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Social Radio

“Equal access to social rich media is required for social radio to work. We live in one world, and it’s getting smaller.”

Brian Greene (partner at doop.ie) and blip.fm ambassador is a avid fan of social radio. Here he is interviewed by Pete Dulin for the blog BlipNation.

Dulin: What does this phrase, “people controlled radio,” mean to you?

BrianGreene: “People controlled radio” is radio that we the listeners control. Radio by the people, for the people. Radio has been in the hands of the governments and the regulators and the corporations and the advertising departments for 100 years. Now we have passed the point in needing anyone but ourselves to programme our radio needs. And I don’t just mean music; documentaries, news, comment, and chat, we can share it all on social radio platforms, and Blip.FM is the truest form of social radio that I have yet seen.

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HB Ice Cream Fundays

You can support the 8th HB Ice Cream Fundays for Down Syndrome Ireland by hosting an ice-cream party with FREE HB Hazelbrook Farm ice-cream and raise vital funds which will go towards the ongoing development of Down Syndrome Ireland’s services.

doop used the flexibilty of the Joomla CMS system, which allows multiple template designs within one site to adjust the design for the HB Fundays section only.

See Change website

See Change is Ireland’s new national partnership to reduce stigma and challenge discrimination associated with mental health problems. It is an alliance of organisations working together through the National Stigma Reduction Partnership to bring about positive change in public attitudes and behaviour towards people with mental health problems.

doop were commissioned to develop the campaign website to coordinate multimedia content and social networking links while allowing See Change staff to update site content via the CMS system.

Speaking Events website

SpeakingEvents.com is an online guide to global speaking events, showing you where and when the best talks are happening in your area and bringing them all together under one address. doop were commissioned to develop a CMS based website to allow easy registration and categrisation of events by staff and online users.

Irish Deaf Kids win at eGovernment Awards

Congratulations to doop designed www.IrishDeafKids.ie for winning at the 8th Annual Ireland’s eGovernment Awards. At the awards ceremony in Dublin, IDK beat off stiff competition to win the Supporting Inclusive Education Category.

Other websites short-listed in the same category included Bluebrick.ie, ArtLinks, the Irish Maritime Development Office and the Online Maths Programme developed by Meath County Council and NUI Maynooth.

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Bolton Trust Redesign and CMS

The Bolton Trust are an organisation that promote new business enterprises in Ireland.  Having previously designed their website, doop recently freshened up the site’s design as well as implementing wordpress cms in the back-end to allow them to update their ‘news’ section themselves. This worked so well that they came back to us asking for the entire site to be updateable using the same wordpress install. This involved rebuilding the code within wordpress whilst maintaining the original handcoded design.

Bunty’s Boudoir

Bunty’s Boudoir is the ultimate dressing service in Ireland. Bringing to the TG community only the highest quality of service with passion and understanding.

doop were asked to design and develop a simple wesbite for the company that would allow staff to update the website themselves. We decided to use the wordpress content management system which will also easily facilitate further expansion with image galleries, event calendars and online payment systems.

Online payment system for Tattersalls

In July 2009 doop were contracted to build an online payments system for Tattersalls Ireland Limited.

Tattersalls bloodstock auctioneers hold 7 auctions per annum over 21 days selling 1000’s of lots from their complex in Ratoath, Co.Meath. Traditionally vendors selling lots would pay entry fees of lots at the sale by cheque. The ability to pay entry fees online would provide an alternative payment method for vendors.

Doop developed a bespoke entry system that captured all required details for multiple lots with a payments gateway to allow for the secure payment of the entry fees by credit card.

The business implication of this installation for Tattersalls means that vendors have more control and access to payments and entries. Also the system has been so successful Tattersalls now see 60% of entry fees are now paid online and this figure is growing with each sale.

The hidden benefit of this move to online payments is that Tattersalls have been able to shift payment terms from invoicing to upfront payments which, as any business knows this assists greatly with cash flow. Such is the volume of transactions through the new system, the company have been able to negotiate better gateway fees and are further driving down the cost of taking online payments.

There is of course a cultural shift in such systems, but satisfaction among vendors with the new payments method is universal.

Route 66 – Website & Discussion Board

Temple Street Children’s University Hospital commissioned doop to build the Route 66 Motorcycle Challenge Website. The motorcycle challenge has been running since 2002 and Temple Street Children’s Hospital and Irish 66ers are already preparing for their 5th trip down “the mother of all mother roads” in 2010.

The project included a website built around the wordpress publishing platform and a Discussion Board built around the Invision Powerboard system.

Down Syndrome Ireland – website redesign

Down Syndrome Ireland’s new website recently went live with a brand new design and the Joomla! content management system behind it. The site is designed to present a large amount of content and information through a friendly and easily accessible interface. The CMS allows DSI staff to easily update site content and documentation themselves.

doop have been working with Down Syndrome Ireland for many years and continue to assist the organisation in utilising digital technology to spread their message and assist in fundraising.

Eating Disorder Programme for St. Patrick’s Hospital

The Eating Disorder Unit at St Patrick’s Hospital was established over 15 years ago and caters for people with Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorders. doop were commissioned by St. Patrick’s Hospital to design & develop a series of programme websites providing information and feedback to patients.

St. Patrick’s Hospital website

Famously founded by the will of the great Jonathan Swift, St. Patrick’s University Hospital is Ireland’s largest independent mental health service provider. doop were commissioned to develop a new cms-based website highlighting the scope of services and programmes offered by the hospital.

Easyscreed Identity & Website

Easyscreed, a subsidiary of J B Concrete, are Ireland’s leading supplier of liquid flooring solutions. Having previously rebranded the company, doop recently built and launched their cms driven website.

IPPOSI website

The Irish Platform for Patients’ Organisations, Science & Industry is a patient led partnership facilitating interaction between the three key membership groups on policy, legislation and regulation around the development of new medicines, products, devices and diagnostics for unmet medical needs in Ireland.

doop were commissioned to restructure the site content and upgrade and improve the site template design. The site content was migrated from an old 1.0 Joomla! version up to the latest 1.5 release.

Embassy Estates website

Embassy Estates have been providing luxury long and short term accommodation in prime Dublin locations for over 20 years with a full executive management service. doop were commissioned to revamp and update the existing website allowing for easy presentation of the companies property locations.

Release website

Release is a not for profit speech and language therapy social enterprise with a focus on empowering parents to best work with their child. doop and Release have worked closely for many years and recently added a blog and a new template to the Release website.