Dereck was approached by his good friend Bandi Biko to build a web site for the Homes for Aids Orphans. Eluthandweni - Means "Place of Love. It is a non-profit making organisation aimed at providing a safe, residential environment for AIDS orphans where they will be loved as individuals, provided with education, healthcare and life skills training, as well as taught the importance of having a work ethic and discipline.
We built the site for them using our Dot Net Nuke enterprise content management system. Dot Net Nuke really is an amazing open source .Net platform for building website. We purchased the skin from snow covered and the most time consuming part was adding the content and getting the graphic designer to create the images for us.
If are you an NPO or NGO and you think the kind of site you need fits an enterprise content management (content templates) model we will host if for you at no cost.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Brandhouse Mixology Silverlight Enterprise Web2.0 Portal
New Media Labs develops the first silverlight Enterprise Web2.0 portal in South Africa for the brandhouse mixology program. Mixology will use this social networking website to link Mixology members together. And in doing so promote bar staffing as a respectable career. The mixologist will be able to take video footage of themselves "Flaring" or mixing cocktails and upload them to a mixology silverlight video server. Maps will provide locations of each bar with a Mixologist bar staff member, along with links to their profiles or videos they have uploaded. Photographs taken at events will be uploaded to a photo profile for Mixology and only viewable by Mixology members.
The video content was originally going to be provided by youtube. But due to the complex authorisation workflow process brandhouse required, we decided to build our own video encoding and streaming service. The videos were then encoded using the Silverlight2.0 Encoder (apparently the first production purchase of this software in South Africa).
This was a very fun and exciting project. The application has come out of the testing phase so watch this space...
The video content was originally going to be provided by youtube. But due to the complex authorisation workflow process brandhouse required, we decided to build our own video encoding and streaming service. The videos were then encoded using the Silverlight2.0 Encoder (apparently the first production purchase of this software in South Africa).
This was a very fun and exciting project. The application has come out of the testing phase so watch this space...
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