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After our launch of the Snowmageddon Clean Up Web site on late Tuesday night, we’ve been picking up a lot of great reaction from the community. Our biggest hit so far: the Washington Post has partnered with PICnet to heavily extend the exposure of our efforts. Check out our site embedded on the Washington Post!
Wow. Thursday was a whirlwind. We worked closely with the Washington Post’s digital media team to make editorial and graphical changes to the site in order to prep for the wave of traffic from their online circulation. Additionally, the great logo that Christopher Doorley made for the site needed to have a little update: announcing the partnership between the Washington Post and PICnet. Thanks to Ross Nover for his stellar design skills to help update the site’s header and additional illustrations. It’s been wonderful working alongside the Washington Post team to help spread the word far and wide. We’re excited to see the continued efforts of the Greater DC community to help each other out of this snow mess.
Key to the success of the project was the design work by PICnet’s friends at Jessica Weber Design, just around the corner from our New York office in midtown. Once Jessica Weber Design completed the design and planning process, the PICnet team came in and rolled out the Web development aspect of the site. It’s always great to work alongside smart professionals, and the teams at Jessica Weber Design and Community Access fit that role perfectly. The most effective sites are produced when organizations and their consultants really gel together smoothly, and this definitely was the case for the Community Access site. Congratulations to Community Access on the launch of their terrific site!
While design was not a part of this project, except for a couple of minor tweaks – the emphasis was to provide an option for the organization to quickly move more than 100 pages of content to a secure CMS – and by using Soapbox, they could do the majority of the work on their own with our guidance and strategy for success. Overall, the project took two months to complete, including fixing up the old site’s code base and then moving the new information over to Soapbox. In the end, all goals were met: expediency, security, and simplicity.
As noted last week, the overall project will see a total of five Sister Community sites launch this summer. These sites empower local Communities to craft their own message for their individual audiences while leveraging the common branding and shared experience on the Soapbox platform of the network as a whole. Sisters of Mercy are an international community of Roman Catholic women religious vowed to serve people who suffer from poverty, sickness and lack of education with a special concern for women and children. They are also a dear, long-standing client of PICnet’s. When they came to us looking to expand their web presence by creating sites for their five individual chapters throughout the country, we saw the perfect opportunity to leverage the power, flexibility, and elegance of the new Soapbox 2.0 platform to meet their needs. The West Midwest Chapter is the inaugural site to launch of these Sister sites with others scheduled to go live over the next few weeks. All sites make use of a handcrafted PICnet design customized to offer consistent branding across all project sites while offering Community-specific touches with color schemes and menu options.
WRTC’s new Non-Profit Soapbox site has an emotionally moving Memorial Quilt, which gives families of donors an ability to share their stories with the world. Many thanks to our friends at Free Range Studios for their beautiful design work.
“Nothing less is at stake in the torture abuse crisis than the soul of our nation. What does it signify if torture is condemned in word but allowed in deed? Let America abolish torture now — without exceptions.†This Soapbox site works in conjunction with our friends at Democracy In Action and Wired for Change.
We’re excited to announce the launch of FONA’s new Non-Profit Soapbox site! Congratulations to the FONA team for their hard work.
“Put yourself on a bus full of young people and experience first-hand the revival of hope and energy in Washington politics. It’s not just any bus, of course. It’s the Washington Bus. And on any given Saturday it rolls into a town somewhere in our state, full of volunteers eager to work for positive change.†Many thanks to Nica Lorber for her fantastic design skills, and our friends at Democracy In Action for their tools to empower the Bus.
“In more than 50 years, NERA has been responsible many of the pay and benefits gains reservists enjoy today and take for granted. Why NERA? Today, more than at any other time, Reserve Enlisted members are called upon more often to mobilize frequently to serve our nation.†Congratulations to the team at NERA for building a terrific online resource for those men and women in uniform. |
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