We recently developed and launched the IMPACT Connection (www.impactconnection.com) on behalf of our client, IMPACT (www.impact-dc.com). The IMPAC Connection is sponsored by BET, Black Leadership Forum, and the Washington Government Relations Group
Please see below for full artice (Click here to go to Congressional Quarterly Website) . This is very exciting and hopefully the beginning of a great relationship between IMPACT and Digitalvaliance.
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Cutting-Edge Job Bank For Hill Minorities
The House ethics committee is lawyering up and Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, D-N.Y., has been looking for a press secretary, according to a new Web site established by young black political and business pros that integrates a traditional job bank with social networking and media tools such as YouTube to help put more minorities in Washington jobs.
For years, minorities have contemplated ways of increasing their numbers and influence in the nation’s capital. The problems have been easy to identify: A recent study by the Congressional Black Caucus revealed that black committee chairmen are far more likely than their white counterparts to hire black staff.
But the solutions have been harder to come by. A lot of talented minds have been working on the issue: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., hired Martina Bradford to run a staff diversity initiative in 2007, a set of successful black K Street lobbyists that refers to its members as “The Working Group” has been meeting on a quarterly basis, and Glover Park Group lobbyist Joyce Brayboy runs a group of African Ameican women.
The five organizers of the nonprofit Impact hope its bells-and-whistles-laden new interactive job bank will become the premier clearinghouse for putting employers in touch with qualified minority candidates and flagging opportunities for job-seekers.
“We want to ensure that members who want to hire people of color have access to qualified candidates,” said Angela Rye, a co-founder of Impact who is a senior policy adviser and counsel to the House Homeland Security Committee. “Our end goal is to empower our peers, our generation.”
The Web site, which had its official launch party last Thursday, has an easy-to-use interface that allows job candidates to create a downloadable online resume. It also gives a candidate space to post an “elevator pitch” video from YouTube to explain — in an elevator-ride-length segment — why they should be hired. Other features include a Facebook-like capacity for “connecting” with other members of the site.
The Impact group and its site are not limited to minorities or to Capitol Hill, though those are areas of focus.
“All of our events have been inclusive,” said Joe D. Briggs, a board member who manages the National Football League Players Association’s Financial Programs Division.
The other three board members are White House aide Adria Crutchfield, David J. Johns, who works as an education policy adviser for the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee, and Ryan M. Scott, the chief operating officer of Jade Private Wealth Management.
Impact has 25,000 people on its listserv, according to Rye and Briggs, and they hope that means the site will fill up quickly with resumes.
“This is us reaching out to Capitol Hill to say ‘Here’s a place you may be able to go to find qualified candidates,” Briggs said. Without such a clearinghouse, he said, “people you may have a need for may not know that you have an opportunity for them.”
Rye said the effort will be successful if in the future it has “changed the face of Capitol Hill so that it looks like America.”
We were given to opportunity to develop the Virtual Job Fair website for Zebra Jobs, a company seeking to bring together job-seekers and employers to exchange job-related information for opportunities in Africa.
Please visit http://zebrajobs.com/avjf/index.html and let us know what you think!
Thanks!
Check out the blackfest flyer designed by Demetric, one of our Creative Commanders for Stanford University’s annual blackfest featuring Day 26.
Black Fest - Day 26
A few posts ago we talked about building our inhouse project management software from the groundup.
After writing out the document specification and thoroughly examining the project, it has been decided that we are trying to re-invent the wheel too much. Hence, we will base our software on existing project management software out there, by simply extending its feature set.
This will save us a considerable amount of time in our pursuits. It will still serve the exact purpose of which it was set out to do, but will do so much more quickly.
We are really excited and will be going live with it very shortly.
Just sent out a newsletter to our investors talking about the latest happenings at Digitalvaliance. We are also going to start our monthly newsletter to all those interested in our service offerings. Stay tuned!
Good Evening
My name is Ashley Trahan and I am a new administrative commander here at Digitalvaliance. I am also a working senior who attends San Francisco State University where my major is Health Education with an emphasis in Community Organizing. I have a passion for people and life. I look forward to updating you all on everything from great web design deals to informative and helpful news alerts on current events.
Signing Off, yours Truly
Ash…
The Client: D1 Performance Science LLC
Company Mission:
To prepare athletes to take their game to the next level. Whether that?s from high school to college, from middle school to high school, or just to improve from one season to the next, we prepare athletes physically, mentally, and emotionally. D1 Performance Science gives young athletes a glimpse of not only of demanding division one training, but also of a division one lifestyle.
Below you’ll find the stationary kid designed by us.
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About Smart Chicks: We fulfill dreams through the experience of the arts by providing to artists and the general public an innovative series of arts events and services.
As we talked about in previous post, projectStation is coming along nicely. Most of the specs have been designed and database has been designed. We’ve decided to implement it using cakePHP and we are quite excited. We developed one of our firstf full scale web application using Ruby on Rails almost 3 years. The experience was amazing despite a few cut-n-tape fixes we had to implement. RoR has matured considerably since those days, and CakePHP has RoR to be thankful for its birth, but we decided to try something new.
Another reason we decided to go with PHP was because well.. it uses PHP, which is probably the most widely used web application programming language. CakePHP runs very easily in shared hosting environments (many of our clients use Shared Hosts). We developed a very basic events reservation (www.strivelifestyle.com) site for a client using cakePHP with relatively no issues and/or problems. Our experience with RoR proved invaluable. One thing I noticed personally (as the guys at RailsEnvy love to poke fun at), is there’s a LOT of similiarities between CakePHP and RoR. So much so, that I will go ahead and say that CakePHP simply strives to be the exact PHP equivalent of RoR (which isn’t a bad thing).
Anyhow, we are also in process of acquiring a mac so that development for our first iPhone application can begin. So exciting!
Since we started DV, we set out to be different. We wanted to be able to serve YOU, the small business and individual. We didn’t want to charge you ridiculous amounts of money to have a professional presence. Our main competitors, either charge too much for a great looking product or charge little, for a not-so-great looking product. We wanted to be the best of both worlds -> Quality for a fraction of the cost. Just as important, we wanted you to have a good experience while working with us.
As forward thinking as we’ve been with our mission, its been very hard to market and make DV as big as it can be, mainly because most of our inhouse processes are manual, hence limiting the number of projects we can handle concurrently. We have the capacity to deal with 100s of projects simulatenously, but our business process only allows for us to handle at most 20 projects at any given time.
To change this, we are working on a custom project management software, that will not only improve the experience of our customers when working with us, but in addition, will allow for DV to take on more projects seamlessly.
Our code name for this mission is ”Project Station” but are open to any name suggestions, that are consistent with Digitalvaliance’s theme (valiance / military / web design)! Please feel free to make any suggestion in the comments below. Some other examples we’ve thought of are: Fort Elaine, commandBase, projectServe.
