About liveSTORYBOARD Inc.

Management

Rob and Iva Koberg founded liveSTORYBOARD Inc. in January of 2001. Prior to that, Rob and Iva were Development and Interface Engineering Directors at Pearson Plc'sLearning Network. Pearson is an international media company with market-leading businesses in education, business information and consumer publishing. Prior to Learning Network, Rob and Iva were part of Macromedia's Dreamweaver, Course Builder and Authorware development teams. Macromedia is a leading software provider for the internet, print and education industries.

Through the years of dealing with various web sites and web applications with diverse types of content requirements, Rob and Iva constantly felt the need for an easy-to-use, flexible and powerful web-based content management system -- one that allows businesses to create and update professional grade web sites, with or without technical skills in-house. We were certain that such a CMS could and should be priced to be affordable for smaller businesses and individual writers, designers, and developers...

We were right: liveSTORYBOARD CMS is our answer to the growing need for simple, powerful and affordable web content management, and thanks to our wonderfully supportive growing list of clients, we are quickly achieving our mission of raising the expectations in content management!

Company

liveSTORYBOARD Inc. is a private California corporation. The liveSTORYBOARD team is passionate about the web and the field of web content management. We take pride in our solid industry background, our proven track record of delivering successful web projects on time, within budget, and most importantly - on purpose. We develop liveSTORYBOARD CMS - the simple, flexible and powerful web content management system that helps authors, designers and developers keep sites fresh with ease and confidence.

liveSTORYBOARD, Inc. provides clients with superior products and elite expertise at affordable prices. We don't do it alone: liveSTORYBOARD Inc. has an established network of trusted partners, experts in their core competency areas - from design, to editorial; from information architecture to legal. To save clients the hassle of dealing with multiple points of contact, liveSTORYBOARD can staff a web project of any size quickly and implement efficiently, using reliable partner resources.

liveSTORYBOARD Inc.'s success is fueled by our skilled and experienced team's common goal of helping clients build well-architected, well-designed web sites that are simple, useful, usable and forward-compatible.

liveSTORYBOARD CMS was one of the first to introduce WYSIWYG browser-based XML editing and valid, accessible CMS output.

Investor Information

liveSTORYBOARD Inc. has been profitable since inception.

Affiliations

liveSTORYBOARD Inc. is a proud member of The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture, The Guild of Accessible Web Designers. We support the great work of web standards organizations such as The Web Standards Group. liveSTORYBOARD Inc. is a Certified Rackspace Solutions Partner.

Core Competencies and Services

liveSTORYBOARD Inc. provides an array of services that compliment liveSTORYBOARD CMS:

• liveSTORYBOARD CMS customizations: templates and additional functionality (XML/XSL(T), Java, JavaScript, Flash, CSS, etc)

• Technical and Production Project Management (from initiation through completion project stages, including training and maintenance)

• Design (identity, print, web)

• Information Architecture

• UI design / Usability evaluations

Contact Information

For further information about liveSTORYBOARD Inc. please call Iva Koberg at (415) 755-7558 or fill out our brief contact form.

What to expect from working with us

Expertise and unbiased recommendations. For example that we are not religious about Open Source or commercial software -- we use and recommend both to clients, depending on what's most appropriate.

Transferring our knowledge back to the client when appropriate. On one hand, we never overload clients with information they have entrusted us to make decisions on. On the other, we believe in educating our clients when needed in subjects that are not their core competency to help teams make intelligent unbiased decisions rather than taking our word for it.

Ongoing advice in all areas we can be of value to, whether part of our immediate deliverables or not. We work with a reliable expert resource pool and pull in valuable expertise as appopriate.

Looking out for the clients' interests throughout and past completion of specific projects. For example, we often question requirements to make sure that a specific implementation best serves the longer term goals. Another example, as technology and client needs change, when we learn or implement something new, we often come back to clients whose projects may be complete and recommend an enhancement or alternatives that may have become more feasible that they were during development.

We prefer collaborating rather than implementing requirements in a vacuum. On most projects, we set up a client extranet where we keep track of project information, meeting minutes, random idea logs, schedule updates and so on. Such collaboration tools help us be an active participant in the project and improve communication. As one of our clients says, we are your "thinking partner".