What can we say – well, usually quite a lot – but this time The Third Sector Excellence Awards are doing all the talking after nominating Chroma’s Comic Relief Red Nose Day iPhone app for yet another award.
This time the Red Nose Day In Your Pocket is up for ‘Best Use of Digital Media’.
Nice.
The Third Sector awards are the awards to win in the dynamic, challenging, yet hugely rewarding sector for registered charities, not-for-profits and campaigning groups.
And they reckon our app is an example of an outstanding project.
So it’s dickie bows front and centre for another red-carpet awards do.
We could get used to this!
PS – congrats to our mates over at Comic Relief for being nominated for their TwitRelief campaign too!
What a time we had… an amazing induction day with our brand new top-secret client.
More details to follow… but let’s just say Chroma and our mates over at Brothers and Sisters are chuffed to bits to be working with one of the most important musical institutions in the world.
We’ll let you into a Sweet Secret – Chroma’s only gone and bought a racehorse!
And if you haven’t guessed by that heavy-handed intro, she’s called Sweet Secret.
Yes, the sport of kings has lured an unsuspecting digital agency into the four-hooved nirvana of horse ownership.
As part of the 140 Characters syndicate, Sweet Secret is trained by Jeremy Gask at renowned Eamonn Wilmott-owned Horses First Racing. The 140 Characters syndicate is the first ever Twitter based horseracing partership. Search for #Twitterhorse on Twitter or subscribe to this site to follow all the action.
And the four-year-old filly has given us an instant return too with a jaunty second place at the 4:50 at Folkestone last week.
This horse-owning business is easy, you see.
Stay tuned for more updates of Sweet Success and her career. And why not have a peek at some videos of her last race day. She’s a beaut.
More:
Visit the Chroma-built website NagMe.com to review Sweet Secret’s form.
Want to know when one of your favourite horses is next running? NagMe.com is the new official sport alert service from Press Association Sport.
Designed and built by Chroma the site has just been relaunched at http://nagme.com. The website is the first of many digital products in development for this new sports alert brand. Hot on the heals of the website we’ll be rolling out other products in the stable including iPhone, Android and iPad apps. Further down the line other sports and exciting new features are planned.
Horse racing fans can quickly set up FREE alerts on any horse, trainer or jockey – and find a wealth of form and horse racing information for every horse in every race in the U.K. & Ireland.
Backed a winner and need to know when it next runs? Simply search for a horse, click on the NagMe button, and every time your selected horse is declared to run in the UK, Ireland or South Africa, NagMe.com will send you an email notification.
March the 8th is International Women’s Day and Chroma have played a small part in bringing this fact to the attention of the world (and, no, we don’t mean this article)…
We have built a minisite for ActionAid where women from around the world tell their often moving, sometimes harrowing and always inspirational stories through a series of videos that will be released over the coming weeks.
As well as an opportunity to share these remarkable stories, the site gives users a chance to share their messages of support, add their own story and also follow International Women’s Day tweets.
Chroma are delighted to announce the launch of Comic Relief’s official Red Nose Day 2011 iPhone app.
Don’t miss a single thing this Red Nose Day, wherever you are. Keep up to date with all the latest campaign news, video footage and live updates while you’re on the move with Red Nose Day In Your Pocket iPhone App.
And Chroma have built this wicked app; lock, stock and two smoking games.
Other fantastic features include:
A special video introduction to the app from our famous friend Mr David Tennant
All the latest Red Nose Day News and video clips
A brilliant Red Nose Day Pick-A-Nose game featuring Monster Red Noses and a host of celebs including Alex Zane, Denise Van Outen, Gok Wan, Jason Manford, Davina McCall and Harry Hill
A countdown to Red Nose Day
And a Donate feature to allow you to give generously to this great cause
Oh and the best bit… it’s absolutely FREE.
There will be updates too with more games and exclusive videos. Apple are heavily trailing the app on iTunes – so we do expect it to be a hit.
And a date for your diary – Red Nose Day 2011 is March 18.
Merry Christmas and here’s to a great New Year from everyone at Chroma. It’s been a bumper year for Chroma and in 2011 we’re planning to keep on growing and delivering ace websites and great digital products. Lots of lovely new faces are joining the team and we look forward to introducing you to them in the coming months. For now though, lift your glasses and bring on the fun!
It’s turning into an App-filled Christmas and mobile-mad 2011 for us at Chroma. We’re currently developing apps for iPhone, iPad and Android as well as creating a host of mobile sites. We’re updating the award-winning app for Racing UK as well as creating what will no doubt be one of the biggest iPhone apps of 2011. Top secret and all that – but you’ll be the first to know come the day.
04/08/2011 
