With Christmas only a distant memory and the pain of New Years only now subsiding – it’s time to get back into it! Ohhh Yeah – Get ready for a BIG Year at Gruden!
For all of those who were able to make it to our first Client Christmas party, thanks for helping make it an excellent night! Kicking off in the early hours of the afternoon took it’s toll on a few who decided / needed to call it a night after the pub closed (wise decisions!) – but a few brazen and well lubed individuals continued on till the early hours of the morning at an inner city club….. That’s where it all turned to tears…. the simple task of standing and talking turned into a marathon of senseless gibberish – but boy it was fun!
December also saw the completion of the CBOnline website Data Collection Module (DCM). YAY!! The DCM enables the Community broadcasting sector, which includes all radio stations around Australia (about 420), to input their data into a central online database. You’ve all been hearing about this puppy for months now, and now it’s finally finished!! The sad news is that we can’t show you anything as it’s all secured away behind the scenes!!
To give you a better idea though, it includes a detailed graphing module, CSV importation, extensive reporting, user tracking module and more!! The DCM was a huge project in development for over 14 months, if you wish to read more (don’t want to bore you here) about CBOnline check out the case study.
Academies Australasia required a website with a super quick turnaround – The website was developed and live within a 2 week period!! Academies Australasia is owned by Garratts (asx: GRT) and recently acquired an additional 3 colleges. They required a simple, easy to navigate website with all new colleges and relevant content to be available for stage one of their website development. The next stage is e-enabling all their back office.
EE-Oz also had their Content Management System (CMS) upgraded to include the latest tools and features! A powerful WYSIWYG editor was integrated into their site to enable them to easily update and manage the thousands of pages of content on the EE-Oz website.
A big thank you to Macromedia is required! Macromedia was nice enough to take all of their Alliance Partners in the Asia Pacific Region to Tangalooma Dolphin resort for three days…. very nice!!
Macromedia showcased their Rich Internet Applications (RIA) – the future of the Internet. If you haven’t heard about RIA – get in contact with us to see what the future holds!!
So apart from that G-spotter-ites, we’re done for the month of December! I’ve also made a new years resolution to make sure that I get the G-spot done on time this year!! So it’ll always be updated in the first week of the month… That as well as eating breakfast each morning!! And so far so good on that front!
Till the next action packed, emotionally charged, much loved edition of the G-Spot – I leave you with a photo of our art director from his trip to Burke and back! and photos of our staff Christmas party!
Have Fun!
PS. Best wishes to our good friend (we wish) Jon Gruden who has guided the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to their first ever NFL Super Bowl this year after being with the club for only 12 months. The Buccaneers will be up against the Oakland Raiders who Gruden also coached from 1998 to 2001. Best of luck Jon!
