We’re so very excited to report, that one of the projects that we’ve been working on for almost 10 months now has finally launched!

Sojern, a client of ours, has partnered with some of the major airline carriers, to provide targeted information and advertisements on boarding passes. This information includes weather, restaurant & event recommendations, fun facts, and other targeted advertisements.

The launch of the boarding pass project brought with it a LOT of press coverage.. Here’s a couple of the highlights…

• Wall Street Journal – Delta Launches Online Boarding-Pass Ads
• USA Today – Airlines turn boarding passes into ad space
• Venture Beat – Sojern gives airlines a new way to make money — your boarding pass
• Mashable – Sojern Turns Your Boarding Pass Into Travel Recommendations
• AdAge – Airlines Stamping Ads Onto Boarding Passes

And hundreds more… Check out Google News…

What exactly was BrightMix’s role in the development? We can’t give out many of the details, but we were heavily involved with the backend processes and systems necessary to get all of the information collected and presented to the end user. It was truly an awesome project to be a part of, in the sense that its not often that you get a chance to launch a product to millions of users from day one. The technical challenges and obstacles were very exciting indeed.

Congrats to the whole Sojern team, and everyone involved in getting this project off the ground. It was truly a great experience, we’re happy to have been a part of it, and we’re excited to continue to help Sojern with their long-term success.

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We’re pleased to announce that we recently launched our first major set of public facing sites since becoming an honest to goodness business... A series of sites for the Episcopal Church of America. Designed and spearheaded by our good friends at the Granger Group, this project encompassed a number a sites:

• A parish-level website – A site for the individual churches, where they can list events, upload photos, and connect with their members.
• A diocese-level website – A site for the ECUSA Diocese, where users can search for churches / parishes.
• A “resource center” – A “portal” where the churches can manage their content, learn more about marketing, and get help using their sites.

Under the hood, it’s a complete ASP.NET content management system for churches, so they can manage and update the contents of their websites easily. Beyond simple content management though, the sites are integrated together in a manner that will allow for rich interaction between the various Episcopal Church Parishes. Think social-networking-meets-episcopal-church. We’ve got some exciting ideas planned on this front, and these site launches are just the beginning. This first phase was important to get people using the sites, and to give us a solid platform to move forward on.

This project has been quite some time in the making, and we’re excited to see it go live! Our congrats to the Granger Group on the site launch, we look forward to working with them on future projects and site enhancements!

Resource Center – Visit Site

Sample Parish Site – Visit Site

Sample Diocese Site – Visit Site

For more information about the ECUSA web solution, visit the Granger Group.

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