It was a fantastic quarter for the company and I’m especially thankful for the word of mouth advertising network. In the past three months we’ve been working on:

• Auspice Corporation - defining the user experience and designing a browser-based application for both mobile and desktop delivery that will be used across the cable industry.
• Harvard University - delivering a top-level assessment of a large-scale query tool.
• Harvard University - defining the user experience and delivering a comprehensive top-level information architecture and content mapping strategy for the entire finance division.
• CSO (CSOonline.com) - designing the user experience and developing a standards-compliant set of front-end templates for the new CSOonline.com
• Vantel Pearls - delivering enhancements to the back-end order entry process and delivering a booking report for demonstrators.
• Apex Properties - continued the design and development of a new corporate Web strategy

The new quarter looks to continue with great success as we respond to RFPs for major learning institutions and corporate marketing divisions. We’d love to hear from you and look forward to helping you solve any user experience problems.

We’re very excited to see the fruits of our labor with the weekend launch of http://CSOonline.com

CSO, run by the folks at IDG, is an online destination for anyone in the security business.

The UI Design was handled by Keith LaFerriere and the html Dev was handled by our long-time freelance partner Carl Lindberg.

More on this launch in a press release soon.

A very special thanks to Brian and Jay at Vermonster LLC for bringing us along to handle the UI on this one. THANKS!

We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our newest client, Auspice Corporation of Waltham, Massachusetts. We’re looking forward to the challenges and the experience.

Read the press release.

Visit Auspice Corporation’s site.

Each year we say we’ll relax around the holidays and that the season will be easier this time around. Thankfully, it’s not! We’re always thankful for our clients and this year we’ve been able to enjoy success stories with a number of fantastic companies and partners. We’d like to thank the following companies and partners for working with us during 2007:

• Interactive Data Corporation
• Harvard University
• Vantel Pearls in the Oyster
• SalesEngineering.com
• The Lowell Spinners
• HubUnity.com
• Jon & Laura Goode / Pitching With The Papelbons
• Providence Performing Arts Center
• The Zeiterion
• New England Business Bulletin
• Third Fish
• Apex Properties
• Tri-Color
• Saint Joseph School
• Vermonster / IDG
• M.O.L.I.F.E.
• American Marketing Association
• J.J. Best Banc
• Hanover Casualty
• Janet Mendelsohn

We’re both blessed and thankful to have had such a strong year and we look forward to all that 2008 has already lined up for us. Many, many thanks for passing our names around and we’ll hope to hear from you soon.

It’s that time of year again where clients and potential clients look for ways to bust open their budgets and spend the majority of their holiday leftovers (before the 31st of January, that is). This has a significant impact on our business / industry since we love to go into a new year with something extra in the bank account.

This year, in fact, we were given three relatively small, but incredibly wonderful projects by … no one.

That’s right. No one. Not that we didn’t get the work. We did. Three jobs, in fact.

Unfortunately, under penalty of SOW, I’m not at liberty to say which companies/institutions gave us the Christmas bonus.

This  is not so much a problem, as I stated, for the company coffers, but for our sizzle book (which is very sizzle-like if you invite us in for a quick chat about your needs). It’s happening more and more to the point where I now feel like we’re part of a secret society (and while that is cool, it’s a little hard to sell).

Where word of mouth and traditional marketing leave off, the name of a couple of hot clients pick you up. Usually.

I suggest that while we are true to our word in not naming names, we would love to be able to share with others (*cough* potential clients *cough*) our good fortune.

Until then, thank you “masked client(s)” and enjoy your holidays.