Media

Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) partnered with CivicActions in 2010 to augment a powerful online portal connecting video producers, media makers and students to support BAVC's goals of empowering the public to bring their artistry and vision to public access television, and to teach the public video production and computer skills through educational programs.

The Recording Academy approached CivicActions for support with their customized CiviCRM implementation which maintains membership data for their professional organization through the http://grammy365.com website.

"The project helped show us the user-centered design process from the ground up. It showed how effective the process was and how we could do it ourselves in the future... We had read books about usability testing and user-centered design, but you helped us learn the skills and demystified the process. It’s a new skillset that our organization can continue to use on our own." 

-Daniel Newman, Co-Founder, Executive Director of MapLight.org

Challenge

American Public Media (APM) approached CivicActions in November 2010 to produce a campaign site to highlight public media and its funding in the USA , attract partner public media stations - to date over 250 stations have signed up - and encourage users to show their support for public media.

Henry Poole, provided strategic support to APM, thinking through the site goals and messaging.

Chuck Spidell worked with the APM team to produce a stunning and compelling website design and additional graphic assets to be used by partner stations.

With an active, very passionate and ever-growing audience, Democracy Now! was looking to implement a constituent relationship management system to improve their ability to inform, rally and garner support from their viewers. At the top of their list of requirements for this system was that they could inform and mobilize their audience in a respectful way. This meant empowering the audience member who signed up to specify how and when they would like to be contacted.

CMCM tasked CivicActions with setting up a Drupal module called MERCI on their website that would help them manage equipment rentals and inventory for their new facility. The Knight Foundation sponsored Open Media Project had just released the module and it was unclear if it would serve all of CMCM’s needs.

Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) came to CivicActions to upgrade and update their Drupal 4.6 site with a visually appealing, Drupal 6 site showcasing CSF analysis projects, research publications and training programs. The site also incorporates CSF's new geo-economic HydroCalculator tool. By using a site taxonomy that includes both topics and geographic terms, users are able to filter by geographic location or topic.

CivicActions worked with the Conservation Strategy Fund to build an online geo-economic HydroCalculator tool that empowers citizens, conservationists and scientists worldwide to make informed judgments about the effectiveness of proposed and existing hydro-electric power stations and understand and evaluate better and more accurately projects with excessive environmental, social or economic costs or low energy potential.

Each year, Amnesty International releases a comprehensive report on the state of the world's human rights. Amnesty International decided on Drupal as their website platform for the 2009 report based on the successful redesign of their main site with Drupal in 2007.