Following a recent funding donation through Devon Music Services, I have been involved in a website design and build in order to draw together music making groups, services and individuals in the East-Devon area.

The site currently collates a directory of local musicians, teachers, venues and services, as well as a growing calendar of events and a news blog. It is free and open to all to join, and I look forward to it's formal launch in August.

To register free, or see what it can offer you, visit www.exmouthmusicnetwork.com In addition to making a useful resource, it also highlights an interesting model for other areas to consider.

Dormant Stories is a project of my own, born from my love of writing, but frustration at never having time to persue one idea to fruition.This website is a catalogued collection of writing ideas, story starters, advice and banks for writing at KS 2-3, and teachers looking for ideas for their pupils.

The site uses a range of blogging tools, as well as news feeds, RSS, newsletter subscription and tags, categories and search facility to help the reader locate ther desired writing stimulus.

http://www.dormantstories.com

RunCraigyRun.org is a small charity based site, dedicated to the fund raising work of one Devon runner, Craig Butler. The site uses multiple blogs, galleries, a calendar, and a well integrated comment system to allow him to share his fundraising and training progress with his community, and to get instant feedback, support and ideas.

Integration with a vimeo group allows smooth streaming of viedo content, and a gallery tool helps members organise, rate and comment on pictures from related running events.

Related accounts on Facebook, Twitter, etc are fed current news automatically via RSS feed, as is the feedburner RSS  subscription, allowing visitors to subscribe to news as  RSS or via email.

The site is integrated with the current charity's online donation tools, to allow instant monitary support, and a visual progress counter to help measure the level of funds raised.

www.runcraigyrun.org

Woodbury Salterton Primary School's revised website, now CMS based for fast sharing of news relating to all aspects of the school's life, including galleries, many news blogs for classes, subject, stakeholder groups and a fast, categoriesed calendar, all add together to provide a professional and efficient face for the school.

Hornblowers Brass Project provide whole class brass instrument teaching to schools in Devon, thanks to the Wider Opportunitioes initiative and funding.

Their website allows teachers and pupils to share in the work of the project in their own and other Devon schools, as well as find resources, music, recordings, videos and other media realting to the courses run.

Through seamless integration with web video provider, Vimeo, the Hornblowers website offers regular high quality streamed video of its events, rehearsals and performances, as well as the opprtunity to share, comment and contribute to the community through a well developed 'members' area, of private resources, comments and news, music and audio/video/images.

Through careful integration with Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, YouTube, and other third party social web services, Hornblowersproject.org.uk ensures that its members and community are kept well in touch with their teachers, peers and course materials.

Event website for Exmouth Schools Music Projects, to support and faciltate collaboration between schools involved in shared music projects.

The website allows schools to contribute to the project by...

"We have been absolutely delighted by the quality of Worldbeat-Media's work. Highly professional, always friendly and attentive to our requirements. The Opera Engine website is beyond anything we hoped, or budgeted, for."

Opera Engine

Opera Engine is an up and coming opera company based in the South West of England. Their dynamic and creative team needed a website which would showcase their projects in a highly visual and eye catching way, whilst allowing them to take control of the content themselves.

TeachMusic

TeachMusic is a project to support the teaching and learning of music, particularly in primary schools, and in support of the Wider Opportunities initiative. Currently our flagship project, as well as one of ourown initiatives, TeachMusic incorporates news blogs, discussion furum, downloads directories, website catalogue, members areas,image galleries, wiki book, reviews and comments system, and a growing range of web 2.0 technologies and 3rd party add-ons.

We are very excited about where this project might lead - take a look to see if a similar service would be of use to you in your area /  market.

St Josephs Catholic Primary School, Exmouth, Devon

Thank you for all your amazing ideas in the great design on EMCOs website!

It was a pleasure working with someone with flair and enthusiasm ,which shows in your work. We wish you every success!

-Mrs Val Clarke, Chairperson Exmouth Musical theatre Company, www.emcoexmouth.co.uk

Website built for Exmouth Musical Theatre Company, incorporating brochure style front end, with events calendar, contact forms guest book and picture galleries. Then, users' password protected members areas with news, chat, email, calendar, forums, flickr feeds as well, including internal email, chat boards and