Singlebrook has some exciting news! We are interested in talking with folks who would like to rent a desk / co-working space at our main office in downtown Ithaca. Please spread the word! We're located at 119 S. Cayuga St., Suite 202 (just around...
As a Certified B Corp, Singlebrook is a mission-driven, for-profit company with a commitment to serving our community and practicing environmental sustainability. - Last week we organized an Ithaca-area B Corp volunteer project as part of a...
The UNY Startup Map has been created in partnership with Startup Genome and with the support of volunteer curators across the region. Contact UVC if you would like to have your organization added, embed this map in your own website or become a...
To improve our efficiency here at Singlebrook (OK, actually to help lull our developers to sleep at naptime), we've created Rockabye, a Chrome extension that will make every site much more soothing. It takes those blocky, angular sites and sets...
A friend of mine just asked me if I could share some resources for his 12 year old daughter who was interested in learning more about computers and programming. I compiled a list of resources and thought it might be useful to...
An increasing number of universities and colleges are using crowdfunding platforms to raise donations for everything from their annual fund to student entrepreneurs. However, there is little data, examples, or shared wisdom on how to implement a successful university crowdfunding platform. To address this challenge, we interviewed Freeman White, CEO of Launcht, a white-label crowdfunding platform provider that has supported 15 Higher Ed institutions.
This is the question that many an entrepreneur, department head, or organization leader asks before starting a new web project or budgeting for much-needed maintenance for their website. The quick answer is, a freelancer will probably be less...
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes...and software updates." -Benjamin Franklin - Okay, so maybe I added that last part on, but it's true: in a world that surrounds us with ever-changing...
From left: Director of Operations Erica O'Brian, Web Programmer Gennie Harris, Product & Purpose Intern Kat Juraschek, Arduino Programmer Louisa Miller-Out, age 8, and CEO Elisa Miller-Out - This photo was submitted...
I recently had the opportunity to run a Lean Startup workshop for the Kessler Program at the Cornell School of Engineering. It was my first time running a workshop on Lean methods, so it was a bit of an experiment for me and I...
New Year's Resolution: Read More Awesome Books that will Help Build and Grow Your Startup! Here are some books I've read and enjoyed recently that would be useful for anyone with a startup idea or for those interested in...
I'm writing from the Social Venture Network conference where Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green just interviewed Doug Ulman, CEO of LIVESTRONG. Echoing Green is a pioneering global...
At Singlebrook, we’ve brought together a team of exceptionally great programmers. Tech talent is in increasingly high demand, so it’s no easy task to recruit, screen and finally hire employees who will meet the high technical standards our clients are accustomed too. Add to it finding the right cultural fit, which for us means someone who is deeply passionate about programming, as well as committed to our social and environmental mission of Technology for Change, and you’ll find that a well-honed strategy is needed to keep the qualified candidates coming. Here we’ve compiled the best of our hiring tips into a blog article that we hope will be useful when contemplating how to handle the search for developers. In an industry such as custom web and mobile application development, where highly-skilled technical workers are in high demand, it’s smart to approach the job ad and the careers page on your website as a marketing piece... -
I recently went to an American Sustainable Business Council event in the Hamptons where I met a consulting poet: Mariposa Fernandez. She said that she creates poetry for businesses and that she was working on some poetry for...
Singlebrook is proud to sponsor this event, and Singlebrook CEO Elisa Miller-Out will be speaking on the B Corp panel! From Center for Transformative Action: - The Center for Transformative Action is thrilled to announce the first annual “Finger Lakes Social Entrepreneurship Institute” to be held at Cornell University from Thursday, September 13 to Saturday, September 15, 2012.
Singlebrook is proud to be a sponsor of the Women Who Tech TeleSummit! Sponsorship provides 25 scholarships for women who work in technology, social media, and online marketing to attend. The Women Who Tech TeleSummit is May 23rd from 11AM to 6PM ET, and is accessible via web or phone. - Read the press release to learn more about the Women Who Tech TeleSummit and visit this page to link to the registration.
During NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), April 3-5 in San Francisco, Singlebrook will be launching the beta version of our mobile web product, WhatCanI.Do. WhatCanI.Do allows nonprofit organizations to build a mobile donation site in seconds! To coincide with the beta launch, we will be doing a Live Build at NTC! The Live Build involves asking nonprofit representatives to try out the WhatCanI.Do user experience and provide their feedback, including requests for additional features. We’re taking a crowdsourced approach to developing the next phase of WhatCanI.Do, and the Live Build is a key step in this process! The Live Build will take place throughout the conference and at booth #61 at the Science Fair. We hope to see you there! Visit WhatCanI.Do to learn more and/or sign up for a free trial!
Originally posted in the Washington Post on 2/18/12: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small-business/subsidies-needed-to-jump-start-on-the-job-stem-training/2012/02/16/gIQAx0mhLR_story.html - Subsidies Needed to Jump Start On-the-Job...
This past June we co-hosted a public event with our friends and fellow B Corp, Comet Skateboards and members of the B Lab staff. Photos from the event are available on Facebook. It was a gathering to learn about the B Corporation movement. -