A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… Allow me to explain the struggle for Internet content control in metaphors everyone can relate to: the American cinematic treasure Star Wars. A long time ago (depending on how badly the Internet has ravaged your attention span), in a galaxy far, far away (depending on...Read More
- 2012
- Internet Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- 4 Ways to Brand Yourself a Thought Leader Online
- Create a Culture of Productivity: Stop Multi-tasking
- ASK… What Makes a Good Data Visualization
see more 2012- Don’t panic! Planning saves the day.
- Boston Marathon Visualization
- Democracy is Coming to the U.S.A.
- Lessons From the Library: What great books can teach us about web content
- Is Klout Getting Real?
- Creating a Culture of Action: Run Before You Walk
- We’re Hiring.
- The Power of Graduated Complexity in Presenting Knowledge Content
- Booz &Co. “Capabilities Premium in M&A” Interactive Infographic
- Kony 2012 Beats GOP on Super Tuesday
- Design vs. Art
- Losing a Family Member…
- Innovative Media Means Out With the Old and In With the New
- How Beehive Media Intends to Heal from the Superbowl
- When the Web Gives Back
- Super Sunday’s Going Super Social
- PwC Annual Global CEO Survey Infographic
- Creating a Failure Culture for Success
- Listen
- It’s All an Experiment
- Corporation for Supportive Housing Website Redesign and Build
- SOPA, Protect IP, Net Neutrality and All Such Things
- 2011
- Our Juicy Technology Club Sandwich
- Norman B. Leventhal Walk to the Sea Virtual Experience
- Sublime Text Keeps Coding Fun
- Google Analytics, Web Surveillance and Lying Numbers: The Importance of Context in the Dark Side of the Web
- see more 2011
- OWS and Steve Jobs: Innovators are not the problem
- Cultivating a Happiness Culture
- Much Ado About…Not Much. Google+ for Businesses Disappoints Early
- Personalized Content Toes the Line Between Creepy and Cool
- Beehive Media visits The Beehive
- It’s 10:00. Do You Know Where Your Cash Is?
- “Like” the Klout Changes: They’re Here to Stay.
- Breaking Down Walls, Building Up Appreciation
- The Value Exchange: Caring About Content
- Steve Jobs: Cancer Revolutionary
- Devices Are in the Driver Seat of Design and Development
- Foster the Client
- Can You Go Viral Without Going Wrong?
- Web Credibility Study
- Color Changes Everything
- Banker & Tradesman Best of Boston 2011
- BeeU: A Quick Intro to Basecamp
- Effective Teams Mix It Up
- Bleeding Isn’t Leading…
- BeeU: Google Analytics – The Basics
- The Wisdom of WordPress
- Your MVP is the Show
- Your Audience Has the Attention Span of a Goldfish
- W/S Development Property Portfolio iPad App
- Hunt Alternatives Fund Site Design
- Avatars work for Hindu Gods…would they work for you?
- Curious George Taught Me How to Visualize Data
- Gratuitous Bruins Post
- 4X4 for Winning Knowledge Content Online
- The 4×4 Model for Knowledge Content
- Fidelity In Pursuit of Independence
- Rethinking Everything – And How it Applies to Knowledge Content Online
- 2010
- Spreading the Word About Cholera in Haiti
- Soft Launch of a Beehive-Incubated Project
- Information Connectedness
- Healthways Community Wellness App
- see more 2010
- Founder Institute Coming to Boston
- Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development
- Wellness Application
- Technology is the most trusted business sector
- 2009
- Ansara Family Fund Website
- Press Coverage is Irrelevant
- Short and Sweet
- Why Good Clients Rock (This Is Not Sucking Up)
- see more 2009
- Beehive Media’s New Web Site – Why Simplicity?
- Google’s Super Simple Home Page
- My Google Wave Invite Request
- Funders Together Website Redesign
- Knowledge Concierge
- New Center for Arts and Culture Website
- Centerbrook Architects and Planners Website Redesign
- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation 3D Graphics and Video Post-Production
- 2008
- 2007
May 8, 2012
Mike Reilly
In this hyper-social Information Age, people have more access to more data than ever before. This access has empowered the masses and overthrown dictatorships but one thing hasn’t changed: we still need wisdom. We need people, organizations and leaders to study data and extract meaning, direction and opportunities to learn, grow and affect change. This...Read More
May 1, 2012
Caroline McAlpine
If you had a time machine and traveled back twenty-five years, you’d find a world without round the clock access to technology. Life in the 1980s (and earlier) simply existed without ubiquitous access to technology. It was a world focused on the antics of Madonna, the birth of MTV and the hey day of NASA’s...Read More
April 24, 2012
Bill Shander
There’s good data visualization and there’s bad data visualization. Rather than quote Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s definition of porn (read Jacobellis v. Ohio), I think there is actually a very specific answer to the question what makes a good data visualization? It can be summarized in the acronym ASK. A = Accuracy First, a...Read More
April 17, 2012
Dana Doyle
“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” ― Dalai Lama XIV Everyone’s been there. You see the crunch looming, you see...Read More
April 13, 2012
Joseph Stucker
Just in time for the Boston Marathon this coming Monday, and in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the first time women were officially allowed to run in the race, Beehive Media created a data visualization chronicling the history of women in the race. As part of an event titled “Celebrating Four Decades of Women...Read More
April 10, 2012
Harris Bierhoff
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. On the other hand, if at first you do succeed, start your own PAC (political action committee) to build on your success. Reddit, the social news website that has become a powerful platform for determining media relevance has done just that. Here’s how this went down...Read More
April 3, 2012
Joseph Stucker
Great content on the web isn’t always easy to create, but there are plenty of tips and tricks we can pull from successful literature to improve our online content. Early last week I sat across from an old friend whilst on a trip to New York, completely unaware that he was about to ruin my...Read More
March 20, 2012
Mike Reilly
The phenomenon known as social media spawns myriad inspirations and compulsions across a wide spectrum, from the good and positive to the bad and obnoxious. A new study connects Facebook with narcissistic tendencies. Another one calls “BS” to the idea that anyone can really have meaningful friendships of more than 150 people. That theory’s called...Read More
March 20, 2012
Caroline McAlpine
“Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk”- “Mr. Stark” (played by Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man, 2008) How many times have you sat in a meeting frustrated because the meeting was all talk and no one could make a decision about a project? How many times has your department or team been paralyzed by...Read More
March 14, 2012
Bill Shander
Check out our job posting on LinkedIn. And if you’re a butt-kicking technical talent who can code hands-on AND lead other developers? Please apply.
March 13, 2012
Bill Shander
Simplicity has won out over complexity. Many of the best consumer products are simple and elegant. Simple processes are preferred to the complex, artisanal foods are faddish. Everyone naturally seeks out the simple because simple is just better, right? Well, yes and no. The world also requires complexity. While we may crave simplicity, and the...Read More
March 12, 2012
Joseph Stucker
An existing client, Booz&Co approached Beehive Media looking for different tools and solutions to make their online campaigns more interesting, including interactive infographics. As part of the campaign to publicize their “Capabilities Premium in M&A” (M&A is mergers and acquisitions) study, Beehive helped create an interactive infographic to explore the data and help convey the...Read More
March 8, 2012
Joseph Stucker
This is a story about the power of the Internet to drive incredible change. As I sat in bed Tuesday night, perusing through the still incoming results of Super Tuesday and the GOP Primaries, I briefly noticed an invite popping up on my Facebook page. Flipping over quickly I saw something about “Kony 2012 @...Read More
March 6, 2012
Dana Doyle
I’ve been working all morning on trying to write a blog post about how designers need to understand that when they are working they are not making a piece of fine art. It had all kinds of phrases likes “facilitated creativity” and “group hugs”. I talked about how designers should be sure to do some...Read More
February 29, 2012
Joseph Stucker
Over this past weekend the Beehive Media family lost a member as our Development Director, Michael Andrade, tragically passed away on Saturday. A beloved friend and valued member of our team, Andrade was a consummate professional who will be dearly missed. In his honor we’ve created a memorial page summarizing each of our thoughts about...Read More
February 28, 2012
Joseph Stucker
Here at Beehive Media, we’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking and reading about innovation for a client who is developing an innovation portal. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the experience, it has been that the two biggest detriments to innovation are adherence to established norms and fear of failure. The...Read More
February 13, 2012
Harris Bierhoff
Since our beloved New England Patriots were handed a brutally close defeat in the Superbowl, we at Beehive Media are going to lick our wounds and attempt to make ourselves feel better. In order to learn from the lessons of this Superbowl, we are going to find out what went wrong for the Pats and...Read More
February 7, 2012
Michael Andrade
I have this notion that the web and its development should be collaborative and community driven. I often see people innovating and coming up with brand new concepts but see far less hand-holding of newbies or giving back to the community, at least from the bigger players. Facebook and Google may offer APIs but I...Read More
January 31, 2012
Mike Reilly
According to sources such as Rueters, Mashable and FirstPost, advertisers are going to be slinging hashtags galore during the Superbowl. With 30-second spots going for $3.5 million each on Sunday, advertisers will be looking to make their ads as “sticky” as possible by encouraging viewers to go on Twitter and Facebook or a dedicated site...Read More
January 24, 2012
Joseph Stucker
PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of Beehive’s longest standing clients, approached us about creating an infographic for their Annual CEO Survey in order to visually convey the data in an engaging way. Beehive worked to generate the infographic ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the infographic was debuted on January 24th. The infographic conveys multiple...Read More
January 24, 2012
Caroline McAlpine
“I have not failed, I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison Does your organization support failure? Is failure part of your organization’s strategy, mission statement or culture? Does your leadership team endorse or encourage failure? Failure has made up the backbone of corporate America. One example is the story of...Read More
January 17, 2012
Bill Shander
Listen. It is the most important thing I do…for my clients, my friends, my family, etc. Rather than getting too Oprah about its importance for life in general, which it is, I’ll focus here on how listening applies to my world at Beehive Media. Any engagement begins with a “sales” process. I put that in...Read More
January 10, 2012
Dana Doyle
Life is crazy. People are crazy. The universe has its own thing going on. These are the things to remember when you are trying to figure out why it seems so difficult to figure out how to design your website. There are no easy answers. What’s perfect for one person is completely wrong for another...Read More
January 4, 2012
Joseph Stucker
The Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) is an organization that “strives to solve homelessness by making supportive housing work for the most vulnerable people in our communities.” They came to Beehive Media in need of a new website to present a more modern, current, and effective communications presence that better reflects the organization’s work and...Read More
January 3, 2012
Joseph Stucker
I typically try to refrain from overtly political discussion in my blog posts, but working for Beehive Media, my time spent in front of a computer online is creeping up into the range of 10+ hours a day, and when you spend any significant amount of time on the web, it’s impossible to ignore hearing...Read More
December 20, 2011
Harris Bierhoff
Before you hear all about it from the Zagat Review, we want to be the first to rave about the juicy technology club sandwich Beehive Media has recently developed for Norman B. Leventhal’s Walk to the Sea (a walking trail encompassing historically-relevant Boston landmarks). Our quest was to deliver the ultimate multimedia experience on a...Read More
December 15, 2011
Joseph Stucker
Beehive Media, after creating the original website for The Norman B. Leventhal Walk to the Sea, create an accompanying digital experience for The Walk to the Sea. The digital experience includes a touch screen kiosk that resides as a permanent exhibit in the Boston Public Library’s Map Center, a mobile website that allows users to...Read More
December 14, 2011
Michael Andrade
A former mentor of mine held that if you love what you do, you’ll never work another day in your life. I definitely find that true when it comes to having chosen Web Development as my career. As a web developer, I’m always trying to find the best tools to do the job and have...Read More
December 6, 2011
Joseph Stucker
Back in October I wrote about the underlying principle of exchanged value on the Internet. As I was writing that post I gave a lot of thought to how people benefit from the Internet and the communication and resources that it makes available. More recently, I’ve been giving thought to the opposite side of that...Read More
November 29, 2011
Mike Reilly
Most anti-Occupy Wall Street posts in the blogosphere recently deal with the character of the protesters. If the writers of these posts can characterize the occupiers as lazy college drop-outs who just want a free ride then they don’t have to confront the dramatic inequality in America today. These characterizations are sideshows that avoid the real...Read More
November 22, 2011
Caroline McAlpine
It’s day three on my new job here at Beehive Media. I’ve mastered my login ID and password for no less than eight applications and feel like a hero. The transition period between my new job of three days and old job of five years is underway, but for now it feels like I’m living...Read More
November 15, 2011
Joseph Stucker
A week ago today I received an email from Bill Shander, our CEO here at Beehive Media, asking me to set up a Google+ page for the company now that business pages were open to the public. “No problem,” I replied, and I was off. A quick, simple sign-up, enter a bit of information, toss...Read More
November 8, 2011
Joseph Stucker
The line between cool and creepy is incredibly thin, and yet is one that social media services toe every single day, as they integrate more and more into their users’ lives. It’s a constant battle between providing value to users and keeping from overstepping any boundaries. That line has recently become even thinner, as API’s...Read More
November 3, 2011
Joseph Stucker
It’s always fun to visit a hip yet swanky eatery in the city. It’s even more fun when that eatery is in Boston’s South End. It’s even more fun when you become VIP’s. When The Beehive Eatery and Bar opened in 2007, they quickly grew in popularity, and people started calling for reservations and directions....Read More
November 1, 2011
Bill Shander
“You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” Few adages are more true (although “there’s good, there’s fast and there’s cheap…pick two” comes pretty close.) I’ve been in business for 17 years. I’ve seen three bad economic downturns, and I’ve seen more than one company implode for lack of attention to the most basic of things:...Read More
October 28, 2011
Joseph Stucker
This week thousands of people have logged on to Klout to see a most heinous occurrence: their score had dropped! OK, so maybe it wasn’t that big of a deal, but that’s not the sense you would have gotten if you followed the action via Twitter over the past few days. While Klout announced last...Read More
October 25, 2011
Dana Doyle
The web has changed a lot since 1991. It’s gotten bigger, prettier (in some cases), fancier and it even does tricks. At its core the purpose has remained the same: to get information to people. What has changed most though is the way users interact with the content; these days that’s called the “User Experience”....Read More
October 18, 2011
Joseph Stucker
If good content, the web or otherwise, is not of interest to you, you should probably stop reading this post and go find something else to do. If you’re really bored, you could take a 5 minute survey about credibility online for a survey we’re conducting (if that’s more your cup of tea). If, on...Read More
October 11, 2011
Harris Bierhoff
The passing of Apple founder Steve Jobs last week was a seismic event on the Internet. Facebook, Twitter and Google+ became flooded with users’ expressions of admiration and respect for a major technology luminary of our era regardless of their own technological brand preference. A lot of focus has remained on his career achievements, which...Read More
October 4, 2011
Michael Andrade
When I first started in IT I had all my obsequious certifications: MCSE, Network +, A+. At that time, specializing in the web meant you needed to know how to build a web server from the hardware up, setup the web server software, and be able to write some basic HTML. I’ve always loved exploring...Read More
September 27, 2011
Mike Reilly
At Beehive Media we often tell clients that when it comes to their ideas about a project, we will only tell them “no” once. We give our advice but ultimately we’re a service business, and giving the client what they want is our aim. If we say “no” to something but they disagree, well, the...Read More
September 20, 2011
Bill Shander
Organizations NEED to be heard. It’s called marketing. The dream, of course, is to ride some magical viral wave to the nirvana of endless Retweets, Facebook shares, StumbleUpon referrals, blog mentions, etc. But going viral is not without its risks. Never mind that it’s hard (really really hard) to pull off, it can be dangerous....Read More
September 15, 2011
Joseph Stucker
We are currently conducting a study on the perception of credibility in the virtual world and how it is shaped by differing factors. Please take the below survey to help us with this research. The survey should only take about 5 minutes. Thanks for participating and check back for more content from Beehive Media and...Read More
September 13, 2011
Dana Doyle
What is the first thing that registers when a visitor loads a web page? Even before they’ve begun to perceive any images or what the text says, their brain will register what the colors are. Guess what? You’ve set the mood for your site. Hopefully that mood fits with your content. Site 1: Take a...Read More
September 9, 2011
Joseph Stucker
Beehive Media was recently awarded the Banker & Tradesman Best of 2011 Gold Award for web design. According to Banker & Tradesman, “B&T’s Best is our annual tribute to those companies our readers have determined to be, simply, the best at what they do…What it does measure is the loyalty and satisfaction readers have with...Read More
September 9, 2011
Joseph Stucker
In the latest segment of BeeU we cover some of the basics of Basecamp, the web-based project management tool that we use here at Beehive Media.
September 6, 2011
Joseph Stucker
I love sports, and just as much as I love sports, I love making sports analogies. To me, the business world is a lot like a baseball game. There are lulls in action, flurries of fast-paced activity, and the constant need to work as a team. Each player has a role and a responsibility, and...Read More
August 30, 2011
Harris Bierhoff
What business, non-profit organization or NGO doesn’t want a comparative edge over its competition? In the ever-burgeoning world of technology, this edge can be as elusive as it is tempting. Bleeding edge technology signifies technology that is extremely new, to the extent of risking both reliability and productivity for the end-user. Adopting such technologies can...Read More
August 26, 2011
Joseph Stucker
Here at Beehive Media there are certain things that our clients are always asking us about. Sometimes it’s a question about our process, other times it’s a question about some piece of web tech. So we’ve created Beehive University, or BeeU, as a quick and engaging way of answering these questions. BeeU will consist of...Read More
August 23, 2011
Michael Andrade
My father is a seemingly limitless fountain of wisdom. Reading that statement, he would probably quote Socrates and tell me that the only real wisdom is knowing that you know nothing; he would then use that as a springboard to discuss how landscapes are ever-changing and what you once thought was a given is now...Read More
August 16, 2011
Mike Reilly
You hear the phrase “less is more” bandied about quite a bit. In the world of web development it’s an important principle. At Beehive we use a similar term that comes straight from the world of startups: “minimally viable product.” The minimally viable product (or MVP) is what you definitely have to have to make...Read More
August 10, 2011
Bill Shander
In certain contexts, the ability to swim happily around a small bowl (metaphorically) and be constantly surprised can be a good thing. For instance, if you’re a goldfish. Or in prison. Or you work on an assembly line. But for the most part, having a short attention span is not a positive attribute, right? According...Read More
August 8, 2011
Bill Shander
W/S Development is one of the largest developers of retail space in the country, with more than 80 shopping centers totaling over 17 million square feet. We developed their corporate web site, a mobile web site and their very successful desktop Property Portfolio – a rich visual interface for presenting portfolio properties to potential lessees....Read More
August 4, 2011
Bill Shander
The Hunt Alternatives Fund works to facilitate social change on the local, national, and global levels through grant making and technical assistance in the field of human services. Beehive Media worked with Hunt to redesign their website and its sub-sites, providing web strategy design, information architecture. Hunt Alternatives Fund programmed the sites internally, the first...Read More
August 2, 2011
Dana Doyle
Here is an over-simplified, inadequate description of a general premise of Hinduism: You’ve probably heard that Hindu’s have millions of Gods right? Well, that’s not really the case in the Western/Christian sense. According to Hinduism there is a universal spirit: Brahman, and everything is a manifestation of Brahman. From there come different Gods, like Vishnu....Read More
July 27, 2011
Joseph Stucker
The best way to understand data visualization’s effectiveness is to think of how you learned to read. Chances are you started with picture books, where the images conveyed the story to you; the words simply accompanied the images. Much in the same way that Curious George taught you how to read, data visualization can teach...Read More
June 16, 2011
Bill Shander
When your favorite team wins its championship…when it’s been 39 years in the making…when the reason you play that sport is because you first saw that team play almost that long ago…when your city has been able to overcome its sports demons…when it’s been an incredible decade of sports success capped by the ultimate championship…you...Read More
April 12, 2011
Bill Shander
Inspired Magazine has published our 4X4 philosophy for translating knowledge content for the web. It includes the four models for presenting knowledge content, as well as four key components of those models. Check it out and call or email us if we can explain it in more detail for you. And we’re currently working on...Read More
April 12, 2011
Bill Shander
No one reads any more. The long form is dead. The written word? That’s for grandpa! It’s all about video, baby! Everything I just said is entirely accurate. And yet it’s all wrong. The King is Dead. Long Live the King. The fact is that the web and its associated information overload has given us...Read More
April 6, 2011
Bill Shander
There are a few companies that dominate business in Boston…that are big enough to be nationally known brands…that employ enough people that everyone knows someone who has worked there…that every service company in town has probably worked for at some point. Fidelity is one of those companies. It took more than 16 years in business...Read More
March 28, 2011
Bill Shander
We’ve been helping clients with their interactive strategy, design and development for many many years. And there have been a few major shifts in our industry over those long years. The first occurred when CD-ROMs really were replaced by the web in or around 1998. The next came when the dot com bubble burst and...Read More
October 25, 2010
Bill Shander
Thursday night it became clear that what was expected and feared in Haiti is starting to become reality – there is an outbreak of cholera spreading quickly due to the lack of clean drinking water and overcrowding in camps. We first heard the news from our client, Karen Keating Ansara. We had been working to...Read More
September 12, 2010
Bill Shander
We've been working in stealth mode here at Beehive Media for a very very very long time on a project that we finally launched today. Conceived during a commute, while the mind was wandering, nurtured over many months of starts and stops (between client work) and after much deliberation, our baby buzub has been born....Read More
August 11, 2010
Bill Shander
I've been thinking a lot about information connectedness lately. Actually, it's been for about the past 10 years but it's ramping up to new heights right now. We work with PricewaterhouseCoopers and World Economic Forum, having created KnowledgeConcierge, which has gone through three iterations over the past ten years. And it's always been about sharing...Read More
June 2, 2010
Bill Shander
Healthways' tagline is "Create a healthier world". One step in that direction is to work with communities on strategies to encourage wellness. We created an application for Boston Consulting Group and World Economic Forum earlier this year that leveraged Healthways data to share statistics on how wellness programs can decrease costs for businesses. This platform was enhanced and expanded to be applicable to communities - allowing a community, such as Shelby County, TN, to see real data about their area to be able to judge how wellness programs could improve health and decrease costs. The interface we built was extremely simple and belies a very complex back-end running calculations against a massive data set. Simplicity masking complexity - just the way we like it!
May 7, 2010
Bill Shander
The Founder Institute, which is somewhere between an executive MBA program and an incubator, is coming to Boston. I participated in this fantastic program last year during the inaugural session held in Silcon Valley. The program is unique in that participants pay a small fee to attend, and get four months of classes on building...Read More
April 28, 2010
Bill Shander
We recently launched the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development web site. This project was designed by another agency and we did the technical development using Expression Engine, an open source content management system.
January 27, 2010
Bill Shander
We're doubling down on Davos this year, with two different clients and two projects launching for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. We've been working with PricewaterhouseCoopers for 10 years on KnowledgeConcierge, which this fall evolved into its third incarnation. We've added some more functionality for Davos, as well as a ton of content. If...Read More
January 20, 2010
Bill Shander
According to a survey done last January, the technology industry is the most trusted sector among "opinion elites" 35-64. I'm not sure what this means, but thought I'd share it. (Using the newest incarnation of KnowledgeConcierge – the site we built for World Economic Forum and PricewaterhouseCoopers and debuting some new features for Davos 2010.)
December 22, 2009
Bill Shander
The Ansara Family Fund has a philosophy of giving that centers on empowering their grantees and is summed up in their new tag line: “building capacity to eradicate poverty.” We are proud to have helped the Ansaras with their new web site that just launched last week. Karen and Jim Ansara started the fund 10...Read More
December 10, 2009
Bill Shander
At Beehive Media we do a terrible job of bragging about ourselves. People ask me all the time "how do you market yourself?" and "where do your clients find you?" And I always shrug my shoulders and sheepishly respond that we get a lot of repeat business from clients and some referrals and a decent...Read More
December 3, 2009
Bill Shander
My job is to do everything. I sell, I manage clients, manage projects, do information architecture, oversee creative, contribute to technology either hands-on and/or helping debug. I'm a classic generalist. Not to mention that I wash the dishes, do the books, lick envelopes, etc. My life is complex, which is probably why I crave simplicity. ...Read More
November 18, 2009
Bill Shander
Last night, Beehive Media proudly accepted its first MITX Award for the work we did with Centerbrook Architects and Planners on their new web site. When I got up on stage and had to say something (thanking the Academy, etc.), the only thing I could come up with was praising our client. And I wasn't...Read More
November 13, 2009
Bill Shander
Making the complex simple. This is what we have done for our clients for 15 years. And this was the inspiration for our new web site. Why simplicity? First, I believe that people want direction. They want to be guided to what is important, what is worth their time and attention. This is what is...Read More
November 6, 2009
Bill Shander
I love simple things. I mean simple functionality and simple visually. Google does some things really right. And other things are not at all as simple as they could be. Sometimes their engineers dominate when their design team should have more influence. (Gmail and AdWords interfaces are both good example of this.) But when Google...Read More
October 26, 2009
Bill Shander
This is the request I just posted to Google. I've already made one request, but thought I'd try again: I really really really want an invite. I've already filled this form out. And I'm sure this is just putting me at the end of the line. But maybe, just maybe, there's a human who will...Read More
October 9, 2009
Alana Coble
The new web site for Funders Together to End Homelessness launched today. Funders Together, a national network of foundations and corporations supporting strategic and effective grant making to end homelessness, approached us to design and build the new site to help reinforce their positioning as a center for thought leadership on the subject of homelessness...Read More
August 31, 2009
Bill Shander
After 10 years working with PricewaterhouseCoopers and the World Economic Forum, it was time for a new concept for a long-standing and successful project, KnowledgeConcierge. This year we redesigned and re-built the site from the bottom up, focusing on the delivery and syndication of FastFacts – charts and graphs of compelling information. The site provides...Read More
August 13, 2009
Bill Shander
Today, Beehive Media launched the newly redesigned New Center for Arts & Culture website. The site is built on Expression Engine, a content management system (CMS), which has empowered the organization to keep the site current with the Center's many and varied happenings. The New Center can quickly and easily add photos, videos, podcasts, newsletters,...Read More
July 15, 2009
Alana Coble
Today, Beehive launched a new website for Centerbrook Architects and Planners, a national architectural design firm serving mainly institutional clients. The site’s clean design and spectacular photographs quickly communicate the firm’s deep experience, exceptional industry expertise, and its eclectic approach to projects. Beehive validated Centerbrook’s own design mockups, advised on the information architecture and constructed...Read More
June 17, 2009
Bill Shander
The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation and PricewaterhouseCoopers asked us to prepare a video based on PwC’s Arab Business Intelligence Report, later renamed to the Arab Human Capital Challenge (AHCC), reporting on trends in the Arab World. The report was renamed to reflect the primary finding, which is that the one of the Arab...Read More
November 15, 2008
Bill Shander
I spent my Saturday experimenting with Twitter, JQuery and PHP. I’ve been feeling the sublime pull of Twitter and was thinking that there was something mesmerizing about the world’s thoughts floating through the ether in <140 characters at a time. And I wondered what the experience would be to just sit and watch it pass....Read More
October 3, 2007
Bill Shander
Beehive Media designed and built the online video catalog for PBS International, which distributes the broadcast rights for PBS programs around the world including Nova, Frontline, and American Experience. Behind the scenes, this online video platform includes a full content management system and logged-in users can watch streaming video for feature-length programs (not progressive download...Read More
April 20, 2007
Bill Shander
Project Just Because is a non-profit serving families in need, predominantly in Metro West Boston. This charity has a a no-red-tape, no-questions-asked policy of providing food, clothing, toiletries and any other items needed by families or individuals who have fallen on tough times. This is a pro bono client of ours, and we are very...Read More
February 17, 2007
Alana Coble
The HP Partner Tool project is built on Beehive’s Brand2o platform which enables the user to generate custom marketing materials in PDF, HTML, and Powerpoint formats. The Partner Tool is used by HP partners from around the world to custom-generate marketing brochures for many of HP’s software and hardware platforms. The site won the HP-internal...Read More
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