Working with VI

At the beginning of 2009 I was approached my the creative agency We Are VI to work on the development of the Latitude Group site alongside their team of designers and developers. They had been requested specifically by the client to use the WordPress platform and at the time had no in house specialist who was able to provide the results required with the time and budgets constraints.
As the project manager was a former student of mine who likely remembered me bouncing around a lecture room raving about this open-source platform I was championing, so thankfully for both parties, it stuck.

The job was a learning fantastic experience for both of us, as realised the awesome potential of working with VI into the future, they realised the true versatility of WordPress in the right hands and we both learnt everything that comes from developing to spec for one of the countries leading SEO specialists.

The project was a huge success with happy client, happy agency and happy me which is always the optimum outcome, and therefore the progression to working again together was a natural one.

Since then I have worked on a number of sites for VI such as:

Blakeofficial.com

PortmanHalthcare.co.uk

FEIyearofyouth.org

SecretCinema.org/windowsphone/

This culminated in VI deciding to move their own site over to WordPress in order to facilitate the biggest problem for those of us busy working for clients in the industry, maintaining our own sites.

Thankfully this has indeed been the case allowing VI stay involved in the blogosphere by providing an accessible platform for regular content creation. Also providing a platform to experiment with a vast array of social marketing techniques, the development of many unique features to the VI site written just for them, including a custom plugin based on Mashable’s ‘drag-to-share’ functionality that will be released in 2010.

Go and see what is going on at www.wearevi.com