RainStorm Consulting is pleased to announce the receipt of a Maine Technology Institute (MTI) Seed Grant, its third in as many years. The grant will help to fund market research and prototyping for a new software product RainStorm is developing for the educational...
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Maine Adult Education Portal honored as “Best Website” at annual LERN awards
The Maine Adult Education (MAEA) website, MaineAdultEducation.org, has been honored with the "Best Website" award at the recent LERN Conference awards ceremony held November 6-8, 2010. Maine's statewide network of adult educational program websites and their...
Refreshed bio management software empowers faculty to promote their research
With the launch of an all-new version of FacultyStorm, the leading web-based software for managing faculty biographic information, professors have even more powerful tools for promoting themselves and their research. RainStorm re-engineered FacultyStorm from the...
Leading literacy workshops now available for online registration
Today, finding and registering for Choice Literacy training workshops became easier with the launch of the Choice Literacy Workshops website. The website lists all of Choice Literacy's highly sought-after workshops, with innovative keyword or map-based search options,...
New DNA Sequencing Service website provides modern refresh for national provider
We're happy to announce the launch of a new website for the DNA Sequencing Service, online at umainedna.com. While the DNA Sequencing Service doesn't serve the general public-- you need to have some DNA samples that need to be sequenced, after all-- scientists...
Case Study: Maine Adult Education Association Portal
With multi-million dollar budget cuts looming, Maine's Adult Education Association partnered with RainStorm Consulting on an ambitious project: To launch powerful new websites for Maine's local adult education programs. The goal: To attract more learners, more...
Case Study: John Bapst
The challenge With a new international boarding program on the way, and facing ever-changing competition from other elite boarding and preparatory high schools on the east coast, John Bapst Memorial High needed a website refresh that would reflect a refined brand and...
Web-based oceanography book adds to open-sources learning universe
Following in the footsteps of other open-source web-based learning initiatives such as MIT's OpenCourseWare, RainStorm is proud to announce our participation in the all-new Ocean Optics web book project. As the web development agency for the project, we helped to...
Maine CTE portal gives a fully-featured website to 25 Maine high schools
For many high schools, building and maintaining websites can be a cumbersome challenge. Besides the costs associated with building a site, schools must also find the resources to pay an outside firm, or find staff with the technical skills and time available to keep...
RainStorm celebrates 10th anniversary
Last Thursday, RainStorm celebrated our 10th anniversary in business with a small gathering that included staff and family. We told stories, ate cake, and toasted 10 years of service to our clients. On October 30 1999, founder and CEO Brian Rahill registered the...
RainStorm Consulting announces office move
After months of preparations, we're excited to announce we've settled into a beautiful new office space on Main Street in Orono, Maine. To our clients and friends, please update your records with our new location and mailing address, but please note, our phone, fax,...
Maine Adult Education website honored as nonprofit site of the year by TechMaine
We're pleased and honored to announce that MaineAdultEd.org, a portal website connecting over 80 local adult education programs, has been chosen as the Best of the Web Nonprofit website for 2008 by TechMaine at their annual awards ceremony. Working closely with the...
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