Merrimack, NH - March 7, 2008

Makibie is pleased to announce a new partnership with Gomez, a leader in the field of web measurement and optimization. Gomez, based in Lexington, MA, helps ensure the best web experience for users. Their ExperienceFirst platform is an essential tool for over 1000 companies worldwide, including some of the top-performing websites in various business sectors. Their extensive experience and widespread testing network helps customers determine how their web-based applications perform under pressure, leveraging best of breed measurement tools for performance and usage.

The teams at Makibie and Gomez are working closely to provide their customers a complete usability picture and help pinpoint system inefficiencies, usability challenges and performance issues, which allows businesses to offer the best user experience possible for their customers.

This exciting partnership will compliment Makibie’s current usability efforts, which focus on user-centered design and psychology-based usability testing. Gomez’s unique platform will enable Makibie’s !dea coaches to offer a comprehensive usability profile to produce the highest-quality web applications.

For more information on Gomez, please visit www.gomez.com.

Merrimack, New Hampshire – October 31, 2007

Makibie has launched the first version of Talkibie, a blog-style online magazine geared toward !dea building, new technology, and new techniques around product & web design. Talkibie will provide insight, analysis, and helpful commentary targeted towards businesses with a web-based clientele. The aim of this new magazine is to speak directly to readers of every experience-level and become a reliable and entertaining resource for businesses wanting to create a better user-experience for their customers.

New articles will be posted weekly and will highlight technology trends, usability and metrics information, product development processes, user experience, web concepts, and advances in environmental technology. “We want people to make Talkibie the one stop for their technology news and information,” says Rob Maille, founder and president of Makibie. “It should be like a virtual library where anyone can find not only interesting articles to pass the time, but quality information for building a web-based business.” To accomplish this goal, posts will feature a wide variety of subjects and will incorporate both journalistic and blog-style editorial writing.

Talkibie will replace Makibie’s k-blog, which has hosted articles on topics as diverse as “kaizen” project management, the rumored Google phone, and the zero-carbon city of Masdar in the United Arab Emirates. This new form of online magazine hopes to inspire readers, businesses, and bloggers alike to explore unfamiliar territory and educate themselves about the endless possibilities of Web 2.0 technology. The site will also allow readers to subscribe to an RSS feed, giving them access to the latest news as its posted.

With the debut of the online magazine the Makibie team is already working on the next release, due out this spring. Talkibie 2.0 will allow users of the site to capture newsfeeds and other information from outside sources, whether or not it originates from the site. Other features that will be introduced will include a toolbox, product reviews and page customization.

For more information or to read our newest articles, visit www.talkibie.com.

Merrimack, New Hampshire - September 25, 2007

Makibie is pleased to announce the latest organization to benefit from their charity branch, Makibie.org. St. Joseph Community Services of Merrimack provides Meals on Wheels and Congregate Dining services to the elderly and disabled of Hillsborough County. Since 1977 SJCS has served over 7 million meals to the homebound through Meals on Wheels or to groups at their dining centers, supplying nutritious food and daily safety checks to those who live alone. They are dedicated to promoting better physical, mental and social well being of older and other qualified adults, not only by providing nutritious meals, but also through health education and opportunities for social interaction.

The Makibie.org partnership with St. Joseph Community Services will begin November 8th. Makibie.org will donate time, resources and expertise to the local office of the organization. Makibie will team up with representatives from SJCS to create a new website design that will help get the word out about the valuable service they provide our community. Makibie is committed to making a difference in the lives of families and nourishing tomorrow’s leaders, and they will continue to seek out organizations which could benefit from the services they provide.

For additional information about the services provided by SJCS, please visit http://www.mealsonwheelsnh.org/.

For more information about Makibie’s charity wing, please visit www.makibie.org.

Merrimack, New Hampshire – August 21, 2007
Makibie is thrilled to announce the release of Connect, a web-based project management tool used to help manage the life cycle of web applications from conception to deployment. Connect makes it easier to manage and share documents, wireframes, designs, and tasks all through one interface. It enables every team member, including project managers, stakeholders, designers, usability specialists, editors, information architects, developers and other creative folks, to stay on the same page. The interface of this tool, however, is organized around a particular team member, like a designer, and it shows them only the project materials they are authorized to view at any given point during the project. By restricting team members in what they are allowed to see, Connect will easily and effectively ensure the security of the project. Modeled on Agile Development, this tool will help with the integration of web applications through the design and development phase of any given project.

The end goal of Connect is to help harness the chaotic energy of a creative team and keep them functioning as a whole. “This project management tool was created specifically for a team environment. Each member of the group will be able to track their daily tasks and prioritize their own pieces of the puzzle,” explains Rob Maille, the founder of Makibie. Connect can also be easily expanded to integrate with other organizational tools, allowing for a seamless transition for your project team.

Connect is available in team or enterprise addition. To learn more contact Makibie at connect@makibie.com or visit www.makibieconnect.com.

From the Nashua Telegraph

Makibie of Merrimack has hired Haley January to run its editorial services department. She will be responsible for providing a new perspective on creative writing to Makibie and its customers. Haley will also be responsible for driving Talkibie, Makibie’s Web 2.0 online magazine that will debut this fall.

January graduated from McGill University in Montreal with a degree in U.S. history and English literature. She also speaks fluent French and Spanish.

In the fall of 2004, Haley volunteered as an elementary school teacher in the Marshall Islands, a small island chain between Hawaii and Australia. She spent three months teaching English and science to children in grades 4 and 8, while developing and expanding on their curriculum. She also organized extracurricular activities and pioneered the library circulation system.

Merrimack, NH – May 11, 2007 – Makibie, an !dea Company, located in Merrimack, has donated their marketing and design services to Girls Incorporated of New Hampshire. Girls Incorporated of New Hampshire, a non-profit affiliate to the national organization, expressed the desire to modernize their website and make it easier to use.

Their goal was to have their website appeal to the girls, their parents, volunteers, and donors. Girls Inc. offers girls between the ages of 6 and 18 a variety of programs, which are tailored uniquely to each community, ensuring that the girls receive the most out of each program. The organization is now able to keep programs, a calendar of their events, and stay up to date with local news postings through the updating design Makibie has provided them.

“It was a pleasure working with the Makibie team. They took the time to learn about our agency, listened to our input and helped us to craft a website that is fresh, appealing and easy to navigate. It is our hope that the new site will help us spread the word to families and girls about our great programs and attract individual and corporate donors,” stated Suzanne M. Dupont, VP Development & Communications of Girls Incorporated of New Hampshire.

The redesign of the Girls Inc. website is the first project taken on by Makibie Charities. “We feel as if this was a great first client, where we had a lot of fun with the redesign. It feels good to give back to the community, especially with an organization like Girls Inc., because it’s important to nurture our future leaders,” stated Rob Maille, President of Makibie.

About Makibie
Makibie is an idea factory and a productivity playground where leading companies can build new ideas, expand brand awareness, and improve user experiences of a nearly limitless array of products. Focused on quality and creativity, we help our customers achieve a competitive advantage by uncovering new and exciting market opportunities. Our insight and innovation coupled with our ability to provide an impact uniquely positions Makibie to develop winning strategies, driving our customers towards their goals and vision.

Media Contact: Erika Dunberger
Tel: 1.866.Makibie (625-4243) Ext. 3

Makibie !dea Labs Brings Cutting Edge Usability Lab to the Granite State

Manchester, NH – April 5, 2007 – Makibie, a consulting firm specializing in idea development and implementation, unveils its usability lab this month. The lab will feature heuristic evaluation, product testing, idea shaping, and will make it possible for a variety of organizations to expose possible design flaws in their existing products and applications. “The !dea Lab is where our clients have a structured space dedicated to developing new products and unleashing their creativity,” said founder Rob Maille, “and its primary strategy is to map the goals of our clients with their potential.”

A sophisticated array of technology and expertise enables the two-year-old company to provide top-notch usability, accessibility and optimization solutions with a focus on organizational return on investment (ROI).

Richard Purtell, president of American Resource Staffing, has certainly been impressed by the implementation of Makibie !deas, and had this to say: “I think Makibie invented ‘Out of the Box’ thinking.” One of his new ventures, the Armed Forces Connection, was born of an idea that Makibie presented to Richard as a way to grow into key markets while simultaneously helping American military families with free job and education assistance.

About Makibie
Makibie is an idea factory and a productivity playground where leading companies can build new ideas, expand brand awareness and improve the user experience of a nearly limitless array of products. Focused on quality and creativity, we help our customers achieve a competitive advantage by uncovering new and exciting market opportunities. Our insight and innovation coupled with our ability to provide an impact uniquely positions Makibie to develop winning strategies, driving our customers towards their goals and vision.

Media Contact: Erika Dunberger
Tel: 1.866.Makibie (625-4243) Ext. 3

The NH-based web consulting firm celebrates its second anniversary soon after opening a new office in Merrimack

Manchester, NH – March 15, 2007 – Makibie, a consulting firm specializing in idea development and implementation, celebrates its second birthday this month, soon after having moved its offices from Manchester to Merrimack, NH. (more…)

The NH-based web consulting firm relocates and opens the doors to its idea development and usability lab

Manchester, NH - February 23, 2007 - Makibie Corporation, founded by Rob Maille and Terence Bouchie in 2004 with roots in strategic marketing and web development, has expanded rapidly into a consulting firm specializing in idea development and implementation. As a seamless, one-stop solution for (more…)

Manchester, NH - Makibie announces the first organization to benefit from the newly formed Makibie Charities: Girls Incorporated of New Hampshire: www.girlsincnewhampshire.org. Girls Incorporated has a 140-year history originating in New England textile mills. Today, Girls Incorporated of New Hampshire (more…)