XeniumGroup News Archive

July 2005

Yacavone leads design and facilitation for the two-day July Capacity Lab and Consultant Convergence at SoL in Cambridge, MA.

June 2005

A proposal for a World Cafe session on "Transformative Questions," written with three other Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) colleagues, is preliminarily accepted for the SoL Global Forum in Vienna, Austria, September, 2005.

May 2005

Yacavone leads a strategy retreat for the Hanover Consumer Cooperative management and Board of Directors, using Open Space facilitation principles.

PivotCMS version 3.3 is released to customers.

April 2005

Yacavone co-facilitates the two-day April Capacity Lab and Consultant's Convergence for the Consulting Members of the Society for Organizational Learning in Cambridge, MA.

March 2005

Yacavone and wife Lynne Walker deliver their Earn From the Heart program to high-school students at Thetford Academy in Thetford, VT.

February 2005

Yacavone joins design team for a Capacity Lab and Consultant's Convergence for the Society for Organizational Learning.

XeniumGroup colleague Marty Himmelstein publishes seminar article on local search in the IEEE Computer magazine.

January 2005

XeniumGroup and Nut Design update the web templates for Colby-Sawyer College, bringing a 2,500 page website to very strong Section 508 standards-compliance.

December 2004

Dartmouth College Development engages XeniumGroup for market research study on information delivery opportunities and technology options for campaign supporters.

November 2004

XeniumGroup and Dartmouth College Development co-produce www.DartmouthExperience.org, a 90-page, standards-complant website built in three weeks.

Yacavone assists in organizing and hosting systems thinking expert Peter Senge for forum on communities and education in Lebanon NH.

October 2004

The Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College engages XeniumGroup for consulting on technology project governance, and website re-design planning and budgeting.

Yacavone continues engagement with Robert Fritz's Structural Thinking seminar.

September 2004

Yacavone attends Your Life as Art seminar with Robert Fritz.

Yacavone accepted as a Consultanting Member of the Society for Organizational Learning.

PivotCMS version 3.2 is released to customers.

August 2004

The Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College re-engages XeniumGroup for a website update.

July 2004

Yacavone joins with other bloggers for Chicago conference focused on capital-G Giving.

June 2004

Yacavone participates in a regional NERCOMP session on website content management.

May 2004

The Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College chooses XeniumGroup for website re-design and management.

Yacavone is re-elected Board President of the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, Inc., the second-largest consumer cooperative in the United States (300 employees and $54m in revenue)

April 2004

Yacavone attends Good Experience Live conference in NYC.

March 2004

XeniumGroup and Colby-Sawyer College capture first place in the 2004 NH Internet Awards for Best Education Website in the State of NH. Hooray for us!

February 2004

Dartmouth College Development engages XeniumGroup to develop a custom software application that automates database-driven donor recognition web pages.

January 2004

Michael J. Yacavone is admitted to the Society for Advancement of Consulting, agreeing to a stringent code of ethics; attends limited-enrollment seminar with marketing guru Seth Godin.

Version 3.1 of PivotCMS is released to customers.

December 2003

Michael J. Yacavone attends two-day workshop on advanced consulting skills in Savannah, Georgia.

November 2003

Michael J. Yacavone attends advanced seminar in "Diagnosing Immunity to Change" at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

October 2003

The Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection asks XeniumGroup to provide interim software development leadership in building their online knowledge base application for computer security researchers, industry and policy-makers.

September 2003

Michael J. Yacavone will moderate a panel discussion on web marketing Wednesday, October 1, 2003, 730 AM - 10 AM. Open to the public – email for details. Sponsored by the UVCIA

Michael J. Yacavone is invited to speak with the Board of Directors at Equal Exchange on how Policy Governance® works at the Hanover Co-op.

The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College has a new website. Produced by XeniumGroup, designed by Nut Design, empowered by PivotCMS.

August 2003

Ah, deep summer. Delivering projects and taking a vacation. See you in September!

July 2003

Colby-Sawyer College continues a four-year relationship with XeniumGroup for strategic website management and consulting.

June 2003

The Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection engages XeniumGroup to conduct a requirements analysis for their digital archive and web portal.

May 2003

GSFA selects XeniumGroup for QIA web-based media analysis product development.

Version 3.0 of PivotCMS is released to beta testers.

April 2003

The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College selects XeniumGroup for website redesign, consulting, and PivotCMS content management. Scott Chesnut will create the visual design.

The Countryman Press selects XeniumGroup for website redesign and PivotCMS content management.

March 2003

Vermont Institute for Natural Science deploys new website empowered by PivotCMS. Visual design by Lynne Walker Design Studio.

January 2003

GSFA selects XeniumGroup for website redesign and PivotCMS content management.

Maryland State Public Service Commission rolls out updated consumer information website empowered by PivotCMS. Art direction by Noble Steed Associates, technical implementation by John Lehet.

Version 2.1 of PivotCMS is released to production.

December 2002

Matt Dunne for VT State Senate thrilled with PivotCMS during winning fall campaign.

You're an amazing intellectual catalyst.—Chip Evans, President, The Branding Idea™

We now have the capability to change what we want to say and show on a daily, hourly or minute-by-minute basis. This capability fires up our marketing instincts and really empowers our ability to put the web site at the hub of our marketing efforts. Now add on top of that the new ideas you and I developed yesterday on how to link our web site through PivotCMS to Google AdWords and our e-mail direct marketing efforts, and it is clear Pivot has moved us into a whole new level of self-directed and managed e-marketing that we had not envisioned. Great stuff! —Greg Franklin, GSFA Associates, LLC

Kudos all around. —Michael Golden, Comptroller, State of Maryland

Working with you was truly a pleasure. Not only did everyone feel an equal partner in the process, but they also feel invested in the on-going success. —Roxanne Waldner, Associate Director, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College

You have all done a tremendous job. Thanks for making the whole HPF-NSA team look good! —Robert W. Maczis, President, Noble Steed Associates, Inc.

XeniumGroup has been an invaluable partner for the Information Resources department at Colby-Sawyer College [and] Michael Yacavone is an objective and insightful facilitator and consultant. This is just one example of the valuable strategic, technical and management services. —Bill Bitzer, Director, Information Resources, Colby-Sawyer College

We collaborated with XeniumGroup on a large multi-user custom database software project. They had an outstanding ability to manage the project, achieving consensus among the purchasing, engineering, and sales departments, and acting as the 'user advocate' in the software design process. XeniumGroup had key insights into the technical challenges and worked with us closely to formulate solutions that made the application successful in the day-to-day operation of the client. —Richard Dweck, 3RD Millennium, Inc.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! We were honored and pleased to have you as a visitor and speaker last week. Your understanding and experience with Policy Governance and learning about how your Board functions was great, to say the least. —Beth Ann Milardo, Board Chair, Equal Exchange Fairly Traded Gourmet Coffee

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