Circles, Networks and Ideas

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the complete online member experience for the 2010 Winter Basketball Session of Y-Basketball at the San Ramon Valley YMCA! The StrongCircles vision was for an online experience that connects the member community at a local hub, engages program participants through online tools that are relevant to the program they’re taking and provides an avenue for an organization like the YMCA to benefit through local sponsorships, and we’re extremely proud to announce that it is now live! Take a look at http://srvymca.strongcircles.com

We are thrilled to announce our first product launch for StrongCircles, a platform that is designed to bring an enterprise-class web presence to every local Hub.

Whether it is a local YMCA or a sports league, we believe that the local institutions that bring us together in the real-world have long suffered from the inability to invest in a world-class online platform. Often running on registration fees, charitable contributions and local sponsorships, these Hubs have never been able to afford their community with a web site and online tools to support the many programs they offer. The web site is often a cost-center that is a volunteer activity in many cases and hardly representative of the value these organizations bring to their neighborhoods.

About a year ago, we couldn’t come up with a product idea even if our lives were dependent on it. Understand that we’re career consultants, meaning we’re quite good at solving other people’s problems (pain point for consulting speak).

Well now, we’re now in the process of bringing one of our ideas to life – Strong Circles.

A good indicator Strong Circles might have some legs is we’re collaborating with a local Hub. If all goes well, we will have an initial release of Strong Circles this coming Fall. Stay tuned!

No time like the present, they say! After nearly 3 and a half years of successfully building web sites for a number of clients across the country (and even one in Latin America), we are about to set forth into uncharted waters.

We are about to pilot our first product offering, which is specifically targeted towards non-profit organizations, local community groups, schools and sport leagues, for whom the current economic climate has created more than a challenge, but a real crisis of enormous proportions. These organizations can barely afford the cost of a sophisticated web presence, and often make do with volunteer webmasters and still struggle to effectively use the online medium for communicating with their members. What if there was a way by which we could not only provide these organizations with a state-of-the-art web presence and tool set to help streamline the mechanics of communication, but it was also a way for them to supplement their fund-raising efforts?