2008 in Review

Contrary to the media's description of 2008, iMarc had an exceptional past 12 months. Whether we were lucky, or smart, or a bit of both, we're certainly thankful to be working on great projects for some really great clients. We grew to 20 employees and added a whole new production team

Website Launches and Redesigns

In addition to all the little projects, 2008 saw the launching of a number of full-scale websites.

• Newport Restoration Foundation, Doris Duke's charitable foundation
• Redstone Properties, a land development company
• Aston Martin & Lotus Motorsports, sports car dealership
• Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, an association of biotech companies
• Mark Magnacca, a business and financial advisor coach
• Delaware Society of CPAs, a member organization for certified public accountants
• MassBioEd, non-profit organization that promotes science and biotech education
• EBSCO's Support, updated the back-end of EBSCO's support portal
• Museum for African Art, a museum in New York
• Pipettes, a laboratory supply and manufacturing company
• Farmington Consulting Group, manufacturing and distribution consultancy
• Buckley's Executive Sedan, a limo service near us
• Peptimmune, Cambridge based laboratory
• Strem Chemicals, a chemical manufacturer located in Newburyport, MA
• Currier & Ives, iMarc did flash work, animating a number of historic paintings. The broadcast-quality flash was used in a PBS special.
• NEHI,a healthcare organization
• Your Tuition Solution, educational financing company
• MassWorks, an informational site for homeownership assistance
• Ciclismo Classico, an adventure travel and vacation company
• Springfield Museums, four museums located in Springfield, MA
• Newburyport Public Library, the library in our hometown.
• North Shore Association of REALTORS, a local member organization for REALTORS
• PermissionTV, online video publishing
• MOTODEV, a extranet for Motorola developers
• Basho, a sales software and services company
• Motorola Solutions Catalog, applications, games, and tools for Motorola phones

iMarc also created a couple internal and intranet sites for Starwood Hotels, as well as launching our own Dragonfly, an internal bug tracking website that we use for testing and QC'ing projects.

Hiring

2008, saw the addition of 2 new full-time employees—Mike Denning, our Sys. Admin, and Paul Kelley, our newest designer. In the summer, intern Alden Michaels came on board.

Other Highlights

• We created a third production team led by Fred. After reshuffling existing teams, everyone got up to speed and three teams ended up being a huge success.
• We made the Inc 5000.
• Two sites were nominated for MITX Awards.
• Some iMarcians got engaged (though not to eachother) and one had a baby.
• Looking through our intranet calendar I see some gems:
  • 40's Friday in February
  • group trip to Boston for a ride on Codzilla
  • sponsoring drinks for the North Shore Web Geek Meetup in September
  • a number of weekly developer meetings dedicated to the unending horror of WYSIWYG editing on web forms.

It was a good year. Here's to 2009...