Communications Plans are powerful documents that act like a guide for you, your staff, and your stakeholders. When you and your team have a common purpose, agreed upon through editing and discussion, you create a bond with the people you work with that makes everything easier, from internal communications to meetings to external newsletters and marketing. Let's take a brief...
You may have heard the scary stats that rattle around the internet, telling you that if your website takes longer than 5 seconds to load, you’ve lost giant swaths of web traffic. I wish we could tell you that this stat is overblown, but the truth is, Websites that have the highest conversion rates have load times of between 0-2...
MEDIA RELEASE * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * October 7, 2022 In alignment with World Homeless Day on October 10, 2022, local Guelph web and software company Northern Village announces the official launch of Access2ID, a program designed to assist agencies who facilitate ID recovery for those experiencing homelessness. “One of the most significant barriers for people experiencing homelessness to access...
Northern Village is thrilled and honoured to be declared the Meridian Small Business Contest winner from over 1,000 entries!! Meridian was looking for businesses demonstrating resilience, innovation, and community spirit, which we believe are at the heart of who we are and what we do at Northern Village. Here is the video we submitted for our nomination. See press release....
MEDIA RELEASE Thursday, December 16, 2021 LOCAL GUELPH BUSINESS WINS SMALL BUSINESS AWARD Northern Village Named First Place Winner in Provincial Contest (Guelph, ON) Guelph-based web and software business Northern Village Inc. has been announced as the First Place award winner in the province-wide Meridian Small Business Awards. “We were blown away by the quality of over 1,000 entries for...
Northern Village Code of Ethics The heart of the Northern Village Code of Ethics is that, as a B Corp, we are in business as a force for good. This Code serves as a guide for what is expected from directors, employees and contractors with respect to proper business contact and to observe the highest standards of ethics and integrity...
Northern Village Environmental Policy We recognize that our use of technology can both negatively and positively impact natural environments. (These impacts, and some solutions, have been effectively summarized by the Carnegie Cyber Academy, which we encourage readers to review.) The technologies on which our business depends consume energy and resources. They also create ecological disruption, pollution and waste. We further...
Northern Village is now a Certified B Corporation, a designation that verifies the company meets high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability. “We are very proud to be among the growing number of companies in Guelph and around the world that have achieved B Corp certification,” said Arni Mikelsons, founder of Northern Village. “It’s a tremendous honour...
Be found with good SEO Northern Village provides search engine optimization as part of every engagement. We do this in two ways. First, the Northern Village website editing software incorporates all the back end “technical stuff” that search engines like to see. Secondly, we provide a variety of tactics that you can use to increase the prominence of your website...
Our Technology Choices We have carefully considered our technology choices before settling with the main software powering Northern Village. The main elements of choosing the software that we use is: It is a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. As a client, you will never need to worry about the nuts and bolts of your website. Simply point your web browser to...
Our Website Approach Northern Village can help you to develop a website that's affordable, effective, useful, modern, and powerful. How do we do it? We use a content-driven philosophy in producing easy to edit, custom-designed websites. It is a fast and efficient approach that highlights your core message and allows for flexible site development, fast delivery and easy maintenance. This...
The Admin interface of the Northern Village Website Publisher has been reorganized to simplify access to the most used functions. Now, when you select Admin, the Page interface is the landing page. Additionally, the Page interface now contains substantially more information and functionality. In particular, Page Data has been introduced to add semi-structured data to any page.
Securing your website If you take look at the URL bar at the top of this page, you will see that there is a little padlock at the begninning of it indicating that this page is secure. Northern Village has taken the step to make sure that all of its websites, and all future websites are secure. It is just...
Benefits of Northern Village CMS over WordPress As the founder of Northern Village, I am regularly asked why we prefer not to use WordPress to manage our websites. It is a good question. WordPress is by far the most popular CMS in the world today (60% of websites using a CMS use WordPress). There are lots of different modules that...
Accessibiltiy is an important element of making sure that everyone can participate equally in our village. With websites, it is making sure that people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive disabilities can interact with and contribute to the Internet. As a business, or organization, you want to make sure that everyone can have access to the information you are providing. ...
Why is the company named Northern Village? Coming up with a name for a company is not an easy thing. You want to have something that gives customers a good idea of the function, purpose and/or philosophy of the company or organization. Anyone who has tried to name something knows it is not easy. Arni Mikelsons struggled in coming up...