Social Signal's core team of strategists and site developers works with an extended family of technical experts to offer clients a fully managed, integrated web development solution. Our partners are all talented, reliable professionals with whom we have close, proven working relationships.
We pride ourselves on the respect and trust we have earned from our partners for the kinds of projects we bring to their door and the clarity of direction we provide for their work. Our ability to translate our clients' communication requirements into technical specifications for our team of partners, and our ability to accessibly communicate technical issues and demands to our clients, is key to the success of our online community efforts. When you choose to work with Social Signal you're getting a top-quality technical team, managed by an equally talented team of strategists and communicators.
Floatleft
Floatleft is a design and development team that focuses on serving the nonprofit sector. Floatleft's Courtney Miller is a skilled web developer who has implemented the visual designs for our work on NetSquared.org and ChangeEverything.ca. Her extraordinary knowledge, efficiency and amiability make her our preferred Drupal themer. Courtney's ability to make Drupal into a user-friendly, visually engaging interface go beyond visual design implementation and into the realm of custom programming; her commitment to the values of our social sector clients gives us a common language for tackling projects.
2bits
2bits is a custom development company with particular expertise in programming for the Drupal platform. 2bit's Khalid Baheyeldin has built custom modules to create key functionaity for telecentre.org, NetSquared.org and ChangeEverything.ca. We don't know whether his secret is his coding efficiency or his apparent ability to survive without sleep, but Khalid has consistently delivered complex features to exacting requirements in record time. His comprehensive knowledge of the Drupal platform, disciplined approach to project planning and flexibility in addressing emergent issues make him our preferred Drupal programmer.
Bryght
Bryght offers a service for hosting Drupal web sites, as well a Drupal development and consulting shop. Bryght has hosted telecentre.org, NetSquared.org and ChangeEverything.ca. Bryght is our preferred host for Drupal projects, a trusted advisor on high-level technical issues. and a valued souce of technical support on Drupal. We turn to Bryght CEO Boris Mann for his clear-eyed perspective on how to create usable, feature-rich site configurations with minimal software customization; to President Kris Krug for his brilliant insights into how to build audience with social media; and to tech support genius Richard Eriksson for his willingness to debug Drupal modules at 2 am.
Catherine Winters/Catherine Omega
Catherine is the acknowledged leading authority on interactive scripting in Second Life, where she is better known as Catherine Omega. With a portfolio including projects for clients ranging from Save the Children to American Apparel, she combines her technical proficiency with a keen understanding of how communities thrive and grow online – and a passion for positive social change. She's one of the longest-standing residents of Second Life, where she began to master content development while homeless in Vancouver's poorest neighborhood. Working with a computer built from parts scrounged from a dumpster and an Internet connection borrowed from a nearby wireless network, she quickly became one of that virtual world's most sought-after developers.
Her willingness to share her extensive and growing knowledge of LSL, Second Life's notoriously quirky scripting language, led her to create the LSL Wiki – now the reference of choice for the LSL development community. Catherine is a co-author of the just-released Second Life: The Official Guide, which broke the Amazon.com top 500. She blogs regularly at Omega Point.
Other partners
We work with a variety of visual designers in order to give our clients the best option for their own unique look. If you have an existing relationship with a design team that has created your own visual identity we are happy to work with them so you maintain a consistent look and feel.
