Cyrius News

Cyrius proudly announces the launch of the brand new Bricknell Legal Website.  Danny Bricknell is a popular local solicitor in Gladesville.  His assistant Tina Luff contacted Cyrius as a locally-based Web Design firm to give his old site a revamp.

Tina worked closely with us to write a lot of new content and prepare the plan for the new site.  It was decided to make a nice, clean and straight-forward, professional-looking and easy to navigate Website that would act as a good referral point for new customers, highlighting the specialty focuses of the practice.

The site has been designed to expand in content, as new information is added over time, using a multi-level dynamic menu system within the Adobe Business Catalyst Content Management System (CMS) platform.

The Cyrius team would like to congratulate Danny and his team on their new Web presence and wish you every success with it.  Thank you for having us be a part of your business journey.

Cyrius congratulates the entire City of Ryde Council team for the launch of the new Council Website www.ryde.nsw.gov.au.  The site is a huge portal into everything about living in Ryde and everything that the Council does for the city.  It was designed by Spoonful Design and Cyrius was brought in to take care of the implementation and development of the functionality inside the Council's Content Management System (WCM), working closely with the diligent and hard-working Council Web team, who were charged with the massive job of implementing all of the content of the Website.

We are very proud to have played our role in such a significant project for the city.  Thank you to the City of Ryde for allowing us to be the consulting and Web development providers.

Cyrius Media Group was very proud to have helped the Rotary Club of Ryde receive the Norm Roach Memorial Shield for Best Website in the Rotary District of 9680 for 2010–11.

The district awards were held recently, with Ryde Rotary President, Allen Horrell collecting the award on behalf of the Club.  It was a big night for Ryde, as the Club scooped five district awards all up.  President Allen kept the secret of all the awards until the Club’s changeover dinner.

Ryde Rotary PR Director (and Cyrius Media Group’s Creative Director) Stefan Sojka was pleasantly surprised to be the subject of one of President Allen’s presentations of a Certificate and the Norm Roach Perpetual Trophy.

The Norm Roach Best Website Award is chosen on the following criteria:

• Overall design
• Presentation and content – does it inform members?
• What impression does it make on a prospective member?
• Visual appeal, legibility, ease of navigation
• Links to Rotary District and Rotary International Websites
• Does the Website have a Password protected area for members’ information

In his acceptance speech, Stefan passed the credit for winning the award on to Cyrius Media Group Managing Director Lata Sojka, whose drive, enthusiasm and attention to detail ensured the Website was produced to the right standard to do the Club justice and help raise the profile of Rotary through the Club’s activities.

Congratulations to the entire Club for supporting us to facilitate this project.  We graciously accept the award and pledge to continue to manage and maintain the Website to the best of our ability over the coming 2011–12 year.

You can check out Ryde Rotary's Website here

Cyrius clients and fellow members of the Ryde Chamber of Commerce were honored with two Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow Awards.

At the recent Ryde Chamber of Commerce event, hosted by John Booth at The Weekly Times, Ryde Rotary President surprised Lorraine and Malcolm Cox with a Paul Harris Fellow award each.

Paul Harris Fellows are awarded to Rotarians and non-Rotarians alike who show outstanding commitment to community service.  Lorraine and Malcolm are ideal recipients, with all the charity and community work they do.  Lorraine and Malcolm's business, Ryde Furniture Freighters, has become very well-known for helping those in need.  They cart furniture for charities and they donate large amounts of furniture left over from their clients' downsizing moves – all at their own expense.

Ryde Rotary has been at the receiving end of Lorraine and Malcolm's generosity, when they offered to cart a shipment of furniture bound for one of our international aid program destinations.

Tony Abboud from Ryde Rotary introduced President Allen Horrell to the Ryde Chamber crowd (a crowd which, for some reason, seemed to be padded out somewhat with a few Rotarians!).  President Allen commenced his presentation with an explanation of the Paul Harris Fellow award and its significance, not only as a recognition of great respect and honour, but that one aspect of the award is that Rotary donates $1,000 to the Rotary Foundation on behalf of the recipient.  This evening, $2,000 was donated and two very surprised recipients were asked to come up and receive their awards. 

Malcolm and Lorraine are two of the nicest, humblest people you could meet.  Cyrius really enjoyed every step of the development process of their two Websites.  They certainly weren't ready for all the accolades and the attention.  There were more than one or two tears from the recipients and from the crowd, as the emotion of such a public recognition of great community service unfolded.

Congratulations Lorraine and Malcolm, on all your amazing support and good work, from the entire Cyrius team.

Photo (L-R):  Malcolm Cox, The Weekly Times Editor John Booth (OAM), Lorraine Cox, Ryde Chamber President Tony Abboud, Ryde Rotary President Allen Horrell

Last night, Hills Schools Industry Partnership hosted a combined Chamber of Commerce event at Epping Club to showcase their services, working with school and business to provide training, experience and opportunity to local youth.  A big crowd of over 200 people attended, to hear a number of speakers presenting on the benefits of working with our youth.

Stefan was the MC for the event and introduced the line up, which included a 20-piece jazz band from Arden High School, Caroline Gardner, from HillSIP, Andrew Hill from AJH Sports, Peter Garrard, Principal of Epping Boys High and Eugene Lau, from Cisco.

By any measure, the event was a great success, drawing so many chambers and organisations together to one event and providing a whole new perspective on schools/industry partnerships.  For more news on the event, please go to Ryde Business Forum's Website.

The Hills Schools Industry Partnership is an organisation which exists to support students to transition into work and business by encouraging mentoring and interaction with the business community.  On Tuesday 19 October, an event "Building Business and Building Others" is planned, to draw the entire network of Chambers of Commerce, along with other business organisations from around Sydney's North Shore.  Education professionals from all over Sydney will be attending to build links and encourage business to become involved.

Stefan has been invited to speak to the audience about his experiences mentoring students and encouraging professional development within his business.  Several of Cyrius's previous employees have been undergraduates and interns and have gone on to achieve big things in their professional fields.  Stefan will speak on the benefits of both parties in establishing such relationships.

Here is more information about the event.  We look forward to seeing you there.

How time flies!  It is hard to believe that it has been 12 months since we launched our ‘new’ Website.  The last year has seen us very busy, taking care of our clients, designing and developing many new Websites, revamping Websites and doing Website maintenance for our existing clients.  We have clients all over Sydney, from Cronulla to Palm Beach, Bondi Junction to Penrith.  We even have some clients in Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Darwin and Coffs Harbour.  They do keep us busy, but that is the way we like it – taking care of many great Website projects and consulting to ensure successful outcomes.  We have taken on a few new clients to do a variety of custom programming jobs, graphic design work, marketing, Search Engine Optimisation and Pay-Per-Click management.  It has been an exciting year.

Now, 12 months on, we are managing to find the time to update our own Website.  We have already upgraded the Web Design portfolio page – and will be adding more as we have a few new Websites in the pipeline.  Now we are going through the rest of the Website and making many improvements, using our CMS, blog software and other programming tools.

Thank you for checking it all out.  Thanks also to all our clients who have stuck by us through the “global financial crisis” – which we all seem to have weathered quite well, thanks to smart marketing and using all our Websites to good effect.

Our new website is launched.  After 5 years, our old site was ready for retirement.  We have evolved a great deal since then – this new site is a reflection of what we have become.  The whole team is proud to have been able to contribute to this new Website.  We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it.

Creative Director Stefan Sojka recently presented two major events for the State Government’s “Small Business September”. “Concept to Delivery” at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in North Ryde and “Small Business is Big Business on the Internet” in Parramatta.  Both presentations were well received by an enthusiastic audience of small businesses looking to improve their on-line performance.  A podcast of one of the presentations can be found here.  Video excerpts will be available soon.