.Net completed its upstream network upgrade on February 19, 2010 when its 32MB capacity fiber optic link to the Internet was activated.  Now with generous capacity available, Auza.Net will be able to provide to more clients its dedicated Internet access service.  Coupled with its carrier grade wireless mesh network, the company can deploy Internet service in a large area covering Tagbilaran, Panglao, Dauis, Baclayon and parts of Albur.

In the next few months, the company will proceed with implementation of additional network optimizations to improve service among its existing clients.  These will allow Auza.Net to serve additional shared bandwidth clients while improving overall network performance.

Dedicated Internet service is required for real time applications like VOIP and video that requires high quality reception that is suited for call centers and other business applications.  It is also ideal for large user environments with multiple users like universities and government offices.  Applications that need to run in a virtual private network or VPN is also supported by Auza.Net because it can provide static public IP addresses that these applications need.

Shared service allows low cost Internet access by spreading the cost of the service across multiple clients who will share the bandwidth available.  However, during peak hours, this service may be congested and would significantly degrade VOIP and video applications.  For ordinary Internet access use though, shared service is sufficient and is affordable.  Applications that cannot tolerate congestion would require the dedicated service.

Contact Auza.Net at 501-7931 or 501-8459 or email us at info@auza.net to get more information about its Internet access service.

Auza.Net is Now Accepting Applications for OJT for this Summer 2009. The projects for the Summer OJT Program will include topics like VOIP enabled systems, Linux Virtualization, VPN implementations, Collaborative Website Implementation and advanced media streaming.

OJT Program will start on April 1, 2009 and will end in June 6, 2009.

Interested applicants should submit their resume and application letter stating the topic of interest. Engineering and related courses are preferred for the technical projects while Fine Arts, Marketing and Mass Communications students will also be accepted for the Collaborative Website Implementation and other marketing programs of Auza.Net.

Submit your applications now at the Auza.net Internet Media Center, Rm 1 K of C Bldg, K of C Drive!  Interviews will start middle of March.

Auza.Net is offering a one time promo package for SMEs and professionals who need to implement their Internet marketing and communications quickly.  Available only to the first 50 subscribers, this is an opportunity that should not be missed.  Everything you need to jumpstart your online presence:  website, email, training on collaborative tools, online ads and best of all, local support and maintenance that you can count on for many years to come.  All these for just Php 7,999 annually!  Sign-up now.  Call 501-7931 or email us at info@auza.net for an appointment.  More details about the package here.