Well,…. busy, busy, busy!! It’s been a crazy month here at Gruden. Unfortunately long hours for all, but we’ve had some great projects to work on this month. Good projects make it a little more bearable when I have to work on the weekend instead of going to the snow!
One of the most exciting things that has taken place this month is that we have now officially become the Premiere Partner of Shado MX in Australia! If you haven’t heard about Shado MX yet, don’t fret – because you definitely will soon!
I hear you ask ‘What’s Shado MX??’. Shado MX was developed by Straker Interactive and is a powerful, stable and versatile Content Management System and web application framework for Intranet, Extranet or Internet applications. Shado MX has over 60 installations in Australia, NZ and the UK. It’s built to serve large amounts of information to diverse audiences, major success has been experienced in the public sector of Government, Education and also large corporations.
It’s that time of year again people, and as our CFO says “happy new year!”. Yes boys and girls – it’s tax time…. Joy! Because we are such nice people here at Gruden, we’ve been providing free tax advice on our website Taxpack.com.au for some years now. Taxpack was recently invited on the ABC radio for their tax special show. Our CFO was bombarded with a heap of tax questions from callers around Australia, and some interesting questions about our website too! Need help or advice?? Check out Taxpack!
This month saw us start our relationship with the Disney Channel, where we created the website for their new morning breakfast show called AMTV which is hosted by previous Popstars winner – Scott Cain! This is a pretty cool little flash website, stage 2 (launched very soon!) will have a ‘change the set’ feature and a breakfast game to keep all the kiddies entertained. You can check it out here!
Our work for the Department of Commerce has continued this month, but with the Office of Information Technology this time. Gruden was required to redevelop & package their Privacy Training Program, which is to be distributed to all government departments in NSW.
We’re also kicking off on the second stage of development for the Department of Commerce’s smartbuy website. This stage requires changing the focus of the website from a ‘What is’ to a ‘How to’ website. Stage 2 of the smartbuy website will be live in mid August.
Our legal clients are continuing to grow all the time, this month we’ve started working with Henry Davis York where we carried out some mods on their Intranet and Extranet web services. Kemp Strang are almost ready to roll over to their new website – only a few days off now! Acuiti Legal are continually enhancing their website with their new features and services, some of which will be launched shortly.
The Collex redesign is now underway and starting to look pretty spiffy if I say so myself! The new ARIA homepage is also well on track – this puppy is gonna be one sexy beast, so keep an eye out for this one.
Gruden has been chosen once again to carry out the voting for this year’s ARIA Awards. Last year saw the awards voting move to an online only environment for the first time in it’s history, this year we are building upon it and adding more & more features to make it one powerful system!
We’ve got some great projects coming up shortly, a few large CMS implementations, a rewards & loyalty program, website redesigns and more!
Anyway boys and girls, if you’ve made it this far down the page – nice work. It’s been a bit of a long one this month, but I’m sure you found it a riveting read!!
Be good, look after yourselves and remember – It was a brave man that ate the first oyster!
Till next time!
