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We nourish digital ecosystems
for clients who care.

human-centered
collaborative
sustainable

What we do  

We handcraft sites in Wordpress, Drupal, Squarespace and Webflow and build long-term relationships with our clients. We see ourselves as shepherds, guiding clients through the process of building and maintaining the digital ecosystem that supports their work.

Accessibility
Analytics
CMS training
Content strategy
Custom development
Data migration
Help desk support
Information architecture
SEO
Site maintenance
Technical consulting
UI/UX design
User research

Who we are  

We are a friendly team of designers, strategists, product owners and developers. We value human-centered technology, accessibility and collaborative thinking. We have backgrounds in journalism, nonprofits, higher ed, farming and theater. We are parents, volunteers, artists, board members, musicians, gardeners and writers with decades of practice in web strategy and development. We bring the spectrum of our professional and personal experience to our work.

Our recent work

Our services

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Quality Maintenance

Accessibility
Analytics
CMS training
Content strategy
Custom development
Data migration
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Quality Maintenance

Help desk support
Information architecture
SEO
Site maintenance
Technical consulting
UI/UX design
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We build custom sites in
Wordpress + Drupal
and provide ongoing care for our products.

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We're curious about you

We take care to understand our clients, their objectives and how their digital ecosystem fits within those goals. When a client brings us a problem, we listen carefully before offering solutions.

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Decades of experience

Since 2007, Common has been partnering with mission-driven clients to build open-source products. Members of our team have backgrounds in communications, art, computer science and editorial. We are parents, volunteers, gardeners, writers and musicians. We bring the spectrum of our professional and personal experience to our work.

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Dedicated team

Every client is assigned a dedicated Product Owner and a dedicated Developer who get to know them, their codebase and the unique requirements for their web audience. Our staff has above industry average tenures and many clients see us as extensions of their own teams.

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Community of practice

We are friendly with other design studios, strategists and tech leaders and together we nurture a collaborative network of learning that our clients benefit from directly.

Our clients

Our best work is done with mission-driven clients who know who they are and can articulate the impact they want to have on the world.

Beaver Country Day School
Brown University
CAIA Association
Community Action Pioneer Valley
Connecticut River Conservancy
Cornell University
Education Development Center
F-Prime Capital
Fine Structures Ventures
Harvard Forest
Harvard Law School
HealthyPeople.gov
Jacobs Vehicle Systems
Kaman Corporation
Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mind & Life Institute
Nieman Journalism Foundation
Northeast Business Group on Health
Northeastern University
On Being Project
Phillips Exeter Academy
River Network
Smith College
St. Paul’s School
Transhealth
Tufts University
Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation
UMass Amherst
University of Virginia
University of West Alabama
Vanderbilt University
Vision & Art Project
WGBH / WGBY
Woven: Women Veterans Network
Yale University
Yeshiva University
Yiddish Book Center
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Working with Common Media is like having an extension of our own team. They go beyond the role of a typical vendor; their proactive approach to maintaining our core website technology and enhancing functionality through custom modules has brought incredible stability and growth to our digital presence.
Dianne Regnier

CAIA Association Marketing Director

commonmedia.com
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