After a week of development we now have the main facility building built for the Virtual Mental Health Facility. You will watch the campus evolve this coming week to be fully functional. The portal web site will be developed starting next week as we are using screen shots from the Virtual Mental Health Facility in the graphic layout of the portal. Once we have the island ready to go it's time for our talented graphic designer to develop the layout and then our programmer to develop the coding for the portal. Stay tuned for more updates on this project!

We are proud to announce that we have been selected to create a virtual mental health facility for a non-profit organization. The goal of this virtual world is to assist patients virtually when he or she cannot physically meet with their counselor. This service will be offered to current clients and then also to the public after beta testing. The island will consist of private and public spaces for socializing, summits, lessons, resources, and of course counseling. The virtual world will be fully integrated into a new custom built learning management and membership portal website that will allow users to register and become members of the facility.  The site will have membership registration, user tracking, resources, view the virtual seminar calendar and sign up for attendance, instant messaging and chat, and also audio conferencing via VOIP. The VOIP will be developed with advanced java applets and will be integrated directly into the LMS. The mental health services (virtual world and portal) will be offered to the current clients of the organization as a test pilot followed by the opening to the public in hope to spread mental health awareness and assist people in immediate need. Keep visiting our blog to watch this new project come alive!

Well it's certainly time for evolution at Designing Digitally, Inc. After over 6 years of using the company brand we have decided that it is time to catapult our own look and feel into the 21st century. While we are always developing corporate identities, promotional print material, and client websites, we have not had the time to take a long hard look at our own company image in quite some time. Now that we have had our team sit down and really discuss our look and feel we have decided to give our company a makeover! So what does that mean? Well, that does not mean that Andrew is getting botox (sometimes his eyes need it after a long week), Abby is getting liposuction ( if you knew her you would understand that this would not be possible), or Nick is getting a face lift (too bad he looks like a little kid in his profile pic)... But what it does mean is that our logo, website, and other promotional material will be updated in 2009 to give our company a more visually inspiring feel. That way we can finally look at ourselves and do what we have been doing successfully for other organizations for over a decade. Now that we have announced this we would like to share with you all the new 2009 Designing Digitally Inc. corporate logo concept. You can see a side by side comparison from the almost 6 year old logo compared to now. What does everyone think?

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We are proud to announce that we are building another virtual campus for a University! We cannot disclose who this client is at this time, but we will be posting pictures throughout the process of building it. We will be implementing advanced programming so that the virtual campus is tied directly into their Learning Management System in which allows them to create and track assessments. We will also be setting up all the multimedia on the campus such as live streaming video, interactive white boards, streaming podcasts, interactive games, and even community events. There are many other features we will be developing, but we cannot give all of our secrets away. This virtual campus will be completed by our team within 30 days! So please stop by and visit our blog to view more progress on this development. See our blank canvas below: