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CMS Ireland - www.cmsireland.com

CMS Ireland is a Christian mission and development agency that works throughout the world. if by design have been working with CMS Ireland for over seven years.

The challenge

CMS Ireland manage a global network of supporters, Mission Partners and churches. Critical to the success of this is their ability to communicate. In 2004 CMS Ireland commissioned if by design to redevelop their website to enhance, extend and support the communication amongst its growing global network.

The solution

Traditionally all the communication within the network was routed and managed through two Ireland based offices - one in Belfast, one in Dublin. In order to support a growing network our solution was to custom build a website that would decentralise the communication between supporters, partners, churches and the head office.

To achieve this we built a blog-based website that provided CMS Ireland and each mission partner with their own blog. Each blog acted as a micro-site and we built a system which aggregated them all together for the main CMS Ireland website.

The system was driven by a content management system that gave CMS Ireland administrators full control over all the blogs and content on the website.

We also built a stripped down version of the content management system for mission partners that provided quick and easy access to key functions. This was particularly important as many mission partners were dotted across Africa and Asia and had slow, temperamental internet access.

The website has changed the way CMS Ireland's network communicates and has improved the quality and quantity of that communication as the network has expanded.