{"id":10,"date":"2008-05-08T10:58:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T08:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.viadata.co.za\/blog\/viadata-supports-starfish-foundation\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T10:58:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T08:58:56","slug":"viadata-supports-starfish-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/viadata-supports-starfish-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"ViaData supports StarFish Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><o:p><\/o:p><font face=\"Century Gothic\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'\">As part of our ongoing  programme of social responsibility ViaData has partnered with a group of  enthused Capetonians to support a Dinner of Hope in aid of the StarFish  Foundation. The Dinner Of Hope programme encourages individuals to host dinners  in their homes or at public venues supporting the StarFish philosophy that if  many people do a little they can achieve a lot. This group of Capetonians  has  taken the concept to another level, organizing a ball for 150 guests with a  concurrent auction of art, vacations, food, wine and other luxury items and  hopes to raise over R150,000. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Century Gothic\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'\"><o:p><\/o:p>ViaData has been involved  in supporting the dinner in three ways.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Century Gothic\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'\">Firstly, in order to  provide sponsors and donors with some much deserved advertising and exposure \u2013  ViaData developed a website to provide guests, sponsors and other interested  persons with information about the ball and the StarFish foundation \u2013 this  website can be viewed on <a href=\"\/\/www.dinnerofhope.org.za\/\" title=\"\/\/www.dinnerofhope.org.za\/\">www.dinnerofhope.org.za<\/a><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Century Gothic\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'\">Secondly, ViaData reached  out to their business partner<font color=\"blue\"><span style=\"color: blue\">s<\/span><\/font> to secure cash and prize sponsorships for  the event.<o:p> <\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Century Gothic\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'\">Finally, as the major  fundraising activity for the evening will be a sealed bid auction of about 40  items to the 150 guests, the dinner committee was very concerned about the  logistics of managing the auction and the bids.  The requirement was to collect,  record and process all bids and release the results within 1 hour of closing the  auction. The committee also didn\u2019t want to burden themselves with a massive  administration requirement as ultimately the main objective is to have an  enjoyable evening while raising funds. To address the requirements, ViaData  developed a bid management system and will provide all the hardware required on  the night of the ball. The system was developed using the <a href=\"\/\/www.viadata.co.za\/catalyst.php\" title=\"Catalyst\">Catalyst<\/a> tool and  allows for the generation of personalized bid booklets, the capture of all the  bids received on the evening, the calculation of winning bids and the printing  of certificates for all winning bidders that can be signed and secured on the  night of the ball. The system was developed with only 8 hours of development  effort and will allow the entire auction to be managed efficiently using only  two administrators on the night of the ball<font color=\"blue\"><span style=\"color: blue\">.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our ongoing programme of social responsibility ViaData has partnered with a group of enthused Capetonians to support a Dinner of Hope in aid of the StarFish Foundation. The Dinner Of Hope programme encourages individuals to host dinners in their homes or at public venues supporting the StarFish philosophy that if many people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}