It’s been a while since we’ve been able to make any significant updates to our website, as we’ve been really busy with some exciting projects for clients, so here’s a round up of the latest miggle news.

A new site for Fitness First for culturebank

First up has been a project we’ve delivered for culturebank, a business I’m involved with along side miggle.  Working to objectives and creative direction provided by the rest of the culturebank team we’ve built out a solution for their latest client Fitness First.  Based on WordPress, with a high level of bespoke customisation layered on top, this site lets employees of their Australian business upload work related success stories and experience supported with videos and photos.  Uploaded videos are encoded on the fly into a Flash player format and photos are rendered into galleries.  Stories that relate to specific job functions appear on pages which additionally pull data in real-time from a feed on Fitness First’s recruitment site.

A Product Plan for Collections Trust

Our friends at Talk Web Solutions have recently launched the new Collections Link website for the Collections Trust (CT).   Our involvement here was to work with CT to build out the initial product requirements which delivered on CT’s core objective of being able to host a site which allowed best practice in collections management to be owned by the people who manage our nation’s libraries, museums, collections and archives.  More and more clients are asking us to help scope their projects before they commit to build.  It’s a sensible strategy we think.

A new web site using Mod-X

We built out a new site for local Brighton business Complete Property Services.  Having built a number of sites for small businesses in the last year in our recently launched miggleCMS, we wanted to roll out something which was built in a different content management system to extend the range of solutions we can offer to clients.  At the time of building Complete’s website, miggleCMS wasn’t as an open source solution and for good business continuity planning (BCP) the client here specifically wanted something that was.  We felt given the brief and the design objectives Mod X was the ideal solution for this.

Based in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, contact miggle.co.uk for website development, content management and online media services in the UK and worldwide.

One of the great things about running your own business is the opportunity it provides to get involved in other projects. And I’m really excited to announce my involvement in Culture Bank.

Culture Bank enables organisations to project their unique culture to the world, pulling together all the great characters, events, stories and experiences that make it so using social media.

My role in the team is primarily to look at how we can move the technical solutions Culture Bank relies on to the next level. I also expect I’ll be able to add some of the experience I’ve got in building audiences and online engagement to the mix too. At the end of the day, it’s really the engagement that we can build for clients through Culture Bank that gives our solution its value. That’s what we’re selling.

This in turn comes back full circle to my technology role. The Culture Bank pitch is not a design or technical led exercise. It’s no more a technology operation than arranging a bus to ship your staff from the city to the campus is an automotive one. The benefits and outcomes are the key.

So, my challenge is to find the infrastructure that delivers what’s required in a way that enables the choice of what we use to take a back seat in the decision making process a client makes when they come to us. For it to be a given that it works. For it to be about the application of social media not the applications that power it.

I’m looking forward to hopefully being able to write more about the adventures we have with this all in 2010. If in the meantime, you want to find out more, just get in touch.

Based in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, contact miggle.co.uk for website development, content management and online media services in the UK and worldwide.