Sustainability of Common Look and Feel (CLF)

Integrating CLF standards is about more than making the change; it’s about understanding how to take advantage of what those standards can do to increase effectiveness and potential. To empower your organization, digitalOttawa offers tested and reliable resources that increase sustainability, such as our CLF 2.0 monitoring reporting tool and CLF 2.0 template design and development, as well as our ongoing service of CLF 2.0 conversions. Additionally, we offer CLF 2.0 classes and online workshops to educate and prepare your team to make the most out of the progressive changes that CLF has to offer.

Government of Canada Site Audits

Implementation, keen evaluation and assessment are touchstones of effectively using modern web technologies and bringing best practices to bear on your organization’s web projects. digitalOttawa’s expertise and know-how in the areas of Common Look and Feel, web accessibility, search engine optimization, and W3C allows us to offer effective, effective audits of your site code and design. By using our tools and experience, you can refine and evolve your web projects to better serve your goals and observe best practices.

TOOL: CLF Audit Report Card digitalOttawa offers specific tools with which sites can be audited for compliance not only to Common Look and Feel 2.0 standards, but also for WC3 and accessibility as well. We’re equipped with CLF analytical solutions and software, and full workstations furnished with modern accessibility tools which let us accurately gauge compatibility and solve CLF-related issues.

TOOL: Enhanced CLF Templates Can a dynamic, modern and innovative website be created within CLF 2.0 guidelines? The answer is a resounding “yes”, and digitalOttawa offers versatile and flexible templates to help you make the most of your site’s potential. Our enhanced templates open doors to modern and useful web technologies which facilitate cleaner, more functional websites that still adhere to CLF 2.0 standards.

Social Media Integration & Monitoring

To assist in adoption and integration of social media and its potential, digitalOttawa offers resources and assistance to maximize your organization’s social media presence and strategies. digitalOttawa offers online or in-class workshops the nature of social media press releases, monitoring strategies and tools, digitalOttawa offers powerful options by which to maximize the modern resources of social media.

TOOL: Social Media Publishing Dashboard Effective Social Media publishing requires simple control of diverse content streams, and digitalOttawa offers tools to give your organization exactly that. Using our innovative web-based publishing dashboard, users can quickly and effectively cross-publish to any number of social media networks. Modern, customizable solutions such as these give digitalOttawa the ability to maximize your organization’s potential in the world of modern web publishing.

TOOL: Social Media Monitoring Dashboard digitalOttawa offers tools which allow you to listen, monitor and assess conversations, comments and directions in social media channels. Using one comprehensive and unified portal, digitalOttawa helps your organization to watch relevant feedback and dialogue grow from your Social Media projects, and gives you the insight necessary to shape them appropriately.

Design, Development and Enhancements

digitalOttawa can provide professional an experienced production services which take your site to the next level by integrating improved graphics, technologies, social media tools and new media such as video and Flash. By employing the most modern features and resources, digitalOttawa is able to help you make your online presence distinct, effective and streamlined.

Consulting and Staffing

digitalOttawa offers consulting and staffing solutions for short or long term projects both on-site or off-site, as well as training, coaching and access to our support network for collaboration to find solutions. Additionally, we equips our consultants and freelancers with customized and specific tools to meet any need pertaining to CLF 2.0 or social media. Our network of consultants bring a wealth of experience in a variety of areas, which include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Common Look and Feel (CLF 2.0) evaluation, strategy, implementation and monitoring
• Organization and governance review
• Website and eCommunication tools review
• Online / Internet marketing (social marketing, viral marketing, online advertising)
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and content optimization
• Web Accessibility and Usability
• Web and eCommunication strategy and implementation plan
• Online / Internet partnerships
• Social Media integration
• Web design and development
• Video and multimedia production