Pemaquid Communications

Three sites designed and developed by Pemaquid Communications have been named finalist for the 2011 TechMaine.com Best of the Web awards. And the nominees are….

annie|catherine designer stationery – Best e-commerce Site. Launched on Valentine’s Day, the site run by Annie Darling and Catherine Breer features creative, colorful cards and calendars adorned with Catherine’s art work depicting Maine scenes. The site, powered by the Django Open Source content management framework and its Satchmo e-commerce package, allows them to more easily manage product listings, sale offerings, gift certificates and promotional codes.

Portland Music Foundation – Best Non-Profit Site. The Portland Music Foundation is dedicated to promoting the music scene in Portland and offers regular workshops to assist musicians with their marketing and professional development. To our knowledge it is nearly unique – it’s one of only two music foundations in the entire country, and their mission takes cues from its counterpart, the Austin Music Foundation (and we all know about the music scene in Austin, right?). One unique feature is a Venue Finder, a google map mashup that helps you find the clubs in Portland, Maine where various types of music can be found. The site runs a Django CMS customized by Pemaquid and includes the Satchmo e-commerce component.

Maine Lobster Festival – Best Arts & Entertainment Site. This site redesign was undertaken as part of a class project with students from Maine College of Art, partnered with mentors in a project called Extreme Makeover – Web Site Edition. The site exposed the students to the Web design process in real life situation, and the Client a great site for a fraction of the cost. The site runs on the Django open source framework and the site uses the Satchmo e-commerce package.

Winners will be announced June 23rd at the 2011 TechMaine Gala.

Pemaquid Communications has been nominated for an entreverge award for our work pioneering and promoting the concept of coworking here in Portland this spring.

It certainly is nice to be recognized. What began simply as a search for office space evolved after a conversation with Chris Messina, founder of the original coworking space – San Francisco’s Citizen Space – and now seems to have captured the imagination of many Digital Creatives in town.

We got some media love from The Maine Switch, we had a successful and well-attended social last month, the coworking social Jelly has come to town, and now there are two Facebook groups on coworking here: Portland Coworking and Portland (Blueberry) Jelly.

Best of all, there are now four of us (five if you count Jordan, Pemaquid’s intern) at our little coworking space at 28 Maple Street.

Entreverge is an organization formed recently to promote entrepreneurs and business innovators in Maine.

Five award winners will be selected from the nominees at a party at Port City Music Hall this Thursday evening.