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Social Enterprise in New York, Gets a Boost
posted on: April 27 2012
A new bill recently signed into law by NY State Governor will enable corporations to legally structure themselves as Benefit Corporations or B-Corps. B-Corps are for-profit entities that have a specific social mission.
posted by: Ralph Cutler
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A New Website For A Folk Artist Dear To Our Heart
posted on: February 22 2012
Through the community that is blossoming from our co-work space in Ithaca (CoLab Hive), we connected with a tremendously talented opera turned folk singer name Anna Coogan. With many of us Coop folk being musicians ourselves, we were thrilled when Anna approached us about redesigning her website.
posted by: Ralph Cutler
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Doing Good, Bears Fruit
posted on: February 02 2012
It feels so damn good, to serve organizations like Prison Radio. On January 30th Mumia Abu-Jamal hugged his wife for the first time in nearly thirty years. Incredible. Hearing of this news, truly warmed our hearts and reminded us once again, why we do all this technology and design for our clients and partners. We are contributing to better humanity and to a better planet.
posted by: Ralph Cutler
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Site Launch! HANDLE Care Helping Kids
posted on: January 20 2012
HANDLE©Care needed an “outside the box” web site design to match their innovative approach to help children who are working through perplexing behavior, language delays, organizational problems, and psychological disorders. Starting fresh with little to no online presence, we agreed that the site also needed to stand out from the typical style of other sites in their industry.
posted by: Ralph Cutler
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Design For Impact
posted on: January 12 2012
We often ask ourselves, how can we help? How can we do more to contribute to community development, sustainable energy or the alleviation of suffering? Finding answers is getting a lot easier. Amazing platforms like Catchafire.org enable skilled professionals to find and link up with pro-bono service opportunities.
That opportunity was for a design project with Mission Markets, a professional firm and social enterprise providing services around impact investing.
posted by: Ralph Cutler
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Modern Web Approach To Ancient Yoga Studies
posted on: December 13 2011
The Yoga Studies Institute (YSI) is a school that teaches how to achieve the ultimate goal of yoga: a life of love, wisdom, authenticity, fulfillment and purpose. It teaches yoga as a lifestyle in a modern sense. Helping to connect the ultimate or enlightened self with your every-day self.
Sound pretty awesome? It is very awesome and deeply powerful. So when their team approached us about redesigning their website, we felt tremendous gratitude. Time to roll up our sleeves and master the art and code of joyful work! Actually, we just launched the site so.. Time to celebrate in our joyful work!
posted by: Ralph Cutler
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Drupal 7, Meet A Movement
posted on: December 10 2011
30 years ago, Mumia Abu-Jamal’s life turned upside down. A police officer in Philadelphia was shot and killed. Mumia was charged, then convicted and sentenced to death for the murder. Since his conviction, serious doubts have been raised over the legitimacy of the evidence.
Mumia has been fighting hard for his innocence from behind bars. He has inspire a movement against injustice and in the process, become a cultural icon and celebrated journalist. He has published several books, and with the help of Prison Radio, broadcast thousands of commentaries weekly to the world.
These broadcasts live on a site called Prison Radio, which, with our help, under went a significant re-design. And on this significant anniversary, we launched.
posted by: Ralph Cutler
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launched! samuellecouture.com
posted on: October 20 2011
The artistry and integrity of Sam Walls Beasley’s work is uncanny, she is a masterful seamstress. We are thrilled to have developed her website with our in-house CMS.
posted by: Ralph Cutler
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Ode to Wine, and Ecommerce Winery Websites of Course
posted on: October 13 2011
Wine, a transformative liquid of love, celebration and ceremony. Winemaking, a craft dating back to the Neolithic Age. Ecommerce winery websites, a growing part of the CoLab portfolio.
When we started the CoLab CoOp, it was in part, to find new ways to support use of internet technology that move us {society} towards a more sustainable business practices and economic prosperity for all, not a select few. Personally I can’t say I expected one of the outlets to support this would be in the wine industry, but with three winery sites from world-class wine clients launched this year and another in it’s final phases, here we are. Designing and programming ecommerce winery sites on the regular.
posted by: Ralph Cutler
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The Case for Technology Worker Coops from a Former Freelancer
posted on: September 19 2011
Some of our esteemed tech co-workers have proposed a discussion of the value of tech coops at SXSW in 2012 which got me thinking about just this question. I started this post there and have flushed it out here further. I thought it might be of some interest to share my thoughts on the experience of moving from a freelance web developer to a coop tech developer / co-owner…
posted by: Rylan Peery
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Godspeed Elijah Woolery
posted on: September 01 2011
The only constant, is change, and a big change has come for our partner, collaborator and friend Elijah Woolery. He has been accepted to an extraordinary entrepreneurial program called the Runway Project. It is a “pre-team, pre-idea venture creation program” which is funded through Eric Schmidt’s VC fund, Innovation Endeavors.
posted by: Ralph Cutler
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A Special Congratulations to TechSpring Winner Alissa Johnson!
posted on: August 03 2011
Collaboration being the very heart and soul of our company. CoLab is proud to be participating in the innovative TechSpring program with the Unreasonable Institute and Singlebrook Technology.
posted by: Ralph Cutler
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New Website For Good, Launched: Tea Gallerie!
posted on: June 15 2011
There is a new tea boutique on the block. Tea Gallerie is officially online and on the rise. Bringing a sexy, sophisticated vibe to tea culture and the holistic health seeker. With gorgeous offerings of loose teas and accessories, Tea Gallerie has quickly found itself on many store shelves in southern California, including Whole Foods.
posted by: Ralph Cutler
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New Website For Good, Launched: Lotus Yoga!
posted on: May 19 2011
We are excited to announce the launch of Lotus Yoga’s new website. Lotus Yoga is a studio in the New Jersey metro area with locations in Newark and Montclair. We at CoLab love projects involving yoga, but this one is even more special because Lotus Yoga is more than a great yoga studio. Founder Jennifer Kohl is dedicated to service and community. For example she created a unique yoga program at a juvenile detention center in Newark, where she volunteers by teaching a weekly class to detainees. This dedication to bringing the benefits of yoga to the greater community is inspiring.
posted by: Ralph Cutler
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Building a Sustainable Mission-Driven Company
posted on: April 12 2011
When we founded the CoLab Cooperative in January of this year, we were putting legal structure to a mission to serve the earth and its inhabitants via a cooperative business entity building Internet technology. Notice the word ‘cooperative.’
Blog Archive
- 2012 (5)
- April (1)
- Social Enterprise in New York, Gets a Boost
- February (2)
- A New Website For A Folk Artist Dear To Our Heart
- Doing Good, Bears Fruit
- January (2)
- Site Launch! HANDLE Care Helping Kids
- Design For Impact
- 2011 (10)
- December (2)
- Modern Web Approach To Ancient Yoga Studies
- Drupal 7, Meet A Movement
- October (2)
- launched! samuellecouture.com
- Ode to Wine, and Ecommerce Winery Websites of Course
- September (2)
- The Case for Technology Worker Coops from a Former Freelancer
- Godspeed Elijah Woolery
- August (1)
- A Special Congratulations to TechSpring Winner Alissa Johnson!
- June (1)
- New Website For Good, Launched: Tea Gallerie!
- May (1)
- New Website For Good, Launched: Lotus Yoga!
- April (1)
- Building a Sustainable Mission-Driven Company