Projects We've Worked On

Affinity Bridge was a collaborating partner in the Vision Vancouver website redesign, leading up to the 2011 Vancouver municipal election, which saw the Mayor and all councillors, and park and school board trustees running (re)elected. The redesign included numerous features including an interactive map, and a new custom theme.

In 2010, the Co-operative Housing Federation of BC came to us looking for a redesign of their site with a content management system (CMS) that would allow them full control over their site content, as well as space to grow and adapt to their changing needs. We designed a new theme and special features like a searchable directory and private content areas to accommodate their membership into the future.

Through years of hosting Canada's foremost conference on brain injury, the Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference Society saw the need for a dedicated source for information and educational resources in Canada. This materialized in the form of Brainstreams.ca, a website that provides centralized resources for professionals working with the brain injured, as well as survivors of brain injury and their families.

Affinity Bridge and Junxion Strategy partnered to design and develop an intranet for BC Housing that helps promote and share knowledge surrounding sustainability within the context of both the work they do, and their organization.

We implemented Drupal's Organic Groups to allow the various external research groups (whose sites were all running on various other software in a piecemeal fashion) to be migrated into the main TRIUMF site. This has allowed for unified branding, across the board functionality updates, and easier maintenance, while continuing to support the various groups' work.

RedTents.org is a project run by the Pivot Legal Society, working to create awareness around the issue of homelessness, and a call for a National Housing Strategy.

We developed a custom DB2 interface for Drupal, enabling University of Ottawa to use Drupal as a bridge between two systems, in this case as a middleware layer for managing notifications to the student portal.

Affinity Bridge developed the My Business 2010 subsite as a section of the main VEDC site that provided information to businesses surrounding the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.

Taunton has a series of websites for each of the publications that provide additional content and discussion forums. The sites were previously running on a custom content management system (CMS) that was built in .NET and PHP, and we converted each of them to use Drupal.

We built a contest framework to support a social experiment on the topic of procrastination. Users were segmented into 4 separate roles, and each role was given different instructions on how to proceed with the contest. At a technical level, the contest platform enforces rules for a scavenger hunt, each contestant can only see the current clue they are working on, and once they complete the current clue, the next clue is revealed to them.

S4S's Claros provides custom systems for multi-agency programs to plan and manage their internal and external projects and to show progress toward sustainability goals. Affinity Bridge worked together with S4S to develop several generations of their flagship software, which ties together mission values, disparate projects, and sustainability indicators in a richly interlinked data architecture, to create meaningful overviews of multi-project status.

Wilderness Committee, in their mission to protect Canada’s biodiversity through strategic research and grassroots public education, is citizen-funded, and they wanted to better leverage their web presence to solicit donations. Affinity Bridge helped develop their online store and donations system.

Tyze is a tool for creating networks of care and building strong "social support networks" around community members who might otherwise live more isolated lives. Click here to read more about Tyze.

The PlanNYC web portal provides information on housing and urban development in New York City categorized by neighbourhood and planning project, and strives to give a broad range of viewpoints and resources on the issues at hand.

Affinity Bridge helped The Dalai Lama Center to develop a new website that allows them to easily keep their content (including a new blog) up to date, showcase information about the Center and the various programs they run, and better manage and integrate content related to their conferences.

ChangeEverything is Vancity's project to create an online community that helps foster and encourage positive change, be it social, economic, environmental, or personal.

Ecolabelling.org is an extensive directory of green product labels. The site features powerful faceted searching to make it easier for people to learn more about ecolabels and green products.