Blue River Interactive Group

Sep 12, 2012

Go Girl Energy Drinks Web Site Now Runs on Mura CMS

Blue River recently converted the Go Girl Energy Drink web site www.gogirlenergy.com from their proprietary CMS to Mura CMS. This conversion provides our client with more flexibility and power to maintain their web site as well as a platform to expand upon in the near future. We are happy to have Go Girl Energy Drinks and the Nor-Cal Beverage Co., Inc. as part of our roster.

May 23, 2012

Blue River to Become Investor in Railo Company

Blue River Interactive Group are proud to announce that we will be an investor in the new Railo Company. Railo's CFML engine (Railo Server) provides developers with a great toolkit for rapid development of websites and web applications, and powers thousands of Mura CMS sites world-wide. The new Railo Company will be comprised of the current Railo development and management team, with new investors and advisors, and will be focused on growing the adoption of Railo's fantastic CFML engine. 

We're also very pleased to be joining with a select group of other investors who are bringing global expertise and market reach to the new Railo Company. The other investors in the new Railo Company represent some of the biggest CFML development companies in Europe, and have incredible market reach and client bases:

• Gruppo Tesi (Italy) 
• ActivBrowser (France)
• PrismaIT (Holland)
• TagNile (Finland)

Our investment in the Railo Company represents our confidence in the quality of the Railo product and development team. With new management expertise and financial stability, the Railo Company now has the resources needed to achieve significant growth in usage and revenue, and we're looking forward to playing a key role in this success story.

Of course, Mura CMS will continue to support all the main CFML engines; Railo, Adobe ColdFusion and OpenBD, and we will develop for maximum cross-platform compatiblity across all 3 engines. We believe that each of the 3 main CFML engines has an important and distinct role to play in the CFML ecosystem, and that it's crticial for Mura CMS to deploy and perform consistently on all 3.

We are tremendously excited about the prospects for the new Railo Company. We believe strongly that open-source CFML will continue to grow in importance and adoption as more developers and web professionals learn about the incredible productivity and performance offered by CFML.

May 23, 2012

CA Restaurant Association Launches New Site

The California Restaurant Association is one of California's largest and oldest associations, with over 20,000 members.

Blue River launched the new version of www.calrest.org in May 2012. The site features a modern aesthetic with cutting-edge user interface tools, along with integration with CRA's AMS system. The site is powered by Mura CMS.

Vistit www.calrest.org to view the new site.

Apr 23, 2012

CANP Launches New Site

Blue River has recently launched the redesigned and redeveloped web site for the California Association for Nurse Practitioners (www.canpweb.org). This project was done in partnership with Shaw / Yoder / Antwih, Inc. (www.shawyoderantwih.com), one of Sacramento's leading legislative advocacy and association management companies. The two firms worked tightly together to meet the three primary objectives of the project:

Improved User Experience

For this project, Blue River leveraged its many years of experience with member-based organizations to design and develop a brand new user experience for CANP that allows current and potential members to gain access to important content quickly and easily. A new look and feel was created that integrated new branding efforts from CANP as well. One of the main focuses was to ensure user experience was  inviting and intuitive.

Provide Self-Help Tools to Members

The CANP web site is integrated with Euclid Technology's ClearVantage association management software (www.euclidtechnology.com). This system provides member tools such as creating accounts, managing accounts, renewing membership, member directories and more. Blue River worked with Euclid to develop a seamless integration between ClearVantage and the web site content. Members can now access all information about their account from the web site which should reduce incoming account management requests and provide increased member satisfaction related to their online experience.

Enable Web Content Management
Blue River integrated Mura CMS (www.getmura.com) an open-source content management system to handle the web content management needs. This system allows CANP staff to edit and create content via Mura's web-based interface without the need for technical support or web development personnel. Blue River also developed a Clear Vantage integration manager that allows CANP to list, edit and place the Clear Vantage functionality on the site in any location.

This is the first of many projects for Blue River and Shaw / Yoder / Antwih, Inc. working as a partnership. Shaw / Yoder / Antwih has chosen to leverage Blue River's expertise in web design and development for member-based organizations along with Mura CMS to provide platform solutions for other associations on their roster. We look forward to continued success of this partnership and improving member-based organization web sites across California.

Mar 23, 2012

Site Launch for SYNTHEON, Inc.

We are happy to announce the launch of the new www.syntheoninc.com web site.

SYNTHEON Inc. designs and builds advanced, high-efficiency products and services for the building and construction industry worldwide. Blue River created an intuitive, professional website that clearly reflects SYNTHEON as an innovative leader in the building industry. The site features SYNTHEON's complete product line filterable by location, impactful product detail pages, galleries and a mobile interface.

Visit www.syntheoninc.com to view the work.

Mar 16, 2012

We launched a great site, but we can't show you.

We recently designed and developed a brand new, state of the art User Experience for a large, highly trafficked, internal web site within a very cool company here in California. Unfortunately, due to privacy issues we can't tell you who it was for or show you the work. You will have to trust us. It turned out very nice! We can tell you what we did though:

• Strategic Analysis
• Content Taxonomy
• Interactive Wireframe Prototypes
• Graphic Design
• HTML/CSS Template Development

To find out more about our User Experience Design skills, contact us at info@blueriver.com.

Jan 18, 2012

We're Hiring! - Project Manager

Project Manager

We are currently looking for a talented, organized and experienced project manager to add to our professional services team. Please read the description below and if you have what it takes, send your resume and project experience to careers [at] blueriver.com.

Position Description
As a project manager, you are both an advocate for the client and our firm. In this role, you are responsible for ensuring delivery of each project that is on-time, on-budget and meets the client’s expectations. You will be expected to manage multiple projects at one time with varying timelines, budgets and scope. This is a challenging but gratifying position that requires a hard working, experienced individual that is willing to go the extra mile for our firm and our clients.

Position Duties

• Meeting with clients and project stakeholders to define project requirements
• Collaborating with the internal team to define project approach and deliverables
• Creating and maintaining detailed project schedules using Merlin software
• Scheduling and facilitating ongoing status meetings with internal resources
• Scheduling and facilitating ongoing status meetings with project stakeholders
• Managing internal resources assigned to your projects
• Coordinating and managing external resources (sub-contractors)
• Communicating project status, budget and concerns to management on a regular basis
• Facilitating change management on each project
• Providing project documentation in the form of...
  • Project Schedule
  • Project Requirements
  • Functional Specifications
• Training/User Documentation
• Ensuring client satisfaction throughout the entire project.

Candidate Requirements
The ideal candidate will meet the following requirements.

• 3 year minimum managing large-scale web development projects
• Understanding of the web development lifecycle
• Outstanding organizational skills
• Outstanding communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects at one time
• Experience managing local and remote teams
• Experience working with Content Management Systems a plus
• Strategic planning and Information Architecture experience a plus

Jan 18, 2012

We're Hiring! - Front End Developer

Front End Developer

We are currently looking for a talented front end developer to add to our professional services team. Please read the description below and if you have what it takes, send your resume and project experience to careers [at] blueriver.com.

Candidate Requirements

Ideal candidates will possess the following requirements.

• Minimum 3 years developing web sites and front end templates
• Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery
• Experience with content management systems
• Understanding of mobile template development practices
• Adobe Creative Suite mastery
• Javascript mastery is a plus
• Mura CMS and CFML knowledge or experience is a plus

Oct 18, 2011

California Professional Firefighters site by Blue River wins national award (again)

CPF.org recently was awarded “best affiliate web site” in the annual International Association of Fire Fighters Media Awards. These awards are independently judged by media experts and outside members of the news media and include sites from all 50 states and Canada. It’s the 2nd time in four years that the site has won the top award.

May 31, 2011

City of Cincinnati selects Blue River and Mura CMS

After a long and thorough evaluation process, the City of Cincinnati has selected Mura CMS to power the City's public-facing websites. Consisting of hundreds of thousands of pages, the City of Cincinnati's websites will be redesigned and re-launched with Mura CMS providing powerful and easy-to-use Content Management capabilities to the City's hundreds of content administrators.  

Blue River will be providing a range of professional services and Mura CMS support to the City as they convert their sites to Mura CMS. 

May 18, 2011

Site Launch: Miyamoto International

Blue River is proud to announce the launch of the redesigned MiyamotoInternational.com website today. Completed in an incredibly quick 7-week design-to-launch process, the new site showcases Miyamoto International's engineering expertise and vital earthquake relief efforts. 

Powered by our Mura CMS (of course), the new site contains a overview of projects completed by Miyamoto International, a newsroom with archives and video features, information about their world-wide locations (with Google Maps integration), and many more features. 

We're delighted to be working with a firm that performs such top-quality work, and also assists with disaster relief (and prevention of future problems through improvements in engineering). 

May 18, 2011

More Intel Projects for Blue River

Intel Corporation has engaged Blue River to provide enhancements and support for multiple internally-facing Mura CMS sites. Per Intel's request, we cannot share details about these projects, but we can say that these sites provide information and functionality for Intel employees world-wide, and Blue River provided Information Architecture, Graphic Design and and Website Development services in the creation of these sites. 

Intel Corporation has used Mura CMS since 2007, and Blue River is proud to count them among our list of satisfied clients.