Emergent Village
Objective
Our goal Emergent Village needs to build a web site consistent with the organizations core values and growing influence in the American religious landscape. Using Textpattern, we made it easy for users to find, use, share and mash-up Emergent Village content.
Features
- Centralized all web properties: static content, weblog and podcast under one domain
- Comments added to all sections of the site with special attention paid to the weblog and podcast
- Google map of Emergent Cohorts (small grass-roots groups scattered around North America)
- Aggregating and publishing non-hosted cohort RSS feeds
- Podcast powered by Libsyn and integrated with web site
- Integrated with Google Calendar for event listings
- New site uses valid, semantic mark up for accessibility and search engine optimization
- Tracks and measures site performance using Google Analytics and CrazyEgg
Consulting
Turtle provided web design, user interface, CMS development and web host administration for this project. We advised the client on the best uses of so-called Web 2.0 technologies. The goal was to utilize technologies only so far as the integrated with the community and benefited the client.
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