Friend of JLOOP, Brian Baumgartner, of The Office fame, is producing a new show called “Life, Lessons, and The Pursuit of Par” for NBC Sports, and we’re proud to have provided the “Vanity Card” for his production company 3 Bees Entertainment.

Stay tuned at the end of the show on Sunday, or watch it here, right now!

Social(k) is an amazing way to invest in your future while simultaneously investing in our planet and forces for social good in the world.  SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) is a legitimate and powerful force in the investing world now, and we’re proud to include it in the JLOOP benefits package for our team.  Check out this video:

We’re really proud to be working with Anne Glick at Round by Design to launch a series of interactive children’s story applications.  The first two apps were launched today:

My Haiti: Valdo’s Story

My Haiti: Gabou’s Story

Anne is traveling the world and telling amazing stories about children’s lives in other countries.  From the iTunes description:

“Alo, hi!  My name is Gamenlie, but you can call me Gabou.  My parents, Manman and Papa, and I live in a village near the home of my grandparents and my great-grandmother.  It’s fun to have so many relatives nearby, especially when it’s time to celebrate.  Come, join me!”

So begins this delightful photo story app that introduces young readers to a life similar to their own and yet fascinatingly different – that of Gabou, a young Haitian girl.  Using photos rather than illustrations and first-person narration, Gabou invites readers to join her as celebrates her uncle’s wedding, feeds her family’s pig, and plays during recess at school, among other activities.

Experience cultural immersion for the youngest reader AND make an international friend!

By highlighting what our children have in common with others no matter where they live, this book lays the foundation for cultural understanding and openness among the youngest readers.

We’re looking forward to working with Anne to produce many more apps in this series.  And look for the iPad versions coming very soon as well!

Even though we’re a pretty standard 9-6 business in a lot of ways, in a lot of other ways, we’re not.  Our work involves routine processes and daily tasks, but we are also a creative firm – and creative work sometimes doesn’t happen on schedules.

So we’ve been pondering for a long time whether some periodic changes in our work-week schedules might be a good idea.  And we’ve decided to give it a try.

For the time-being (meaning, we don’t know for exactly how long we will implement this change), we are closed to the outside world on Fridays.  We are doing a few different things with this time.  Some of our team will be working 4-day weeks for a while, and some of us will be here on Fridays – either working intently on client services, or… surprise, surprise… working intently on our own projects.  (pique your interest?).

Of course if there is ever anything urgent, you can always reach us at support [at] jloop [dot] com.

We’ll keep you posted on how this new schedule affects our productivity and our creative output.  We’re interested to find out ourselves!

We had a JLOOP party. Pizza, candy, pumpkins, piñata, candy, costumes, dry ice, noodles, candy corn, monsters, candy, and more candy…the kids loved it.

Check out the JLOOP festivities by clicking on one of the thumbnails below:

My favorite moment from last night was when I told Micah (the scarecrow), “Hey Scarecrow, Nice costume…you look scary”
And he responded with “Youre welcome”.

Stay Gold.

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