January 2019 by Craig Casten | Jan 31, 2019 | Product updatesNew featuresTeaser alert! We are working on a new plagiarism detection feature! Soon to be released.You can now copy a judging panelGreek is now available as a language optioniDEAL payment method option for Stripe gateway usersIntroducing "The Quick Manager" on...
November 2018 by Craig Casten | Nov 29, 2018 | Product updatesNew featuresFrom within Award Force, users with membership to two or more accounts on Award Force now have a link to My Award Force (from the user menu, top right), where you can switch between all your accounts. You can also access My Award Force from this website by...
October 2018 by Craig Casten | Oct 31, 2018 | Product updatesNew featuresReport functionality is here. The first report “Entries by category” has recently been released, and is accessed from the Dashboard. Look for the Full report link at the bottom of the entries by category widget. Settings events are now being recorded...
September 2018 by Craig Casten | Sep 27, 2018 | Product updatesNew featuresNew white-label domain option has been added for scholarships. yourprogramname.scholarshipsplatform.comYou can now export the Audit log, and customise that export.Under GDPR, data subjects have the right to request all of data held on/about them, and in a...
August 2018 by Craig Casten | Aug 30, 2018 | Product updatesNew featuresAward Force’s very own advanced bot detection + blocking has just been released.A new content block for use with pre-paid entries is now available.Teaser alert! We have undertaken a new and exciting project which will add even more to the incredible value...
July 2018 release update by Craig Casten | Jul 27, 2018 | Product updatesNew featuresUsers can now provide cookie consent for necessary cookies, cookies used for analytics and cookies used for marketing, in line with GDPR requirements.In the last month, the Engineering team has been working on some major new feature development. So not...
Winning an award by Craig Casten | Jul 27, 2018 | ArticlesAcknowledgment and recognition are vital human needs. Winning and losing generate strong emotional responses in us. We have evolved to want to win because historically it may have been the difference between life and death.
Award Force + disability by Craig Casten | Jul 17, 2018 | Feature focusAccording to the World Health Organisation, 15% of the world population, roughly 1 billion people, live with disabilities. This is an incredibly large community of people that are easily excluded if an application does not consider them in their design. Award Force has been designed for all types of users, and that includes people with disabilities.
The excellence in what we don’t see by Craig Casten | Jun 25, 2018 | ArticlesThis cartoon by @officeguycartoons.com recently floated around the “office” at Award Force (Slack ?). Since we are a company that develops software to help organisations recognise excellence in their field, the cartoon was both apt and thought-provoking.
Spam traps, what they are and how to avoid them by Craig Casten | Jun 13, 2018 | ArticlesSpam traps are a tool used by ISP’s to identify and track spammers. Essentially, they are an unmanned email address that alerts an ISP anytime an email lands in its inbox. If by some chance you send an email to this address, you get flagged as a spammer and you will find it extremely difficult to get any of your email delivered.