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.
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.
Instead of gifts from friends and family this year, I’m asking everyone to donate a dollar or two to bring fresh, clean water to a village that desperately needs it. We tend to take the abundance of clean water for granted, we fill wading pools for our dogs to play in on a hot summer day, but in many small towns around the world they don’t have clean safe water to drink or bathe in.
I’ve just posted this page where you can learn more about the cause and donate a small amount and make a huge difference in someone’s life. Just $20 can provide clean water for one person for an entire year.
Please take a look at the site and help me spread the word about this wonderful organization by sharing the link with your friends and family too. 100% of your donation will directly build freshwater wells and fund basic sanitation projects for people who would not otherwise have safe drinking water.
1.1 billion people on our planet lack access to safe, clean drinking water. That’s one in six of us. 80% of all disease on the planet is attributable to the lack of water and basic sanitation. I hope you can take a moment to help me spread the word and make a difference.
Happy holidays!
The Exploratorium is one of our favorite San Francisco museums and it was a pleasure helping them create a shiny new press site with a lot of social media features built in. The site is built entirely in WordPress so staff can add, edit and tag posts as they go up, and use the powerful content management and search attributes of WordPress.
We did a bit of custom code here and there as well to make it even easier for them to manage.
We built a custom template for the site so it fits right in to the current Exploratorium website, maintaining the user experience.
Custom post templates for the press releases allow the staff to easily create a release with video or images and include content directly from exhibits on-line or link to them for reference
Custom press kit templates allow the staff to pull together a list of press releases, video and images on the fly and create a full press kit on any exhibit easily
Featured releases get their own space and an image on the home page using custom fields
The whole home page is widget based, so staff can edit content without having to get into the code
A series of galleries were constructed to highlight selected images from the museum’s vast collection
We did on and off site training for staff and supplied them with video tutorials for reference
Take a look at the new site and give us your feedback, we’d love to hear it!
We are excited to realase a new website for Barbara Means Fraser PHD., Ms Fraser is an accomplished playwright and an Associate Professor at Santa Clara University where she served as Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department from 2003-2006. Fraser’s philosophy is driven by her dedication to social justice. The plays she writes are impactful and range in topic from gay rights, breast cancer, race and societal issues to sexual harassment and abuse. Her direction repertoire includes: The Laramie Project, Twilight of the Golds, Parallel Lives: The Kathy and Mo Show, and Paul Robeson.
The goals of the site were simple: to make the body of work more accessible to the public and give her a place to send companies interested in producing her plays. We used HTML and AJAX for the main page elements and Flash for a gallery of playbills and a video player for some of her clips. As we dig more deeply into her archives and the repertoire grows the site will easily scale to allow for more work.
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