Articles on Companies and Facebook
Filed under: BlodgetTech, Companies, Company Announcements, Company News, Corporations, Facebook, Non-profits, Small Business, Social Media, Social Networking
Here are some great articles on Companies and Facebook:
Introduction to facebook for companies
Companies use Facebook to target customers
Should companies embrace facebook
I’ll be adding more and more over time, but this shows you proof positive that you need to get on Facebook too, and we’re the company to help you do it. We’ll get you on, and manage it for you so you don’t have to lift a finger. Contact us, and we’ll get you started.
Let Us Help You Bundle Your Services.
Filed under: Bundled Services, Hosting Companies, Marketing Companies, Web Hosting Providers
Are you a marketing company in need of an IT shop? Do you do web hosting, and would like to offer more services to your clients? Then BlodgetTech is for you. We can work with your company, get any development work done, and even speak to your customers (we’ll represent your company when we call or they call us). We offer a full line of services that you can choose from, so please do not hesitate to contact us. We keep our prices reasonable, so you can offer a markup. If this is of interest to your company, please drop us a line and we’ll help you get started.
Media Reports About Our Recent Server Outage…
Filed under: Alabanza, BlodgetTech, Computer World, Domain Names, Media, Navisite, New Media, Non-profits, The Baltimore Sun, The Register, Web Host Industry News, WebProNews, dslreports
GoDaddy to ‘rescue’ RegisterFly refugees
I have been thoroughly impressed with GoDaddy’s corporate relations. A few years back we had a server with them, and an issue arose with it. After some lower level customer service reps couldn’t fix the problem, I contacted the President of the company Bob Parsons. They quickly resolved the issue and we were back in business.
More recent, I contacted their community affairs division and asked for a donation to a Great Strides Walk for Cystic Fibrosis that I was participating in. A month after sending the email, I received a message stating that the company would give $1000 to my efforts. That really was telling to me, of the kind of company they are. That they are community minded, and care about their customers.
This is another example of a reason that I’m glad we do business with them.
From The Washington Post:
NEW YORK — GoDaddy.com, the leading registration company for Internet addresses, has agreed to take over and manage more than 850,000 domain names belonging to customers of a troubled rival, officials announced Tuesday.
The deal, reached with the support of the Internet’s key oversight agency, means that customers of that rival, RegisterFly, could once again renew names, or transfer them elsewhere if they do not want to stay with GoDaddy.
Those names had been in limbo following financial and operational troubles at RegisterFly. In some cases individuals, groups and businesses were finding their Web sites inoperable because they could not properly renew their addresses before they had expired, nor could they move them to another company, officials said.
“For the past few months, they were pretty much in the dark and there was a lot of frustration there,” GoDaddy Chief Executive Bob Parsons said in an interview. “All that is a thing of the past.”
Parsons refused to disclose terms of the transfer deal, saying they are confidential. But he said GoDaddy isn’t buying RegisterFly, so any lawsuits and other previous disputes remain with RegisterFly.
The deal calls for RegisterFly to give GoDaddy its customer databases. Transfers of names will be automatic, and GoDaddy will notify existing RegisterFly customers about the switch and set up a Web page and telephone hotline. GoDaddy expects to start running those names within a week.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization in charge of the Internet’s addressing policies, said the deal was good for RegisterFly customers.
“GoDaddy is a well-known, large customer-service-driven organization, and so that should diminish the sorts of problems people have experienced,” said Paul Levins, ICANN’s vice president for corporate affairs.
The deal also marks a win for GoDaddy, which can make money when those names are up for renewal.
“If it wasn’t for that, our interest in doing the deal would be diminished quite a bit,” Parsons said. “It is going to take a certain degree of efforts on our part. We’re going to have to answer any questions customers have and resolve any issues.”
ICANN already had moved to yank RegisterFly’s accreditation and sued the company for its databases. Levins said ICANN would proceed with the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, saying the company still wasn’t prominently notifying customers of the decertification decision.
GoDaddy Group Inc. manages more than 20 million domain names under “.com,” “.net” “.org,” “.biz,” “.info” and other suffixes. Like RegisterFly, GoDaddy functions as a registrar, meaning it registers names on its customers’ behalf and submits them to a central database for each suffix, known as a registry.
BlodgetTech and the non-profit sector
Since it’s inception BlodgetTech has been a community minded company. At it’s start it donated a percentage of it’s profits to a local wish granting organization in the city where it was conceived. As the company has grown it has taken on non-profit companies, and charitable groups.
One such example is Jerusalem Dental Center for Children.
From their About page:
Dr. Isaac Perle, a dentist in private practice in Boston, recognized the need for low-cost, high-quality dental care in Israel. With the support of the South African Israel United Appeal (I.U.A), the Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity, the Slome family and former Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, he founded The Jerusalem Dental Center for Children (JERUSALEM DENTAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN) in 1985.
From their Home page:
The Problem
Each year, thousands of low-income children throughout Israel are rushed to dentist offices and hospital emergency rooms suffering from severe tooth pain. Often, that pain is a result of extensive decay – and neglect.
In many cases, these children experience more than just pain. Many have difficulty chewing and speaking, and suffer from poor overall health. They also struggle in school, with studies showing that millions of productive school hours are lost each year to dental-related illness.
The reason is simple: Many large and limited-income families in Israel cannot afford dental care. Often, their children only see a dentist after they develop a severe problem – one that, in most cases, could have been avoided.
The Solution
A nonprofit clinic, the JERUSALEM DENTAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN provides high quality dental and preventive care at subsidized fees to families throughout Jerusalem and all over Israel. Our goal is to give children from poor families the dental care they deserve.
Since our establishment, we have had more than 200,000 patient visits. Today, our 30-member staff treats more than 12,000 children and adults a year, at discounts of up to 80 percent off standard private practice fees. In cases where families can’t afford even these minimal fees, we set up special payment programs and, sometimes, waive fees altogether.
We are currently seeking other non-profits or charitable groups to offer our services to. If you believe that we could assist you in your web-technology needs, please feel free to Contact Us.
