What a crazy day at Applied Trust! Traditionally, we've stuck to technical or at least IT topics on this blog, but today I'm making an exception to share some good news. First, last night at the annual CSIA Apex awards dinner, Applied Trust won the Apex Distinguished Services award. For those of you that aren't familiar with the Apex awards, they are truly the "academy awards for Colorado technology." The Distinguished Services award recognizes the company whose professional services enable its customers to conduct their businesses more effectively and efficiently, and that has demonstrated not only innovative solutions but also tangible benefits. This award is an incredible honor for us, and a fantastic surprise.
Trent's acceptance speech at the 2009 CSIA Apex awards
The awards ceremony is formatted like the academy awards, complete with 2 presenters for each award category who tell a bit about the nominees and then open an envelope to announce the winner. Then, the winner comes up to accept the award, and yes, you guessed it, gives an acceptance speech. Thanks to Larry and Pat at w3w3, that moment got recorded on camera. I said this in my not-to-articulate speech, but I do want to thank all of Applied Trust's incredibly dedicated staff, our fantastic clients, and my infinitely patient and wise co-founder, Ned McClain. Secondly, after over 5 months of hard work, we launched our new web site at www.appliedtrust.com. This is not simply a cosmetic design update -- we've completely overhauled how we describe Applied Trust and communicate about the IT Infrastructure space. Most of you know our biggest challenge (and really, it's a challenge for all IT Infrastructure folks) is explaining what we do. Hopefully, this new site does a better job of that. And, for our geek readers, we've finally made the move to Joomla 1.5 as our CMS (yay!). Thanks to the folks over at Insight Designs and QuickLeft for their help with this project. Check it out!
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Congrats on the award! I'm also toying around with Joomla a bit. Our IT department here at UAB is thinking of moving to Joomla, and I'm in charge of the Web content for our group. I also work in CMS Made Simple, and Sharepoint for internal stuff. In the past when I worked for Southern Progress and Health Magazine, we used Vignette Story Server. Don't remember much about it.
I do like Joomla, though it was a bit tougher to figure out how to create menus and place those menus on certain pages than with other CMSs I've worked with.
I like the new look of your site. It's clean and easy to get around.