[meta]marketer moved in to CoLab in August 2010 when, after a year and a half in business, they’d grown to five people all working from home and coffee shops. As a marketing optimization agency, they help clients use the data in their web marketing and website to better understand their customers and prospects overall, and in turn market more profitably across all channels. Led by Kate O’Neill, the team includes Josh Oakes, Liz Hadaway, and a gaggle of talented freelancers and interns.

Adam Scott is a freelance designer, developer and online marketer that specializes in helping startup companies build their online presence. He specializes in custom WordPress-based sites with clean, functional and modern designs along with customized marketing plans that help businesses grow.

Brand Journalists, a PR, blogging and social media firm serving the franchise industry, moved in to CoLab in September 2010, seeking to avoid working from home based offices. Brand Journalists currently occupies three suites on the 3rd floor of CoLab. Its talented and award winning team of PR pros, social media specialists and former print journalists is led by Thomas Scott and includes Pam Coyle, Faith Shealy, Karynn Hough, Mackenzie Grosser, Mary Catherine Rebrovick, Linda Bryant, Clay Morgan and Greg Lacour.

Collins Imagery is a photography, writing, public relations, marketing, and internet firm working in these fields since 1987 with emphasis on head shot, event and product photography, as well as web and resume writing. Matt Collins, owner and founder, has been a member since March of 2010. One of our veterans!

Dickson Resources – One stop shop for IT Recruiting and Consulting, Web Design and Application Architecture Consulting.

Hooper Holmes is a data-driven leader in collecting personal health data and transforming it into useful information, which in turn, enables customers to take actions that manage or reduce their risks and expenses.  Hooper Holmes does an exam three times a minute, every minute 7 days a week!  Lauren Gallen and Rachel Oliverio run an office here at CoLab and have been here a full year.

Kaleidoscope Media, headed by Angie Gore and run by Lauren Hudgens and Heather Blankenship, is a public relations company based here in Nashville as well as NYC.  They have clients like Willie Nelson’s Country Throwdown Tour, Nashville Music Garden, and others.  They cultivate relationships, connect the dots between like-minded brands, and generate publicity with a purpose.

Knp offers training, consulting and development with the Symfony 2 and Node.js frameworks in the US and in France. Ryan Weaver opened the company’s US office and chose CoLab Nashville as its home in April of 2010.

lilDRAGON is one of the new kids on the block at colab, not to be confused with those who might Hang Tough.  Stop by and meet them before the new wears off.  They’re like that foreign exchange student in your high school that everyone thought was cool b/c he had an accent and smoked.  lilDRAGON is a film/video production company where dragons bellies full of creative juices breathe fire into film projects in Nashville and beyond.