Just Say No to Splash Pages on WhiteHouse.gov

As most of you know, splash pages are those annoying introductory pages that ask you for your email address before letting you access the actual website you are trying to visit.  Having worked in digital for ten years, I can make two definitive statements about splash pages:

1. They work. 
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Happy Birthday, Drupal

On January 15, 2001, University of Antwerp student Dries Buytaert released the first version of Drupal to the open source community.  Dries had originally developed Drupal as a news site and message board that University of Antwerp students could use for discussion and content sharing.  Drupal has grown into the most popular open source Content Management System on the market,...

Our New Year’s Resolutions

Many people use the start of the new year as an opportunity to reflect  and recalibrate.  We are going through this process ourselves at the Brick Factory.

As a way of holding ourselves accountable and providing a peek as to where we think digital is going,...

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

When I worked at The Bivings Group, we always sent out traditional holiday cards.  The cards  were amazing due to the talent we had on staff, but it always seemed strange to me to produce a printed card.  As a digital agency, it seemed to me that we should do something digital. ...

In Search of a Great Tool for Holiday Fundraising?

Here at the Brick Factory, we understand that competition for donor dollars is fierce in this economy. Having worked with many nonprofit and political organizations we know you have to be creative for your fundraising to have an impact.

Giving eCards is a new product that provides organizations with a creative and cost-effective way to raise money online....