A little more than eight weeks after the project's kickoff, Imagistic successfully launched the new Apex Life Sciences web site. Architected and designed by La Visual, the new company is a merger of the U.S. branches of Lab Support and Valesta, providing the best workforce solutions and career opportunities within clinical research, science and engineering fields for over 30 years. The site leverages Twitter's responsive Bootstrap JavaScript framework and is built in the Drupal content management system to simplify site and content management for the Apex team. Additionally, the site supports a bi-directional communication flow between the Bullhorn ATS and the Phenon People TRM system using JSON-based API calls and DaXtra data processing. "Bringing those three systems together created a pretty slick and sophisticated operational data model," explained Imagistic president, Kevin Howard Goldberg who was personally hired to be the overall technical project manager. "But the most amazing part of the project was the amount of moving pieces that needed to be managed, coordinated, and ultimately synced." For a more detailed look at the project, read the Apex Life Sciences case study. About Apex Life Sciences Apex Life Sciences is a division of the 5th largest clinical/scientific staffing and services firm in the U.S. We match top scientific, engineering, and clinical research professionals at all career levels for contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire opportunities. About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions company whose mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Its talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, web development, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, creative services, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) hired Imagistic president Kevin Howard Goldberg to research potential technology solutions and to generate a business-centric technology solution and scope document. The ATLA Religion Database is the premier online index of citations covering journal articles, book reviews, and essay collections in all fields of religion. In an effort to improve internal operations, the ATLA team engaged Kevin to review the existing system, to assess a few proposed solutions, and through an understanding of the various options, create a final set of project requirements. "The ATLA administrative system is built on headless Drupal 7, so the final solution will most likely be a custom Drupal module," Kevin explained. "It will be designed and built to seamlessly fit into the existing infrastructure and to automate a very time-consuming manual process, allowing ATLA staff to be much more effective and efficient in their time spent." The requirements process is expected to be done by year's end with development commencing in early 2017. About the American Theological Library Association Established in 1946, the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) is a professional association of over 800 individual, institutional, and affiliate members providing programs, products, and services in support of theological and religious studies libraries and librarians. ATLA's ecumenical membership represents many religious traditions and denominations. About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions company whose mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Its talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, web development, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, creative services, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

Imagistic was asked to design and build the U.S. launch of Pohl-Boskamp's Myrtol 300 dietary supplement web site. Pohl-Boskamp is launching their Myrtol 300 product in the U.S. for the first time and need a web site to successfully market their 40-year old sinus medication. Building brand promise through user experience and interface, the design has two primary goals: to accurately convey the marketing vision, and to create an exceptional experience for users on tablets and mobile devices. "It was a study in effective marketing using best practices, Twitter's Bootstrap framework, and WordPress content management system (CMS)," said Kevin Howard Goldberg, Imagistic's President. "The newly launched Myrtol site really speaks to the target audience in a clear, effective, and tasteful way; and the client absolutely loves the site"! About Pohl-Boskamp Pohl-Boskamp is celebrating its 175th Birthday as a pharmaceutical manufacturer and its commitment to Healthcare.The company is known for uncompromising quality in manufacturing pharmaceutical products and medical devices since 1835: "The quality of our products is both a mission and an obligation for us" says CEO Marianne Boskamp."The companies' objective is to develop innovative products that benefit patients. We concentrate our activities in research and development to improve the forms of new and already well-proven substances, so that drugs are easier, more comfortable and safer to take". About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions company whose mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Its talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, web development, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, creative services, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

Creative Circle has embarked on the process of defining requirements for its updated Web site to launch in 2017. "It's the kind of engagement I love because I get to leverage my experience in both business strategy and software development. This project requires gaining a clear understanding of the business vision, and then working with the executive team to create the most effective combination of multiple 3rd party software systems, " explained Imagistic president, Kevin Howard Goldberg, who was put in charge of the technical architecture and project management. "We are defining a solution that combines Applicant Tracking Systems, Candidate Management Systems, User Analytics, A/B Testing, and Content Management Systems. And it's going to yield an exceptional user experience for clients, candidates, as well as internal stakeholders." About Creative Circle Founded in 2002, Creative Circle is one of the largest creative staffing agencies in North America, providing digital, marketing, advertising, and creative talent to a wide range of companies. Creative Circle has developed a business model that enables it to attract and place high-level talent on demand. The collaborative, team-based approach between account executives and recruiters include a diligent screening process of all candidates to ensure the right fit for each and every placement. About Imagistic Imagistic's mission is simple: to improve efficiency, increase revenues, and decrease expenses for its clients. A business software solutions firm with expertise in both operational strategy and software development, Imagistic develops solutions that improve efficiency and save money. Founded in 1997, Imagistic has an excellent track record of very successful implementations and extremely satisfied clients all around the world. With a strong attention to detail and client connection, Imagistic has decades of experience in business strategy, software development, technology consulting, project management, user experience and user interface design.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

Imagistic successfully launched a new Training Management System for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation's Peer and Family Support Program. Imagistic was asked to assess the existing training management process and to build software to increase efficiency, decrease errors and cut costs. Extending the existing internal application, Imagistic developed an intuitive and powerful system to manage and report on all training activities managed by the organization. "The Reeve Foundation asked us to create a set of interfaces and workflows to track and manage the Peer Mentor training and approval processes, " explained Kevin Howard Goldberg, Imagistic's President. "Part of the fun of the project was reverse engineering an existing 3rd party system (the Mentor Management System), documenting it, and then working with the PFSP staff to make it a better-tuned system for how the organization naturally managed its programs." Imagistic has been working with the Reeve Foundation since 2006 to develop, extend and improve internal operations and systems. The Training Management system was built as an extension to the existing custom application built using the CodeIgniter framework on a LAMP stack server. About Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding innovative research, and improving the quality of life for people living with paralysis through grants, information and advocacy. The Reeve Foundation was started in 1982 as a community response to a crisis that has grown into a national movement. The founders of the organization, originally known as the American Paralysis Foundation, began their work at a time when spinal cord research was considered the graveyard of neurobiology. About Imagistic Imagistic's mission is simple: to improve efficiency, increase revenues, and decrease expenses for its clients. A business software solutions firm with expertise in both operational strategy and software development, Imagistic develops solutions that improve efficiency and save money. Founded in 1997, Imagistic has an excellent track record of very successful implementations and extremely satisfied clients all around the world. With a strong attention to detail and client connection, Imagistic has decades of experience in business strategy, software development, technology consulting, project management, user experience and user interface design.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

Imagistic was asked to redesign the American Camp Association's Find a Camp system. This extensive redesign has two primary goals: to bring the graphic look & feel to current standards, and to enable the system for tablet and mobile device users. "Having designed and developed the Find a Camp system back in 2010, I am really excited to leverage current technologies to bring everything into current best practices," said Kevin Howard Goldberg, Imagistic's President. "Using Twitter's Bootstrap framework and focusing heavily on clean interface (UI) with a lot of white space, the newly designed Find a Camp will be easier to use than ever. In addition to the two primary goals, numerous user experience (UX) improvements are being made based on feedback from parents and camp directors, as well as an analysis of the six years worth of custom log files." The Find a Camp system was initially built with a custom PHP and MySQL application framework, which has stood the test of time and usage, and leverages the Solr search platform built on Apache Lucene for the multi-dimensional faceted search. About ACA The American Camp Association is a community of camp professionals who, for over 100 years, have joined together to share our knowledge and experience and to ensure the quality of camp programs. Because of our diverse 11,000 plus membership and our exceptional programs, children and adults have the opportunity to learn powerful lessons in community, character-building, skill development, and healthy living — lessons that can be learned nowhere else. About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions company whose mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Its talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, web development, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, creative services, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

Designed by Lightray Productions and developed by Imagistic, the Los Angeles Fire Department, one of the largest fire departments in the nation successfully launched their new website. Found at www.lafd.org, the new site has a modern look and feel, is mobile and tablet-friendly, and is fully ADA compliant (section 508). "The Los Angeles Fire Fighters hold an important place in the minds of Angelenos and we wanted the way they interact with the public to be straight forward and powerful, just like we want them to be when they're fighting a wildfire or saving our lives," said Kimberly Brooks, founder of Lightray. "We also look forward to working with Chief Terrazas as we develop an intranet that will set the standard for how fire departments communicate in the 21st century." The project included re-orienting content to be local, converging multiple sites into one, and developing a state-of-the-art intranet to enhance internal communications. Lightray hired Imagistic president, Kevin Howard Goldberg, to be the project's CTO and to implement all project technology and development. "There were a lot of moving pieces and governmental considerations. With the Lightray team, we delivered a secure, easy-to-use, and effective communication tool for the LAFD." About Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation The Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation supports the LAFD in protecting life, property, and the environment by providing essential equipment, training, and public outreach programs to supplement city resources. In addition to the website, the Foundation recently purchased and donated 3,200 brush fire helmets. The Foundation is the major source of private support to the LAFD. For more information on the LAFD Foundation and how to support your LAFD, visit www.supportlafd.org. About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions company whose mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Its talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, web development, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, creative services, and information architecture. About Lightray Productions Lightray Productions has been launching brands and creating award-winning and custom-designed websites and campaigns since 1996. Lightray specializes in working with large agencies and institutions, building consensus among multiple lines of command, analyzing workflow and unifying it all under one vision and strategy. Projects include the websites for NASA AMES Research Center, Warner Music Group (Global), UC Berkeley, Los Angeles Police Department, and now the Los Angeles Fire Department. Lightray serves clients in industries ranging from entertainment to education, activism, the arts, government, business. For more information, visit www.lightray.com.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

The 2013 Grantastic grant has been awarded to the Gay-Straight Alliance Network. GSA Network is a national youth leadership organization that connects school-based Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) to each other and community resources through peer support, leadership development, and training. Imagistic will work with the GSA Network team to redesign the landing page for GSANetwork.org and address separating and highlighting California-specific and National-specific content. "I'm very pleased that the committee chose Gay-Straight Alliance Network for this year's Grantastic award recipient, " said Kevin Howard Goldberg, president of Imagistic. "Empowering youth to improve our world by expanding tolerance and acceptance is an incredibly meaningful mission. I look forward to helping GSAN do their work more efficiently and effectively." GSA Network.org is running a Drupal 7 site with a CiviCRM integration.

2013 Expert Committee

The Grantastic awardee is selected by a group of internet, marketing and design experts. This year's committee included the following people:

Terri Marie Beausejour
• With over over 25 years of software development and engineering experience, Terri has worked on financial services applications, graphics system engineering, and web and social media projects in the entertainment industry.

Jonah Halper
• Jonah is a non profit marketer and fundraiser with over a decade of experience, specializing in new donor acquisition and engaging Gen X and Y’ers. As CEO of ALTRUICITY INC., he consults many organizations looking to engage young donors, and helps them develop a new generation of organizational leadership.

Larry Hemley
• With more than 15 years experience, Larry is the visionary behind S.J.Hemley Marketing, a marketing and sales consulting firm offering services in marketing and sales strategy, marketing research, branding and lead generation marketing all with a common goal of delivering tangible results.

Shelley Miles
• Shelley is an entrepreneurial executive. Her extensive background includes: double digit top line and bottom line growth at companies including The Walt Disney Company, extensive experience and success growing market share, channels of distribution, strategic relationships, and award-winning product development and marketing.

Steve Paulson
• Steve, CEO of The Testing Guys, has over 20 years of web, gaming, internet and QA experience. And, per his request, we'll just say that he's a swell guy!

Michael Tarquinio
• Mike is seasoned project management verteran who is a extraordinary team leader with a take-charge attitude. He is currently the Vice President of Operations at Double Prime, a leading provider of customized international and domestic technology solutions for medium and large-sized businesses.

About Gay-Straight Alliance Network Gay-Straight Alliance Network (GSA Network) is a next-generation LGBTQ racial and gender justice organization that empowers and trains queer, trans and allied youth leaders to advocate, organize, and mobilize an intersectional movement for safer schools and healthier communities. Visit their site at http://www.gsanetwork.org About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions firm. Our mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Our talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, technology forensics / analysis, pre-development consultation, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, project management, design, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

Imagistic successfully launched Phase 2 of UCLA's Hispanic American Periodicals Index Online system. After redeveloping HAPI's Extranet in July 2013, Imagistic was asked to tie the underlying database to a sophisticated front-end for HAPI subscribers. As part of the build, Imagistic developed a multi-faceted advanced search that included leveraging MySQL's full-text search capability to increase accuracy and improve search performance. "Additionally, the front-end needed to display all content in both Spanish and Portuguese, so we developed an easy-to-use content management system within the application to support these two languages, and any languages desired in the future," explain Kevin Howard Goldberg, president of Imagistic. "I am exceptionally proud of the work we did, not only because of the fantastic client and subscriber feedback, but also because the underlying code base is well thought out, clean and well documented for future expansion." As with HAPI's extranet, the Phase 2 front-end was developed using the CodeIgniter framework on a LAMP stack server hosted with UCLA. It also leverages the Bootstrap HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web. About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions company whose mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Its talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, web development, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, creative services, and information architecture. About HAPI The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) provides complete bibliographic citations to the contents of scholarly journals published around the world on Latin America and the Caribbean since 1970. Our coverage includes everything from political, economic, and social issues to the arts and humanities. The database is a nonprofit project of the Latin American Institute, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is available through annual subscription.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

In partnership with S.J.Hemley Marketing, Imagistic successfully launches the new Softworld website. The new site is built on the Drupal 7 content management system and has extensive custom programming to seamlessly move applicant and job data to and from the eRecruit software staffing system. In addition to the detailed eRecruit API work, the home page hero image design was exceptionally well-received, creating the feeling of a candidate looking through a window into his or her own future. Some time after launch, Mark Finocchario, Vice President, Recruiting and Delivery Services said, "The site is working flawless by the way. It really improved our automation and marketing... If you ever need a client reference let me know." About Softworld Softworld is a proven leader in IT staffing and business solutions, recognized by Inc. 500 and the Boston Business Journal as one the nation’s fastest growing companies. About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions company whose mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Its talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, web development, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, creative services, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.