Projects

I leveraged my local experience (co-founding LocalVox, and my work with some of the largest local publishers on the east coast) to create a multi-faceted responsive one page site for Kos Kaffe a wonderful café in my neighborhood of Park Slope. The site is really a reference and gives a clear overview of the basics – their hours, their location, their menu, their story, a taste of the atmosphere, and their social links in a way that a user can clearly see on any device. These essential elements are often missed or hard to find on a local business site which more often than not can resemble the chaotic mess in the hilarious McSweeny’s article, If This Fusion Restaurant’s Website Could Talk. The Kos Kaffe site also has a store for their freshly roasted beans, and an area for blogging or a calendar for events if they want to do that in the future.

 

I leveraged my local experience (co-founding LocalVox, and my work with some of the largest local publishers on the east coast) to create a multi-faceted responsive one page site for Kos Kaffe a wonderful café in my neighborhood of Park Slope. The site is really a reference and gives a clear overview of the basics – their hours, their location, their menu, their story, a taste of the atmosphere, and their social links in a way that a user can clearly see on any device. These essential elements are often missed or hard to find on a local business site which more often than not can resemble the chaotic mess in the hilarious McSweeny’s article, If This Fusion Restaurant’s Website Could Talk. The Kos Kaffe site also has a store for their freshly roasted beans, and an area for blogging or a calendar for events if they want to do that in the future.

 

 

 

I worked with AuthorBee, to explore interest in their idea around a kind of collaborative authoring platform. I created an assessment of the competitive landscape, recruited users for a focus group to define features and test a prototype,  created specs and wires, and managed MVP product development with an offshore dev team.  I was somewhat skeptical but sometimes the most valuable thing a consultant can do is show that an idea isn’t worth pursuing. We created a prototype, that was a bit like choose your own adventure,  and I recruited several fan fiction writers to give us feedback.  We did find that with some RPG games there is the kind of collaboration where people take turns writing but most cases collaboration really means offering feedback and reviews.  Let’s just say it was very revealing and the startup is now, with some success, doing some twitter based collaborative authoring.