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July 16, 2010
New Signature Launches Website for Primary Care Progress
New Signature launched the Primary Care Progress website today. New Signature worked with Primary Care Progress to design and build of the website that will help transform America’s healthcare system by providing an online community platform where patients, clinicians and trainees can learn, share, connect, promote, and be inspired. New Signature utilized the WordPress content management system and other third party services, such as MailChimp, to build this dynamic website that utilizes multimedia content, such as video, to communicate its message. The website also integrates with social media, including Facebook and Twitter. -
May 17, 2010
Food & Water Watch Launches the Spill the Truth Campaign
Food & Water Watch launched a massive campaign today to shut down BP Atlantis, an oil platform in the Gulf that is missing 89% of its engineer-approved safety documents. This campaign is driven online by the Spill the Truth website. Food & Water Watch turned to New Signature to conceptualize, design and develop the Spill the Truth campaign website. In order to react to the Gulf Coast disaster and media coverage by 60 Minutes on their campaign to shut down Atlantis it was critical for Food & Water Watch to work with a partner who could quickly implement a stunning visual design and rich functionality. New Signature utilized our process-driven approach to design, build, and launch the Spill the Truth website in one week.SpilltheTruth.org features a compelling message delivered through multimedia content including a compelling video, interactive timeline, and supporting documentation. Visitors to the website can also take action through a variety of methods, including emailing or calling President Obama to ask him to shut down BP Atlantis until it is proven safe, spreading the word to friends via email and social networks, and direct contribution to Food & Water Watch. The website also integrates with social media, drawing community generated content directly from Twitter and Facebook.
Update: June 16, 2010 @ 11:38
Food & Water Watch’s Spill the Truth campaign to shut down BP Atlantis is featured in a 2 minute and 41 second hard hitting video on CNN.com’s homepage.
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March 23, 2010
“The China Job Drain” Launched
New Signature launched the China Job Drain site today for the Alliance of American Manufacturing (AAM). The site vividly portrays a report commissioned by AAM detailing the number of jobs lost by industry and at the national, state, and regional level since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.
China Job Drain screen shot
The site features a vast array of interactive charts, graphs, and maps at the national, state, and congressional-district level. All are data-driven, cross-referenced, and hyper-linked to provide visitors with a fluid exploration of job-loss impact across the United States from coast to coast. New Signature employed a variety of technical effects, graphics, and AJAX techniques to present the text of the report and to highlight the regions and industries most greatly affected.
The site is another example of how New Signature helps its clients maximize the value of their academic reports and to bring otherwise static data to life. Locking research up in a static PDF for download does not largely improve upon the research publication methods of decades ago. By applying the full potential of the interactive web, visitors can to take their own paths of discovery through the facts presented. This ultimately creates a more compelling and influential experience.
Contact New Signature as you plan your next report and see what our Creative Technology can do for you.
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March 12, 2010
I Am Not Your ATM
Working America, community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, launched the NotYourATM.com launched today. This New Signature designed and produced website is powered by the Drupal publishing platform and the JQuery JavaScript library. This interactive website empowers visitors to send a message to Wall Street by uploading their photos for inclusion on the website.Working America, community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, is a powerful force for working people. They combine the strength of 10 million union men and women and millions of workers without the benefit of a workplace union who share common challenges and goals to fight in communities, states and nationally for what really matters–good jobs, affordable health care, world-class education, secure retirements, real homeland security and more.
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February 23, 2010
New and Improved Public Charter Schools Dashboard
NAPCS Dashboard
With help from New Signature, the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools launched a new and improved version of their Public Charter School Dasbboard. The most comprehensive set of charter school data ever made publicly available now includes performance data on over 5,000 individual schools.
The new features build on previous capabilities that allowed visitors to browse and extract data covering 10 years of charter school growth and performance at national and state levels. The new enhancements allow Visitors to search for individual charter schools by location, name, management organization, and various accolades including performance data benchmarks and recognition under the U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Schools Program. (more…)
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January 13, 2010
State Charter Laws Rankings Database Released
“It’s very important to have better, clearer charter laws – laws that enable innovation, promote transparency about how charter schools perform and how they are held accountable, and provide fair access to public funds and facilities. We’re encouraged that the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools supports creation of better charter school laws as models of learning, and we encourage authorizers to hold charters accountable for student performance.”
– Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan
With that quote, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools launched, their “State Charter Laws Rankings Database,” a unique, highly interactive mini-site that allows visitors to review the laws governing charter schools in all states and across 20 categories. The site uses color coded maps, animated text panes, pop-up help windows, and rich cross-linking to provide a compelling research experience. (more…)
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January 8, 2010
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools Launches Community Resource Site for State Charter School Leaders
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools unveiled a new, private site for the nationwide community of public charter school leaders and administrators on Wednesday, January 6th. New Signature worked with the Alliance to design and construct the site which features discussion boards, an online resource library, events, community profiles and directory, announcements, and polls. Access to the site is by invitation only. Once registered and logged on, each member is greeted with a personal home page presenting the latest content in his or her areas of interest. In addition, members can search or browse content and they can sign up to receive a weekly digest of the latest material via email.The site is an important tool that will allow charter school leaders across the country to collaborate remotely to share best practices and improve the quality of local charter schools by tapping the expertise of colleagues nationwide. Members can work together to achieve their common goals by sharing experience across broad topics including: Advocacy; Communications and Public Relations; Quality; Sustainability, Revenue and Membership; and Internal Operations. (more…)
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January 5, 2010
Dodging Diabetes Charity Dodgeball Tournament Website Re-Envisioned
New Signature is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Dodging Diabetes Charity Dodgeball Tournament website. New Signature worked with Dodging Diabetes’ founders Anna Tiedeman Irwin and Elizabeth Kramer to re-envision the graphic design, information architecture and functionality of this interactive website. The site was built on the WordPress content management system in order to provide the founders and volunteers with an easy way to update content on the website. In addition, the site leverages active.com to provide registration, donation, and team fundraising functions.Anna Tiedeman Irwin, Elizabeth Kramer and a team of volunteers from the D.C. area founded the Dodging Diabetes charity in 2005 to raise money and awareness to defeat diabetes for good. Both Anna and Elizabeth have brothers who live with Type 1 diabetes. Dodging Diabetes has netted over $40,000 for the Joslin Diabetes Center through its annual charity dodgeball tournaments. (more…)
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December 30, 2009
Crystal Pools Unveils New Website
New Signature designed, programmed and created the copy for the brand new Crystal Pools website that was unveiled today. Crystal Pools is a high-end, custom builder that designs and builds innovative swimming pools, spas and water features for discriminating customers in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. New Signature worked in close collaboration with Crystal Pools to create a stunning website that artfully displayed their high-quality work, and communicated the firm’s culture of craftsmanship and customer service.The website was developed using a combination of CSS, JavaScript, and Adobe Flash. New Signature uses a standards-based approach to website development and utilized the Blueprint CSS Framework in construction of the site. In addition, the Flash components of the website are updated using easily edited XML files.
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December 17, 2009
New Signature Launches “Stop the Surcharge” for the Campaign for Consumer Rights
New Signature launched the Stop the Surcharge website for the Campaign for Consumer Rights (CCR) today. The site was designed and produced by New Signature and uses the WordPress publishing platform to enable CCR staff to easily and quickly update site content.The Campaign for Consumer Rights, a California-based nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization, is the advocacy and campaign affiliate of the Consumer Watchdog (Formerly the Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights). CCR and its campaign committee, Election Watchdog, were organized to protect consumers’ interests in the ballot initiative and legislative process. We do not take positions on candidate elections. (more…)
