Test Your Brand’s Strength
Successful companies are built on strong brands — take our new test to find out how yours measures up!
Why Your Brand Deserves a Digital Style Guide (and My Farewell to PDFs)
The Case of the Broken-Down Brand Guide Unless you work in marketing, design, or another role that deals with public-facing products, you probably don’t often think about branding. It might …
A Nonprofit Budget Debate: The Box Bash Season 2
From the brains that argue Die Hard is a Christmas Movie – welcome back to season 2 of The Box Bash, the series where ob9 brains bash it out offering …
College Sustainability Websites
Design expert’s review of university sustainability department websites – what design choices work, what doesn’t, and why.
AI Solutions for Nonprofits
How your nonprofit can start benefitting from AI.
How do Creatives Find Inspiration?
As a team working on a myriad of design disciplines, we face daily challenges such as: How can we continually design high-quality solutions our clients need? How can we reduce …
Privacy Policy for Nonprofit Websites
If you ask for, track, or retain any information about a user visiting your website, you need to tell them.
Launch your Website Sooner, like we did
We launched a new website – our own! After years of getting by with an old site while we made extravagant new websites for other people, we finally put the …
The Great Google Analytics Switch
Google Analytics is updating how it tracks data, transitioning from the current Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4). As the methodology used to measure data is changing, planning …
Nonprofit Communication Audit
openbox9 created a worksheet to audit the voice and effectiveness of your organization’s communication efforts
Sharing stories of all Virginians
Snow White had her seven dwarves. Each one with their own personality lended its strengths to the others in order to accomplish a task. Our work with Virginia Humanities provided …
5 Virtual Activities to do with Coworkers
Working as part of a team, it’s important to keep in good spirits, practice healthy work cadences, and maintain open collaborative channels with our coworkers. All these things are part …