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Steri Stumpie drops by at EvaluNet – rock on!

It’s time for all you Steri Stumpie fans out there to get really jealous. The South African legend dropped by at our offices yesterday with a whole lot of Steriphernalia including exclusive tshirts, stickers, badges, Mr Steri Stumpie Head Kits, passports to the Flavournation and of course … STERI STUMPIES! For those of you who didn’t know, we are huge Steri Stumpie fans.

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Watch our Steri Drop

In the spirit of the 2010 World Cup kick off and in honour of Steri Stumpie (a South African legend since the 70′s) we made a video of our Steri Drop that we did last week Friday. Check it out!

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Football Friday at EvaluNet

To tie in with the opening ceremony and opening match of the 2010 World Cup Soccer last Friday, we hosted our own little local tournament consisting of a foosball match, a World Cup Soccer trivia challenge and a “Catch the Steri” competition. There was a great vibe amongst all the companies in our office block [...]

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‘Blow your vuvuzela’ Wednesday – now THERE’S the vibe!

Losing all sensation in the top lip was completely worth the fun we just had joining in with the rest of South Africa and playing our unofficial national instrument – the vuvuzela! From our top balcony facing Giel Basson Drive we joined forces with staff from MWeb and GM Motors, waving flags and blowing on [...]

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Building a simple web site VS. parallel parking

Did you know that building a clean, simple web site is more difficult than parallel parking? Yes, it’s true! At EvaluNet, we firmly believe that simplicity is the way to go. Teachers, schools and even children are fed up with complication and clutter. Too much choice can sometimes be a bad thing. We witnessed this first hand with some of our early products like e-SCHOOL. It was a great software product, but it could do too much so many people ended up not using it because they didn’t know where to begin. We finally cracked the code with our software products – Biblion, GetAhead and XT – and made them simple and easy to use. The real challenge was designing marketing material, and more specifically web sites, that reflected this simplicity.

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We’re hiring!

XT Facilitator – Nationwide Closing date for applications: 10 February 2010 Employment type: part-time/casual We’re looking for teachers who are VERY enthusiastic about XT and VERY enthusiastic about seeing the XT community of users grow bigger and bigger. As an XT Facilitator, you’ll present XT Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced workshops to other XT users in [...]

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My 1st week of 2010

This is the end of my first working week of 2010. I am really excited about the prospect of attending at least one of the 2010 World Cup matches at the new Cape Town stadium. I’ve applied for 6 matches; hopefully I only get tickets for 2 or 3 of them. But back to work [...]

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Can ICT make a difference?

ICT is utilized in many different ways at schools in South Africa. There have been and are various initiatives and projects that have and do supply schools with infrastructure, tools and services. Some of these have focussed only on administration, others on the improvement of computer literacy and others on the delivery and support of [...]

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Schools in the dark

What strategy do schools have or need to cope with the frequent power outages occuring across the nation? We have been told the situation is going to worsen over the coming few years. For those who have only recently been connected to electrical power it’s hardly something new, but for the privileged that have always [...]

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New Web Site & New Office Launch

We’ve FINALLY done it! After months and months of thinking, planning, programming, designing, re-thinking, re-planning, re-programming and re-designing, we’ve eventually launched the first phase of the new EvaluNet web presence. And after years and years of working from our home-based office, we’ve finally moved into our brand new, high-tech and super spacious office in Cape [...]

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