RESIDE LAUNCHES PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA’S PORTAL FOR CHANGE
January 12th, 2009
Barack Obama's Presidential Transition Team unveiled the Citizen's Briefing Book - an online ideas portal enabled by Reside that allows U.S. citizens to directly communicate with President Barack Obama, via his Transition Team. The portal is built upon Force.com, the central development platform of Salesforce.com. As a premier implementation partner for this platform, Reside was selected to work directly with the Presidential Transition Team to seamlessly integrate the design and functionality of The Citizen’s Briefing Book (Force.com) to Obama’s existing Web site: change.gov
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Reside featured in Infonomics Magazine
Listen to Reside CEO Matt Meents discuss the Citizens Briefing Book on MPR
Jennifer Zick of Reside discusses the Citizens Briefing Book on WCCO
Dan Mallin and Matt Meents discuss the portal on Cities 97
Reside helps launch Obama's digital "suggestion box" -
Mpls/St. Paul Business Journal
See commentary about the project on the MinnPost and Destination CRM blogs.
Read the salesforce.com press release - Yahoo Finance
Read the Citizen's Briefing Book entry on Wikipedia
Reside Presents at VISION 2008 On Thursday, November 13th, 2008, Reside was among a select group of industry thought-leaders as a participating presenter at VISION 2008: Technology Innovations That Drive Business (hosted by VISI).
Reside CEO, Matt Meents, presented on "Closed Loop CRM" and how companies are redefining the Interactive Experience. |
Reside Ranked as "Top 25 Web Firm"
On September 26, 2008, The Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal published its annual "Top 25 List of Web Development & Design Firms" on which Reside was ranked #20 based on revenues reported through 2007. |
September 2, 2008:
Salesforce.com Touts Haagen-Dazs As Cloud Customer
"The ice cream company is using Force.com to support its franchised shops in mega malls, Las Vegas casinos, and Disney properties."
Reside is also proud to tout Haagen-Dazs as our customer since 2005, working with them to originally select salesforce.com, customize it extensively to their franchise business, integrate it to their web programs, and ultimately help them become a showcase client for the Force.com platform. Take a look at the article by InformationWeek to learn more about Reside's role in partnering with Haagen-Dazs to customize the solution to their business. Additional commentary on this topic:
TECH.BLORGE, September 2, 2008
Salesforce.com’s attempt at cloud computing with Haagen-Dazs
salesforce.com: The Haagen-Dazs Shoppe Company Snapshot
Salesforce Serves Up Customized CRM and Franchise Management for The Häagen-Dazs Shoppe Company
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 Reside named one of Twin Cities'
"Best Places to Work" by the
Mpls-St. Paul Business Journal
The August 15, 2008 special edition of the Business Journal named Reside among the Twin Cities' top 25 "Best Places to Work". Reside earned this distinction - from among an applicant pool of nearly 250 local businesses - by being one of the top-scoring businesses on a company-wide employee survey, according to research conducted by Quantum Market Research (QMR) and the Business Journal. Learn more about what makes Reside unique among local employers. |
Rockin' Your Customers' Worlds
(and appearing in blogs and universities across the country)
 The July 17th, 2008, post on the Venture Nashville blog featured our own Matt Meents, Reside CEO, as he prepares to visit Belmont this fall to share his wisdom and ideas for helping students' grow their emerging businesses. Take a look at the commentary regarding Reside's unique culture, and see how The Residers' Maverick bobblehead took center stage...as usual! |
 "The Residers" ROCKED the phones
at the '08 KS95 for Kids Radiothon
Several of Reside's staff members invested their time on March 6th, 2008 to take and make calls to raise funds for Gillette children's Specialty Healthcare and Children's Cancer Research Fund. As always, it was fun to get our band together to volunteer for a great cause, and so inspiring to hear the stories shared by children and families whose lives have been touched by childhood illness or disabilities. We're proud be Rockin' for a very worthy cause. Check out some photos of the event! |
 "The Residers" Campaign Recognized for
Best Practices in Community Impact
The Upsize Magazine Business Builders Awards and Seminar event recognizes "some of the fastest-growing and most innovative companies around".
On October 25th, 2007 - Reside was recognized as one of the Twin Cities' leaders in the category of "Best Practices in Community Impact". As part of a seminar panel group, Reside shared the story of the birth of our band - The Residers - and how we have leveraged our unique culture and story to raise awareness and funds for the KS95 For Kids program. |
 Reside Builds Strategic Partnership with SDWA Ventures
Reside is pleased to announce our Strategic Partnership with SDWA Ventures - a provider of advisory services and resources with expertise in marketing technology, marketing services and digital communication. Founding partners - Scott Litman and Dan Mallin - are amongst the most experienced marketers in the country, previously leading the digital marketing and communications business of one of the world's largest advertising firms and providing expert strategy and implementation to some of America's greatest organizations.
Reside's partnership with SDWA will leverage expertise from across their partner network, to bring greater value and bandwidth to our clients' online initiatives. Visit SDWA Ventures online to learn more about their business model and affiliate/resource network. |
Jennifer Zick Hosts MIMA Summit Panel
Jennifer Zick (Reside's VP Sales & Marketing) was pleased to host a mini-session at the annual MIMA Summit, held on October 3, 2007. The session, titled "Made in Minnesota" featured twelve unique and awe-inspiring interactive projects, developed by local agencies, businesses and individuals. Listen in to the session podcast.
For more information on the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association, visit the organization's website at www.mima.org. |
Reside published in Upsize Magazine
Check out the August, 2007 edition of Upsize Magazine for a fresh perspective on how to "Make the Web work harder for your business." The article, written by Reside's vice president of marketing, Jennifer Zick, focuses on the evolution of the Web as a central business platform.
Whether you're a marketer, recruiter, sales manager, or executive - this article is sure to get you thinking about how the Web can uncover new opportunities and solve problems in your organization.  Read the full article here. |
 Reside featured in Star Tribune
Focus helped firm find its groove
Monday, July 16th, 2007 - Small Business Section
This past July, Star Trib readers saw a suited CEO rockin' out on the front page of the Small Business section. The rocker? Our own Matt Meents. Though Matt can't actually play electric guitar (he wishes!), he does a fine job sharing the attributes of Reside's rockin' culture with Trib readers. Read the full article here. |
 Matt Meents "Rocks Out" on the
Cities 97 Morning Show
On Friday, July 27th, Reside's CEO was live on the air with local radio station, Cities 97. Making his debut as the featured "Entrepreneur of the Month," Matt shares a bit of perspective on Reside's "Rockin'" culture. The conversation is worth a listen...but don't be fooled into thinking we're all about rock-n-roll around here! We actually do get down to some serious Web business at Reside. Tune in for a fun sound-off on our unique culture: Listen to the radio interview here.
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Reside's CEO Named as one of Minneapolis-
St. Paul Business Journal's "40 Under Forty"
Matt Meents back in the news, this time as one of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal's "40 Under Forty" awardees! Matt was was among forty local professionals in the fields of business, government and non-profits (younger than 40) to be honored for their achievements. This year's winners were selected from a field of nearly 280 nominees. An awards ceremony was held on May 17th at the Minneapolis Club in downtown Minneapolis. | |  |
 Reside CEO, Matt Meents, named as one of three finalists for TwinWest Chamber's "Entrepreneur of the Year" award.
The TwinWest Chamber of Commerce annually honors the entrepreneurial spirit of their membership at our Small Business Awards Luncheon. The Chamber presents their prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year and Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year awards to members who demonstrate exceptional drive, business savvy, and commitment to their employees, Chamber, and community. Read More. |
Reside Hits The Pages of
Minnesota Business Magazine
The May, 2007 edition of this leading local publication features Reside's CEO, Matt Meents and his alter-ego bobblehead band member, Maverick Reneur! The article, aptly titled "Rockin' the Web," outlines the storyline of Reside, LLC - featuring our services, passion for the Web, and Rockin' culture. Check it out on newsstands, or online at www.MinnesotaBusiness.com.
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Reside Founder Shares Expertise With
Minnesota Technology Magazine - Winter, 2007
 Eric Scheel provided his two cents to the readers of Minnesota Technology magazine on the topic of CRM, or Customer Relationship Management. His thoughts reflect the growing trend of businesses to embrace Web-based platforms - such as Salesforce.com - as a way to maintain connectivity between users, and efficiently roll-out system enhancements. A quote by Scheel in the article reflects this fact: "When Salesforce.com releases a new version, everyone gets all the new features available to them immediately."
Check out the full article on the Minnesota Technology site. | | |
Additional Resources:
Get deeper into the Reside Story here.
Get to know Reside's alter-ego rock band, The Residers!
VIDEO: Get to know our founders - Matt Meents & Eric Scheel.
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Rock with us at Dreamforce!
Salesforce.com unveiled today its new Force.com Value-Added Reseller (VAR) program – an expansion of the enterprise cloud computing leader’s business model that will serve to grow sales of its cloud platform (Force.com) via a select portion of its existing partner network.
The Residers at the Torchlight 5K 
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