New hire and promotions at Oliver Russell

Oliver Russell & Associates has added a new face to the staff, and promoted a couple of others:

Mark Hair joins Oliver Russell their new Interactive Director. Before joining the shop, he was President and founder of BaseCamp Interactive.

Susan Rowe has been promoted to Public Relations Director, where she'll lead and build out the PR team for Oliver Russell.

Evelyn Atchley has also been promoted, in this case to Senior Designer.

Congratulations to all.

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Cleaning Up up North

For those who may have missed it, the Spokane Advertising Federation's ADDY Awards Show was last Friday. And among the entrants were a number of agencies from Northern Idaho.

And, as Rick Thomas from The Coeur d'Alene Press wrote, "Local ad agencies rake in awards."

Boy did they ever.

Here's a quick run-down:

Salty Design Foundry won 17 Silver ADDYs, 5 Gold ADDYs, as well as Judges Choice and Best in Division.
Blue541 won a total of 14 ADDYs, including a Gold in Industry Self Promotion for their interactive Christmas card.
Range won 5 ADDYs, including 1 Gold.

As soon as I can get my hands on the complete list of winners, I'll be sure to share it with the class.

Congratulations to all of the winners.

Technorati tags: spokane advertising federation, addy award show, rick thomas, coeur d'alene press, salty design foundry, blue541, range

Three Courses + Cake - The Boise Ad Fed Luncheon

The March edition of the Boise Advertising Federation's Three Courses + Cake luncheon series is on tap for March 27th.

This month's guest speaker Jeffrey Blish, Partner & Chief Strategy Officer at Deutsch.

As usual, the luncheon is from 11:30 - 1:00, and will once again be in The Linen Building at 1402 W. Grove St. RSVPs should be emailed to John Drake, or call 208-336-7511.

Technorati tags: boise advertising federation, three courses + cake, jeffrey blish, deutsch, linen building, john drake

Changes are in the air

Word over the weekend is that changes are happening, and more may be on the way...

Details to come as they're made available, but in the mean time I can tell you that among those changes may be a new contributor to the Idaho Ad Agencies blog.

Stay tuned.

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Off Topic: TechBoise Blogger Meetup

I received this email from Tac at TechBoise yesterday, and thought I'd share it with those who may be interested in attending:

To recap: This Tuesday at the Lush on Main St in downtown Boise TechBoise is sponsoring a 'blog' meet-up. This event is for anyone interested in blogs and blogging. You don't have to have a blog, you don't even have to read blogs (although if you don't and you're on this list I would be very surprised).

The meet-up has been titled "Find Your Cause" for a reason. The goal of TechBoise has always been about connecting people in order to propel the local tech scene and I believe that bloggers are one of the best way to do that.

Details: Perhaps no other forum in the world can lay claim to the heart of American culture quite the way blogging can. State your cause – from music to technology to family, bloggers have found a voice and today's Internet is alive with the latest trends. Come contribute, listen and discover Boise's tech community.

I would highly encourage you to come Tuesday night. Please RSVP on the Planyp.us
site or by responding back to this email. Thanks.

Technorati tags: techboise, blogger meet-up

Job Opening - Flash Developer

Wirestone in Boise has an opening for a Flash Developer, with advanced skills in Flash and Director.

There's a laundry-list of skills that they'll ask candidates to demonstrate, but it looks to be pretty standard fare for this type of position. Full details about the job can be found here.
(Courtesy of Creative Hotlist).

Technorati tags: wirestone, flash developer job, creative hotlist

Job Opening - Project Manager

Salty Design Foundry in Coeur d'Alene has an opening for a Project Manager. This person will be responsible for traffic work, managing projects, overseeing production, etc.

Full details about this position can be found here.
(Courtesy of Creative Hotlist)

UPDATE: The word is that this position has been filled already.

Technorati tags: salty design foundry, project manager job, creative hotlist

Job Opening - Flash/Web Developer

The Studio Corp in Boise has an opening for a Flash / Web Developer, who will be responsible for layout, design, and usability of a given website.

While there are no 'X years of experience' requirements listed in the job description, they are looking for someone who has experience in HTML, MySQL, Flash and Actionscript. Full details about the job can be found here.
(Courtesy of Creative Hotlist)

Technorati tags: the studio corp, flash developer job, web developer job, creative hotlist

Spokane Ad Fed - ADDY Awards Show

While I suspect that those up in Northern Idaho are already well aware of this, the Spokane Advertising Federation's ADDY Awards Show is this Friday, March 7th, at the Bing Crosby Theater in Spokane.

The Spokane Ad Fed includes members from Northern Idaho as well as Eastern Washington.

Technorati tags: spokane advertising federation, addy awards show, bing crosby theater

Once again, I must say 'Thanks'

It seems that the number, and quality of comments have both improved lately, and for that I have to say 'thank you' to all of you who take the time to read and comment on the Idaho Ad Agencies blog.

For example, and for those who may have missed it, take a look at Shadow's comments on the Issues Facing Agencies post from a couple of weeks ago. That comment, and those that followed, are the type of discussion I'd like to see even more of on this site.

There are many others, of course. But, before I let too much more time pass by, I wanted to take the snarky, sarcastic hat off for just a moment to say thanks.

And with that, we now return to our regularly scheduling programming, already in progress...