Our team has been quite busy throughout 2011 so we thought we’d take a minute to re-cap on a productive year:
New web sites:
- Dublin City Children’s Services Committee: We built a new site for the DCCSC who collaborate to improve policy development and delivery of services for children and families in Dublin City. It’s brand new so let us know what you think.
- Dublin City Comhairle na nÓg: Comhairle Na nÓg is Dublin’s Parliament for Young People. The Parliament is made up of a group of approximately 50 young people aged between 12 and 17 from areas all over Dublin. They wanted to be able to publish articles about the work of Comhairle and colloborate online with each other.
Continued development of:
- dublin.ie email: It’s 16 months since we moved from Atmail v5 to v6 and we’ve applied numerous patches since to add functionality and aid stability. We’re acutely aware that people want to connect to their dublin.ie account from their phones so we created two helpdesk articles: for iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch) and Android (phone/tablet). We hope to add additional storage space early in 2012 and speed up peformance too.
- Dublin City Community Maps: We’ve come a long way in our development of a mapping tool for community related data. Through our analysis of how people use it, we brought in a single search box. We’ve spent many months tweaking how it works and we believe it will be even more effective with the final raft of changes due to be installed in early 2012.
- Dublin City Cycling: Dublin’s cycling population has expanded hugely with the success of the Dublin Bikes Scheme and the cycling site has lots of content to assist. The blog has been quite busy too with posts on bike security, Dublin’s first Skyride, the lunchtime Bike Ride in June and more.
Assisting other projects:
- Dublin Tall Ships 2012: Dublin, as Final Host Port, is expecting to see up to 100 Tall Ships visit for a four day festival between August 23rd-26th 2012. We’ve been consulting with the project team in regards to the development of dublintallships.ie and the social media elements like Facebook (give it a Like!) and Twitter. Watch for more in the new year.
- Creative Dublin Alliance: The Creative Dublin Alliance is a network led by the Dublin City Manager, with members drawn from the most senior level in Local Government, Commerce, Industry, Education, State Agencies and Not-for-Profit Sector. We’re hosting the site and you can have a look at the many projects underway (like Dublinked and Innovation Dublin) over on creativedublinalliance.ie.
We’d like to thank Sabrina Dent, Katherine Nolan, Xwerx and X-Communications who were our external collaborators on the projects mentioned above.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all dublin.ie visitors. We put