Indian Crescent Society of Australia has launched its website on 8th July 2018 in MEFF multicultural festival. Xpansion Technologies has been involved with ICSOA from its inception for its digital and web needs. Total responsibility of finalising the requirements per the directions from ICSOA management and media committees was gladly taken up by the entire Xpansion Team. Virtually all the social media and web needs have been thoroughly discussed, refined, designed, developed and implemented by the Xpansion team led by Syed Jafar, ICSOA IT Co-ordinator. The work so far culminated in a very successful public launching and a presentation of the website www.icsoa.org.au at MEFF 2018 . A large number of dignitaries and media organisations were present to witness the event. Subsequently, this event has been reported in various communities publications.
Features
The layout and ergonomic design of the website, as well as its accessibility, has been well liked receiving the comments such as “Very Impressive”, “Easy to page through”, “Top notch and variety of content suitable for ALL”, “Very informative”, “Thought provoking” etc. Top notch and current articles reporting on actual events written exclusively for ICSOA and its audience, Videos, Community announcements and Events, Picture gallery of current events, Newsletters and their archived history in a chronological order, Useful links, lists and messages from community organizations, VIPs and dignitaries all make the content very rich and inviting.
Team
Website development is a complex project and requires teamwork and individual efforts from various specialists, experts in their own specific IT fields of endeavour. The group is chosen for this project comprised of a Team leader, Highly experienced and reputed Graphic Designer, Specialist Content Writers, HTML developers with full expertise in Database design and integration with Web pages.
A separate team of SEO and SMO experts have been taken on board to enhance the social media presence of ICSOA as well as ranking and accessibility of the website, as an on-going activity.
The off-shore team of Xpansion Technologies India is led by Haider Naqvi and includes Jawad Haider and Ramesh Kumar. Whereas, on-shore Sydney based ICSOA IT team is led by Syed Jafar, consulted by Iqtedar Abdi and Arif Salim. ICSOA IT team is thankful to Mr Abbas Raza Alvi, the president of ICSOA, for his full contribution and long hours in providing content for and testing of the final website.
Abbas Zaheer has led the media development team chosen especially for Video productions and assisted by Sarwat Abbas. This team has done an exceptional job in producing fully informative and very appealing high-quality videos for public shows and general promotion of ICSOA.
The Audio podcasts produced and published on SUNIYE TAU Mobile App have included various events in the past and has covered the MEFF ICSOA website launch in particular. Tem of Xpansion is fully committed to work with ICSOA and promote its web presence to showcase ICSOA’s activities and contributions to Australian Communities.
An IT professional and owner of Alinfo Solutions, Iqtedar has an Honours in Computer Sciences and a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Flinders and Adelaide Universities. After research institutes and Corporate ITC work in India, he returned to Sydney, Australia. While at UNISYS, he obtained a Masters in Engineering Management from UTS. His creativity includes Writing, Producing and Directing Video, Theatre & Radio plays and Project Managing Audio & Stage. He has broadcast on All India Radio, Adelaide 5UV and Sydney stations SBS, Monica Geet Mala and Indian Link FM. He runs his own Mobile App internet radio 'Suniye Tau'.