Posted: June 16th, 2006 | Author: Michael R. Murphy | Filed under: Design | No Comments »
The Student Loan Corporation is pretty good about employee appreciation. They put on about 6,very nice,internal events a year that differ in themes. There’s always a holiday party around Christmas time but throughout the rest of the year they mix it up with events like an Olympic-themed series of games,a Casino Night,Spring Break,etc. Pictures from these events get posted to the Internal Events page of the intranet. A screenshot of that page is below:
What you can’t tell from that picture is that most of the images are animated gifs. Between all the movement and the differing,non-matching,background colors,I go into convulsions everytime I see this page. When it was time this week to post the latest round of pictures,I couldn’t take it anymore. It was time to spruce things up a little so I took an hour or so to do some spring “cleaning”:
Now each event is linked to by a ‘polaroid snapshop’ of an icon representing it rather than a dancing turkey or swinging medal. I like its cleaner,more professional look. What do you think?
Posted: June 13th, 2006 | Author: Michael R. Murphy | Filed under: Business | No Comments »
I am pleased to announce the debut of BVEMusic.com.
BVEMusic.com is the website of Brendan Van Epps,a jazz saxophonist from Syracuse,New York. This website supports the release of Brendan’s new CD,When She Dances. The site also allows Brendan to communicate appearance dates to his audience. BVEMusic.com interfaces with Brendan’s existing Paypal account,providing fans with a simple convenient way to purchase When She Dances.
Please join me in congratulating Brendan on his new website,BVEMusic.com,and wishing him much success in the future.
Posted: June 5th, 2006 | Author: Michael R. Murphy | Filed under: Business, Food for Thought | No Comments »
Not that long ago,I mentioned that Citigroup’s NAIT was interested in the recognition program I wrote for The Student Loan Corporation.
Well,this past Friday,I presented a portion of the program to a representative of that project team and he was impressed. He’ll be presenting his findings to the team this week so we’ll have to see where it goes from there.
To see my little web app go from the several hundred employee Student Loan Corporation to adoption by Citigroup,the world’s largest financial institution,might blow my mind.
On a side note,the shirts I designed for the 2006 Corporate Challenge were apparently a big hit although I was a little disappointed. To reduce the printing costs and because of possibly foul weather,they decided to print in a single color on not white. I guess I can’t blame them for being frugal but I was not a big fan of the turquoise color that was chosen. Ugh.
