This presentation illustrates some of the solutions developed as part of the Portarlington eTown project.

1. Portarlington eTown
Project
eConcept Web Solutions & Port2020

2. Who we are
“eConcepts are a young, enthusiastic team of social media
experts, web developers, online advertising specialist and in
general, all things web kinda people.
We take pride in our work. A new client is a new challenge to
excite the team with the aim of delivering the best possible
solution to fit the project needs.”

3. Project
Scope
“The aim of this project is to identify & develop a series of
web tools to enhance life for the people of Portarlington. It
aims to enable community stakeholders to make better
use of the web as a resource within the community
building a stronger & more resilient community…

4. Aims
Promote business activity and job creation in the town
Take and innovative approach to community development
Provide a of cost-effective means of developing community projects
Promote the work of PCDA/LovePort
Enhance community life in Portarlington
Allow equal opportunities to participate in community activities

5. Project
Plan
Step 1: Project Scoping & Stakeholder Feedback.
Step 2: Technical design and Development
Step 2.1 Content Preparation
Step 2.2 Prelaunch Testing / Review
Step 3: System Launch and training
Step 3.1 Training
Step 4: Ongoing support / Quarterly Consultancy

6. Scoping Results

7. Scoping Results

8. eTown
Map

9. eTown Service:
Merged Events Calendar
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10. Dynamic Event
Calendars
- Event logging system
- Merge calendar lists by genre or
geographic area
- Enhance event description,
pictures, time, cost, map etc
- Easy to edit backend admin to
create and edit event listings
- Events integrated into
www.GoingOut.ie

11. 3: Tailored Content
Management System
• Backend CMS for all our
Facebook applications
• Unique login to edit pages as
and when required
• Insert videos, images, events,
product descriptions, offers,
competitions, etc
• Built on our core system but
customised for each client
• Easy to use (Like MS Word)

12. eTown Service:
Merged Offers
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13. Offers Tool
- Business add new offers
- Upload images & description
- Backend CMS to edit listings
- All offers merged onto single list
- Promoted on FB wall, email
newsletter and available on the
website and Facebook page.

14. Other Tools
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15. Community Forum
Service
Moderated discussion forum for
the community
Benefits
All sectors of the community can •Generates valuable
share ideas and opportunities community interaction
•Works as a community
Categorised by area of interest notice board
•Facilitates community ideas
and volunteer groups

16. Jobs
Service
Businesses can submit job
opportunities
Benefits
Site administrators will post job •Helps businesses identify
listings local talent
Online database of local job •Allows the local
opportunities unemployed find job
opportunities
•Promotes a local job
market

17. News & Blog
Service
Community daily digest
Variety of local news contributors Benefits
•Builds community spirit and
Articles related to the sports, social, awareness
business and any other aspect of •Creates lines of
the community communication among the
community
•Generates original local
general news and content

18. Discussion Topics
Content Generation Revenue & Management
•Bloggers •Revenue opportunities for
•Photos business services
•Video •Rates and format to be
•Launch discussed
•Buy In
•Updates

19. Next Stage = roll out
..get involved..
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20. - Questions ?
- Suggestions ?
- Feedback ?
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