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KQED Learn: Media Literacy for a Blended Learning Experience
KQED, one of the biggest public media outlets in the US saw a challenge: How can we equip today’s youth with the tools to understand, analyze, author and engage with the media they encounter? To answer this, Marker Seven worked with KQED to help create an engaging digital product to help the next generation of media content generators practice these skills in a real work setting. The outcome was KQED Learn. Through KQED Learn, students can interact with their classmates, as well as peers throughout the Bay Area, honing their media literacy skills.
Fresh Victor Launch Party!
Nothing says “party” like a great cocktail. But, until now, cocktail mixes have never been anything to celebrate – they’re typically full of processed sugars, artificial neon colors, and hard to pronounce chemicals.
Enter Fresh Victor – a new fresh cocktail juice blend and, technically, an entirely new product category.
Blind Visionary "for The One Billion"
All Caroline Casey wants is for the one billion people worldwide with disabilities to be able to fully contribute to their workplaces. When workplaces become more inclusive, she told us, so does the rest of society.
Two Project Managers and A Content Strategist Walk Into A Bar…
We’re excited to welcome project manager Ray Harris and content strategist Jill Nagle to our San Francisco office, and project manager Tara Sharum to our Richmond office.
Shooting Giants: My Big Day Off at Mavericks
Last week, Mavericks, the massive surf-break south of San Francisco, erupted with a giant swell worthy of the world's best big-wave surfers.
The Year of The Rooster Has Never Been So Stylish
Our client Flutter, maker of “the Manolo Blahniks of reading glasses,” is sponsoring a special Chinese New Year event on Saturday, February 4 at the San Francisco Symphony.
Transforming a discussion forum into an innovative social platform.
We had the opportunity to evolve Accuray’s trendsetting AERO platform into a unique social network. A valuable hub of information and resources for radio-oncology, it’s also a private community where practitioners learn from and grow from each other’s experiences.
The Challenge of Creating Proposals
For this month’s Brown Bag, the team discussed the challenges around creating pitches and proposals, sometimes with strict parameters such budget and timing, before getting more visibility into the client’s expectations.
Summer 2016 – Sun, music, and travel!
In the words of the Starks, “Winter is coming.” We're already reminiscing about the wonderful times we had this summer while we bundle up and drink our pumpkin spiced lattes. Here’s what some of our team members got up to this summer.
What products have you used today?
A sleep tracker, coffee maker, razor? Perhaps a weather app, smart phone and vehicle; all before you even got to work!
A product is something that serves a function, provides information, or facilitates a desired action. It helps you get something you need. It could be off-the-shelf or highly customized. It might be expensive or free. Either way, you likely had a choice of products and chose these to be part of your day based on your experience with it and how badly you needed it.