October 29th, 2008
Business, creativity and community intersect
Norex and Queen Street Studios join together in the pursuit of excellence: in business, creativity and community. Today, Norex and Queen Street Studios announced a unique partnership of excellence that will bring together hard core IT talent and independent creative talent to offer exceptional web development, marketing, public relations and creative to local, national and international clients while at the same time fostering the local creative and arts communities.Halifax-based Norex has established itself as a top web development agency, serving clients all over the globe. Its team of developers with best in the business credentials has built some of the most functional and advanced websites and web applications for clients that range from oil and gas to not-for-profit. It will now tap into Queen Street Studios' membership base of creative talent and its savvy creative director, Julia Rivard, to expand its services. Julia Rivard, a former Olympian who has transformed her passion for sporting success into passion for creative and business success, has made her mark on the Halifax community by establishing Queen Street Studios – a hub of local artistic and creative talent. "With this partnership, we are bringing together our top-notch in-house teams and pool of brilliantly creative, deep thinking professionals to up the ante in Halifax," says Julia. "Together, we will take creative web development, marketing and public relations further – those monumental steps that mean the difference between climbing the mountain and reaching the peak."The unique partnership between Norex and Queen Street Studios will see Julia Rivard take a leadership role at Norex and will enable the agency to connect its winning IT team with Queen Street Studios' pool of independent creatives to offer a full range of exceptional creative web development, marketing, and public relations services. For Queen Street Studios and its members, it means better access to professional opportunities.
October 6th, 2008
Norex welcomes Anas Szubielski, BTECH, MEC to the team in the role of Programmer / Analyst. After completing this Masters in ecommerce (MEC) degree Anas found Norex to be a great place to use his expert knowledge. In his spare time Anas is an avid Soccer Fan, Brazil is his favorite team.
September 22nd, 2008
Norex welcomes Dr. David Wolfe, Phd (CS) to the team in the role of Data / Application Architect. David has a vast amount of experiance in various IT disciplines including advanced algorithm development and data architecture. In his spare time David enjoys the challenge of solving perplexing problems and has written several published books on the subject. Before joining Norex, David was actively lecturing at Dalhousie University.
August 25th, 2008
Norex welcomes Adam Thurlow to the team in the role of Programmer / Analyst. Adam has recently graduated from both the Information Systems program as well as the Information Technology Solutions Development program at NBCC. Adam's hands on experience developing next generation, Web 2.0 web applications will be a great asset to the Norex team.
August 22nd, 2008
Norex if featured in the Technology Section of the Globe & Mail:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080822.wolytech23/BNStory/Technology/home
August 21st, 2008
Norex if featured in the Halifax Chronicle Herald:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1074391.html
August 18th, 2008
Norex welcomes Kate MacLean to the team in the role of Sales Associate. Kate is a graduate of Dalhousie University (Science) as well as McKenzie College (Digital Media Design). In her previous roles Kate has been hands on in the marketing departments of several established Nova Scotia based engineering and manufacturing companies.
August 18th, 2008
Apple.com ranks our Olympics Medal Counter Widget (Link) the #1 widget download and profiles it on the main download page (www.apple.com). As a result we are currently getting about 20,000 downloads a day and have so far had more than 8 million hits to our website this month.
August 11th, 2008
Norex Releases a free Olympics Medal Counter Widget (Link)
August 1st, 2008
Norex adds David Wolfe to the team. David has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has lectured at Dalhousie as well as the University of California, Berkeley. David's interests include Theoretical Computer Science, Experimental Mathematics, and Combinatorial Game Theory Research. David will be working closely with our programming team developing next generation software fro the web.
July 2nd, 2008
Jacob Godin joins the Norex.ca team. Not unlike most new hires at Norex Jacob has had a linux server in his closet at home since he was old enough to know how to read Slashdot.org. If you have a site with us you will likely get to know Jacob over the next few months.
June 25th, 2008
Heather Frasure joins the Norex.ca team as a Project Manager. Heather's experiance working at Holliday Media and great attention to detail ensure our clients are always part of the process every step of the way.
June 16th, 2008
Norex Offers CD & DVD duplication and printing services (Link).
May 4th, 2008
Norex.ca participates as an exhibit sponsor at the Atlantic Internet Marketing Conference
May 2nd, 2008
Norex.ca officially launches the newest version (v7.0) of our CMS product. The major sygnificant advances in this release include Google maps and XML site map. We are also promoting it as the the SEO Friendly CMS (www.seofriendlyCMS.com)
