The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht oversees the conservation, preservation, protection and presentation of Ireland’s heritage and cultural assets. Our goals are to promote and protect Ireland’s heritage and culture, to advance the use of the Irish language, to support the sustainable development of the islands and to develop cultural tourism.

The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) was founded by Dr. Jane Goodall with the inspirational message that the well-being of our world relies on people taking an active interest in all living things. We believe that every individual matters and makes an impact. We are a global nonprofit committed to community-centered conservation, whether it be protecting chimpanzees and great apes in Africa while improving the lives of communities around ape habitat, or supporting youth-led efforts around the world to improve their own communities.

thisisFINLAND forms an attractive window on Finland for everyone interested in our country, its culture and its people.

Produced by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and published by the Finland Promotion Board, thisisFINLAND was originally established in 1995 as Virtual Finland.

Canada.com, featuring discussions about what Canadians are talking about, is owned and operated by Postmedia Network Inc., Canada’s largest publisher by circulation of paid English-language daily newspapers. canada.com complements Postmedia’s other properties including daily newspapers in cities across Canada like the Vancouver Sun, The Province, the Calgary Herald, the Edmonton Journal, the Ottawa Citizen and the National Post, as well as more than 50 destination websites.

An incredibly popular blogger and now a New York Times bestselling author, Jenny’s blunt, incisive writing style and willingness to lay everything bare have made her a blogging favorite.

The Bloggess is by Jennifer Lawson, an American journalist, author and blogger from Wall, Texas. She is the co-author of Good Mom/Bad Mom on the Houston Chronicle and a columnist for SexIs magazine — and she’s well known for her irreverent writing style. She was recognized by the Nielsen ratings as one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Mom Bloggers and Forbes listed thebloggess.com as one of their Top 100 Websites for Women.

Presenting Britain’s best shows and groundbreaking American originals, BBC America is home to brilliant television from both sides of the pond.

Why it’s in the Showcase: This giant WordPress Multisite install is the home for all the BBC America shows. Each site has its own child theme which is powered by the main framework.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Oh She Glows has become one of the top vegan blogs on the internet. Angela Liddon has won various awards including: 2011 Best overall blog, and 2011 Best vegetarian blog from Foodbuzz.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site features a clean, well-designed theme and uses custom post types and some additional customization to allow users to search through hundreds of omitted films from the awards.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site uses an image-heavy WordPress theme to present portraits adjacent to stories.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Amala Foundation’s WordPress-powered website uses a custom branded WordPress theme to collect donations and promote their charitable work.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Pousta uses WordPress to create an image-heavy culture and arts magazine for the Spanish-speaking community. The site features a jQuery slider, topic-based article landing pages, and social media integration.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Film Independent uses WordPress to power its website and bring together Film Independent’s creative community of filmmakers and a wide spectrum of audiences with LACMA’s commitment to presenting cinema in an artistic and historical context.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Crossover Health website uses WordPress as a CMS along with a clean and simple theme to create a site that promotes corporate wellness.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Positively Positive is an online magazine that uses WordPress to allow contributors to submit content that focuses on inspiration for a positive lifestyle.  Its contributors include Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Dr. Andrew Weil.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site serves as a portal between author and fans giving insight into Sherrilyn’s life and allowing followers from around the globe to connect with her and each other. It uses a customised WordPress theme to tie together the Series, Novels and Characters components.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site features a dynamic, graphic-heavy design with a custom jQuery-powered slider.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The popular science, technology, and culture online publication recently migrated to WordPress.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Gastronauts features a well-branded custom theme that uses jQuery, custom post types, sticky posts, and custom fonts to bring together brave foodies.

The Literary Platform is dedicated to showcasing projects experimenting with literature and technology. It brings together comment from industry figures and key thinkers, and encourages debate.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Literary Platform’s well-designed website uses WordPress to feature a wide variety of static and dynamic content.

Bloginity.com focuses on entertainment news content and is updated between 50 and 75 times daily. This content covers a wide range of entertainment while focusing on the hottest trends and breaking news.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The WordPress-powered Bloginity.com offers a flexible platform that allows the site’s team to publish and manage a large amount of content and present it in a visually appealing way. The site’s developers constantly tweak colors, positions, fonts, and other things to optimize bounce rates and LTV (life tame value) of users.

OffBeat is a monthly print magazine focusing on the music, cuisine and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana. Its first issue was printed in 1988. The OffBeat media family also includes the Louisiana Music Directory, a printed database of music businesses and musicians throughout the state of Louisiana; the Weekly Beat e-mail newsletter, recipient of a 2009 New Orleans Press Club Award; and the website, OffBeat.com.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Offbeat magazine was developed entirely using WordPress theme logic and some custom plugins. The development team created an easily managed visual archive of the magazine’s 20 years of backissues, a club directory system, a restaurants directory system (both of which can be updated with an Excel file upload), a club events system to list events at venues in New Orleans, and the soon to be released festival builder, which will allow site managers to update the events of a festival with just an Excel file upload.

Part of the National Park Service, NCPTT protects America’s historic legacy by equipping preservation professionals with progressive technology-based research and training. NCPTT is an important part of our nation’s preservation and conservation community which, in turn, is a vital part of our nation’s cultural life. NCPTT serves the community that fostered its creation and, in turn, serves the nation and the world.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The NCPTT integrates an aggressive social media presence and uses WordPress as a CMS to power its website.

The Hugo Awards, given annually since 1955, are science fiction’s most prestigious award. The Hugos are voted on by the thousands of members of the current Worldcon which is also responsible for administering them.

Why it’s in the Showcase: As a prestigious award for science fiction writers, The Hugo Awards’ decision to use WordPress to power its site is significant.

MIT 150 aims to capture the Institute’s unique qualities by involving the entire community in the interpretation and presentation of its most treasured objects. These artifacts will show what makes the MIT environment so distinctive and so productive of innovative solutions for the world’s challenges.

Why it’s in the Showcase: MIT is a world leading university and its MIT150 Exhibition uses WordPress to power a unique and powerful website that uses custom forms, commenting, and tags in a unique and creative way.

Every year, nearly eight million people visit the 10 remarkable Chicago institutions that comprise Museums In the Park. That’s more than half the entire population of Illinois. In fact, museums are the top reason tourists visit our state. From education to entertainment and all the discovery in between, there is no limit to the value, impact and potential these museums hold.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Every part of Museums in the Park’s website is powered by WordPress, including a password protected “Staff Area” intended to foster collaboration among Chicago’s most popular museums.

Since August 9, 2009, The Orwell Prize has been blogging George Orwell’s diaries, allowing you to gather your own impression of Orwell’s face – behind the screen, rather than the page. Each diary entry is published on the blog exactly seventy years after it was originally written by Orwell, beginning in 1938.

The Institute of Network Cultures is a media research centre that actively contributes to the field of network cultures through research, events, publications and online dialogue.

AKA Andre the Giant Has a Posse. A street art project and an experiment in phenomenology by artist and skateboarder Shepard Fairey. Stickers, posters, links …

Laughing Squid is an online resource for art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond. It is run by primary tentacle Scott Beale, who is also the publisher editor of the blog and is joined by the occasional guest blogger.

Laughing Squid was founded in November of 1995 by Scott Beale as a film and video production company, producing documentaries on the surrealist painter Alonso Smith and The Cacophony Society’s Portland Santacon ‘96 event. In 1996 Laughing Squid launched The Squid List and for a while Laughing Squid offered publicity and web design services, but then started focusing on web hosting in 1998.