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Social Integration

Roger — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:58:36 +0000

Today we, my company Web24Business run together with Marcel van Brugge, launched our latest online communication project. It’s a new website for a local art and cultural organization, called Temporary Art Centre. It’s located in an old Philips building near the city center of Eindhoven. It’s run mostly by volunteers and provides a platform and stage for artists and creatives. Apart from providing stages and spaces for concerts, performances and exhibitions, they also rent out studios for aspiring creatives.

TAC came to us requesting a refresh of their website. Instead of just re-designing a run of the mill site we handled this project like any we accept. We analyzed their organization and held a workshop with the volunteers that run the show, as well as some of the renters that rent the studios. From that workshop we got a better understanding what the people involved though about TAC, what they’d like TAC to be and how we could incorporate that into a new site. We decided to create an online communication platform based on the social hub called Facebook (you might have heard about it). On Facebook we (TAC and us) created several groups for the renters and volunteers where they could share, ask, answer and organize. Aside from that, there was already a popular Facebook page for TAC, where new events were posted as well as media (photos and video’s) from past events. Twitter was used as a promotion tool so we incorporated that into the new online communication platform for TAC as well.

Since every organization wants to have it’s own face and branding, the social streams from the above mentioned groups were brought together on their own website, under a nice design by OddOne. The backend CMS was built using Drupal with Facebook Connect for user registration. This way TAC still has its own unique face, feel and branding, while using the best social media and online communication tools available. It’s a true two way communication platform, not just mentioning twitter and Facebook feeds, but letting volunteers, renters, organization and visitors interact with each other and find the information they’re looking for.

Visit TAC.nu for a look-see…

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Working on some icons

Roger — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:32:11 +0000

I’m trying to come up with an icon language for our new website / branding. Posting some sketches here to see how it looks on the screen and maybe get some feedback from the interwebs. They represent analysis, building / execute, plan. This is just a first sketch to see what works. Hope to use these as an inspiration for the whole look and feel of this project. Would like to go for a cartoon/comic book look. More on that later.

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New Bubble – New Ideas

Roger — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:41:20 +0000

Now the WSJ has picked up the Bubble 2.0 meme as well it’s time to move on and start figuring out what to actually build. I’ve been meeting some interesting people lately, both on and offline and I think it’s time to drop the features and pick up the application. Use the features of a platform to create new applications. With API’s of course. Too many of these new apps that come out are basically features that should have been implemented in Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin in the first place. So for those apps, it’s only a matter of time before social platforms pick up their idea and implement it themselves (see Twittercounter and Twitter Analytics as the latest example). What I’d like to do is come up with new apps that combine features and data available through platform API’s and present/mashup/use it to fulfill a user’s custom needs. We’re working on that…

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Summer is over?

Roger — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:59:26 +0000

Seems like it, if you look at the weather here in the Lowlands. Seems more like early fall. Oh how I wish we had an indian summer coming up late September, early October. Who knows, we might have a climate shift in the right direction for a change… With summer vacation over though, it’s time to start working full time again, and not a minute too soon. Looking for a couple of new porjects, hopefully one or two in which we can implement our new CMS, which is looking better by the day, thanks to the great work of Patrick. So if you’re looking for a team of kick-ass developers, look no further and drop me a line. Also working on W24B, ramping up the marketing and aquisition part of that new venture. Site should be done this week, after which we’ll start knockin’ on some doors here and there. W24B is turning into an ever evolving network of people who know eachother and have their own specialties, and one thing in common; a strong vision on how to use the web as a solution for a meriad of problems, with an emphasis on Social Media.

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First online court in the Netherlands online

Roger — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:02:14 +0000

After two months of hard work we launched our biggest project to date today. e-Court is the first online court in the Netherlands. It’s a complete web-based solution to resolve your legal dispute (monetary claims mainly). Within 8 weeks and for a fraction of the cost of a regular court process, you can come to a conclusion, provided in a legal binding document. With a simple sign up, verification and invitation to the other party involved you start the process after which the site will guide both parties and the judge through the proceedings on a week to week basis. From sign up, payment, case files and verdict, it’s all done online. There is an option to have a hearing, where all parties involved can meet each-other during the process at a location chosen by the judge.

All in all this is our most ambitious project yet and we look forward to making it even better and helping it evolve over time.

The e-Court website

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