Alternate Title: Why You Should Hire Us Now  •  Like the rest of the world, the whole economic Armageddon has been a hot topic of discussion here at silverorange. We, like most other businesses in the world, are nervous. What does this all mean? How will it affect us? How long will it last?  •  We …

Alternate non-catchy title: Why growing a small to medium sized web service business is hard and what we did that we think helped  •  At its traditional core a service company is a difficult beast. To grow, and thus make more money, you can either work more hours, bill more per hour, or both … read more »

Zap Your PRAM, the cicada of conferences, is back. After five years of hiatus we're doing it again.  •  Zap Your PRAM is much more like a songwriters circle than a conference. The formula is quite simple: Excellent secluded venue (Dalvay-by-the-sea) + interesting & talented people + amazing food …

Today was the first official day of winter. It also wrapped up what has been the busiest fall on record for silverorange.  •  We usually launch a few websites a year. Sometimes just one depending on how existing client work is going. This fall we've launched, or been involved in a launch, of five …

So Conrad Black was sentenced to 6.5 years in jail today for defrauding shareholders of 60 million dollars. He was also fined 6 million dollars.  •  I haven't been following the case and know shockingly little about the details, but it seems Mr. Black really did quite well all things considered …

We've been redesigning the silverorange site since 2004. As most service companies know, it's hard to concentrate on your own stuff when you're so busy working for other people.  •  Today we reached a tipping point. We received an email from a friend who thought our old site was broken due to the …

It's official. Briefly this morning the Canadian dollar, for the first time since 1976, was worth as much as the US dollar.  •  It has since been hovering tantalizingly close to parity.

We started silverorange just over eight years ago. Back then a cheque (or "check" as our neighbours call it....er.. neighbors) from a client south of our border was worth over one and half of its value in Canadian funds. It was like winning a small lottery every time you made a deposit.  •  Today …

I got an email today announcing a new provincial sponsored project for employers to find employees and vice versa. A nice idea really. On this page I found this chart:  •  Total Employees by Sector  •  Advanced Technology  •  19  •  Communications  •  335  •  Computer Sales and Services  •  3 …