The application will be available on the pc, touch pc, tablet, mobile and television screen formats and will allow students, teachers, parents and other parties to access the portal from anywhere anytime.

The application is aslated for release in Q4 2011 and is currently in the prototyping and early development stages. If you would be interested in testing or in using the application for free, drop us a line and we’ll give you beta access as soon as the application is available

While the original website and iphone app where created by ConductHQ, Dawes International be taking over the project for version 2.0 adding Android, Blackberry and tablet versions to the mix and taking this baby to new levels and badly needed features the pollmate-ecoosystem needs.

More about Poll-mate…

Smartphone users will be part of a revolution of the research industry with this week’s launch of the application PollMate. The power of public opinion is no longer the domain of the big market research companies as PollMate allows anyone with a question to target people with answers quickly and cheaply.

PollMate is a free iPhone app whereby users can answer polls and earn credit points, which can then be donated to a PollMate charity partner – RSPCA or Starlight Children’s Foundation – or used to conduct polls. The functionality is unique in using Apple push notifications to deliver polls to a pre-defined and targeted number of respondents in 30-minute batches.

Australian Julian Dunham created PollMate as a way to make research democratic and philanthropic.

“As program director of a not-for-profit leadership group, I was becoming increasingly frustrated by the time it took to get people to respond to surveys online.

“I dreamt up PollMate last Easter as a way for anyone with a question to do the type of market research normally reserved for big corporations with big budgets.

“Imagine a huge network of iPhone users answering questions quickly and easily, no matter where they are. It’s a far more democratic process, giving people a chance to voice their opinions, have fun with their phone and give back to a worthy cause.”

Pollers can target by demographics such as age, gender, and location and can pre-determine the number of responses and length of time for the poll. Results can be received potentially within hours of conducting the poll. The question/s then appears on the users’ phone as a push notification to either answer or ignore. Users can choose to receive anywhere from 1 to 20 to limitless polls in a day.

It costs one credit point to conduct a poll per question, per person at a cost of 8 per question but as little as 5 for bulk purchases. Users earn one credit point for every question answered which they can then use to run their own poll or donate to charity at a value of 1 per credit.

One of the most compelling elements of PollMate is the ability for users to donate their points to charity.

Heather Neil, CEO RSPCA Australia said, “PollMate is an exciting way for RSPCA to generate interest in our work in this increasingly tech-savvy world. We are looking forward to discovering what the opinions of people are on a range of animal welfare matters.”

“Starlight is pleased to be part of this partnership,” said Louise Baxter, CEO Starlight Children’s Foundation. “It’s a creative new way for Starlight to find out what our supporters think and also to give people the opportunity to support seriously ill children.”

A dream that anyone with a question could get answers. A dream that anyone and everyone could do the type of market research normally reserved for big corporations with big budgets.

That dream is now a reality with PollMate.

Democratic

Anyone can use PollMate to get fast and affordable results.

Affordable

PollMate costs a fraction of traditional research fees. For instance, a targeted phone poll by a market research company asking 5 questions of 1000 people can end up costing more than $50,000. PollMate users can do this for less than $500.

Simple

PollMate employs a simple to use admin interface and intuitive poll creation process so that you can easily customise your polls and completing them is even easier.

Targeted

With PollMate you can target people right from the start so that your question only gets to those you want an answer from, whether they are at home or not. For instance, you could find out what single guys in their 30s who work in a trade, earn over $50,000 and vote Greens think about your question.

Fast

No need to wait a month, a week or even a day to get results. Most polls will be completed within hours. By the time your competitors are starting to process their research results, you’ll be launching your campaign.

Philanthropic

Best of all, PollMate invests back into charities, giving every user the chance to donate towards one of our charity partners, RSPCA or Starlight Children’s Foundation

With Android now outselling iPad and iPhone in both markets, we’ve decided to take a more universal approach to mobile and develop using PhoneGap and Sencha products (and a little flash) to get things working great.

We’ll only have to do a few tweaks to make DiiMES work, however some of the ip range manipulation functions will need to be upgraded to not only deal with the ranges, but also with the abbreviated hex-based addresses.

We’ll be automating everything from Co-location to ISP connectivity to the mighty vBlock (private/public cloud). Although vCloud director has an ok interface we wanted a unified control panel so we’re leveraging the apis across a number of products and building an in-house super portal. This means we can bypass the EMC/VMWare vaporware and just get busy under the hood!

DiiMES is building using the web’s most versitile and rapid application server ‘ColdFusion’ created by Allaire, now owned by Adobe. ColdFusion is a pretty awesome web application server and beside having a super-charged paid version and a couple of open source versions (Railo and Open BlueDragon) it’s sooo fast to develop awesome apps. And because you can cluster and create instances at the click of a button, it’s perfect for the cloud!

Some of the new features include:

New Link Shortener

WordPress 3.0 offers better micro-blogging (e.g. Twitter) integration with its new feature called Shortlink, which gives you the ability to generate branded short links (in a similar way as is.gd or bit.ly) for sharing your posts and pages in social media.

New Easy Navigation Menu Management

The exciting menu management feature is one of the most anticipated and demanded features of WordPress end-users.

This new feature will make it easy as pie for users to add new navigation menus in their WordPress-powered blogs and websites.

You will need no coding experience to modify your WordPress navigation: Just drag and drop menu items, and that’s it.

You can add outgoing links, categories and pages in one single menu just by using the navigation menu’s management feature. This is an insanely awesome and powerful feature to make WordPress site management all the more easier for WordPress users.

Support for Author Templates

Each Author in WordPress has an ID, just like categories and pages.

In WordPress 3.0, you will be able to design individual author templates. This feature can come handy on multi-author blogs like, for example, the site you’re on: Six Revisions.

Let’s use an example to illustrate how this new functionality works: I am an author (Saad Bassi) here at Six Revisions while Jacob Gube is the Chief Editor.

Let’s pretend Jacob created a custom author page for me, called author-saad.php.

With the new functionality, WordPress will first look for author-saad.php before author.php in the template files to render my page differently from the default author.php design.

Multi-Site Feature with Only One WordPress 3.0 Installation

Another big update in WordPress 3.0 is the merging of WordPress MU – a fork of WordPress that lets the user create and manage hundreds of thousands of blogs with a single install of WordPress – and the plain-jane WordPress.

What this means in nutshell: You can create a number of websites using only one installation of WordPress.

Imagine that you’re a web developer who wants to build and host your client’s blogs and sites — you can run hundreds of client sites under one WordPress installation. If you have a scalable VPS, you can do all of this more reliably and affordably than ever before!

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and lots more less notable features…

All of our existing customers using DiiMES will be upgraded to the new version by the end of January. All customers will be contacted to arrange upgrade roll out dates.

What’s new in Version 9?

• New Clean, Fresh Look & Feel using ajax.
• New People Management Engine
• New Workflow Engine to assist you with stepping through simple to complex workflows
• Organisation Manager
• New User Roles as well as User Groups to manage access
• Active Directory (Windows Domain/SBS/etc) security integration
• Web-based photo and picture editing
• Web-based Word Docs, Spreasheets & Presentation Access
• No Google Apps Used so your information is safe!

New Modules:

• Team Management Modules
• Organisation Manager Modules
• Online Commerce Portal (sell tickets, products and resource subscriptions from one shopping cart!)
• Full Mail, Calendar & other useful too integration

Updated Modules:

• Event Management Modules
• Notification Modules
• External Database Connectors (connect to existing systems)

This is the next installment in our online services stategy which includes our website (this site), our domain name registration service, our client support system and our webmail upgrades.

Drop on over to: http://support.dawes.biz/ to see it for yourself.

The first site to be released on the new verison of our platform will be the SU Teams Volunteer Management System that will be put in use in the next few weeks.

Stay Tuned for some screenshots soon!

Our pricing has dropped also for some domains.

customservers.com.au is where our new custom web hosting service will be centralised to, so when you need something new, whether it be a new domain, more hosting space, computer hardware or software or you just need to get a bug fixed or want to see the status of our servers, this is the one stop shop for where you will go. If you haven’t received your login details, let us know and we’ll get them out to you quick smart.

Head on over to: http://domains.customservers.com.au/ from now on to purchase, renew and manage your domains.