ThinkShout is a web strategy and development service aimed at forward-thinking organizations, founded by experienced Drupal practitioners Sean Larkin and Lev Tsypin. The company emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and sustainability in its projects and has contributed significantly to the Drupal community with 17 modules released in the last two years. Their work includes various successful projects, showcasing capabilities in e-commerce, integrated solutions, and custom mapping tools.

1. WEB STRATEGY &
DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FOR
FORWARD-THINKING
ORGANIZATIONS

2. OUR CLIENTS AND PARTNERS

3. OUR STORY
Sean Larkin, Partner
Drupaller since 2005
2001 - Interned at the Central NY Community
Foundation. First learned about social capital and
open source
2002-2005 - Waterkeeper Alliance, Local NPO
fundraising/membership development
2005-2009 - Drupal and OpenSourcery
2009-Now - Founded ThinkShout
(River conservation, whitewater, improv comedy)

4. OUR STORY
Lev Tsypin, Partner
Drupaller since 2005
1998-2000 - Enterprise Software, Inforte
2001-2003 - Director of Technology, PopArt
2004-2010 - Drupal, Owner of Level Online Strategy
2005 - Left proprietary web software cold turkey
201l-Now - Partner at ThinkShout, Inc.
(Start-ups, cycling, raising his kiddos)

5. + =
2009 - 2010 January 2011
Our Full-Time Project Team:
Lev Sean Andrea Brandon
(Lead Engineer) (Strategist) (User Experience Lead) (Software Engineer)

6. OUR VALUES
“High-end, Do-good” Drupal
1. Innovation:
• Drupal is a platform (e.g., Web widgets)
• Always follow best practices (e.g., Code your
configuration)
• Do it better each time (e.g., Mapping -
Mapstraction, OpenLayers, Leaflet)
• All staff write code

7. OUR VALUES
“High-end, Do-good” Drupal
2. Contribution:
• Solve the immediate problem - but always look for
abstraction (e.g., Watershed Now)
• Transparency and collaboration between clients (e.g., Leaflet)
• Give back! (e.g., modules, snippets, blogging, users’ groups,
speaking engagements)
The ThinkShout Team has released 17 Drupal
modules in the last 2 years.

8. OUR VALUES
“High-end, Do-good” Drupal
3. Sustainability:
• Document and code projects so that they are “portable”
• Slow growth; one office; investing in our team members
• Owners, account managers, and project managers all “get their
hands in the soil”
• New work comes second
• Healthy mix of project sizes - Projects generally between
200-600 hours over a 12 month period
• Schedule resources to avoid “Mythical Man Month”

9. OUR STRENGTHS
1. Drupal sites should not look like Drupal sites
SaskRiverkeeper.ca - Our first Watershed Now site

10. OUR STRENGTHS
2. Getting our clients to pool resources to collaboratively
develop shared tools
(Collectively, our clients have worked with us to contribute over 1,000 hours into open source mapping tools, such as those above.)
3. Drupal Distributions - Watershed Now

11. OUR STRENGTHS
4. Third-Party Integrations
Actively used on over
5,000 Drupal sites

12. OUR PROCESS
1. Requirements Gathering
(ThinkShouter Andrea Burton facilitating a “storyboarding” session for Meyer Memorial Trust. )

13. OUR PROCESS
2. Wireframes - Define features and structure

14. OUR PROCESS
3. Graphic Design (Photoshop) - Colors and style

15. OUR PROCESS
4. Writing Code - “Iterative” prototypes

16. EXAMPLES OF OUR WORK
The new ManhattanKayakCompany.com
• Event features include: registration management and reports
• Led to the release of the Entity Registrations module for Drupal

17. EXAMPLES OF OUR WORK
Aperion Audio e-commerce site
• 1,600 hours of development
• $4M/year in e-commerce
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM integration

18. EXAMPLES OF OUR WORK
First-Avenue.com
• 1,000+ hours of Drupal development
• E-commerce, social media, robust event calendar
• Enterprise cloud hosting for performance and scaling

19. EXAMPLES OF OUR WORK
Custom cartography and interactive maps
(Above is a custom map we created using USGS data
of major watershed drainages in the U.S.)

20. WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE
THINKSHOUT
• When clients innovate, they need a creative,
flexible and responsive development partner.
• We know nonprofit tech and we know Drupal.
• We are experts at bringing together partners to
build tools collaboratively.
• Frankly, we could not be more excited to help forward-
thinking organizations embrace and develop open
source solutions.

21. THANK YOU!
Sean Larkin
ThinkShout, Inc.
760.223.0589 (cell)
sean@thinkshout.com