Summer 2008 update
It's been an exceptionally busy 12 months for everyone at Torchbox, so here's a quick roundup of some of the things we've been doing...
In no particular order, we've:
- Launched the Love Food Hate Waste campaign website and the latest iteration of Recycle Now for WRAP, whose corporate homepage also received a major redesign.
- Redeveloped the University of Oxford website which, together with the University's Alumni Office and Major Fundraising Campaign sites, is now powered by RationalMedia.
- Produced Drupal sites for the forthcoming environmental documentary The Age of Stupid and local sustainable furniture designers Wesley-Barrell.
- Self-funded the development and launch of our own personal carbon monitoring tool, The Carbon Account, the code for which we also open sourced. The Carbon Account has recently been mentioned in three Big Green Challenge bids.
- Launched online community features for WWF's Footprint Calculator at Grand Designs Live.
- Redesigned the NDCS website in line with their organisational re-brand.
- Launched a new site for the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health.
- Completed our redesign of the International Committee of the Red Cross website and Intranet, which we've now handed over to their CMS implementation partner.
- Rolled out incremental updates to the Java servlets application that powers Slivers of Time, which has just won a UK Catalyst Award for social technology.
- Launched our first legal sector site for the leading barristers' chambers, Blackstone.
- Expanded the range of services available to our clients, including more focused offerings for usability testing, SEO and viral marketing.
- Re-engineered our internal production processes to use the agile software development methodology, Scrum.
- Continued to recruit great people and we're still hiring.
- Established Oxford Geek Nights as a fixture on the social calendar for the digitally-inclined. As usual, we've got some great speakers lined up for Geek Night 8.
