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Some of our long-awaited projects have been released, so I thought I would make note of them. Web Services now has a respectable web site to represent our department. Now that Creative Media and our department’s sites have launched, I wonder when we will be working on one for Special Services?

Our parent company has launched their touched-up design with a brand new back end.  A revamped Angus e-Classifieds site has also arrived, all ASP.NET powered and compliments of the IS department.

The e-classifieds site was the first project where the Web department had the chance to work directly with the IS department. It was exciting to get the chance to collaborate with them. From a technical standpoint it was refreshing to find others who read Lifehacker and wanted to argue the finer points of jQuery versus MooTools. From the business perspective, the e-classifieds will finally become a viable revenue source for our department. The old site was so archaic it was actually losing money every time someone called to post an ad.

One step forward: our e-lists are now sent using a less-spammy/less-amateurish method.

…and one step backward: our e-lists no longer have a limit to the number we can send per day. We used to tell clients that they needed to book in advance, because we only scheduled 2 full page e-mails to be sent every Tuesday and Thursday. (Still too many, IMHO.) Now we have no limits. April is one of our busiest months. We sent out 83 e-list messages in April alone. Talk about e-mail overload! It’s no surprise our e-list subscribers never hover far above the 4,000 mark.

There are other projects waiting for the IS department’s attention, but hopefully they can help us with the Sale Books problem next. Maybe they can help us create our own Issuu-like application. A Flex app (built by us) powered by ASP.NET with a Microsoft database (built by them).

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