Over the past years, Iona has been fortunate to share our company’s time, treasure and talent with many worthwhile organizations. During this past Christmas season, we selected three deserving organizations. One was Doctors Without Borders’ famine relief program using Plumpynut, a nutrient dense ready-to-use food. A second organization was to TAPS, a local animal shelter. The third organization was the One Laptop, One Child program.

Chad Udell, Iona’s lead Internet architect, was interviewed recently for a local news broadcast on WHOI. Chad spoke about how “mash-ups” on the web are allowing people to access readily available data in new ways that provide value to a visitor. Chad gave examples such as how Google Maps and publicly accessible data allowed developers to create mash-ups that allow a visitor to see availability of electronics gear or presence of potential dangers in their neighborhood. To see the entire interview that was aired, read more.

The Iona Group is proud to announce that we have been invited to join the Ektron Certified Partner Program. Ektron is the leading ASP.Net based Content Management System (CMS) on the web today. Ektron has won numerous awards and has been installed at over 20,000 small, medium and large organizations.

It’s important to Iona to continue to stay current on the latest trends in building great communications and the supporting technologies. To further our knowledge and expertise, Iona is sending eight of our creative staff to the Adobe Max conference in Chicago.

Iona continues to have a very strong internship program. This program supports our belief in both education and supporting the community. Iona had three interns working for us during the summer assisting in development, videography and production, and design and animation. The three are headed back to Bradley University (Peoria, Illinois) to continue their education in multimedia, computer science and design. The good news is that we don’t have to say goodbye to them since they will continue working for Iona throughout their school year.

The Iona Group conceived and developed an advanced internet viral marketing campaign to promote Tyson’s 100% All Natural™, Raised Without Antibiotics chicken. The Improv-o-Gram™, which is available at cluckhere.com, is an on-line experience that allows people to create and send their own personalized video messages.

Iona welcomes one of its newest members!

Iona gets the opportunity to work with some of baseball's finest players.

On June 4, 1944, USN Task Group 22.3 captured a German U-Boat off the coast of Africa. The German high command thought that the submarine was sunk and didn’t discover that the boat was actually captured until after the war. A key part of the capture was the seizing of the top secret Enigma code machine that allowed the Allies to decipher Nazi codes for the remainder of the war. In 1954, the U-505 was placed on permanent exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry...

Attracting the finest students is highly competitive between the best universities and Illinois Wesleyan knows that they need to make a good impression with every contact of a prospective student. IWU will soon be making good impressions with a recruitment DVD conceptualized and developed by The Iona Group...