National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHY)

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities needed to redesign their website and change the CMS in order to keep the content fresh and attract more visitors. The new site had to provide multiple ways for searching the information, integrate social media tools and a simple clean interface.

The new website received 2011 Achievement Award for increased usability and search functionality, the establishment of a model policy for social media in non-profit resource dissemination.

From the Client

The National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY) highly recommends the web consulting services of AmDee LLC. This company managed our organization’s move from SharePoint to WordPress for website management, and our web traffic has nearly doubled as a result. AmDee demonstrates both superior technical skills and the ability to listen to and understand our unique needs. We would recommend AmDee to any organization that is looking to improve their web presence and accessibility.

Elaine Mulligan Project Director National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHY)

Challenges

Sharepoint didn’t allow the NICHY staff to quickly create and publish content. Combined with limited technical knowledge of how to use SharePoint, they felt that adding new features and changing the layouts was difficult. They also believed SharePoint to be very expensive for both hosting and maintenance.

  • Reduce cost for hosting and maintenance
  • Quickly create and publish new content
  • Add new features
  • Change the layouts easily

Solution

AmDee LLC helped the client with picking WordPress as a new CMS and devised a plan for data migration from existing SharePoint CMS. We also integrated Facebook, Twitter, eNewsletter sign up and blog with the new site.

  • AmDee provided custom-built solutions within WordPress, provided custom training and integrate SalesForce within all web solutions.
  • Large data migration from SharePoint to WordPress
  • More than 1000 pages/posts successfully migrated
  • 508 compliant and accessible website
  • Social media, e-newsletter and blog integration
  • Custom search and plug-in customization
  • Usage of SalesForce for data maintenance

A new app DisAbilityConnect for Android (August 2011) and iOS (August 2012) platform was launched to reach a wider audience.