Presented by Metropolis Creative
Boston Extreme Website Makeover 2011
Thank you for another successful year!
WHO
2011's Winner: MITC
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We're proud to announce that the winner of our 3rd Annual Extreme Website Makeover is Made in the Commonwealth! The winner was unveiled at Red Sky Lounge in the heart of Boston's Faneuil Hall with a packed venue and drinks flowing. As an environmentally-friendly start-up, Made in the Commonwealth's mission is to raise funding and awareness of the mainstream uses of Biofuel here in Massachusetts. Metropolis saw them as a noble cause in need of some serious design help. Metropolis' solution was a clean and professional site that clearly lays out the goal of making Massachusetts the first to run on biofuel. The plan was to engage their site to speak to different audiences using clean design and elements such as video and social media. The redesign included a new home page with co-branded social media channels: Twitter and Facebook.
EWM Boston 2011 Guests:
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Innovation Video Series
Innovation Series - Laura Fitton 
Innovation Series - Debi Kleiman
Innovation Series - Scott Kirsner
Innovation Series - Josh Bob
Innovation Series - Bruce Temkin
Innovation Series - Yoon Lee
We're proud of Boston and the whole Northeast for that matter. For years, the combination of world-renowned schools and companies has lured amazing talent to our area. At a recent MITX event, Nicholas Negroponte called Boston "The Birthplace," referring to our innovation, thinkers, products and achievements. Stay tuned for more thoughts from some of Boston's most innovative minds.
Our Partners
As you can imagine, putting on an event like this is hard work. We're grateful to have such outstanding partners to help us along the way.
About Metropolis Creative
Metropolis Creative in Boston's South End creates compelling web, print and graphic design to attract and retain target audiences. The approach begins with a discovery of your brand, message and audience. The process continues with a proposal and creative delivery solutions. Metropolis is proud to have built a portfolio of clients from over a decade of success stories.
Interested in partnering with us on this event? Contact Michael Flint or call us at 617-556-0010.
What is an Extreme Website Makeover?
Boston is home to some of the most talented and innovative people in the world. Metropolis Creative supports this amazing community of thinkers, companies, and organizations with our annual Extreme Website Makeover Event. We want to showcase Boston's most innovative businesses and reward one with a FREE website makeover.
What makes it Extreme?
This isn't just a design refresh, but a complete overhaul of your company's home page and social media presence (e.g. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube). Metropolis Creative handles the design, and The Hired Pens takes care of the copy. Overhaul your brand, improve your SEO effectiveness and update your social media strategy.
What
How we choose the winner
Metropolis will choose the Extreme Website Makeover winner based on a combination of three things:
Innovation
We're looking for great companies with great ideas and a great product or service.
Need
Is your website in rough shape? Metropolis is here to help!
We're looking for companies that want to improve their website and online brand. How does your website score in terms of usability? Communicating your value proposition? SEO? Inspiring action? Visual appeal? Organization? Trust us, there's always room for improvement. And the same goes for your social media presence. Which worthy entrant would benefit the most from a makeover?
April 26, 2011 at Red Sky Boston
When & Where
The 2011 Boston Extreme Website Makeover event was held at Red Sky. Red Sky was founded in 2006 by long time friends and industry veterans Russ deMariano and Edward Brooks. They joined forces to create what is today one of Boston's hottest spots to eat, drink, enjoy old friends and make new ones.
American Public Television
See how our 2009 winner American Public Television benefited from their website makeover.
Why
APT's new website:
- Targets specific audiences and pulls them into the right area of their website quickly
- Uses extensive search functionality to quickly access their deep breadth of content
- Easily to update via modular content areas
- Represents their brand in a sophisticated and welcoming manner
Metropolis played an enormous role in kick-starting our website redesign, and were a pleasure to work with. They listened well, and paid close attention to the issues that were most important to us as a company. They provided clean, usable code and a user-friendly design that will meet our current and future needs.Gerry Field
VP of Technology
American Public Television
American Public Television received an Extreme Website Makeover just by submitting their website to us. Why not submit your's for a chance?