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Thursday 26 May

Perfect Sense Supports Rose Pleskow

Yesterday, May 25, 2011, Special Olympics Virginia Be a Fan – Special Olympics Virgina kicked off the torch run for their summer games. Twenty members of our team were out to learn more and support the local event.

It was fun for our team to see the kick off for the Law Enforcement Torch Run right in front of our building in Reston, Va.

The Perfect Sense team is now actively involved in supporting one of our local athletes, Rose Pleskow, as she prepares for the Special Olympics World Games in Athens, Greece from June 25 to July 4, 2011.

Perfect Sense is teaming up with Rose through active support with training runs and cooperative fund raising.  We have been involved in supporting Special Olympics since the day we started the company, but this was a great coming-of-age event for us. Two members of the PSD team told me it was their best day ever at our company.  Go Rose!

The Perfect Sense Digital Team supports Rose, center in navy shirt, following the Torch Run event.

Posted by: David Gang at 8:44 am
People, Special Olympics
Thursday 20 January

Honoring the legacy of Sargent Shriver

Sargent Shriver passed away yesterday after a very incredible life of service to our country and people in need around the world. His work often flies under history’s radar, but his achievements are storied — the first leader of the Peace Corps under President John F. Kennedy, Director of the War on Poverty under President Johnson, Chairman of the Board (as well as other roles) of Special Olympics International are just a few of his many leadership roles.

I’ve been involved with Special Olympics since 1996 — in both my professional career(starting at AOL) and on a personal level. When Perfect Sense first began working with Special Olympics International (in February 2009) our work focused on the redesign of www.specialolympics.org, then we conceived and built www.r-word.org. The project with the most impact was our work on the website honoring Eunice Kennedy Shriver. We learned so much more about Special Olympics, the dedication to public service of the Shriver family and the impact Mrs. Shriver had on many other initiatives that impacted people with intellectual disabilities. In the background, Sargent Shriver was a very quiet part of Special Olympics. He was very comfortable lending his skills as an ambassador, but he was also happy to take a backseat to Mrs. Shriver — which says even more about the man and his character.

Too often, as this week progressed, I would talk to people who weren’t aware of Mr. Shriver’s many accomplishments — which speaks volumes about the man.

He was about peace.
He was about change.
He was about work.
He was not about Sargent Shriver.

Last night, hours after learning of Mr. Shriver’s passing, we launched the beginning of a new website to honor Sargent Shriver. For us, the opportunity to be even slightly involved with the legacy of Sargent Shriver and his family — to be able to create a lasting tribute to a man who has made such a difference in society — was an absolute honor, and an absolute delight.

Mr. Shriver led an incredible life and I hope just for a few days out of my life, I can live up to what he did for his entire life for people in need. I don’t expect that I could ever touch 1 percent of the people that he did in his life, his achievements should spur us all to try to attain more. I encourage you to learn more about Sargent Shriver’s life — and as you learn, I am sure you will be inspired.

Posted by: David Gang at 4:18 pm
Special Olympics
Sunday 29 August

New website and new location

Last month we moved over 50 employees into our new offices at 11955 Democracy Drive, Reston, VA.  This week we launched our new website at www.perfectsensedigital.com.  Two and a half years ago, Lisa and I sat at a local coffee shop contemplating the opportunity to open a small interactive shop to help various friends with their existing web strategies. That concept and a phone call from Deanna Brown, who was President of Scripps Networks Digital at the time, was the energy behind starting our company.   Our first year, we focused on helping Scripps create a new product organization and re-energize it’s digital product line.  In 2010, we have provided product, design and development services to ten different organizations.  We have launched more than 19 web experiences over the last two years and recently launched our first site on our own publishing platform (The Brightspot CMS).

We come to work every day with a focus on doing great work and making a difference in the lives of our clients.   Each month, as we struggle with the concept of “are we doing great work?”, we celebrate each email that comes in from a client that thanks us for their success or takes great pleasure in using a product we created with words like “fastest, easiest, smartest, nicest”.    My hope and passion is that every week, someone new will feel that way about working with Perfect Sense Digital.  It is what makes our company a great place to work and helps us smile when we shut off our computers each night.

Posted by: David Gang at 9:51 am
Product Development