June 2007

Fair Trade Schools North Ceredigion web site has been launched. It is a CMS site with mutliple log-ins and dedicated areas for the 10 participating schools and a forum for them to discuss progress towards achieving fair trade school status. The site is full of resources to help them on that journey. It is hoped that the campaign and site template will, if successful, be rolled out across Wales to suppoprt the campaign to make Wales and Fair Trade Country.

April 2007

Development Manager vacancy

Details of this exciting opportunity are here.

Current work:

• Potters Recycling depots web site (CMS)

• Organic Centre Wales web development

• Fair Trade Schools North Ceredigion shared web space to coincide with the May conference and campaign.

• Green Dragon Environmental Standard web site and back end admin

• Powys Community Strategy CMS web site and forums

• Powys Communities First CMS web site and forums

• Dyfi Valley Biosphere CMS web site with forum launched 24.4.07 to shime in with the public consultation.

• Eco-journalism for DEFRA

• Updating work on various long-standing clients' web sites and e-marketing.

March 2007

• We have won the contracts to develop: the Tourism Partnership MidWales corporate web site/intranet, (CMS, forums, clanedars, shared sorkspace]and

• We are also developing web sites for playwright David Ian Rabey and singer-songwriter Kate Doubleday.

• Pkus, there's the third Ecodyfi 'Happy Bin' project starting 11.5.07 in Powys. Kids in 15 schools (the highest number so far) will weigh their rubbish and post the amount weekly on the web site in an effort to reduce their rubbish to zero! This is a terrific project for Cyberium to be involved in, cooperating with Ecodyfi, Vagabondi Puppets and the Green Egg Company.

Feb 2007

New service: We can now offer a service to video and audio (music) content suppliers to host media files, serve them, and let users subscribe and pay for your creations if desired. See an example by clicking on the Pixel Foundry link below. If you have video or audio files to show the world and want to make money from them get in touch now!

New web sites:

• Pixel Foundry (Video streaming, preview, MPEG-4 sales via PayPal, Content management system, news feed etc.)

• Bowen Consultants (CMS)

• Artbeat Brecon (Content management system with multiple access levels for the group's members)

• Dyfi Valley Biosphere project (temporary bilingual static website)

• Annie Philips, artist (Complete site revamp for this regular client, with content management for all the images sections, send-an-ecard, newsletters, email news service, etc.]

New Insight on Why carbon offsetting should be a last resort.

Work in progress:

• Green Dragon Environmental Management System accreditation, run by Arena Network, administers all the accreditation process for Welsh organisations and companies. We are creating a back-end admin system for this, that will also drive their new web site, with public and client-only access priveleges.

• CMS web sites with multiple add-on features such as events, forums, news feeds, for 5 clients, 3 of whome are new: Communities First Powys, Vagabondi Puppets, Powys Community Strategy Forum, Tropical Forest Honey and Potters Recycling depots

• Green Dragon Energy and Tropical Forest honey - static site redesign for these old clients - the latter is temporary while we develop the CMS.

Dec 2006

New web sites for George and Tomos (both a CMS main site and www.taiannedd.co.uk); Brecon Artbeat; PayPal integration for Otto Freudenthal, composer; report for Mid-Wales Tourism on a map based web site for the Dyfi Valley; presentation of same for Dyfi Valley Biosphere project; chosen to deliver content for the Climate Change Wales web site; curently producing a new CMS driven version of artist Annie Phillips' site; CMS sites for Bowen Associates and Vagabondi Puppets; Five Case studies for WAG DEIN Specialist Support - Copywriting and picture research.

Sustainable Procurement - new Insight piece

Oct 2006

Micro CHP -- bringing power to the masses? - new Insight piece

Sept 2006

• New fully accessible web site created for writer David Thorpe.

• ditto for Brecon Arts and Nanteos Hotel (when they have added content we will link to them).

August 2006

• Cyberium has undergone a course 'Training the Trainers', provided by Tourism Partnership Mid-Wales, and is now on their approved list of e-trainers for e-marketing and use of the internet, as well as beng on their approved web designers list. Here you can download their useful web site designers brief template, which we urge you to read if considering enquiring with us about web site creation, and a code of practice for tourism web sites.

• New fully accessible web site created for sound recordist Richard Gott. Get a web site like this for £200 + domain registration and hosting. Contact us now!

• New Insights added on the UK Energy Review, energy prices, and the vampires in your home!

• We've put some more cartoons on the Managing Hell page!

• We have upgraded the Organic Cotton web site and begun a marketing campaign with the slogan: "Don't let them pull the cotton wool over your eyes!" because thousands of people die every year due to the pesticides used in regular cotton manufacture.

July 2006

• 

  Cyberium has just been awarded Level 2 of the Green Dragon Environmental Standard, in recognition of its environmental awareness and work. Read more...

• Manager David Thorpe has won a national competition run by publisher HarperCollins, to find a new writer for older children to rival J K Rowling. Read more...

• Ongoing web development work includes CMS web sites for Artbeat Brecon, Nanteos Hotel, George & Tomos Architects, and a flat web site with the ability to sell music for composer Otto Freudenthal

• We recently produced a series of bilingual educational factsheets, called I'm A Councillor Get Me Out Of Here for Gallomanor Communcations.

• We also produced the educational mini-site for a schools recycling awareness campaign, The Happy Bin and are producing regular e-newsletters for our regular client, Annie Phillips.

May 2006

Recent jobs:

Web sites:

• Arts Outside Cardiff - actually we can't show you this web site since it's a members-only subdomain of Creu Cymru Touring Agency for Wales' site, containing management tools, fora, a content management system, an online events diary and much more. Shame it's password-protected as we're very proud of it!
• Llanilid Cottages self-catering holidays - content management system and booking availability diary
• Sewincaster fishing instruction - content management system
• Old Rectory B&B house
• Organic cotton supplier
• Ty - temporary web page

Consultancy:

• Web site audit for Powys Community Strategy
• Web site audit for Matt Buck cartoonist
• Web site audit for Lyn Whitfield, journalist

Graphic design:

• Youth Offending Team, Powys County Council Social Services - conference brochure
• Sewincaster - branding, business card, leaflet

... Plus all the regular clients.... like Defra, Managing Hell, ecodyfi, Communities First, Annie Phillips.... blah blah.

April 2006

• Cyberium is seeking inward investment to expand. Contact us for more details.

• New insights added on nuclear power, the Budget, climate change and green agencies.

• Cyberium has added a news feed, forum, events manager and many other features to its fully accessible web site suite of software.

December 2005

Cyberium has developed a full shopping basket e-commerce system that integrates with our CMS (below) and meets full accessibility requirements. This means retailers can manage sales, stock levels, and customer profiles, even at low-volume turnovers, really easily and cost-effectively. Read about our e-commerce solution.

November 2005

We've been commissioned to produce another cartoon strip for the fortnightly Facilities Management magazine. Here is the first episode of Managing Hell.

October 2005

• We've introduced a FREE offer of a free audit of the home page of any business, organisation or government body. See our web accessibility page. It will tell you what you need to do to improve the functionality of your web page.

• Our new plug-in lets you add to any web site the ability to link to music files and sell them over the web. Contact us for more information.

September 2005

• Cyberium has won an AOL Innovation in the Community Awards 2005 for our Ecodyfi organic Gardening for Health course web site. Ecodyfi gets £2000 and a free 1 year sub to AOL Broadband.

• Cyberium has developed a Content Management System which meets full accessibility requirements. This means the site's owners can update the site really easily.

• We also have a plug-in that enables registered individuals anywhere in the world to update database records such as members, business directories or catalogue information. Read about our CMS features.

July 2005

Cyberium has been accepted onto the call-off list for Mid-Wales Tourism Partnership's rosta of web site developers.

This follows successful completion of a screening process and workshop attendance on usability and accessibility.