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The Amherst Chamber of Commerce announced their 2008 Business of the Year awards, with 360 Professional Services Group winning the Technology Business of the Year award.

The Left Brain already launched a SimpleSite with 360 PSG, a custom designed website built by the 360 PSG design team. They recently added the Fission Showcase Manager - a turnkey solution allowing them to promote their past projects and clients easily through their website.

360 PSG partnered with the Harold Warner Advertising Agency to launch the brand new, custom designed website for Niagara Transformer, a Buffalo, NY-based electricity transformer manufacturer.

Day Spring Distributing, a Clarence, NY-based gourmet candy and specialty food distributor, launched it's brand new website, http://www.dayspringdistributing.com.

The Law Offices of Tom Trbovich launched their new website, http://www.wnytrafficticket.com, giving them a powerfully optimized website for those looking for traffic ticket defense.

Dave's Christmas Store, the destination Christmas store located on Union Road in Cheektowaga, launched it's newly redesigned website for its online home, www.ChristmasCentral.com.

Hospice & Palliative Care of Buffalo just launched a brand new website for their Home Connections program, a program that helps WNY residents in need of home hospice care. That new website, built by 360 PSG, connects thousands of care providers with their patients.

R. W. Miller, Jr. & Associates, an Amherst, NY-based full service human resource and management consulting firm, needed a website that allowed them total content control for their website, allowing them to make changes throughout their site without having to contact a web professional. Working with 360 PSG, their new site, Human Resource Source, gives them a new, modern image and a fully-controllable web presence to get their web business growing.

CHEEKTOWAGA, NY - Premier Machining Technologies, a Western New York-based machining company, launched their brand new, custom designed website, complete with images that put the companies best foot forward on the Internet.

Artpark was in full swing Wednesday night with 360 PSG's sponsorship of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies at the Lewiston, NY park. The Buffalo-Niagara region got to see a great show and got to meet some of WNY's premier web developers, as 360 PSG was introduced to the Artpark crowd.

Gilda’s Club Western New York, a cancer support community affiliated with Gilda’s Club Worldwide, was in need of a regionally-focused website that fit within the larger, North American organization’s design guidelines. They also needed a site that they could edit and control without a dedicated web staff. To accomplish those goals, Gilda’s Club Western New York turned to 360 PSG. After working with such local charitable organizations such as the United Way of Buffalo & Erie County and Leadership Buffalo, 360 PSG showed they had the knowhow to make Gilda’s Club’s site a success.

Headway of Western New York, an advocacy and service organization for people with disabilities based in Buffalo, NY, launched their newly-designed website with 360 PSG.

Using location- and industry-focused search engine optimization techniques, 360 PSG has raised its search engine profile for specific keywords, demonstrating the positive effects of our search engine optimization techniques.

Brush Up Buffalo kicks off its 2008 house painting efforts June 14, painting several homes in Buffalo's East Side. It's the 12th year of the annual event, and 360 PSG staff will be there to help. Volunteers can sign up at http://www.brushupbuffalo.org.

360 PSG has partnered with Showcase Sports Marketing to build the promotional website for the Kevin Everett Golf Classic Weekend, a charity golf tournament featuring the former Buffalo Bills tight end. Proceeds from the tournament and associated events will benefit the Kevin Everett Foundation for Spinal Cord Injury Research and Assistance.

Corporate training and consulting firm Henderson Woods LLC found reaching out to the corporate world required all forms of personal connection. As specialists in communication between all levels of business - management, workforce, unions and labor - Henderson Woods needed a website to convey their expertise. So it was crystal clear to Henderson Woods that they needed to launch a website that communicated with clients and visitors, well, clearly. Designed by Amherst web development company 360 PSG, hendersonwoodsllc.com reflects that transparent philosophy.

Artpark recently launched its new summer concert schedule, featuring acts such as Kansas, Michael McDonald and moe. Like previous years, it’s a stellar lineup. Unlike previous years, Artpark has a new tool to spread the word: a completely redesigned website.

Buffalo web development firm 360 PSG sponsored the Ed Hardy Experience Fashion Show Wednesday as part of a fundraiser to benefit The Steadfast Foundation and its fight against childhood cancer.

WASHINGTON - Internet commerce continues its robust growth, defying a sluggish economy that's teetering on recession, Google's chief economist and several analysts said Friday. Electronic commerce has grown about 22 percent in the past two years, said Hal Varian, the economist, who spoke at a forum on the state of the Internet economy at Google's new Washington office. Ed Garrubbo, chairman of the Electronic Retailing Association, said online sales jumped 17 percent in the first quarter of this year.

360 PSG has expanded its growing team, adding to its programming and graphic design staff.

Grow! Inc. approaches small business differently than other consulting firms. So they naturally wanted a website design that matched their unique approach to business. Partnering with 360 PSG, Grow! Inc. wanted to get away from the traditional, cold minimalism of most consulting or accounting firms. 360 PSG designed a welcoming, organic website that follows in Grow! Inc.'s business image of cultivating business.

As a business that specializes in making their clients look and feel good, KaLu Salon & Spa is a specialist in luxury. The Amherst salon and day spa needed a way to convey the lush experience they offer their clients, so they sought out the web design experts at 360 PSG. 360 PSG worked with KaLu staff to design a rich, textured look that complements the feel of the KaLu salon itself, and with the services that KaLu is known for, from hair styling to hot stone massage.

The Western New York Women's fund launched their new, updated website recently, with a new content management system that allows the organization to instantly communicate with members and donors alike. The organization, whose mission is to raise awareness of women's issues in all facets of life, needed a website system that allowed them to make updates and spread news quickly and easily, without relying on a tech staff.

BURLINGTON, MA, MARCH 11, 2008 - As a company that builds its business by being at the cutting edge of technology in its field, In-Building Cellular needed a website that matched their technological expertise. This led them to work with 360 PSG, who worked with the staff at In-Building Cellular to deliver a new website that not only has an up-to-date look, but has functionality to match and exceed In-Building Cellular's industry peers.

AMHERST, NY, MARCH 11, 2008- The Amherst Chamber of Commerce launched a new, redesigned website, offering new features to Chamber members while updating their design. This website now elevates the Amherst Chamber's ability to reach its members while executing a clean, modern design with intuitive features.

AMHERST, NY, MARCH 10, 2008 - In the web development business, everyone knows that "content is king". Content, or the words that fill out a website, piques the interest of search engines, bumping sites up the coveted search engine ranks. Content is also what sells products or services on a website or attracts more visitors - it's the sales pitch, the "Welcome" sign, product information, specifications and attention grabber, all rolled into a website's words.

More good news for the open source community just in: an analysis of its enterprise customers by OpenLogic found that for 2007 as a whole, the use of open source among enterprise customers is up 26% year-on-year. Enterprises on average used a whopping 94 different open source packages last year, compared to 75 in 2006…

John Weathersby, executive director of the Open Source Software Institute, told Linux.com today that, effective immediately, the Department of the Navy has adopted a new policy which requires that open source software must be considered in every software acquisition the Navy makes.

The Japanese government wants to go open source, as a way to rely less on a single vendor IT software infrastructure. And plenty of vendors are lining up to help make this happen.

The Library of Congress, where thousands of rare public domain documents relating to America's history are stored and slowly decaying, is about to begin an ambitious project to digitize these fragile documents using Linux-based systems and publish the results online in multiple formats.

360 PSG migrates its own website to the Fission Content Management System, building its dynamic capabilities and ability to reach clients.

FAA chief information officer David Bowen said he's taking a close look at the Premier Edition of Google Apps as he mulls replacements for the agency's Windows XP-based desktop computers and laptops.

Citing concerns over cost and compatibility, the top technology official at the federal Department of Transportation has placed a moratorium on all in-house computer upgrades to Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system, as well as Internet Explorer 7 and Office 2007, according to a memo obtained Friday by InformationWeek.

The new Holy Grail, if you follow new things, is something I would like to officially term the Softwareless Office. At present, most any function that you might need a computer or working using that computer to accomplish, can be done with an application that is housed on the web and not resident as software. (Maybe this will lead to the officeless office next.)

InfoTech Niagara recognizes 360 PSG for continued growth, community involvement and innovation in technology.

Tech entrepreneurs are finding success skipping the classroom.

Last week, Walmart launched their online video download service. Immediately there were posts that the service did not work with the Firefox or Safari browsers. There was a collective, "WTF" when this happened as this is 2007, not 1997. Back then it was "accepted" for applications to work with only a specific browser or platform. Now it appears that reports are out that Walmart has turned off the ability to get into the application at all by Firefox, Safari or any other browser it does not like.

Organizations like Hospice Buffalo maintain web service during the power outages of the October 2006 snow storm thanks to 360 PSG's reliable off-site datacenter.

360 Professional Services Group launches its Fission Content Management Software, making web site editing easy for anyone.

The demise of a local technology company is fueling growth at two others. ProServe LLP of Amherst has assumed tech support for the Nexserver product formerly sold and supported by Nexserver Inc.; while 360 Professional Services Group LLC (360 PSG) is providing software services for customers formerly served by Nexserver PSG.