SilverStripe.com Blog

Why the 2008 Democratic National Convention used SilverStripe

Posted by Sigurd Magnusson on 5 August 2009

You can now watch an hour-long video explaining SilverStripe's involvement with demconvention.com, the official website for the US Democratic Party's 2008 National Convention. During its 96-hour peak period, the website recieved 2.6 billion hits, 3.2 million visits, served 350,000 hours of streaming video, and took the prize of busiest SilverStripe website ever.

The video is a recording of Tim Chambers and I talking at the monthly Washington DC Web Content Mavens group. Tim Chambers is one of the founders of Dewey Digital, the company appointed the official website producer for the convention. Dewey Digital is now one of SilverStripe's official partners. Dewey was responsible for the website strategy and design and, as we discuss in this video, the selection of a CMS platform and the delegation of the technical build to an appropriately skilled company.

Read the full post

0 Comments Tags:

Air New Zealand to migrate websites to SilverStripe

Posted by Sigurd Magnusson on 2 July 2009

New Zealand's national airline, Air New Zealand, has decided to migrate their main websites to the SilverStripe platform. Website developers and other IT staff at the airline will work closely with SilverStripe's senior staff to make this happen over the coming 12 months.

We're very excited to be helping Air New Zealand because we love seeing them successfully innovate. We love their streamlined check-in and boarding procedure, the mPass application for the iPhone, and their How Far Can I Go website—and that they were the first airline to fly a 747 on biofuel (they have some awesome biofuel policies). We look forward to our software and our knowledge allowing them to innovate much more rapidly and meaningfully with their main websites.

Read the full post

17 Comments Tags: ,

Looking for our Open Source Software? Then head to SilverStripe.org.

Comments on this website? Please give feedback.