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UN Agency for Women

Sammy Dunham — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:36:16 +0000

We are pleased to announce that the UN-gear.eu website went live May 2009.

In Spring 2008 a consortium of NGOS who are the focal point for gender equality and reform within Europe, Oxfam NOVIB, ACTSA, The European Women’s Lobby Group, Women in Development Europe (WIDE) decided to step up a gear for the call for a a UN Agency for Women. This had already been called upon by Kofi Annan as part of his handover speech.

The consortium wanted a site ready to go live in July 2008 which would allow petitioners to add their name to an online petition calling for a UN Agency for women whilst in addition be able to actively email both the UN and their own local Minister of Foreign Affairs calling for this to be put in place.

The website’s architecture had to be incredibly simply to use due to the number of differing European wide nationalities that would be using the site whose mother tongue wasn’t English. Ready for June 2008 webSEOlive designed & created an open source php content management system that fulfilled this criteria, integrating their logo and which gave flexibility to add on more camapaign and petitions as appropriate in addition integrated Wordpress to make the most of its RSS feed. A flash functionality was created to allow the editors of the site upload new facts to a pictorial map as they were published rather than having to rely on an agency to do this for them which would have incurred extra expense.

Cross national consortiums take a little longer to create content than a single body and the site was finally launched May 15 2009. This is a vital cause and we sincerely hope that it does reach its worthy objective.

MS Society Christmas Viral Greetings Card

Sammy Dunham — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:56:48 +0000

The Multiple Sclerosis Society commissioned webSEOlive to create an affordable viral greetings card that could sent over the Christmas period to both their individual members and donors and in addition their coporate and grants fundraisers.

The card had to be able to be sent by MS Society employees easily using Outlook whilst being embeded onto the website to allow members of the Multiple Sclerosis Society to send to friends and family via their website.

Pump Aid – a Virtual Fundraising Package

Sammy Dunham — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:51:51 +0000

Pump Aid the creators of the Elephant Water Pump and Elephant Toilet which has so successfully helped sanitation problems in Zimbabwe and Malawi commissioned Sam Dunham in 2008 to provide a rebranding & comprehensive online fund raising ‘package’.

Not for them just up-to-date branding with a new site design and the usual newsletter, they required Web2 functionality and an integrated e-commerce functionality that they could control rather than having to rely on 3rd parties like CAF. Most importantly Sam was tasked to create a bespoke virtual donor database thus cutting out all costly license fees to The Raisers Edge and similar fund raising software.

The successful system was launched to coincide with the announcement of Pump Aid being The Times Christmas Charity.