Raised Eyebrow Blog

It’s been a busy year at the Raised Eyebrow HQ. To date we have worked on more than 30 different website projects and we’ve got a few more in the works. For some projects we designed, built and launched an entire website and for others we worked on the design and handed development over to someone else. Overall the projects were as varied as our clients.

We dabbled a little in the political arena and built the JustShutUpBC website. We also worked on the nomination site for Gregor Robertson (which has since been taken offline) and we built websites for Geoff Meggs and Heather Deal. Gregor, Geoff and Heather all won in the recent civic election which can only mean that having a site done by Raised Eyebrow is sort of like a good luck charm when it comes to election time ;-)

Ofcourse the big political website we worked on in ‘08 was for the BC NDP.

We also had a chance to work with a collection of musical clients. The Vancouver Recital Society got an updated look for their new season. The Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir got a whole new site that allows site visitors to listen to their music, buy tickets to their shows and purchase their CDs online. The Chan Centre’s website was moved into Drupal and they were also given a new look for their new season.

This year we had a contingent of clients on the Educational side of things:

• The Federation of Post Secondary Educators got an updated look and we also helped reorganize their site when it was moved into Drupal.
• The BC Teachers of English Language Arts got a snazzy new site which has a really great Resource section and a dynamic Conference area.
• Economics for Everyone is primarily a book but we got to build the book’s online companion which houses further resources for educators, unionists, activists and anyone else interested in modern day capitalism.

As well we got to work on a few sites for people who do really great work to try to make this world a bit better for everyone:

• Covenant House Vancouver: an incredible organization dedicated to helping homeless youth.
• ThinkCity: they help to empower citizens to realize their dreams of having the city they want to live in.
• Citizens for Public Power: an advocacy organization working to keep the province’s power generation system in public hands.
• The Columbia Institute: they work to foster individual and organizational leadership to help nurture sustainable communities.
• Shareholder Association for Research and Education: a social enterprise that works to coordinate and implement responsible investment practices.

It’s been an absolute pleasure to work with such great clients who are doing such awesome work themselves.

We also got to launch a pet project that was waiting in the wings for some time: the RE Blog.

It’s been a fantastic – and productive – year at Raised Eyebrow. Happy Holidays everyone! All the very best to you in ‘09.

This entry was written by Melanie Mena on Friday, December 19th, 2008 at 2:51 pm, is filed under Our Clients, Raised Eyebrow, and is tagged as . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.