emerge interactive

WebActive provides the ability to the YMCA-SF to create and manage multiple micro-sites. This innovative feature allows individual branches to control and update the content of their own sites, while news, events and other content assets can be seamlessly shared between all the branches and the headquarters home site.

Challenge

• Provide consumers with up-to-date product information along with more and better reasons to come back.
• Give vendors the ability to update store information as well as download print-quality product imagery.
• Connect new website visitors to client's existing CRM systems.

Solution
Emerge collaborated closely with Santa Cruz Organic to design and build a solution that included:

• Comprehensive interactive strategy to meet the needs of the brands and their audiences. In-depth Information Architecture to create a fun and inviting user experience.
• Detailed Business and Technical Requirements which defined new features and functionality, including personalized, printable coupons, robust product and recipe management and extensive partner features, all integrated with existing SQB customer and data-management systems.
• Best-practice driven execution, including a full-featured and highly customized content management system.

Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and wife Pam established Omidyar Network based on their conviction that every person has the power to make a difference.

Together with our partner Hot Studio, who designed the company's new visual identity, Emerge Interactive developed Omidyar Network's new website using the Drupal Content Management System.

Challenge

• Provide consumers with up-to-date product information along with more and better reasons to come back.
• Give vendors the ability to update store information as well as download print-quality product imagery.
• Connect new website visitors to client's existing CRM systems.

Solution
Emerge collaborated closely with R.W. Knudsen to design and build a solution that included:

• Comprehensive interactive strategy to meet the needs of the brands and their audiences. In-depth Information Architecture to create a fun and inviting user experience.
• Detailed Business and Technical Requirements which defined new features and functionality, including personalized, printable coupons, robust product and recipe management and extensive partner features, all integrated with existing SQB customer and data-management systems.
• Best-practice driven execution, including a full-featured and highly customized content management system.

Based in Atlanta, GA, Nexidia is the leading company in phonetic search technologies, serving some of the world's largest rich media companies, such as MSNBC, contact centers, government agencies, and legal firms.

In partnership with Liquid Agency, Emerge Interactive developed Nexidia's new online presence using the Emerge's WebActive Content Management System. The new website is closely integrated into Nexidia's lead management systems, Manticore Technology and Salesforce.com. The flexibility of WebActive also allows Nexidia's staff to easily integrate into their Pay-per-click campaigns to create quality customer leads.

The National Head Start Association is a private non-profit organization dedicated to meeting the needs of Head Start children and their families. Emerge worked with NHSA and Wieden+Kennedy to fully outline what the organization wanted to accomplish with their website and how to best deliver the services their audiences needed. Our solution included:

• In-depth discovery and audience analysis which drove development of a user-centered Information Architecture to intuitively deliver appropriate functionality and content to each audience.
• An Enterprise-class Content Management System with multiple custom tools.
• CMS-driven site features including News, Events and Legislative updates, a nationwide jobs board, fully-featured online donations capability utilizing Payflow Pro and complete integration with their existing member-management system.
• Best-in-class development practices during implementation with comprehensive training and support to NHSA staff and volunteers.

Oregon's Wild Harvest produces certified organic herbal supplements on their biodynamic farm in the foothills of Mt. Hood. Emerge Interactive designed and developed their new online presence that reflects their passion for producing high quality products.

The new website uses Emerge's WebActive CMS to allow OWH's staff to easily maintain their extensive catalog of products and online database of retailers that allows visitors to find a store close to them.

Twin City Painting provides exterior painting services in the Pacific Northwest. They needed their new website presence to reflect their high-end environmentally friendly painting practices.

Emerge Interactive provided strategic consulting, including an extensive search engine optimization strategy, design and implementation.

Working side-by-side with Debbie Thomas Real Estate Emerge Interactive's efforts was focused on capitalizing and supporting other sales media and marketing efforts to achieve the impressive business goal. Putting its interactive expertise to use, Emerge provided these potential buyers with a sense of urgency and mystique, as well as built the impression that they already have, at their fingertips, what they need to make an informed purchase-regardless of the fact they've never stepped foot inside the unit.

The Interactive Floor Planner was the key to providing the excitement-generating experience. Using scaled floor plans of each unit, this Flash-based tool allows users to select specific furniture, choose its color, and arrange it with 360 degree mobility anywhere they see fit. The tool allows owners to realize and find joy in one of the more fun aspects of playing house: laying out the furniture. Ultimately, it proved to be a key driver in the decision to buy.

For ShopOregonHerbs Emerge Interactive designed and developed an easy-to-use online retail outlet, focusing on organic herbal supplements.

The website was built using the WebActive CMS and allows ShopOregonHerbs staff to easily maintain their extensive product catalog online.

UPLOGpro provides car dealerships with a revolutionary online lead tracking application. The challenge was to provide dealerships with a lightning fast and easy-to-use online application that would replace their internal whiteboards and paper logs.

Emerge Interactive worked closely with UPLOGpro to develop the application's project requirements, user interface, and web-application implementation. The resulting custom application takes advantage of the latest advances in AJAX technology to provide users with a seamless experience.

Working with Defteling Design, Emerge worked closely with The University of Oregon's Annual Giving Program to create their new website, which provides a broad spectrum of information and services to meet the needs of its equally broad audience.

Information is tailored for all different types of donors, from Alumni and Parents to Faculty, Current Students and the University's most generous supporters, President's Associates, who access special content through their own password-protected area of the site.

The website is driven by Emerge Interactive's content management system which provides a foundation for long-term growth and sustainability. This system allows the Annual Giving staff to seamlessly manage the website content and the numerous funds, as well as bloggers, DuckStories and more.

Emerge Interactive collaborated with The Green Grid and the U.S. Department of Energy to build a micro site that provides a collaboration space for members of the two organizations.

Together the two organizations are working to support a variety of activities, which aim to assist data center facilities in initiating and implementing an energy management program, to adopt clean energy and efficiency technologies and to achieve continual efficiency improvements.

The resulting micro site is built using Emerge Interactive's WebActive CMS, which allows administrators to easily maintain website content and moderate the collaboration suite.

Challenge
With such a vast database of whitepapers and case studies, Itanium Solutions Alliance needed a web solution that accommodated for easy access, to these valuable resources, by enterprise IT decision makers around the world.

Solution
Empire was tasked with implementing this CMS system to manage the above resources through a rich user-centered experience. Through a collaborative effort with partners and the Itanium Solutions Alliance, Empire was able to bring an unmatched level of customization to accomplish each goal.

Working with Wieden+Kennedy and Starbucks, Emerge Interactive developed a microsite to raise awareness and participation in the "Let's Clean Up Our Schools Day" community events. The website solution includes content management, event registration, and roster management.

The Solution
We connected the entire bookstore to their file maker database, and added advanced search resource tools that made finding desired titles very user friendly. We also added a custom ecommerce solution that streamlined the checkout process.

Over the last year, their organic web traffic and online orders have grown over 100%. This was mainly due to the extensive search engine optimization that was done to the site, as well as the rich user-centered functionality and design features

The Interactive Floor Planner was the key to providing the excitement-generating experience. Using scaled floor plans of each unit, this Flash-based tool allows users to select specific furniture, choose its color, and arrange it with 360 degree mobility anywhere they see fit. The tool allows owners to realize and find joy in one of the more fun aspects of playing house: laying out the furniture. Ultimately, it proved to be a key driver in the decision to buy.

The website is driven by Emerge Interactive's webactive content management system, which provides a foundation for limitless possibilities. This system allows Goosey Press staff to seamlessly manage the website content and e-commerce store. Emerge used the latest advances in DHTML, JavaScript, and Flash to provide a rich and inviting visitor experience.

Castor & Pollux Pet Works is a manufacturer of innovative premium pet products ranging from organic pet food to all natural pet supplies and accessories.

Emerge Interactive and Koopman Ostbo worked together with Castor & Pollux Pet Works to understand their vision, their brand, their products, their story, and their customer promise. After creating a plan for the website and developing key features around their vision, each team went to work.

The result is a website experience that clearly communicates Castor & Pollux Pet Works quality and provides a friendly shopping experience that gets "two paws up"!

The website is driven by Emerge Interactive's content management system which provides a foundation for limitless possibilities. This system allows Castor & Pollux' staff to seamlessly manage the website content and ecommerce store. Emerge Interactive used the latest advances in DHTML, JavaScript, and Flash to provide a rich and inviting visitor experience.

The redesigned Lookiris.com site highlights key products, services and provides streamlined navigation and information. The Lookiris.com site additionally combines customer interaction through the use of flash video with consumer education, which contributes to the redesigned site's effectiveness.

Emerge Interactive provided a combination of strategic planning, consulting and development within the areas of brand packaging, business process development, web design, site layout, user experience and site development. The website is driven by Emerge Interactive's Content Management and E-Commerce System, and takes advantage of the latest advances in DHTML, JavaScript and Flash in order to create an enjoyable shopping experience.