When Scotland's last survivor of the 1944 Stag Luft III "Great Escape" passed away peacefully last month aged 97, we were reminded of the veteran's part in World War II's derring-do breakout story that was later immortalised in film by Richard Attenborough, Steve McQueen and James Garner.

But what of the other national stories from our brave men and women in the forces that have never before been written down or projected onto the silver screen? Well, last year we were commissioned to build a ground breaking online museum for Museums Galleries Scotland to help capture a fresh treasure trove of undiscovered memories and artifacts of war from the nation's own civilians, veterans (young and old), as well as those currently serving in our armed forces.

This pioneering project began with Screenmedia developing the online multimedia exhibition using an innovative content management system, which allowed 16 project teams across Scotland to create and populate over 300 online exhibitions; including visual assets such as diary extracts, newspaper articles, old photographs, archived film, documents, paintings and photographed objects.

Now we're delighted to announce the official launch of Remembering Scotland at War - the culmination of nearly 2 years development with the team at MGS - complete with interactive online museum and community social networking platform. A later additon to the project, the online community site not only allows users to discuss Scotland's conflicts, they can also add their own archive of images, documents and letters to help uncover hidden pieces of Scotland's history; including stories and personal accounts which may not have been previously known to historians.

This fantastic intergenerational project is available online and as a classroom teaching aid via Learning Teaching Scotland's schools' intranet, Glow.

To explore the exhibition and to add your own archive documents, visit the museum at www.RememberingScotlandAtWar.org.uk

Our very own Sprint GPS health & fitness apps, that's what!

Our SprintGPS apps, for running, cycling and walking, have been available in the app store for little over a month now, and they are doing incredibly well.

Apple has picked us up several times, promoting us in the Appstore Health and Fitness category, listing us as 'new and noteworthy' and more recently featuring SprintGPS Walk Tracker Pro in the 'What's Hot' list in Health and Fitness; a real boost to sales.

If you haven't already looked us up in the iTune Store, Sprint GPS uses the iPhone 3G/3GS GPS technology to track your fitness activities in real-time. As you run, walk, cycle the app provides statistics including distance, pace, time, calories, altitude etc. It also maps your progress on google and opencycle maps. During an activity you can take photos, listen to music and on completion of your activity, you can review your training history and share your activities with others (via facebook, twitter and email) on the Sprint GPS website.

If you haven't already downloaded it and tried it out, please do - and let us know what you think.

www.screenmedia.mobi

We're looking for a talented .net developer to join our development team full time to assist on a variety of up and coming web and mobile web projects.  If you're passionate about emerging technology and would welcome the opportunity to work within a creative agency please drop us an email with some information about yourself and a CV to info@screenmedia.co.uk; we'd love to hear from you.

The successful candidate will have excellent knowledge of C#, Umbraco, XSLT, SQL Server, ASP.Net, MVC, SOAP, REST and jQuery. Additional knowledge of (X)HTML, CSS, xUnit/nUnit technologies will also be beneficial.

The preferred candidate will also have

- Excellent knowledge of modern software development best practice

- Experience of AJAX and associated technologies

- At least two years commercial experience using C#.Net

- Excellent interpersonal & communication skills

- An eye for detail, and an enthusiasm for ensuring that work is delivered to the highest possible standard.

- Previous experience working in a creative agency and to client deadlines

- Experience working with social media tools, technologies, applications and platforms would be highly beneficial

Well here it is, our Spring 2010 look.

We normally wait a while before radically changing our site, but the last couple of years has seen profound changes in digital media: it would be remiss of us not to practise what we preach.

The impact of Web 2.0 tools and technologies has changed online-design, from site architecture & navigation to layouts & style.

The pace of adoption of rich-media continues, much to the delight of our audio-visual production team.

Social-media has moved beyond 'buzz', into everyday use at work, at home and on mobile - offering exciting new forms of user-interaction to our clients. You'll see some great examples in our portfolio.

But perhaps the biggest change in 2009/10 has been in sales of iPhone/iPod Touch & iPad, which seem to have taken everyone, except our new mobile division, by surprise. Our team has been busy since last September developing our new SprintGPS app, and working on some beautiful new apps for clients.

After 6 months of intense development, the team of 'Brainiacs' at Screenmedia have officially launched the www.screenmedia.mobi website with the unveiling of the awesome new app - SprintGPS Fitness Tracking.

We have just released the app' to iTunes, and we are thrilled to be launching exclusively to the New Zealand market today and we'll be launching worldwide in 2 weeks.

The iPhone is so well suited to outdoor fitness tracking we just had to build this app'. The SprintGPS app tracks your route, time, speed, calories burned and much more.

The launch of SprintGPS marks our first app' development alongwith the evolution and expansion of our business. With our first iPod Touch app being delivered to the National Library of Scotland today and our first iPad commission realised, we're going to be very busy people.

We're pleased to announce our recent work with BBC - the Brainsmart microsite and animation series.

Check the site out, and follow dapper, young George on his mission to get motivated, improve his memory and plan his way to success.

This microsite and animation series is designed to teach basic memory techniques to boost exam success, and to generally improve memory through professional memory techniques.

Thanks again to the excellent team at BBC (Louise, Anne, Bruce) and of course to 'George' who now feels like a member of the team as well.

www.bbc.co.uk/brainsmart

Our latest wesbite launch is for the software vendor VisionWare who provide Data Integration and Management solutions in the US and UK.

They needed a complete re-design, re-write and development of a stylish, marketing focused website, controlled by a robust, scaleable and open-source content management system....which is exactly what we gave them.

The site is built on our open-source Umbraco CMS which enables Visionware's staff and partners to easily and effectively manage and upadte the site.  Everyone's happy with the results, and we are all looking forward to continuing our good work together.

We're delighted to announce the launch of the Red Squirrels of the Highlands website.

This Forestry Commission (Scotland) project enables volunteer surveyors, and members of the public, to capture and record sightings to the website, and plot them on an Ordnance survey map.

The map is building over time to plot every recorded sighting (since 2007) in even the remotest areas of the Highlands. It's the pefect way to record the red squirrel activty and help protect the nationally endangered population.

We have really enjoyed working on this particular project - so much so, that we've bought our own Red and Grey Squirrel costumes - so watch this space!

A wee snap of one of the team (no names mentioned...ahem...Kenny) on Wear It Pink Day for Breast Cancer Awareness. A few apprehensively turned up sporting pink, but after a few too many 'flumps' and some pink lemonade the flashing bunny ears were out and the nail polish was on (and yes, that was only the boys!).  It was great fun and an excellent way to contribute to a good cause....What's that Ross?...You want to do it every Friday?

We are delighted to announce that Work Skills Academy has been nominated in the web category for this year's Bafta Scotland awards. We're on tenterhooks awaiting the results which will be announced at the Bafta ceremony on Sunday 8th November... (18 days and counting!)

The project is a follow up of the highly popular Football Academy games in 2008. Work Skills Academy was also shortlisted for the eLearning Awards 2009.

Fingers crossed...