The city portal www.hamburg.de is increasing more and more in popularity: in July this year 18.6 million page impressions were registered. To make the website even more interesting and to keep it up-to-date it was totally revised in the last few months. As an implementation partner of CoreMedia Tallence helped to put the idea of a real interactive portal into practise.
Content of local media agencies and new video formats like "Live dabei" now extend the informative part of the website. But it is characterised particularly by the linkage of the information and service range of hamburg.de with the services of the municipal authorities and offices. Hamburg Newcomers can get information not only about events and their residential area, but also about Hamburg registration offices and download the appropriate forms to fill them out. The direct access to this so-called E-Government-content makes many processes much easier for Hamburg citizens which would otherwise take a lot of time and stress.
Another novelty is the city map: one can search locations, restaurants and much more in the surrounding area getting all regarding information by just one click.
Most of all the implementation of people-centric™ CoreMedia Content Management Software makes hamburg.de (since July 2007 a collaboration of the city of Hamburg with Axel Springer AG, HSH Nordbank, Hamburger Sparkasse and Sparkasse Harburg-Buxtehude) a real web 2.0 portal.
"Interaction takes centre stage at the hamburg.de relaunch. Hamburg citizens are invited to create their own city portal by using the web 2.0 content", says Georg Konjovic, Managing Director of hamburg.de.
Members of the hamburg.de community can upload their videos and pictures, write comments and evaluations on articles or exchange messages with other users in a separate area. The content management system registers and analyses common interests with other community members which reinforces the identification as a (Hamburg) group.
Once again the established partnership between CoreMedia and Tallence could be verified working together on this project - as says Lars Seebach, Delivery Manager at CoreMedia:
"Deliver a project like hamburg.de with the appropriate colleagues from Tallence really rocks."