Client Pluggage: ActiveState, BCHLA, Nitobi and More Bootcamps

May 12th, 2009, 1 Comment »

We’ve been involved with some interesting client projects lately, and I’ve been meaning to share them:

  • ActiveState recently announced a public beta for Workspace (not to be confused with the excellent, local co-working space), something we’re calling ‘instant infrastructure for managing software development projects’. It’s a set of hosted, customized tools–source control, project management, issue tracking, wikis, blogs, and so forth–aimed at small teams and individual developers. In addition to the collective wisdom and experience that ActiveState brings to the project, Workspace promises to spare developers the pain of manual setup, integration and the apparent endless tweaking associated with managing tools of this sort.
  • We’ve been helping the folks at the BC Healthy Living Alliance with understanding this whole social web business. Last week they ran a little event entitled “The Politics of a Healthy Neighbourhood”, and a bunch of local social media types attended. They even created this custom Google Map showing the route of our walk, and the associated services in the neighbourhood. I shot four shaky minutes of video with bad audio.
  • Our longtime client Nitobi announced a couple of exciting bits of news this week: they sold their session recording tool RobotReplay and became shareholders in BookRiff. Nitobi built BookRiff (we’ve done some work with them as well), and it looks pretty sweet. They haven’t gone public with their tool yet, but we’re psyched about it.

In other Capulet news, our first social media marketing bootcamps in Victoria and Vancouver sold out. So we’ve added second sessions for both Vancouver (June 23 - just one spot left) and Victoria (June 4).

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Client Plug: Web Design and Developer Survey Results

March 25th, 2008, 6 Comments »

Last month we ran a (quite unscientific) survey about web design and development for our client, Nitobi. For those webby types among you, we’ve just published the results. Here’s a pretty pie chart for one of the questions:

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Three Quick Client Plugs

October 8th, 2007, No Comments »

I just wanted to highlight a few client-related projects that might interest:

  • A few weeks ago I blogged about our Greenest Photo Ever contest. We got a bunch (344 to be exact) of great submissions. The six finalists are now up on DeSmogBlog, and you can vote for your favourite. The photos are gorgeous–the contest was a reminder of the remarkable skills of so many Flickr users.
  • For local web developers, our client Nitobi is hosting a Hack Day on Saturday, October 20–there’s free pizza and beer. For more information and to RSVP, see Facebook or Upcoming.
  • For Dreamweaver-lovin’ web designers, Nitobi’s newest release features Dreamweaver extensions for their Ajax components. You can add a fancy spreadsheet grid or combobox without all that messy coding nonsense.

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