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Story written by René Verkaart, Creative Director at Stoere Binken Design How are you making an impact on the world? Founded in 1995, Stoere Binken Design is a Dutch design agency with a clear focus on creative branding projects. We mostly deal in creating websites and other online solutions, but the ...
Customer Stories • • 3 min read
Oh, no! Your Lead Dev just won an all-expenses-paid trip to the Bahamas. Your Project Manager finished an Ironman (the triathlon, not the movie trilogy) and won’t show up at work for a week. The ground starts shaking, your hands start sweating. It sure feels like all hell broke loose. Fortunately ...
Product • • 3 min read
A brand-new ActiveCollab is finally here! Bigger and better in just about every way possible, with a whole slew of awesome new and enhanced features. It’s been over a decade since the first version of ActiveCollab came out. What began as a humble two-person venture, soon grew beyond our wildest dreams ...
Product • • 5 min read
Customer story written by Norm Alger, partner at Xhilarate. Xhilarate is an experiential branding firm that creates visual brand expressions that engage, excite the senses, and inspire business growth. We are experts in branding, interactive design, immersive storytelling, and cultural engagement. Each ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read
Humans love expressing things in numbers. By assigning plain numerical values to abstract concepts, we feel like we can understand and control them better. We also associate higher values with better quality, a preconception marketing often seeks to exploit (“The sequel will be bigger, better, with ...
Marketing • • 4 min read
Imagine a beach. Late summer, when it’s still warm and pleasant, but no longer too hot. Soft sand glittering under the morning sun, palm trees swaying in the breeze. The waves, high and imposing, drawing you in, daring you to take up the surfboard and mount them. Now, doing outreach can easily compare ...
Marketing • • 4 min read
Customer story written by Joel Avery, co-founder and CTO of FashionPass FashionPass is a service that allows people to rent and swap designer clothing and accessories as many times per month as they want. We believe that a great outfit has the ability to transform not only the way you look, but the way ...
Customer Stories • • 3 min read
Imagine having a team of 400,000 people working for years on a project that could change the notion of what was previously thought of as possible. Succeed, and you get a glowing page in the history books. Fail, and you waste billions of dollars, and potentially, three human lives. Oh, and the entire ...
Team Collaboration • • 7 min read
A year in review It's always a pleasure to take a step back and reflect on the past year. While 2016 wasn't as exciting as the last year (after all, you don't get to launch a completely new product every day), it improved in every regard since 2015. 2016 was great for several reasons: we started to ...
Recaps • • 4 min read
Keeping projects on track isn’t just about deadlines – it’s about spotting detours before they turn into disasters. From shifting priorities to resource hiccups, the real skill is managing change without losing control. Do it right, and project chaos becomes progress with direction.
Project Management • • 9 min read
Why you shouldn't move your company blog to Medium We moved our whole blog to Medium in July 2015. Now we're moving it back where it belongs - on our website. The reasons we're moving are strictly business related. Don't get us wrong, we love Medium and we'll continue to publish there. But here’s why ...
Product • • 4 min read
I was refactoring ActiveCollab’s datepicker and came across a problem: to close the popover, I’d always have to trigger one extra keypress event. Chrome’s debugger Commonly, you’d use JavaScript to attach an event handler to do something when you click a button on a web page. You’d create a ...
Labs • • 2 min read