Portland General Electric - Smart Grid
Portland General Electric is working with UPTHOUGHT to launch a flagship Smart Grid to improve resource allocation within the electrical grid serving northwest Oregon. Smart Grid is a scalable, robust solution that gives PGE immediate insight into their electrical system, and the tools to better manage it. It allows them to lower costs and increase efficiency.
UPTHOUGHT is designing and developing the Smart Grid user interface from scratch, in collaboration with PGE's Smart Grid Architect.
Portland General Electric - Smart Grid
Portland General Electric is working with UPTHOUGHT to launch a flagship Smart Grid to improve resource allocation within the electrical grid serving northwest Oregon. Smart Grid is a scalable, robust solution that gives PGE immediate insight into their electrical system, and the tools to better manage it. It allows them to lower costs and increase efficiency.
UPTHOUGHT is designing and developing the Smart Grid user interface from scratch, in collaboration with PGE's Smart Grid Architect.
The VHS Collabortive is building a new world of collaborative online education marked. It is a world of co-synchronous online courses where students engage in challenging subjects and teachers learn new skills.
The VHS Collabortive is a world where technology enriches the classroom experience, where schools share resources, and where possibilities are not limited by where you live or go to school.
Welcome to the world of VHS.
Advertising for Humanity is an agency dedicated to helping humanitarian organizations succeed by transforming their brands. They help consumer brands succeed by transforming their social initiatives. In their own words, they marry marketing and meaning.
UPTHOUGHT joined forces with Advertising for Humanity to launch their new website. We executed on all design integration and development so that Advertising for Humanity could focus on what they do best!
Back in 2008 UPTHOUGHT developed one of the earliest proof of concept web sites for Roomorama.com.
In April 2012, Roomorama.com merged with Lofty.com and received $2.1 million in seed funding. Investors include Jose Marin, PROfounders Capital L.P., Lerer Media Ventures L.P., and Thrive Capital Partners.
Roomorama is certainly all grown up now - UPTHOUGHT is proud to have played a minor role in their success and wishes them continued good fortune!
National Archives Transcription Pilot Project
This was definitely one of the coolest projects we've had the opportunaty to work on. In coordination with New Signature, we designed and built a powerful web site which allows visitors to transcribe a vast array of National Archives documents.
The project was recently chosen from over 10,000 websites and named an Official Honoree at the
16th Annual Webby Awards in the "Websites" category.
HOPE Online Learning Academy Co-Op provides Colorado kindergarten through twelfth grade students with an online education featuring individualized learning plans paired with in-person support from experienced teachers and mentors.
HOPE Online is a non-profit, free, public charter school committed to serving at-risk students, including those who lack health, food, clothing, and shelter, or the less tangible necessities of life - acceptance, support, opportunity, and life skills.
Schneider Associates is an independent public relations and marketing communications firm in Boston. Recognized as a leader in conducting innovative, launches for products, services, and companies, Schneider helps clients create and sustain visibility in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Read more about Schneider on Business Wire - April 2011.
UPTHOUGHT is Schneider Associates professional source for Internet Consulting, Design Integration, Full Cycle Development, and Maintenance.
Kevin Longino represents some of the world's most talented and prolific artists.
To keep attention focused on the art, the web site required seamless integration of design & development.
UPTHOUGHT delivered a Custom Content Management System for Artists, Portfolios and Images, built using Coldfusion MX, Dynamic HTML and AJAX. The custom search engine is based on image properties and tags, and ties E-commerce through Google Checkout.
Massachusetts Municipal Personnel Association
The Massachusetts Municipal Personnel Association (MMPA), established in 1956, provides professional guidance to more than 200 cities and towns throughout Massachusetts.
UPTHOUGHT built and maintains the 2011 MMPA Web-Based Compensation Survey System, which provides comparative salary and benefits information for
75 benchmark positions in more than 200 member communities across Massachusetts.
Williams College was ranked #1 Liberal Arts college in America again in 2012.
Back in about 2005, when they required a major overhaul to the design and functionality of their College of Music's web site, they hired UPTHOUGHT to execute Strategy, Graphic Design, Full Cycle Development, Database Integration, and Hosting.
Eight years years later you'll find it going strong at music.williams.edu.
Springboard
Springboard is a leading Branding & Design company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
UPTHOUGHT provides Springboard a professional collaboration for Consulting, Design Integration, Full Cycle Development, and Maintenance.
We've worked with Springboard on many projects to deliver expert level Custom CMS, Video Integrations, Ruby on Rails, jQuery, mySQL, etc.
Bunker Hill Community College relies on UPTHOUGHT to manage its website infrastructure and to provide programming expertise for the college's Content Management System. The system is a custom built CMS running on PHP and mySQL.
UPTHOUGHT offers the following services to the College:
Full Cycle Web Development, User Interface & Experience Design, and Maintenance.
Playboy
"We achieved all our business goals with more than 60,000 registrations, 10% forward to a friend rate, 7,000 prize redemptions, and an expected ROI between 5.60 and 6.60 in just a few months after launch.
We plan on working with UPTHOUGHT again in the future based on the results of our first promotion and would give them a very high recommendation for communication, responsiveness and delivering results."
- Director of Online Marketing, Playboy
With new articles and information published multiple times a day, Boston Music Spotlight is the leading source of music news and concert information for the Boston area. Hands down.
UPTHOUGHT is proud to have rebranded and relaunched the company in 2007, leading to much sucess over the past few years.
Here's to continued success!
Street Attack
Street Attack provides experiential, online, viral, and grassroots marketing programs, as well as alternative media planning & placement, and design and branding.
As you'll see, the design is sick, and its integrated into a full feature custom CMS with AJAX-enabled slide show, custom flash movies, and cutting edge graphics offered by Birdhead. It is a must see!
While you're at it, check out related friends: Antler, Bird Head, and the HomeGrownFood Challenge .
Bunker Hill Community College counts on UPTHOUGHT to maintain and customize Database and Administration modules for the Boston Welcome Back Center.
Since taking over development of the application a few years ago, we've completed various rounds of improvements and have provided numerous efficiency and functionality gains.
Our role is best characterized as Strategy and Full Cycle Development.
X-Factor Filmmakers
X-Factor Filmmakers helps to raise funds for female film grants and scholarships throughout the country. Their goal is simple: increase the percentage of women that make up the next generation of filmmakers.
To draw attention to the cause, X-Factor collaborated with UPTHOUGHT and Bracketeers for the "Best Female Directed Feature Film" competition.
Six months later, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for "Best Director." Just sayin'...
Beanstockd
The Beanstockd Game is a Green Initiative that rewards college students for Green behavoir through a custom built online game app.
Built in early 2008, the game helped introduce Web 2.0 game architecture using Ruby on Rails, AJAX, Google Charts, and mySQL.
UPTHOUGHT consulted, designed, integrated, and lead all development on the The Beanstockd Game.
College of the Holy Cross
Making the Parts Whole is a regular stop for many people within and around the Holy Cross community. For some, it is a daily resource, as intended.
Because of the way it was built, the site has been functional at the cost of hosting since 2000.
Very few sites can say that...
Mass Bible needed a more appealing website for their existing and potential user base. They chose UPTHOUGHT based on our proven ability to seamlessly integrate creative design and robust development. We delivered with a Drupal Content Management System, Flash Animation, and custom Amazon module for Drupal.
UPTHOUGHT offered the following services on the project: Creative Design, Flash Development, Drupal Development, Database Integration, and Hosting Consultation.
New England Youth Sports Festival
The New England Youth Sports Festival is a youth-oriented sports camp taught by professional and amateur coaches & athletes. The 2012 event took place on February 24 - 26th.
The site allows potential attendees and their parents)to review workshops & skillzones offered at the festival, and register & pay online. UPTHOUGHT integrated a robust e-Commerce platform to process registrations and payments for hundreds of workshops and skillzones. The site is 5 years old and operates at the low cost of hosting.
College of the Holy Cross - Admissions
The Department of Admissions at The College of the Holy Cross collaborated with UPTHOUGHT to design and develop a Flash Virtual Tour for prospective students unable to visit the campus in person.
We provided Full Project Management, Creative Design, Image Selection, Design Integration, Full Cycle Flash Development, and Audio Integration.
The Medical Foundation
The Medical Foundation's urhealthstyle web site connects teens with targeted service organizations in their area. We built a custom content management system and health care provider database using AJAX, PHP, SMARTY and mySQL. We also integrated Google Search into the application to create a robust in-site search engine.
UPTHOUGHT offered the following services on the project: Design Integration, Full Cycle Development, Database Integration, and Hosting Consultation.
Worcester County Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) consists of over 100 homeless service programs. Each of these providers collect data in a shared HMIS Software (ETO) in order to measure the efficacy of service providers, identify trends in data, and provide data analysis meant to inform policy.
UPTHOUGHT provides consultation and support in the following areas: Data Quality Consulting, Data Migration, Online Point in Time Counts, General Internet Consultation.
Waterdog Partners
Water Dog Partners, L.L.C. is a privately held company that identifies and develops emerging wireless technologies. When launching their new brand a few years ago, UPTHOUGHT teamed up with Swirling Media to deliver a simple, static website built with hand-coded W3C compliant CSS and XHTML.
UPTHOUGHT offered the following services on the project: Design Integration and Development.
Alkasys Software Solutions
Alkasys Software Solutions is young and growing software development firm located in Toronto and dedicated to offering expert level application development at each phase of the software development life cycle.
Alkasys partnered with UPTHOUGHT and BR&NDTROY to affordably launch a professional brand for their company, which will hopefully set the stage for continued success for the burgeoning company.
Portland General Electric - Smart Grid
Portland General Electric is working with UPTHOUGHT to launch a flagship Smart Grid to improve resource allocation within the electrical grid serving northwest Oregon. Smart Grid is a scalable, robust solution that gives PGE immediate insight into their electrical system, and the tools to better manage it. It allows them to lower costs and increase efficiency.
UPTHOUGHT is designing and developing the Smart Grid user interface from scratch, in collaboration with PGE's Smart Grid Architect.
