For over almost fifteen years, we’ve worked alongside civic institutions, nonprofits and foundations, community organizations and educational initiatives, and select small businesses.
The people who power Social Ink aren’t just computer people – we are passionate about exploring the social meaning of technology. Our founders have degrees in anthropology and media theory and we ground our work in this bigger picture expertise. With over fifteen years in business, we are positioned to help you get your plan right from the outset. Bring us in for a consultancy or strategy planning session and we’ll help translate your web needs into language everyone can understand, help you know what to watch out for, avoid technobabble, and get you on the right footing before embarking into the unknown.
Many clients come to us with problematic existing sites. The problems range from the big, like hacks, old users with needless content entry, to the small. Comments left on random pages. Page titles aren’t working. We can fix those.
We also specialize in undoing what we call “3rd party addiction,” such as sites built in outdated template frameworks or using frustrating plugins like Elementor. We work from the ground up with you to rebuild these sites, sometimes keeping the same look n’ feel and other times making little tweaks that make your site not just run better, but allow you easier, more intuitive content entry.
Our design services cover the range of brand and identity creation, web design, data visualization and infographic work, and peripheral print applications. From comprehensive brand guidelines down to refinements of color palette, typography, or logo, through user interface applications and onto business cards, year end reports, and other publications, we’ve got you covered.
Our coding and development work is core to our offerings. Rooted in custom work within open-source, robust CMS options, when we build your website, we do it away from your server, in a secure private environment. You’ll be able to make changes without affecting your traffic and engage in QAT internally before launch. Beyond custom CMS work, we can help build a secure payments system, membership system, or data-driven visualization interactive. We also specialize in tying everything together, offering integrations with SalesForce, Stripe, Eventbrite, and more.
We’ve worked with almost every tech platform you can imagine, and many that live behind the scenes, from GoDaddy to Dreamhost, Shopify to SquareSpace, Cloudflare, and beyond. Need assistance moving to a new host from an old one? Lost control of a domain and lost the passwords to find it? We can help.
We also offer a suite of services for monthly support work on your site, officially functioning as your web support people whenever you need it. We’ll secure your site, handle weirdly sized images, and perform all kinds of security sweeps to make sure nothing is off. We can train folks on your end in whatever systems you may want, too!
Cornerstones of a just civil society, we help activist nonprofits like City Harvest feed hungry New Yorkers in need, and build robust, data-rich sites for NGOs like the United Nations to help its 200,000+ members smoothly navigate their local currencies and get answers about their pensions.
We have a long history of work focusing on cities and the built environment, working with architects, designers, planners, and other stewards of the cityscape. From virtual green spaces for city parks like Fort Tryon Park and Freshkills Park, to coalitions such as NACTO and the Global Designing Cities Initiative, to architectural and design practices like ASAP, we’re working to build better spaces and places, online and off.
We’re passionate about bringing big data to bear on strong social justice issues, like MacArthur’s Safety and Justice Challenge and the Misdemeanor Justice Project, at the same time we help places like Vera Institute of Justice and the Pinkerton Foundation engage activists on the ground.
We believe in the people power of unions like the Health Professionals and Allied Employees bringing tri-state nurses together, the National Young Farmers Coalition, and the American Federation of Musicians, the world’s largest union of musicians. These sites help members negotiate the labor world and ensure a fair living and fair care. Work with journalism projects such as Waging Nonviolence and political organizing platforms such as Working Families rounds out our work bringing power to the people.
We’re grounded in an appreciation for art and design, from the high profile of work of Julian Schnabel and Ric Burns of Steeplechase Films, to museums and galleries such as NYU’s Grey Gallery and the Skycraper Museum. We work hand in hand with performance groups as well, with online homes for the Concert Artists Guild, Highbridge Voices, and branding for the Center for Ballet and the Arts.
We’ve worked with universities and educational organizations across America, including Columbia, CUNY, The New School, NYU, Rutgers, and the University of Washington (UW), as well as in-progress work with Harvard University and Princeton University.
Bridging the gap between philanthropy-powered research, university labs, mental health outreach, and community service.
