On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 12:19, Paul Taylor wrote:
Hi all:
I hope everyone is enjoying the conference in Coventry. I am unfortunately too ill to get there so hope that there will be a full report forthcoming. I am running a web hosting and design company at school as a way to get decent experience (and Linux brain-washing) to my 6th form. It is all going quite well and we now have several clients. I am using Mambo as it is easy to use and makes for good screen shots in the portfolios. However, one of my customers has complained that their site does not appear on any search engines. I have tried several options relating to the meta tags (which I have been told are somewhat deprecated), but still no sign of the sites. My main site comes up pretty high on Google so it is a bit of an oddity. Any suggestions?
Not sure of the answer to this, but I think the meeting at Sun went very
well. BECTA do seem to have a changing attitude - probably no choice now
that FLOSS is gaining momentum at a rate worldwide but we are making
progress. We have I believe established SchoolforgeUK as the collective
voice for education with BECTA which effectively means with the DfES so
at last we have an official line of communication.
Key things were the need to educate the strategists, DfES etc
Marketing strategy based on positives - Social inclusion, involving kids
in the community and learning from the experience, stability and
security, flexibility, equal opps, etc as well as the cost savings.
More soon via the SchoolforgeUK website.
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Ian Lynch