We’re honored to have a hand in the creation of the blog for Help a Lost Child. This organization was founded to help little Rimaan, a child suffering from pervasive development disorder. Through the blog we’ve raised almost $10,000 to buy Rimaan an HBOT to help himewith his daily struggle. You can help too. Learn more about Rimaan and the Help a Lost Child Foundation.

Dr. Dorothy Riddle is a prolific author and her new series– Enough for Us All has been designed to help us recognize and embrace our abundant and joyous reality. All three volumes explore both the personal and the societal aspects of shifting from a preoccupation with scarcity to participation in a collaborative, abundant process. In each volume, there are practical exercises to help apply the concepts in daily life.

We built the site in WordPress for ease in updates, search engine optimization and social media optimization. Dr Riddle will be blogging through the site and use it to drive traffic to buy the books and to her other websites.

The crisis in Haiti is far from over but it seems as though many people have forgotten about it. Not Iron Chef Cat Cora. She’s formed the 1 Million 1 Month website to raise funds to help in Haiti. We built the site in WordPress and brought in some of the latest news from their partners the “World Food Programme” and public feeds like Twitter and YouTube. Visit the site and see how you can pitch in!

The Hess Collection is one of our favorite websites, and it’s just had a re-birth of sorts. We converted the site to offer better SEO, ease of updating with Contribute and heavy use of includes and PHP to make it easy to update the ever changing variety of wines that is Hess Collection. We also used some Ajax to spiff up the section for the amazing art collection housed at Hess, complete with an audio tour with information on each piece. Check it out.

I know, I know, most of the social media stuff has been going on on my personal blog at JanetFouts.com but I thought I’d post this one here just in case you missed it. I’ll be putting on my social media coach hat for a Social Media Bootcamp on August 17 in Sunnyvale to do some of the hands on work I’ve been wanting to do to really help people get social media and put it to work for their business. The cost is only $41 if you sign up before August 1st, so get over there and sign-up!

For the past 35 years, Dr. Dorothy Riddle and her team at Service-Growth Consultants have been working in over 80 countries and with over 30 service industries on strengthening the global service sector, the quality of services available in communities, and the ability of individuals to be of service.

We’ve just re-launched their website as a blog in order to take advantage of the SEO qualities of WordPress as well as to make the wealth of content on the site more accessible. Dr. Riddle will be posting her thoughts on service and personal growth on the site in preparation for her book, to be published soon.

BLG Group site launches. The BLG Group is one of the bay area’s best resources for both early stage and established medical device companies. Their experience base extends from projects to acting as interim executives for medical device companies world-wide ranging from neurovascular and cardiology devices to orthopedics and hospital automation. Tatu Digital Media created a website to create a landing place for companies looking for these services and to showcase the skills of this talented team of strategy consultants.

The site is built in Flash with text and images pulled in dynamically with XML for ease of updates.

Just in time for Earth Day, we’re happy to show off two green sites. Green Living San Jose is a new site for San Jose Green Certified Realtor® CJ Brasiel. CJ will be sharing tips for greening your home, resale information and information on green homes and green real estate options in the San Jose area.
Greening You has been re-modeled as a magazine with a whole new look and feel, and added GreenShopper, a Twitter feed just for deals on all kinds of green stuff.

Check both sites out and get your green on!

The Dining Room at the Langham hotel is the only hotel-run restaurant in Los Angeles to be awarded a Michelin star. This website reflects the elegant simplictiy of the restaurant and the stunning cuisine of chef Craig Strong.

We created the site in Flash with dynamic content easily updated through XML, a WordPress blog with a photo gallery and expanded their social media presence with a Twitter page. Our social media coach, Janet Fouts, worked with The Dining Room staff on social media marketing and engagement and they’ve gotten off to a great start with the new site and their Twitter and Facebook accounts.

OK, so what do you know about dynamic infrastructure, sometimes called Infrastructure 2.0? Thanks to companies like Infoblox and Cisco, you’re about to hear a lot more about new ways to manage your networks more efficiently. As your network expands and your workload increases, dynamic infrastructure is the answer to make your life easier and your workflow smoother.

Quoting from Infra20.com, a blog dedicated to understanding Infrastructure 2.0, "dynamic infrastructure and virtualization “If networks cannot keep up with the dynamic changes enabled by initiatives like virtualization, application availability and the business case for IT automation-based initiatives will suffer. “.
We’ve been working closely with the Infoblox team on some exciting new projects. Visit their blog to learn more, and check out the upcoming event on Jan 15, 2009, "Unleashing the Power of Dynamic Infrastructure" and find out how you can transform your static network into a dynamic one ready to respond quickly to more dynamic systems and endpoints.