A new website dedicated to Emergency Management was launched today by eRepublic – www.emergencymgmt.com:

The entire project completed from start to finish in less than four months with all design and development done in-house.  This is the third site to launch on the new web content management (WCM) platform the company adopted earlier this year – Clickability.com.

My development team has found the Clickability platform to be an excellent WCM environment as it takes care of the back-end and infrastructure needs of any fast-paced editorial and web content business model.  However, all unique aspects of the site had to be developed – graphic design, full presentation layer and template coding.

External Blog Syncing

Since the Clickability pricing model is based, in part, on the number of CMS user licenses, we decided to have any external bloggers use a third party blogging platform which we could then consume and mirror on the Clickability site.  We picked Blogger.com as it has a very simple UI and the Google API makes it very simple to consume content.

Content Migration

Most of the news and article content was migrated from the existing Govtech.com site where EM was a sub-site.  This was done by creating a custom XML feed from our legacy database to feed into Clickability via their Content Connector service.  The service allows articles to be published into multiple categories along with any referenced media files (e.g. photos) automatically.

Website Highlights

News Topics with RSS and Related Items

Dedicated EM Bloggers

Dedicated Events Area