Most of our colleagues and families know we were working like animals to finish up some of our projects for a July 6 launch. We did great!

The Young Alumni Reunion website. powered by Farcry. went live right on schedule. Featuring a completely fresh look and feel. it's better aligned with the type of event Lehigh is trying to host this year.

A one-two punch of version 2.0 of our Intranet and Event Management systems went live for the Lehigh Alumni Association on Wednesday as well. These are core services that will drive content on their new public website (more on this in a moment) and help their continued backoffice automation push.

We weren't able to deploy their new public website as planned. Months ago we decided to keep the content in the University's CMS. This has had great results - the folks who run it have been OUTSTANDING to work with and rounded out the project in ways unexpected. But. between scheduling issues and finding good artwork for the site we were in the position of having to slip two weeks. At that time you'll see the "all new" web view of Lehigh. The new design theme is quite stunning (sneak!). Also. the Event calendar on the new site is really a Flash component written by us and driven by a web service feed from the EMS. Finally. integration from back to front across disparate systems!

As for the others that didn't make it on time. i'll just sit on them and do an announcement when we do go live. We've got some awesome stuff in the pipeline!