Information Technology

The CMC IT Team is proud to announce the new micro-site for Laughfest Chicken Dinners. This new event combines the rubber chicken, a symbol for LaughFest after setting a Guiness World Record for most rubber chickens tossed at once to kick off last years event, and the fine dining available in the downtown area. Select restaurants will be donating one or two dollars of every speciality chicken dish to Gilda's Club of Grand Rapids to help children, adults, families and friends as they find their smile and laughter in the midst of a cancer...

The CMC IT department is happy to announce the launch of the new Public Reality Radio website. WPRR came to the CMC with an aging site that was nearly impossible to update and wasn't very user friendly. In the end we created them an excellent site that they can easily update themselves and even made it so local producers can edit the information for their own show, saving their small staff more time. Some other highlights include:

The CMC IT team is proud to announce the launch of GRCF's GrantOff! The Community Foundation came to us with the idea of creating a section of the site to allow people to vote between two nonprofits with the winner getting a free $1,000 grant. Together we took the initial idea of "crowd sourced philanthropy" and worked it to include quick videos of the nonprofits; tie-ins with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube; and a vote bar so you can see how each non-profit is doing.

Clicking on the simple Vote button counts as a single vote, but since...

The CMC is proud to join the Grand Rapids Historical Commission in announcing their latest book Glance at the Past: An Album of Grand Rapids History.  You may be asking yourself why the IT team is announcing a book, but this is no normal book. Different pages within the book contain QR codes, which direct you to a mobile site built by the IT team. From there you can read more about the topic, view additional historical images, even listen to podcasts which were recorded through WYCE.

Head over to the Historical Commission's

The CMC IT department is happy to announce that we are working with Jubilee Jobs to help them with some much needed upgrades to their technology.  A new server running Windows Small Business Server 2011 is being purchased that will provide file, print, email and remote access services for Jubilee Jobs and their staff.  The new server also provides increased storage space with redundant, hot swappable hard drives in a RAID configuration, allowing for easy replacement and increased uptime in the event of a hard drive failure.  

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