Late again with the G-Spot – I should be shot… But boy – is this issue worth it!! (Aren’t they all ?!!) Where to start..?! With summer just around the corner and the silly season into full effect, all at Gruden are working hard so that we can have that well earned holiday we deserve… and a huge Christmas party!
Things have been powering along as usual and to cope with the flurry of work, we’ve added a few new superstars to the team. So I’d like to take the time to welcome Emerson Todd and Lucy Crowley; and I’d like to welcome back – Nick Mountford after a year of being overseas! All of these guys will be joining the Project Management (PM) team.
BIG congratulations is to go to our Senior PM Lindsey Falconer who has recently left to go on maternity leave; and more recently had her first baby girl – Evie Star (great name – she has to be famous with a name like that!). So big congrats to Lindsey and Chris – nice one guys. Whilst on the topic of babies, I’d also like to congratulate Abe and Kel for their new baby boy, Indigo!
It’s been stupidly busy of late with lots of new cool stuff going on. We’ve recently launched the following sites: destra business, Sunbeam – Cool Creations, a re-skin of The George Institute, Disney Channel – School of the Future and a number of other developments and updates to various sites.
A few months ago we played a major part in the re-branding and redesign of our favourite charity – Childfund Australia. Childfund (previously know as CCF Australia) underwent a global re-branding exercise to reposition their message in the market – much nicer I think! We also recently represented them in the Charity Golf day event – sorry guys, I know we suck!!
Work with the NSW Government and the Department of Commerce for the online style guides is still moving along. The consortium, which includes all NSW government agencies, has been working hard to provide standards in development, templates, Information Architecture, User Interfaces, coding standards and a heap more for all NSW government departments.
We’ve also been working with the Department of Commerce on a few of their website applications (can’t say which ones just yet!) and providing a number of services to streamline and upgrade their site(s). More to come on this later!!
The Sunbeam – Cool Creations website has been a lot of fun, developing funky interactive content for the kiddies…! Any parents out there looking for cool Christmas presents for their kids, make sure you check out some of these products..! and while your there, try your luck at the Mikey Martian’s House Party game…
What else,… We’re also in the process of developing Henry Davis York’s Intranet on the Shado MX CMS and Framework. Group Event Travel is also undergoing some enhancements and new features to their loyalty & incentive application we developed a few years ago. Disney Channel has some really cool things under development – keep an eye out for these early next year.
And there’s heaps more to tell, but I can see that I’ve just been blabbering on about work and boring project stuff way too much – I’d be surprised how many people make it this far down…! So enough work talk – I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy, merry and safe Christmas and New Year..!
I know I’m looking forward to my break over the Christmas period – sun, surf, speedo’s, beers, BBQ’s & bikini’s – bring it on! Which reminds me that the office closes on the 22nd of December and re-opens on the 4th of January. A nice little break for us all.
But whilst your on holidays, kickin’ back, a little something to remember this festive season, is that a drunk mans’ words are a sober mans’ thoughts…!
Till next time!
