Are you wishing for some cooler weather yet? Before you know it we will be in football season then inundated with holiday ads. Before we get too far ahead of ourselves we would like to take a few moments to toot our own horn about some of our recent accomplishments, drop some exciting news and take look at what lies ahead.
RECENT LAUNCHES
We have been very busy over the summer and look forward to cranking out several new projects in the coming months. In case you missed some of our recent launches:
The Population Institute
This project was a complete rewrite of everything: infrastructure, design, content, content management, donation process and membership management. In a departure from our previous coding standards, we switched JavaScript frameworks from Mootools to jQuery. Both frameworks are very powerful and perform many of the same functions but it is always good for developers to have a varied arsenal of tools available. Their new donation system now accepts international donations! See the site at www.populationinstitute.org and blog.populationinstitute.org
Anthony Foxx for Charlotte Mayor
While we did initial development on the site, the campaign looked to take the site’s design and focus in a different direction. We worked with the campaign to come up with a fresh new design, direct integration with their e-mail blast software and better utilization of the Zend Framework’s YouTube application interface. Visit the site at www.anthonyfoxx.com.
Artists United for Health Care
Another client brought to us through Evolve Strategies (www.evolvestrategies.net), Artists United for Health Care is an initiative by LINC Philadelphia to provide affordable health care to artists. Evolve Strategies provided the design and Sononaco provided the back-end development through the Drupal Content Management System. See the site at www.artistsunitedforhealthcare.org.
Richard Aborn for Manhattan District Attorney
We are proud to launch and host the web services for Richard Aborn’s campaign for Manhattan District Attorney. Double Agent Design (www.doubleagentdesign.com) provided the design services and Sononaco hooked up the Zend Framework/Zend Server powered back-end to connect the web site contribution and volunteer tools with NGP. Check the site out at www.abornforda.com
APCO International
Sononaco has been working with the Association of Public Safety and Communications Officers (APCO) International for about the past year. We have worked to keep things up and running for them while developing new web initiatives for the vast services they offer their members. Just last month APCO moved their server hosting to Sononaco. There are a lot of more exciting things coming up for APCO. Josh and Sumi have been working like gangbusters (that’s a joke!) on the site. Visit APCO at www.apcointl.org
WE’RE EXPANDING!
We are very excited to announce that we are opening another office! To better serve our DC area/Amtrak route clients we are opening an office in the Washington area. The new office opens next week (the week of August 3rd) near Fort Myer in Arlington. The new address is:
Sononaco, Inc.
2300 N. Pershing Drive
Suite 201-4
Arlington, VA 22201
The new office has plenty of **free** parking, is located just a block from Route 50 and is an easy 10 minute from the Court House or Clarendon Metro stations.
What does this mean for the Charlotte office? Nothing. Well, except it’s going to have a little less furniture and plants. 212 S. Tryon is staying where it is. And yes, both the 704 and 202 numbers will still work. Keith will continue to split time between both offices. However, he will not be available this Wednesday through Friday as the gets the new office set up.
What’s brewing in the lab?
We have several exciting projects that will be released over the next few months that you will probably hear us going on about. A few are:
A web site launch that has been in development for over a year and a half!
A new multi-user CMS-powered web site specifically designed to provide unique content in multiple languages
A new application that takes content on an external host and makes it available to users on a separate system with syncing ability!
That’s all for now!
Thank you to everyone for your continued business! We look forward to an exciting second half of 2009 at Sononaco!
–Keith, Josh, Sumi & Leigh