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AMI Nominated for SXSW Award
2010-02-15 20:36:00
We're excited to announce that, for the third year in a row, Action Method Mobile is a finalist in South By Southwest's Interactive Award s! AMI is up for the award in the Mobile category of the 13th Annual SXSW Web Awards.      

Scott's Business Week Article
2010-01-29 20:25:00
This week, Business Week featured an article by Behance's founder, Scott Belsky on the timely topic of Crowdsourcing. He discusses the perils and the promises of tapping the creative community at large for work and "unlocking the potential of the masses." Scott lays out ideas for how to fix Crowdsourcing so that client and creative talent alike may benefit. Crowdsourcing is Broken: How To Fix It
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Great Work Blog Talks to Scott
2010-01-22 20:21:00
This week, The Great Work Blog talked to Scott , and their interview just went up in the form of an audio conversation. They discussed why looking to the short-term can be a powerful execution strategy, how to overcome the tragedy that most ideas are born and lost in isolation, and why "acting without conviction" can be a good straggly for keeping things going.  Have a listen to the interview for some inspiration this Friday.

New Action Products
2010-01-21 20:18:00
This week, we are extremely proud to announce the launch of three new Action Products - The Action Journal, Dot Grid Journal, and Action Cahier. Thanks to our partnership with New Leaf sustainable Paper Company, these products are eco-friendly and made from 100% recycled paper. These are sold along with our other products on the Creative Outfitter. The Action Journal and Dot Grid Journal are both in hardcover, and the Action Cahier is a portable  3.5'' x 5.5 ''.  We think they look fantastic, and hope that many ideas come to fruition between these pages! We're pleased to see some of our favorite bloggers review the new products: Coolhunting - Behance Action Method Journals Swiss Miss - Behance Outfitter New Products Josh Spear - New Action Method Products

Plywood People Interviews Us
2010-01-19 20:16:00
Last week, we spoke to Plywood People , a website that aims to address social needs by "searching for social problems with the hope to match them with entrepreneurial creativity to organize, innovate, and manage ideas that produce change." We were happy to speak with them last week and answer questions for a featured interview on their blog. They even gave away a free Action Book to a reader who RTed the interview! See the article here.
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Action Method for iPhone (2.0)
2009-10-26 20:01:00
Apple has approved and posted version 2.0 of the iPhone application for Action Method Online. The new version is, in fact, an entirely redesigned application, resulting from over seven months of design and development. As Scott Belsky, CEO of Behance, explained, "Our goal was simple: To make Action Method the absolute BEST collaborative task management application available for the iPhone. We wanted it to seamlessly sync (and back-up) with the online version of the application, enable the user to organize their Action Steps by Project, Due Date, Color, Who Delegated It, Priority, or any other keyword." Unlike other task management applications for the iPhone, Action Method Mobile both (1) seamlessly syncs over the cellular network as well as a wireless internet connection, and (2) is collaborative, enabling users to delegate (and accept/reject) Action Steps (tasks) from each other. Read More Information about Action Method Mobile 2.0 on the Team Blog
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AIGA Announces Partnership
2009-10-12 20:58:00
AIGA, the professional association for design, is the oldest and largest professional membership organization for design. AIGA’s mission is to advance designing as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force. "This fall, AIGA’s member portfolios are moving to a new platform hosted by the Behance Network. This transition reflects AIGA’s commitment to providing professional tools for designers to develop their practice, in this case by promoting themselves and their work in an extensive network, with a clear designation as belonging to the professional association for design." Read the announcement here.

Behance Launches The 99% Site
2009-09-15 21:20:00
Behance is thrilled to announce its latest launch: The99percent.com, inspired by Thomas Edison's famous quote, “Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration,” What started as a research effort in early 2005 has become a robust think tank that serves the creative world. The concept is simple: As creatives, we don’t need more ideas. What we need is better follow-through. To this end, the 99% delivers articles, tips, interviews, video, and events - all designed to help you push ideas forward. In our articles and interviews, we offer a behind-the-scenes look at the processes of creatives we admire across industries. People like Stefan Sagmeister, Seth Godin, Moby, Ji Lee, Jonathan Harris, Ze Frank, and many more. For pragmatic, actionable advice, we publish regular tips based on the Behance team’s interviews and research. We complement these online tips with a monthly series of live sessions at our New York office, where we present our research in a personal setting. Finally, as ...
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CreativeXpert Hosts Behance
2009-08-29 21:16:00
Behance CEO Scott Belsky was the featured guest for episode 35 of CreativeXpert - one of the world's most popular podcasts. In the interview, Scott shares the team's approach to developing the Behance Network and Action Method - all efforts to help organize the creative world. You can enjoy the interview here: CreativeXpert PodCast Episode 35

Fast Company at The 99% Conference
2009-08-20 21:04:00
Fast Company - the business magazine that reports on innovation, digital media, technology, change management, leadership, design and social responsibility - attended The 99% Conference and blogged about some of the best bits. They introduced the day with "The Sweat Conference" ... Kicks Off" followed by an outline of Behance Best Practices -- The 7 Principles of Success. As the speaker line-up evolved, they captured some best practices as presented by Ji Li, Cheryl Dorsey and Michael Beirut.
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Eileen Gittins: The Story Behind the Story
2009-08-05 02:05:00
Eileen Gittins, founder and CEO of Blurb, talks about passionate, opinionated creatives and the power of storytelling--and why they're both good things.
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Questions All Young Entrepreneurs Should Ask
2009-07-22 19:05:00
As you approach your ideas as an entrepreneur, you’ll want to ask yourself three questions:
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Macworld Reviews Behance.net
2009-07-18 21:12:00
Industry magazine Macworld recently reviewed social networks and noted the Behance Network as "the largest and most feature-packed of the social portfolio sites." Macworld points out some of the differences between the Behance Network and the more traditional job-posting sites, "On job-listing sites like Monster.com and bidding sites like Elance, employers and clients must post an ad, then sift through the resulting flood of applications or bids; Behance works the opposite way. Its search-powered sieve lets clients examine profiles and portfolios for just the right skill-set and style. Then it’s the client who initiates contact privately and only to available, pre-qualified freelancers or job candidates." You can read the rest of the review of Macworld's website.
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Spotlight: Music Covers on the Behance Network
2009-07-15 21:26:00
Graphic art and music have had a long-standing connection; from the psychedelic concert posters of the 1960s to the Rolling Stones' interactive album covers (a la Sticky Fingers), the mediums are constantly colliding to create beautiful collaborative forms. Album covers are often an artist's best shot at a first impression -- they must convey the mood of the music within while staying true to the band's own image.
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Burkman Bros: Finding Inspiration in the Unusual
2009-07-06 22:41:00
“Once we decided this was the moment, this was the moment,” Doug Burkman says of launching Burkman Bros, the menswear line he shares with his brother Ben. Ben calls the brand “a mix of classic preppy sports ware infused with an eyedropper of the exotic.” With items from their first collection available in Barneys and Bergdorf Goodman, not to mention exclusive retailers in Japan, the UK, and the brothers’ native Canada it’s more than clear that Doug and Ben’s get-on-the-ball attitude has paid off.
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Airside: Inspired Collaboration
2009-06-30 18:16:00
You know those dentists who don’t explain a thing, and suddenly they’re holding the tooth they just pulled from your mouth? That’s exactly the sort of pitfall that cross-platform design agency Airside tries to avoid in their client relationships.
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Tip: Reduce Your Level of Insecurity Work
2009-06-22 21:12:00
Creative professionals, entrepreneurs, and anyone else trying to make a name for him or herself have likely spent substantial amounts of time repeatedly checking their website's analytics, Googling their name, perusing email alerts and Twitter search results, or reviewing bank account balances and sales data. Admit it, you know you check some of this stuff a little too often.
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Finalist: Silicon Alley Award
2009-06-18 21:11:00
Behance was nominated and selected as a finalist for this year's Silicon Alley Insider Award s, for the category of "Most Loved Product or Service." Our team was humbled to be among a strong group of finalists including our friends at Facebook, Tumblr, and Daily Candy.

Nominee For Webby Awards 2009
2009-06-18 21:10:00
The Behance Network was a finalist for the category of self-promotional tools in this year's Webby awards - the premier web awards affiliated with the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. The Behance Network was also an honoree in the categories of Best Visual Design and Best Community.
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Hush: Structural Inversion
2009-06-08 17:39:00
Hush, a content creation studio out of NYC, has delivered its clients eye-catching content for commercials, music videos, broadcast, and integrated campaigns for over ten years. And Hush’s clients aren’t just anybody. With Nike, Estee Lauder, American Express, and Sony Ericsson in the mix, clearly the Hush team knows what they’re doing. They know what they’re talking about too.
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MagicRockLA: Mixing Beats and Art
2009-05-26 17:09:00
In LA, where the lure of fame is enough to pull almost anyone off track, DJ’s Magic Wong and Rock 1 are devoted, surprisingly, not to the glitz that comes along with their job, but to the craft itself. Operating together under the name MagicRockLA, the duo is the real vinyl-spinning deal. Everett Wong and Gerardo Machado (as they’re known outside of the booth) came to DJ-ing at a time when it’s cumbersome equipment and complicated mixing techniques eliminated all but the most eager to spin.
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Tip: Fight Against Your Short-Term Rewards
2009-05-14 17:03:00
From a very young age, we are developed with powerful short-term reward systems. We are incentivized to eat on day one with the reward of satisfying our hunger. Such immediate gratification teaches us to always eat when we are hungry. As we began our education, we were rewarded to learn with grades. And grades, we soon realized, yielded the reward of approval (and love, we suspect) from parents, teachers, and peers. We would study non-stop for days to take an exam, with the assurance that we will receive a grade within a week. As we entered the job-market, a day's work was rewarded with a monthly salary. In many cases, an immediate commission was rewarded for each sale �" or aggregated into a bonus at the end of the year.
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Taproot Foundation: Articulating the Vision
2009-05-12 16:46:00
If the desire to help is genetic, then Aaron Hurst has definitely inherited the trait - his grandfather wrote the original blueprint for the Peace Corps. Forty years later, in 2001, Aaron Hurst founded the Taproot foundation, an organization that harnesses the resources of millions of business professionals to build the backbone, or taproot, of the nonprofit sector. By encouraging professionals to volunteer their skills, the Taproot Foundation is able to create over 300 consulting projects for its nonprofit organizations.
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Mashable NextUp NYC Event
2009-05-02 21:08:00
Behance was featured at Mashable's NextUp NYC event at the Tribeca 92Y. Behance CEO Scott Belsky presented an update on Behance alongside the founders of Snooth, Savvy Auntie, and Aviary. The sold-out event was attended by hundreds of NY-based entrepreneurs and other members of the New York technology and venture community. Reviews of the event can be found at New and Improved , 92Y, and NYConvergence among other sources.
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Advertising Age
2009-04-20 21:08:00
According to Advertising Age, Behance can help improve the working lives of freelancers.  Through posting work and getting feedback and recognition, the Behance Network acts as a social lifeline for the self-employed. The article goes on to say that Action Method Online can enable disparate parties to keep track of tasks, timelines, and people involved with a given project, by coordinating work in loose, virtual networks.

The 99% Conference
2009-04-20 20:48:00
The 99% Conference was a conference not about ideas, but about making ideas happen - inspired by Thomas Edison's famous quote, “Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.” This two day event hosted by Behance and Cool Hunting was held at the Times Center in New York City.  More than 350 creative thinkers gathered to hear nine 20-minute presentations focused on productivity and the process of executing ideas. For links to some of the press: Technotheory Venture Beat Design Arts Daily SwissMiss on 99%: Cheryl Dorsey Ji Li Seth Godin

Webbys Partnership
2009-04-15 20:47:00
Behance is the "Official Community Partner" of the 13th annual Webby Awards, the leading international award honoring excellence in interactive design, creativity, usability and functionality on the Internet. The event will close out the second annual Internet Week in New York City, and will be hosted by Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyer. This year, the Webby Awards received over 10,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide. The Webby's mission is to "recognize and honor the best of the web."  Last year, Behance was selected as an Official Honoree in the Web Design Category for "Social Networking" and "Self Promotion / Portfolio." You can participate in The Webby Awards by voting for your favorite nominees from Web and Mobile Sites, Interactive Advertising, and Online Film & Video in the People's Vote Category.

AMO Can Save Your Relationship
2009-04-10 20:46:00
Did you know that Action Method Online is the perfect tool for fostering loving, productive communication within your relationship? Jared Goralnick suggests just this on his blog Technotheory, where the focus is on "[helping] people to use technology as a vehicle rather than an obstacle to getting stuff done." In addition to advocating crowdsourcing as a great gift-finder and Yelp-ing for a spontaneous night out,  Jared notes that AMO is a great way to work through issues using discrete goals. Check out this unique digital relationship advice here.
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The Served Up For SXSW Award
2009-03-15 19:44:00
The Served Sites have been nominated as a finalist in the "Art" category of the SWSX Interactive awards.  "From traditional photography to untraditional performances, this category focuses on web-based collections of life, society, and culture." The SXSW Interactive Festival celebrates the best and brightest of emerging technology, through five days of exciting panel content, parties, and awards that uncover the best new websites and acknowledge those who are building and implementing tomorrow's online trends. Last year, the Behance Network was nominated for a SXSW Interactive Award in the Community category. Read more about the team's SXSW experience here and here.

VentureBeat Interviews Scott
2009-03-04 19:42:00
VentureBeat an online publication covering emerging businesses in technology, profiled Behance founder Scott Belsky's view on productivity in the creative world as well as the company's development.
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