From the vocalo.org website:
"Vocalo is a gathering place, on-air, on the web, and in the community. It’s also a new broadcast format that celebrates the cultures and communities of the Chicago region.
Here at Vocalo.org we welcome your participation at any level. Start by listening to our web stream or if you live in Northwest Indiana, you can hear us at 89.5 FM.
Then, sign-up and begin to interact with our hosts while they’re on the air. Make additions to the playlist, rate a video or photo essay. When you’re ready, start your own blog, upload your photos, audio, stories. Our hosts want to share the airwaves with you.
And if you really care about a topic, help us keep the discussion going even after the broadcast, by inviting friends to join the conversation, adding tags to your topic and connecting with others to take it to the next level."
CMAEYC and Chicago Public Schools sponsored this résumé bank for local early childhood professionals. Teachers, trainers, and other Type 04 certified professionals submit Teacher Profiles, including their résumés. Local schools and child care centers register for the ability to review the résumés and contact the teachers.
Funded by an Illinois State Library grant, the Skokie Public Library coordinated the implementation of a searchable information portal, allowing librarians from across Illinois to share their most valuable Internet-based resources with the rest of the Internet community. Illinois CLICKS! contains thousands of valuable links sorted by hundreds of categories. Special resources are available for teachers, parents, consumers, and senior citizens among many other groups. Working with a project coordinator and designer from SPL, members of the Cooperative team extended the Drupal content management system and wrote custom code to provide for the security and publishing features the librarians require.
Dreamfish, a community of social changemakers, artists, and activists, needed an online community where their members from around the world could share, collaborate, discuss, and create. The new dreamfish.org site, designed and implemented by the Cooperative, offers blogging, audio and video integration, active topical forums, moderated special interest groups, tagging, and several social networking tools. The new site provides a solid foundation for this thriving and progressive organization.
The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council (BYNC) is America's oldest not-for-profit community development organization. The organization needed a new website to showcase the many programs and services they offer the community. We provided an organizational brochure site with a user-friendly content management system and an online event calendar.
We created an organizational brochure site with multiple integrated photo galleries, rotating content highlights, contact submission, and a user-friendly content management system. Staff can easily add and change content to the website without extra tools or training.
A pilot program of the Arts and Business Council of Chicago, this website's organizers include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Ravinia Festival, WFMT, and others. The site is a classical music portal sponsored by several local organizations, featuring multiple blog columnists, an event calendar, discussion forums, and a real-time chat room.
ChicagoAncestors.org allows users to "discover the past by address." Historical records culled from several organizations, including the Newberry Library, Chicago Historical Society, as well as hundreds of churches and schools, are viewed using an interactive mashup-style Google Map. Information about people, places, and events through Chicago, including user-submitted locations and photographs, can be viewed in their proper historical and geographical contexts.
