IFCPP chooses NavigateTomorrow
Wednesday, 09 September 2009 07:02
The International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection chose NavigateTomorrow for two of their most important projects in years.
With all the talk about how non-profits are managing in 2009, the IFCPP decided it was time to act. Two projects - a website re-design to bring added functionality and appeal; and online video courses for their two main tracks of certification.
The Process:
We spent time reviewing the old site, making recommendations for a design change and added functionality. We suggested a user survey to allow the client to really get a feel for how their constituency viewed the site and its appeal. Based on the survey response and input from our team, the IFCPP went from this:
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The Solution:
The Content Management System we chose for this site is Joomla! Some of the features of the new site include:
- Community Builder - a social networking and integrated registration tool.
- CB Subscriptions - some of the IFCPP content is for members only. In addition, the online video courses are not free. We used cbsubs to facilitate both. Users can purchase the entire course, which includes over 11 hours of videos (sample below), exams (automatically graded) and downloadable pdfs.
- Community Forum
- Picture galleries
- Online store for both hard copies and downloadable resources
- Customizable rotating front page slide show
- Customizable member's lists
- Built in email marketing
- Online video and podcasting
- and the list goes on...
The second project was to shoot and produce the 14 main sessions from their 2009 National Conference - this year in Chicago at the Art Institute.
We took a unique approach to this shoot... Instead of just filming to tape (Canon XL2) - we digitized directly to hard drives using Screenflow and 3 Macs. This cut down the editing / production time to days instead of months. We were editing sessions with 4 main tracks - 2 cameras, audio, and slides/powerpoint - directly from the presentation computer - during the next sessions!
The results were pretty impressive. We were able to get the online video course on the website in 3 weeks, (including a week of vacation!). Highly recommend Screenflow for the Mac.
This is a short sample - all editing done directly in Screenflow.
The site address is http://www.ifcpp.org.
