We spent a few days in Toronto last week at the IABC World Conference talking with communications professionals from around the world about their websites. Over the course of the few days we were in Toronto, we had many interesting conversations about all the challenges that communicators face in their organizations.

The previous version of our website got a lot of really great response from around the web. Over the past two years it has been featured on a multitude of web design galleries and even listed on a few “best of” lists. It’s been great, but things on the web change really quickly and we want to follow our own advice by freshening things up before they get too dated.

Especially for those of us who live in the North, summer goes by in a flash. So, what have we been up to for the past couple of Months? (Obviously not writing blog articles.)

It’s been a busy summer at lift as we’ve completed a number of projects and started a few more. Some of the notable upcoming works include:

AppBoy

AppBoy is a social community for mobile ...

I’m in the Denver airport right now en route to Austin for SXSW. lift was lucky enough to be asked to be a part of Digital Alberta’s delegation that is providing an Alberta presence at the interactive conference.

I’ll be spending the next four days taking in workshops, mingling and talking about lift and Parade.

lift will be featured in Volume One of The Creative Unity a publication whose mission is “to feature only the best designs, designers, and design studios in order to create a book that shows off supreme talent while creating an inspirational tool for designers from around the world”.

We’re really excited to have been selected for this first edition of The Creative Unity. When I first heard about the ...

Parade allows photographers and other creative professionals to create a slick portfolio site instantly

We are very excited to announce the re-launch of Parade, a product we’ve painstakingly developed for photographers and creative professionals that allows them to instantly get their portfolios online and easily manage their websites, anytime anywhere…so they can spend their time doing what they do best.

How did Parade come about, you ask? Some ...

To cap off a year full of encouraging response to our work, we were ecstatic to find that our site was included as one of the Best sites of 2008 by “Abduzeedo.com”. This came as quite a surprise, but we couldn’t be more pleased to have been included with so many other inspirational designs.

Take the time to check out the article at http://abduzeedo.com/2008-the-best-sites-year

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Thursday, October 23
5pm to 7pm
#401–10324 Whyte Avenue

We’ve been in our new space on Whyte for a little over a month now. Many of our friends and clients have been by, but for those who haven’t, it’s time to warm it up (the office, that is).

Drop in anytime between 5pm and 7pm to enjoy some food and drink, and most of all, great ...