Columbia Green Goes Electronic
Membership organization converts donor management and event registration to new levels with new website. Columbia Green brings its commitment to beauty, quality of life and economic development to life online

We're all about business!

TheRackesGroup: We make the Internet make sense for your business

Online or off, TheRackesGroup can help your organization clarify its strategy, create its brand, build a platform to extend it, identify your best audience, define and execute a marketing plan to connect your objectives with your audience, and support and measure the results. Concept to conclusion, we're your partners in building effective business.

Our medium is technology - most particularly, Internet technology - but we can brand, build & market in any medium. We deliver great design to enhance visual appeal and build credibility, architect your information to draw visitors down a desired path, edit content to better connect with audience interests, and build functionality that's reliable and easy to use. In short, we begin with the end in mind, delivering business results without self-indulgent bells and whistles.

Business is business. We demand the same kind of ROI from online initiatives that you expect offline.

State Department of Education. With more than 70,000 pages of unmapped content dating as far back as five years, the SDE looked for support in reorganizing the architecture of their website and defining a process for decentralized management and quality control.

Gergel Wins City Council Race

Effective use of Internet supports victory Dr. Belinda Gergel, community activist and retired professor, won the District 3 seat on Columbia City Council being vacated by 20-year veteran Anne Sinclair. Gergel received nearly 70% of the vote and won every single precinct against a well-funded challenger.

Department of Education Launches Choice Database

Choice within public schools is a keystone in Superintendent of Education Jim Rex's vision for public education. As the focus on choice parental choice grew, the burden on the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) to inform parents about those choices also increased.

Governor's School Celebrates 20th Anniversary

The South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics (SCGSSM) celebrates its 20th anniversary with a series of activities. The April groundbreaking on new campus construction kicked off the year-long festivities, followed by the first ever reunion of all graduating classes in September.

Southeastern Institute for Women in Politics Launches with February Event

The political gender gap in South Carolina is striking. Our state ranks 50th in the U.S. - LAST in women elected to public office. Now, women's organizations are uniting to change all that. The Southeastern Institute for Women in Politics, or SEIWIP, kicked off with a very successful training event in February, 2008, keynoted by Governor Ruth Ann Minner of Delaware.

TRG to build new online economic development hub for City of Columbia