The Scottish 10 website was officially launched to coincide with a media broadcast that went out on Friday 24th September on STV (Glasgow & West). Doug Pritchard from GSA talks about the project and the work being undertaken on and off site. You can stream the broadcast using the link below.

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-central/199353-scots-experts-capturing-the-worlds-most-historic-sites/

You can also visit the site at http://www.scottishten.org where you can read all about the project, locations, team & technology, keep up to date with the latest news, events & tweets plus enjoy some of the stunning imagery in the galleries.

Enjoy.

Livelink's new roadmap

Just recently we saw the release of a new roadmap for the Obtree/Livelink WCM PS (Livelink) platform. In it are some very interesting developments and a real feeling that Livelink is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Great news for us, we love it.

Good news for you too as you can now concentrate on your web sites and their content and not need to think about a new WCM.

More good news for you, there are real improvements to the platform (particularly the Site Manager interface) that will bring the platform more in line with current technologies.

Release 9.8.3 is due out in November 2010 includes

• Integration into Social Communities
• Improved Site Manager User Interface with AJAX
• Advanced Spellchecker for all Platforms with new Features
• System Monitoring
• After a customer survey, the roadmap has been finalized to highly fulfill current customer needs. The main focus is on the improved Site Manager.
• In addition to development during 2010, a feasibility study about the replacement of the Java
• Applets with AJAX editors

For many this is a new start...

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." Abraham Lincoln

One example of such a new project is our current work with the National College to build a new intranet on a recently aquired Livelink WCM license (yes, you can still buy them!)

So, who can help you get your "new" Livelink WCM development programme underway?

Mimtech was formed to provide Livelink users with expert  help to make the most of their investment. We are still the largest provider of Livelink WCM development skill in the UK. Whatever you require for your newly invigorated WCM we can help. Mimtech provide helpdesk support, application development, integration with legacy systems, strategic planning, site design and implementation. And much more.

Summers out, autumn's in, it's official. There was a definite drop in temperatures here in Glasgow and we've waved goodbye to the longer evenings which is probably no bad thing as our autumn / winter season looks to be just as packed as our spring / summer campaign has been.

News from the camp is that the Scottish Ten project is complete, it hasn't been officially released yet but it's a fantastic loooking site for a more than fantastic initiative and as soon as it launches we'll let you know.

We've been doing some great work in Livelink WCM as the National College Internal Portal project draws to a close. A whole load of integration with many different technologies involved in that project. We've also been doing some technical consultation with Mimecast as we prepare for the start of their corporate website project which is being built in EPiServer CMS6 & we've another EPiServer CMS6 project about to kick off with NHS Grampian which also includes integration with their Sharepoint environment, we're looking forward to both of those.

Also on the cards is a redesign of the Edinburgh Castle site for Historic Scotland and an overhaul of the British Council home pages.

In amongst all of this we're also going to be completely rebuilding our own site, playing with HTML5 and CSS3 and looking to expand our operations team. Never a dull moment.

We have finished the migration of Salford City Council's Obtree sites to RedDot. Six sites have now gone live and are working well. The migration itself was, in my humble opinion, a resounding success. The issues we had were not technical but process and you can always learn from those for the next one. Well done to Chandra, Ken and the team for bringing this one in on time and budget. We are preparing a case study to document the project and will make the metrics available so you will be able to see how much more effective the mim:switch software is than the manual or other automated options.

We have already been commissioned to begin the next one and are in discussions about another two.

We are hoping to have the opportunity for a migration from Obtree to EPiServer soon (the test migrations to EPiServer are quicker than those to RedDot) and we are looking forward to that.

If you are a user of Obtree (Livelink WCM PS) and would like to know what options you have for migrating to a new platform please get in touch.

I have been away for a few days but the Salford City Council migration project has charged relentlessly towards a successful conclusion. The five smaller sites have all gone live and the main site is with the Council for UAT. There is still a bit of work to do at their end getting all of their forms, workflow processes etc in place but it looks like we have had a very successful project migrating the content of 6 sites from Obtree (Livelink WCM PS) to RedDot.

We are putting together all of the metrics from the project (number of pages, time to migrate, tolerance levels etc) into a case study which will be available once the project is signed off. In the meantime if anyone is interested in finding out more about our Obtree migration tool or would like to see a demo migration from Obtree to RedDot, EPiServer or Immediacy, please get in touch.