Sep 20
Wake Tech Looks to DesignHammer Partner to Help Connect with Real World
DesignHammer Media Group LLC Managing Partner, David Minton, has been named to the Wake Technical Community College Internet Technologies Advisory Committee. ITN is one of seven departments in the Computer Information Systems Division.
Wake Tech invited Mr. Minton to be among the “real world” advisors to the program, seeking aid in improving programs to meet the needs of the community workforce and its employers. The Internet Technologies curriculum encompasses web design, e-commerce, basic networking concepts, and database programming.
Wake Technical Community College offer more than 70 technical and vocational programs, which follow a tradition of training students for specific job skills, as well as a college transfer program for those who want to continue their education at four-year institutions. In addition, continuing education programs provide hundreds of non-credit courses for job upgrading or personal interest. Wake Tech began in 1958 offering classes to prepare students for specific skills needed in industry.
Sep 13
DesignHammer Thrills with News Publication Site
DesignHammer Media Group LLC has successfully launched the Ten Minutes web site for Franklin Publishing Group LLC. Ten Minutes is a subscription-based, daily executive briefing, available at ncten.com.
“We’re thrilled! DesignHammer has been fantastic working with us to make this all happen so quickly and efficiently! The site exceeded our expectations, and was delivered on time and within budget,” said Ten Minutes Editor-In-Chief Zach Clayton.
To empower the Ten Minutes staff, DesignHammer developed a number of online tools, including a custom-built content management system, subscriber registration tools with real-time credit card processing, and access control systems. Sample issues are available for review (9/10/2004 and 9/13/2004).
Posted by 9:30am every weekday, the new internet publication is a “smart, fast, report designed to bring busy North Carolinians up to speed every weekday on the day’s most important news, politics, business, and sports,” added Clayton.
Ten Minutes’ editorial staff of seven scans over 100 national and state newspapers each morning, monitors two-dozen local TV stations, and all the national cable and network news. Ten Minutes Chairman of the Board Doug Bailey remarked that “In a 24 hour news world, no single rational person can keep up with all of the news… yet busy business and political leaders must know what’s going on in the state. The staff of Ten Minutes monitors it all 24-7, so its customers can quickly catch the essentials they need to know each day, then move on to more important things.” Bailey founded National Journal’s Hotline, which is widely considered Washington, DC’s most important daily political publication.
Franklin Publishing Group selected DesignHammer to develop, maintain and host its initial online publication in August, 2004. The site is available to the public, with six-month subscriptions available for $50, and twelve-month subscriptions for $90. A free two-week trial subscription is also available.
Aug 31
Cable Association Gets Connected with DesignHammer
The North Carolina Cable Telecommunications Association (NCCTA) has selected DesignHammer Media Group LLC to provide hosting and consulting services for the association’s web site.
NCCTA is the state trade association for businesses involved in cable telecommunications, whose membership consists of cable systems located in North Carolina, companies engaged in a business or activity related to the cable telecommunications industry and units and agencies of government. Formed in 1965, NCCTA has grown steadily as a support network for the state’s cable industry.
Aug 30
DesignHammer Shows Its Best in Ten Minutes
Franklin Publishing Group, LLC has selected DesignHammer Media Group LLC to develop, maintain and host its first online publication, Ten Minutes. Its first publication, Ten Minutes will be a subscription-based, daily executive briefing, available at ncten.com.
Posted by 9:30am, Ten Minutes will bring subscribers up to speed every weekday on the day’s most important news, politics, business and sports, as culled from over 100 newspapers and magazines, two dozen local TV stations, and the national cable and network news. The goal of the briefing is to bring subscribers the most important news in less then ten minutes.
To empower the Ten Minutes staff, DesignHammer will deploy a number of online tools, including a custom-built content management system, subscriber registration tools with real-time credit card processing, and access control system. The initial site deployment is expected in early September.
Jul 27
DesignHammer Works Toward Local Innovation
DesignHammer Media Group, LLC has completed the initial web site for the Center for Local Innovation. The project included a contemporary interface design, a custom-built content management system, hosting services, and ongoing maintenance.
CLI publishes research papers called Innovation Guides designed to encourage efficiency in local government. These include the annual By the Numbers report on local tax burdens in North Carolina, which generates significant print and broadcast media coverage.
The new site features a custom-built content management system, enabling Pope Center staff to maintain the content of the site, including Interviews, and New Ideas columns.
The Center for Local Innovation was founded in 1999 as a project of the John Locke Foundation. CLI engages local leaders in dialogue about such issues as privatization, fiscal restraint, and growth management. Its Steering Committee includes elected city and county officials from across the state.
Jul 26
DesignHammer Casts Stone Website
The Stone Agency hired DesignHammer Media Group, LLC to develop the finished design and navigation for the agency’s new website.
“This was a fun project for us,” said David Minton, Managing Partner of DesignHammer, “because it allowed us to be very creative in the look and feel of the site.”
Frank Yonnetti, Design Partner, worked closely with Stone’s Creative Director, Don Pausback, to achieve the agency’s goal of producing a simple, attractive website that shows off the creative work the agency has produced.
“We’re pleased that DesignHammer was able to execute our vision for a very clean design, which showcases the work we’ve done for our clients and our commitment to understanding the customer,” said Chris Stone, CEO of The Stone Agency.
The site is designed to communicate with prospective and current clients, and prospective employees.
DesignHammer is also working in concert with The Stone Agency to develop sites for other agency clients.
Jun 18
DesignHammer Moves Up on List of Top Developers in Triangle
DesignHammer Media Group, LLC was featured in the Triangle Business Journal’s 2004 list of top twenty-four Internet Marketing and Design Firms, as published in the June 18th issue. This was DesignHammer’s third consecutive appearance on the list, this year appearing at number 13.
DesignHammer’s appearance is noteworthy in that it was, yet again, the youngest firm to make the list, though tied this year with another firm founded in 2001.
Companies were ranked by Triangle employees dedicated to Internet marketing and design. Each week, The Business Journal publishes Special Reports focusing on particular industries or regions.
The Business Journal notes a weekly readership of nearly 40,000, including top management and decision makers. The offices of The Business Journal are in Raleigh, NC.
May 23
DesignHammer Deploys Site for Strategy and Operations Consulting Firm
DesignHammer Media Group, LLC has completed the initial web site for Clear Point Strategies, LLC.
Clear Point Strategies is a strategy development and operations consulting firm, specializing in serving science-based industries. Clear Point Strategies offers consulting services that span the full spectrum of client needs from strategy development to operational excellence.
The firm’s clients include many of the world’s foremost companies, including top pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostic and medical device companies, aerospace and defense companies, information technology companies and energy providers.
Founded in 2004, Clear Point Strategies is based in Chapel Hill, NC.
Mar 22
DesignHammer Gets the Look Just Right
DesignHammer Media Group, LLC has completed the redesign of the The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy web site. The project included an updated interface design, a custom-built content management system, hosting services, and ongoing maintenance.
Directed by George Leef, a former legislative aide and college professor, the Pope Center issues Inquiry research papers on such issues as finance, faculty compensation, capital needs, tenure, and curriculum reform. Leef and other staff members have testified before the General Assembly, appeared on numerous radio and television programs, and been quoted in major N.C. newspapers as well as The Chronicle of Higher Education and the journal Academic Questions.
The center also publishes Clarion Call, a weekly e-mail newsletter on higher education. Pope Center staff also write and edit the higher education section of Carolina Journal.
According to George Leef, "DesignHammer did a superb job of crafting our new site, giving it careful attention to get the look of the site just right."
The new site features a custom-built content management system, enabling Pope Center staff to maintain the content of the site, including
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The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy was founded in 1996 as a project of the John Locke Foundation. Named for former University of North Carolina Board of Governors member John William Pope, the Center seeks to bring innovative thinking and critical analysis to the field of higher education, in North Carolina and across the nation.
Mar 17
Soliloquy Sounds Off With New Project for DesignHammer
Internationally renowned and respected Speaker manufacturer, Soliloquy Loudspeaker Corporation, has selected DesignHammer Media Group, LLC to redesign and update its corporate web site. Soliloquy Loudspeaker includes both the Soliloquy and American Acoustic Development (AAD) product lines.
Soliloquy/AAD Loudspeakers are designed and manufactured to outperform competitive loudspeakers in four critical areas: Sonic Reproduction, Appearance, Quality of Construction, and Value-for-Dollar Retail Pricing
According to Dave Berman, Soliloquy President and General Manager, “Between Soliloquy’s Raleigh, North America-based facility and in-house cabinet shop, AAD’s sizable Shunde, China factory, and the design and engineering talents of world-class audio legend Phil Jones, our family of associated companies and strategic alliances is poised for many exciting future products and long-term success in the marketplace.”
“Soliloquy has a phenomenal reputation, said DesignHammer Managing Partner David Minton. “It is great to find a company with the same philosophy we have — developing superior products at competitive prices,” Minton added.
The revised Soliloquy web site is expected to be completed in May, 2004.