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Rolled acquired by Juno Media
I’m pleased to announce that as of the 1st of May, Rolled has been acquired by another local Nottingham web design and development company Juno Media. This acquisition means that we will be able to offer much more financial flexibility for social entrepreneurs that we work with, and help more start-up companies as they seek a web presence that they can be proud of when launching their company online.
Juno will also be implementing a lot of the way Rolled works in its day-to-day routine and management of projects. We will be bringing things like social web app integration, RSS feeds, blogs and open source to Juno as the company looks to expand its client offerings for the future.
All of Rolled’s clients, projects, sites and hosting will be moving over to Juno as part of the move and all outstanding proposals and quotes will be met by Juno. This means that Rolled will still be online and will now operate as a social initiative of Juno Media. Enrique Ramirez and David Myers will also be joining Juno as part of the deal.
Also Mike Robinson leaves us to join another company. We wish Mike the best of luck in his new full-time job and consider it a shame to see him go. He’s an incredibly talented individual and we’ve not had a single client that hasn’t been singing his praises.
I believe that this will take Rolled to the next level in terms of our offerings to social entrepreneurs and our involvement with them. Dave Wiltshire of Juno shares a lot of this vision and he’s prepared to do what it takes to make it happen. So here’s to the next level for Rolled, and for a prospering Juno Media.
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Client Launch: SHINE unConference
Following our success with Eudemonic, Andres Roberts approached us to take on his newest venture in producing the web design for SHINE unConference. Shine unConference is a unConference for social entrepreneurs which took place between the 9th and 11th of May. With six hundred social entrepreneurs attending and a fantastically packed schedule it was an honour to do the site for this event.
The idea of the SHINE unConerence was to help social entrepreneurs with a variety of topics that they face ranging from getting grants to blogging. These sessions were held by partners and anyone who came forward with a good idea for holding one, user’s would then register on-line and then attend sessions on the day. Being completely unrestricted to one session and allowed to drop in and out of anything they wanted to.
We designed the website in a very short amount of time and put it all into the Expression Engine content management system using Event Brite for ticket management and building our own script to automatically register users that had bought tickets from the site. The end result was a completely automated system for Eudemonic to manage everything within and something we were very proud to hand over to them.
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Client Launch: global tolerance
Today I’m pleased to announce that a client we’ve been working with for a while, global tolerance, has officially launched their new web design. They decided to use Tom Lane for the design direction of the website, and we took his final design into a Wordpress system for the final result.
global tolerance are a values-driven communications agency that only works with values-driven clients. They’ve worked with clients such as Gandhi’s grandson, HH Dalai Lama, The Green Party and Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Foundation. Their services includes public relations & communications, communications training and public speaking.
Having worked with them for several months on this to hone their vision for the site into something their team feels passionately about and loves using, we have had our eyes opened to a mass of new cultures and interesting reads about their work and their clients. It has certainly been fascinating watching through their hours of footage including prime time interviews that they had put up onto their website.
We highly enjoyed working with global tolerance and can’t wait to take the relationship further when working on their client’s projects in the future.
