Who we've worked with

UNESCO

Pacific Heritage Hub

Collabforge assisted the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to initiate a ‘Pacific Heritage Hub’ which will act as an interactive knowledge management facility with a view to enhancing information sharing, strengthening heritage management capacity, and facilitating sustainable funding and partnership building across the Pacific.

Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport

myregion Strategic Engagement Project

Collabforge is assisting the myregion team with an engagement program, consulting a range of stakeholders regarding future directions for the myregion website.

City of Melbourne

FutureMelbourne - The City Plan that Anyone Can Edit

Collabforge worked with the City of Melbourne to map their existing city planning planning process, and then reengineered this for mass collaboration. A collaborative online platform was developed which enabled anyone in the world to directly edit the city’s 10 year plan for the future. Learn more.

Department of Justice & Country Fire Authority (CFA), Victoria

FireReady iPhone Application

Our work with the Department of Justice and Country Fire Authority (CFA) produced Australia’s first official real-time location-aware fire incident and advice application for the iPhone.

Alberta Department of Human Services

Social Policy Framework Consultation - Online Engagement Strategy & Platform

Collabforge is assisting the Alberta Department of Human Services in the development of a strategy and platform for online engagement related to their first ever Social Policy Framework.

Department of Justice, Victoria

Vital, Valued, Victorians Social Media Campaign

Collabforge developed a social media marketing strategy and ran a rolling Facebook campaign achieving 14,000 community members. We also provided community management and moderation

Parks Victoria

wePlan Parks Management Planning Platform

For Parks Victoria, Collabforge developed an organisation-wide, collaborative public consultation platform and associated strategy. The platform and its related activity was recognised for its ground breaking approach by the Department of Premier and Cabinet as part of the Government 2.0 Action Plan.

ProQuest

Social Information Strategy

Collabforge developed an organisation-wide, short-to-long-term technology strategy for Proquest’s suite of databases. We also developed social (wiki) functionality for one of ProQuest’s core web-based products, Early English Books Online (EEBO). ProQuest provides digitised resources to libraries, research and educational institutions the world over.

Department of Economic Development, Tourism and the Arts – Tasmania

Government 2.0 Integration and Adoption

Collabforge is assisting DEDTA with the integration and adoption of Web 2.0 and Government 2.0 best practice in their organisation, and a number of upcoming key projects.

Southern California Association of Governments

Bicycle & Pedestrian Planning Wiki

Collabforge worked closely with the Southern California Association of Government developing a comprehensive engagement strategy and delivering a scalable online platform for the collaborative development of the Association’s bicycle and pedestrian plan. (Public consultation and site launch planned for November 2010)

Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria

VPS Hub, Victorian Government Intranet

The VPS Hub was a comprehensive project to re-develop the Whole of Victorian Government Intranet, serving an audience of 42,000+ users. Collabforge was engaged to develop the technology platform & engagement strategy. The Hub provides for collaboration across the Victorian Public Service, enabling access to a full suite of social media tools including blogging, wikis, forums, an innovation toolbox, and ideas generation platform.

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts (DEWHA), Canberra

LivingGreener Collaborative Community

Collabforge developed an intranet platform and associated collaboration strategy enabling Federal, State and Local Governments to collaborate on content for LivingGreener, the primary web portal for Australians to learn, understand and act on environmental efficiency programs.

Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria

Web 2.0 Framework

We are currently working with the EPA to develop an organisation-wide web 2.0 framework to ensure the integration of web2.0 systems and tools into their business.

Carbon Down

Carbon Compass

Collabforge worked with Carbon Down towards development of a collaborative online platform to help small and medium-sized businesses find new ways of tackling climate change. In addition to organisational collaboration & support services, Collabforge provided Web 2.0 change management & training.

IMAP (Inner Melbourne Action Plan)

Wiki Intranet and Corporate Site

IMAP is a collaboration across four inner Melbourne councils: the Cities of Melbourne, Port Phillip, Stonnington and Yarra. The aim being to strengthen the liveability, attraction and prosperity of the region. Collabforge is in the process of developing a wiki driven, intranet collaboration environment for IMAP, along with a public fronting site.

VicHealth

Online Collaborative Environment

With VicHealth, we developed workshop-driven user needs assessment program. This involved a prototype online collaborative environment for the sharing of ideas and resources both internally and with stakeholders. The outcome was an ongoing stakeholder collaboration program and appropriate enabling technologies.

Western Australian Ballet Association (WAB)

Open Studio Online Community

WAB are seeking to develop a web 2.0 community website to connect the distributed ballet community – students and teachers – in Western Australia. To begin this process Collabforge was engaged to design and undertake a feasibility study including online strategy research and development, workshop materials and coaching and a community survey. Collabforge delivered a final report containing our recommendations and a project brief for website development.

Western District Health Service

Farmer Health Portal

Collabforge worked closely with this client over a period of time to deliver a comprehensive website for its users including blogging, forum and health education capabilities.

Knowledge Cities World Summit

Social Media Strategy

Collabforge worked closely with this client over a period of time to deliver a social media strategy to support the activities around the first Knowledge Cities Summit to be held in Melbourne.

Health Workforce Australia (HWA)

Collaboration Strategy Scoping Program

Collabforge delivered a scoping program and recommendations towards development of an organisational collaboration strategy for HWA. An initiative of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), HWA was established to meet the future challenges of providing a health workforce that responds to the needs of the entire Australian Community.

What people are saying

Mark Elliott and the Collabforge team provided Parks Victoria with the strategy and solution for a planning web 2.0 application. The Collabforge team generates innovative ideas and have created a professional on-line environment in a timely manner. I would recommend their services to all organisations.

Louise Rose
Parks Victoria
Project Manager Alpine Planning

Collabforge made developing our Website and Wiki simple. No wading through the jargon land of ‘Information Technology’; just dialogue that made sense and practically aligned with what we were trying to achieve. So patient, so helpful and always on the other end of the phone when I needed to ask a question.

Alison Fitzgerald
Inner Melbourne Action Plan Implementation Officer

We definitely wouldn’t have been able to get to this point without all of the hard work you personally put in, and the assistance of everyone at Collabforge. Thank you so much! I feel like our vision is finally becoming an actuality.

Deb Robertson
Education Officer
West Australian Ballet

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