Caswell Monuments
August 20 2009
The sequel to CaswellSculptures.com, CaswellMonuments.com houses the monument collection of bronze artist, Rip Caswell.
The website helps showcase, and display Rip’s life-size or larger pieces, allowing users to view them the collection in its entirety or by production availability: “One of a Kind” and “Limited Edition”. Additionally, the site describes Rip’s philosophy and approach for creating a monument.
Locus helped architect the content and create usable site wireframes for the page layouts. To keep branding consistent across the Caswell website family, the site adopted the look and feel of RipCaswell.com, but with a “monument” moniker attached.
The site also has a robust Case Study section to help communicate how a monument is “not just art”. Monuments bring value and sense of place to communities, parks, buildings and gathering places, providing an immediate return on their investment.
The site brings a return on investment to the Caswell administration team by allowing quick and easy updates via the content management system, for all products, product categories, and content on the site. Additionally, the site was developed with robust search engine optimization features that include custom page names for each of the sculptures, easily viewable and editable meta data for each page, on-the-fly generated site map, the ability to set canonical pages for duplicate content and much, much more.
Once you’ve perused the Monument website, be sure to check out the Gallery Site in our portfolio and on the web.
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RiverHealth.org Wins Achievement Award
July 23 2009
Clackamas County's RiverHealth Initiative was one of six county programs honored in peer judging by national and international organizations.
The RiverHealth program was developed through the Department of Water and Environmental Services to educate and to connect with the community about the Capacity Management Program, a short-term remedy to wastewater capacity issues presently facing the county. RiverHealth reached a larger audience with a focused message through a state-of-the-art Web site (www.riverhealth.org). The brand has improved the level of citizen participation in and understanding of this important county initiative.
In addition to the achievement award from The National Association of Counties (NACo) the campaign also received an Award of Distinction from the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA). The organization is comprised of leading professionals from various sectors of the visual arts, dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving methods of traditional and interactive media.
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Locus Launch: CommunityHealthCorps.org
April 17 2009
Founded in 1995 by the National Association of Community Health Centers, Community HealthCorps (CHC) is the largest health-focused, national AmeriCorps program that promotes health care for America’s underserved, while developing tomorrow’s health care workforce.
CommunityHealthCorps.com was built and designed to maintain the overall theme and architecture of its Locus-built parent website NACHC.com. While similar in design and architecture, the CHC website was developed with additional functionality specific to CHC's needs. In order to engage the CHC member organizations and illustrate real-world examples of the work the the Community Health Corps are doing Locus built a module for website users and CHC member organizations to submit their stories through the website. Once submitted, administrators can review (and edit if necessary) stories and post them to show on the website.
To be an additional resource to members, there is a password-protected area where CHC administrators can set up target categories for all member documents that are shared with CHC. When members log in, they can upload drafts and final versions of these documents to accurately communicated them CHC. Other member-specific documents and content can also be added to this section.
If you are interested in finding out more about the Community Health Corps mission head on over to CommunityHealthCorps.org and check them out.
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COSEE OLC (with University of Washington and The Seattle Aquarium)
March 04 2009
COSEE OLC is all about creating community around our ocean. OLC stands for Ocean Learning Community, and therefore the goal of the site was to allow the offline community to connect online.
Funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the University of Washington's School of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, School of Education and the Seattle Aquarium teamed up to take on the task of bringing scientists, educators and citizens together to share ocean knowledge.
The site has a members area (anyone can join), where social media marketing functions such as profiles, Facebook-like statuses phrased as "What I am working on" and the ability for users to submit content bring the ocean community online.
"Two Minutes of Cool Science" is designed to help bring hot ocean topics to light in small, palatable chunks, designed with the online attention span in mind.
Locus' email marketing tool, integrated with Vertical Response tops it all off as way to keep all community members up to date, even if they haven't logged on in a while.
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ODOT Region 1 Intranet
January 13 2009
Region 1 of Oregon’s Department of Transportation (ODOT) is made up of almost 500 employees from Portland to Mt. Hood, who work in the field, at a desk, in a truck or on the scene of a mudslide, as the case often is in rainy Oregon. The marketing team at ODOT sought an Intranet to effectively communicate with each of these employees (even those who don’t work at a desk), to facilitate and improve region-wide communication.
Locus came in with content management and functionality recommendations to help ODOT achieve their goals. The result is a dynamic Intranet that allows the ODOT administrators to easily update a photo of the day (or two), articles that spotlight employee’s jobs, news from the Region 1 Manager, Jason Tell (aptly titled “Tell it Like it Is”), an event calendar complete with Microsoft Outlook event cards, and a section dedicated to region resources such as phone directories and project reports.
Finally, one of the most creative features of the site is the “Content to Go” area which allows the administrators to package and post pieces of the website in PDF format to be printed and read in break rooms, truck cabs and yes, even en route to that roadside mudslide!
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