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This Earth Week, we’re focusing on our BlackOut green clients who’ve made a commitment to environmental responsibility in pursuing their business goals. Foremost among those is Cambrian Biotechnologies, maker of organic agricultural, health and beauty and animal products, all created from Ecklonia maxima kelp. Cambrian’s mission statement says it all: “The Earth is ours to […]

The Scranton Times recently spotlighted BlackOut Design as one of the companies that has largely weathered the economic downturn by employing an agile business model and by remaining committed to providing our clients value through all of our services. Along with BlackOut President Jack Reager, the article quotes Austin Burke, president of the Greater Scranton […]

Recently we were fortunate enough to work with the team at TR Technology Solutions (TRTS) and local agency Sweda Advertising to bring together a blended traditional and digital campaign for TRTS. BlackOut provided a website refacing for two of the TRTS lines of business and developed a Fox Pros Who Know web presence. These pieces […]

Time for a new Google hoax. This year they embrace their take on AI, sort of. http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/index.html On January 12th 2009, the STT run (Standard Turing Test) confirmed behavior indistinguishable from that of a reasonable human being with above-average intelligence and 3.8 GPA (we’re still struggling to understand that missing .2; we suspect it points […]

BlackOut Design recently completed a site redesign for Independent Graphics Inc. to give them an online presence that reflects their position as Northeastern Pennsylvania’s most trusted source for printing services. The redesign involved developing a new look and feel for the Independent Graphics site with enhanced navigation, and more options for setting up print jobs […]

February 19th marked another milestone in the development of the Hydro4GE development platform. The team at BlackOut Design has been working with the Hydro4GE development team throughout their development to help shape their marketing strategy and ensure that all of the great work that is being performed by them is getting to their audience. You […]

You might notice the lack of the standard set of agency awards that accompany most websites on our own BlackOut Design site. In all honesty we get more excited about happy clients than we do recognition. That is of course unless we have the opportunity to win an award or contest that REALLY matters. Like […]

There has been a bit of controversy over how the 50-60million subscriber monster Facebook is treating their terms of service (TOS). There is some more detail here but as they point out on Mashable the gist is the following: “The Consumerist has noticed a seemingly slight but very important (and disturbing) change in Facebook’s terms […]

BlackOut recently had an opportunity to work with one of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s leading social service and counseling organizations, Jewish Family Service of Lackawanna County, in an effort to expand the reach and impact of the group’s compassionate message. Jewish Family Service of Lackawanna County has been providing professional counseling, advocacy and educational programming in the […]

One of the first things we do at my company when starting work with a client is what I would consider a primer on using the web. I have found this is really a great start to setting their expectations (no you won’t be making your retirement plans the day after your launch your new […]

BlackOut recently had the pleasure of working with pioneers in the field of kelp processing, Cambrian Biotechnologies. BlackOut provided web design and search marketing services for Cambrian, creating a site at www.cambrianproducts.com that demonstrates the uses and benefits of Cambrian’s Ecklonia maxima kelp-based products. We also developed the Cambrian blog that allows readers to keep […]

BlackOut recently designed and launched three websites, a blog and a wiki for the Institutue for Public Policy and Economic Development, helping to bring online the Institute’s reputation as the most comprehensive resource for housing information in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The project included an Institute for Public Policy and Economic Development portal page with information on […]