New Blog For One of Our Team

Ali on our team has a new blog... Fun reading for escape:
TheKissingLessons.Blogspot.com

Customer Paradigm launches new website for Secure World Foundation

I think it's pretty common in the technology field to have a deep interest in space. So when we were able to work on the re-launch of the Secure World Foundation's website: http://www.secureworldfoundation.org/

... our whole team was very, very excited. It's nice to be part of re-branding an organization that's doing great work in the world. Plus, it's like giving candy to our designers to let them work on this type of project. Kudos to Jesse, Ryan and the rest of the team for launching the new site.

Here's the SWF mission:

The Secure World Foundation (SWF) is a private operating foundation dedicated to the secure and sustainable use of space for the benefit of Earth and all its peoples. SWF engages with academics, policy makers, scientists and advocates in the space and international affairs communities to support steps that strengthen global space security. We promote the development of cooperative and effective use of space for the protection of the Earth’s environment and human security. The Foundation acts as a research body, convener and facilitator to advocate for key space security and other space related topics and to examine their influence on governance and international development.

Allergy Kids on Good Morning America

Always a wonderful thing when one of our clients gets on national TV.

Our client, AllergyKids.com was featured on the June 23, 2008 Good Morning America segment, Additives, Allergies and ADHD: Is There a Connection?

Read more here:
http://6cp.us/1/h/19462/1436/4304795.html

Yeah!!! Go Robyn!

Sites of the Week

These are some of the sites the CP team has been looking at for inspiration:

• Great site, although the animations take a while to load. Good use of 3D flash animation:
  http://www.theflagshipexperience.com/
  
• Great use of animation and video on this site for medical marketing:
  http://www.proxonicvisuals.com/site/


• This is very cool to use your mouse's scroll wheel to zoom in on the photos. There's one stamp (middle left), that you can keep zooming in and in and in:
  http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/
  
  (Note: Requires a very painful installation of the Silverlight browser plugin... about 4.5 mb, and then you have to restart your browser. Not a great way to focus on the end user experience)


• Another fun flash site with interesting 3D layer effects. Gotta love the 'buzz' section,
  too: http://leecrum.com/


• A site that isn't huge on design, but did extremely well from a Search Engine Optimization standpoint is a site I found when looking for vent covers for A/C. In our home, we have two stories. The upper level doesn't get very cold, while the lower level you can chill meat. I wanted to buy vent covers, so I naturally turned to Google and searched on "magnetic vent air covers." I spoke to the owner via email, and it's been a page he's had up since 1994,
  and performs so well he doesn't want to change it... the customers that buy from him really respond well to this very retro design:
  http://www.armourdiecutting.com/ventcovers/index.htm


• Help a reporter - a great site that allows reporters and subjects to interact on the reporter's terms. Great idea and concept:
  http://www.helpareporter.com/
  
• A nice example of layered flash animation, but not too over-the-top:
  http://www.bionatus.com.br/

Best out of the office message I've seen

I've seen quite a bit of out of the office messages (I get about 400-800 emails each day). But this morning, I got one of the better ones:

I'm current1ly on a sandy white beach in the middle of the Indian ocean drinking cold ice beers.

I wish I could be there, too!

A fun discovery about a friend's new company

I always like to say that when I'm creating a software program, seminar or other event, my starting point is to design something that I would actually pay for.

My wife started buying from a company called The Organic Dish, here in Boulder, Colorado. We love their food (and plus, it's organic). After our second daughter was born, I kind of buried my head and didn't catch up with many of my business school colleagues for a few months. When I went out to lunch with Sam, he told me that our friend Toby had started this new company called The Organic Dish.

It was really nice to be able to say that we were already customers... so no bias at all. Small world :)