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Addy Time

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Had a fun Saturday night at the annual Addy awards show…four hours of chat, dinner, open bar and marketing awards. We were excited that a number of 2007 projects received awards. The Bundoran Farm website won a Gold Addy and the Best of Interactive award, the EcoFitness/BlueTurtle Yoga website won a Special Judges award for [...]

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Social Strategies For Revolutionaries: SXSW Roundup

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

You know your company needs to be involved in social technologies, but where do you start?
At the “Social Strategies For Revolutionaries” session, Charlene Li, a Forrester research analyst (my favorite of the group), gave us the strategic framework for creating a social strategy that will appeal to executives and your target audience.
If you want to [...]

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Featuritis & The ABC Rule

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Two nice points made by Kathy Sierra….kind of apply to anything/everything.

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A Morning Roller Coaster Ride

Friday, March 7th, 2008

After our latest upgrade to OSX Leopard, Photo Booth for Mac comes with some pretty nifty options.
Here’s RP and MH taking a morning ride. Heavy-duty video editing courtesy of our amateur-hour editor, CS.

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Two Big Yahoo! Product Announcements

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

A couple of neat product announcements from Yahoo! came out over the last couple of days.
First up is their “Open Search Platform,” which allows third parties (like Blue Ion, hopefully) to modify your search results listings by adding images, more links, and hopefully some sweet animated gifs.
Here’s one from Yelp!

And here’s one I did [...]

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Blue Ion Welcomes A New Team Member

Monday, February 18th, 2008

MEET MONIKA.

Blue Ion is pleased to introduce the newest member of our team; Monika Gauthier, Interactive Art Director.
Monika hails from Bratislava, Slovakia, where she witnessed the fall of communism and the opening of the former Eastern block. She started her career in design and advertising in 1994. After summers spent by traveling the [...]

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Massive New Site Launch for Charleston Regional Development Alliance

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

We just put the finishing touches on a massive relaunch for the Charleston Regional Development Alliance (CRDA).
A public/private organization responsible for marketing the region as a place to do business, CRDA plays a key role in attracting the right type of companies (like Google) to Charleston.
The site relaunch incorporated several key initiatives:

Brand the region under [...]

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2008 Predictions: Digital Marketing & Beyond

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

As a digital marketing agency, we have to keep up with the latest and greatest in digital design, marketing, and business in general. Here’s a list of 2008 predictions and resolutions from some of our favorite resources. Enjoy.

New Years Resolutions for Microsoft and Google - From SEOmoz.org

Online Video Predictions for 2008 - From NewTeeVee via [...]

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Introducing Blue Ion Stock Photography: Business Casual

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Inspired by istockphoto, we’re expanding the Blue Ion brand into stock photography creative and sales. We felt our combination of tech-savvy, beautiful employees, crack photographers, and inspiring office environment was a natural fit for this venture.
For a limited time only, our loyal blog readers can download and use the following images from our premier set.. [...]

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BD Gets a ‘Hawk

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

This week marked the dawning of a new era here at Blue Ion. Everyone’s favorite developer, Mr. BD, came to work on Monday sporting a ‘hawk. He claims it was part of a birthday celebration, but we think it’s just to make us think twice about asking him to take those animated GIFs to the [...]

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