Case Studies
A selection of our recent connections, and how we helped to develop their business.
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Australian Labor Party
- Social networking and community engagement platform called Campaign iQ specifically developed for political parties with the C&C Group
- Enables Federal Labor to form direct relationships with its members & supporters
- Grassroots social network tools that assists supporters organise local campaigns & groups
- Ideas incubator enabling the community to participate in policy formulation, consultation & debate.
South Australian Government
- Community engagement platform inviting citizens of SA to participate in the formulation of the 2020 Strategic Plan
- Powerful example of Gov 2.0 in action – inclusive, collaborative, transparent & participative
- Enables both the government & citizens to listen to the views from the community, crowdsource ideas, attend events, comment online, form groups & discuss passions
- Facebook Open Graph integration enabling the ’network of networks’ effect.
Australia Council for the Arts
- A nation-wide arts & cultural events directory
- Social networking functionality, comments and personal recommendations
- User-generated listings linking into the broader web world
- Groups & Forum functions for connections & discussions
- Commissioned by the Federal Government via Australia Council For The Arts
NSW Government – Community Building Partnership
- Deployed our community engagement platform for a number of MPs enabling them to invite their electorate to call the shots on local community project funding
- Breaking new ground as one of Australia’s first constituent-engagement sites
- A unique case study of ‘Government 2.0’ in action – transparent, collaborative & inclusive
- Crowdsourcing and Voting mechanism integrated with the electoral register
Events Sydney
- First official Sydney-wide consumer events guide
- Personal recommendations engine & Social networking connections
- Driven from central syndication platform, with capability to feed information to any third party
- Data editable and updated by events practitioners and stakeholders
Events NSW – Crave Sydney
- Inaugural ‘Crave’ season in Sydney, detailing seven major public events
- Users navigate listings and devise personal calendars
- ‘Share’ facility to cross-post content on external social networks
- User generated comment with authentication via ‘Facebook Connect’
- Part of an extensive digital strategy commissioned by Events New South Wales
Mortgage & Finance Association Of Australia
- Major overhaul of back-end administration system
- Implemented our easy-to-use web based Member Manager
- Online registration & payment system for existing and potential members
- Integration with Customer Relationship Management
- Task generation and assignment, notations, member history and change log
Australian Council Of Trade Unions
- Redevelopment of highly successful ‘Your Rights At Work’ campaign
- A ‘social engagement platform’ to pro-actively foster an active online community
- Central, pivotal mechanism that facilitates conversations around the ACTU’s campaigns
- Space for users to talk to friends, family and colleagues about relevant issues
- Seed content into third party networks (such as Facebook and Twitter)
Northern Territory Government – Chief Minister
- Using our social networking platform, the website enables the Chief Minister to directly connect with citizens of the Northern Territory
- Showcases the ongoing activities and endevours of the Chief Minister
- Invites citizens to ‘Ask the Chief a question’ and for responses to be provided by regular videos
- Full social media integration with Facebook, YouTube, Flickr & Twitter
ALP – Victorian Branch
- Campaign iQ community engagement platform developed by Community Engine and the C&C Group
- A complete online community for the Victorian branch of the ALP
- Proprietary social networking capabilities enabling members and supporters to form groups and discussions around their passions and interests
- Crowdsource ideas to assist with policy formulation
Vivid Sydney – Festival of Light, Music & Ideas
- Deployed our community engagement platform to positively foster active community engagement around the annual festival
- Full event listings and social media integration to amplify word of mouth out onto mainstream social networks including Facebook
- Uses the power of social networking to increase attendance
- Establishes a central pivotal mechanism to facilitate conversations
Tourism Tasmania
- Deployed our social business platform to support Tourism Tasmania’s Lumina ‘A Winter of Festival’s’
- Full event listings with deep social integration
- Provided a social space to allow attendees and the broader community to engage with one another, post reviews and comments
- Enables authoritative information from Tourism Tasmania to be combined with the authentic voice of people attending the events
National Parks & Wildlife
- Community engagement platform for NSW Parks and Wildlife
- Celebrating the diversity of life and nature in our national parks
- Search activities and events throughout the parks
- Engage in discussion and commentary about each of the events
- Syndicate content out to mainstream social networks like Facebook leveraging the ‘network of networks’ effect
TransGrid
- TransGrid is the owner, operator and manager of the electricity network across NSW
- We’re working with with the marketing and management team to develop their social media engagement strategy
- Helping the organisation to listen and engage with conversations in social media
- Includes establishing social media policy for TransGrid employees and providing training to the executive management team
Parramasala – Australian Festival of South Asian Arts
- Deployed our social business platform enabling the festival to use the power of social networking to increase awareness and attendance at the festival
- Allows the attendees to connect with each other and engage in conversation about each event
- Incorporates our Festival Planner – search and add events, review personalised plans, and share those plans with friends
- Full integration with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & Flickr
New South Wales Events
- Master events listing and calendar for New South Wales
- Create your own profile, become friends and discuss your favourite artists and events
- Voice opinions, make recommendations, engage and collaborate with others through public discussions or by forming private networks
- Includes our powerful social personalisation and recommendations engine based on both explicit and implied preferences from ‘people like me’
Creative Sydney
- Creative Sydney invites the community to join outstanding entrepreneurs, creative practitioners and community campaigners to make Sydney a better place for creativity and commerce
- The social business platform enables people to participate and celebrate; to be inspired by cross-disciplinary experiments; and to help shape the future of our city’s creative culture
Qantas Soya Awards
- Social networking platform supporting the Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards (SOYA) initiative
- SOYA is the leading grants program for emerging creative talent
- Enables the opportunity to build a professional mentoring relationship with creative leaders like Marc Newson, Zimmermann, Deanne Cheuk, Jan Chapman and Liz Ann Macgregor, helping young innovators expand their horizons, build up their business base, and learn the ropes from leading industry icons and some of the greatest creative minds in the world
Pacific View Estate
- Facilitating the successful and efficient approval of the large scale master planned property development application
- Deployment of our online social engagement platform to engage the local community and foster advocacy
- Establishes a central, pivotal mechanism that facilitates conversations about the the property development
- Creates an inclusive, transparent and collaborative social space for information and conversations