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Business Catalyst - end of life

  • By Hayley McDonald
  • 28 May, 2018

Disappointment ... shock ... research ... better ....

Business Catalyst recently advised that the platform will reach its end of life in 2020.  What that means is that they will be accepting no new sites but that any sites on the platform now will have until 2020 to move to another platform.  

The good news is that we have quite a bit of time up our sleeves to migrate to another platform.  The other good news is whilst the industry was in a bit of shock, when one door closes another one opens and that sometimes that door is a better one.  I believe that even though this is quite painful, the average lifespan of a website is 2 years anyway.  So that means the next time we design your website, we will be placing it on another platform and a better one.  

Our new website is build on a platform that we have managed to personalise for us and our clients.  We are loving it and have already moved quite a number of clients to our new platform.  

Watch this space, we will move more and more and you will see ..... it's not such bad news after all.  

Hayley

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By Hayley McDonald 27 Jun, 2018
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By Hayley McDonald 29 May, 2018

I am sure you will have noticed the bombardment in your inbox about the GDPR and what you have to do.  I can't say I am an expert by any means but I believe we all need to know what it involves and if we need to change any of our business processes to comply.  

Privacy and data protection may not matter to many of us here in New Zealand and many other countries outside of the EU.  However this has changed effective from 25 May 2018 when new EU privacy laws came into place to  coerce global organisations with links to the EU to comply with the General Data Protection Rules (GDPR).

These new rules will impact on any international organisation handling personal data of anyone residing in the European Union.

Most of our software services and other business tools could very well deal with this on our behalf but I believe it it important for us to be educated to ensure we are all complying.  

For more information - this is a great article by the New Zealand Law Society which gives some steps in compliance.   Click hereto read more.  

By Hayley McDonald 28 May, 2018
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