| Welcome 5 new MM team members!!| Date posted: Fri, 9th Jul 2010 7:03 pm |
Media Mechanic is proud to welcome 5 brand new members to our team: Judith Espino (Web Designer), Jordan LeDoux (PHP Programmer), Aaron Rabideau (PHP Programmer), Terry Gariety (Sales), Brian Dearing (sales)....
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Paul Ward in BusinessWeek Magazine!| Date posted: Mon, 19th Apr 2010 6:31 pm |
Media Mechanic founder Paul Ward was featured in this week's BusinessWeek Magazine (a Bloomberg News mag). Paul was interviewed for his perspective as a small business owner on the new healthcare bill....
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MM moving to a new office location| Date posted: Fri, 9th Apr 2010 3:26 pm |
We are happy to announce our move from the Tualatin area into Portland. Tualatin has been a great home for the last two years, but we are eager to embrace our new home in Portland! We will be completely moved in by Thursday, April 16th....
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New team member!| Date posted: Fri, 8th Jan 2010 5:15 pm |
Media Mechanic would like to welcome Dale Russell to the team. Dale brings over 15 years of programming experience to the table, including over 8 years working at EA Games as the lead programmer for the Madden NFL title for Xbox, Playstation & the Wii. ...
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MM at business roundtable on healthcare| Date posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2009 3:24 pm |
Media Mechanic founder Paul Ward was invited to participate this morning in a business round table with congressional staffers to discuss healthcare reform measures currently being considered in Congress.
The event was covered by 2 local TV news stations : View the coverage...
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MM interviewed in The Times newspaper| Date posted: Thu, 3rd Sep 2009 11:37 am |
Media Mechanic founder Paul Ward was interviewed & featured in today’s edition of “The Times” newspaper (serving the cities of Tigard, Tualatin & Sherwood Oregon). The article is titled: “Tualatin, Tigard folks speak out on health care reform“. Paul discusses healthcare reform from the perspective of a small business owner....
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MM interviewed by U.S. Energy & Commerce Committee| Date posted: Fri, 28th Aug 2009 12:30 pm |
Media Mechanic founder Paul Ward was asked by The U.S. House of Representative's Energy & Commerce Committee (one of 3 currently writing healthcare legislation) to discuss (via conference call) his views on the current healthcare debate from a small business owner's perspective....
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Paul Ward writes Op-Ed for The Oregonian| Date posted: Wed, 22nd Jul 2009 2:17 pm |
We are excited to announce that MM founder Paul Ward was recently asked by The Oregonian (Oregon's largest newspaper - nearly 1 million readers statewide) to write an Op-Ed article about small business & healthcare reform.
The article titled "Health care: a cry for help from small-business owners" is available in today's edition of The Oregonian. The article is located on page C5 (the "Commentary" page). Paul shares equal billing with David Brooks of The New York Times....
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MM and Paul Ward featured in July 13th WSJ| Date posted: Mon, 13th Jul 2009 4:44 pm |
Today Media Mechanic founder Paul Ward was featured for the cover article of the Wall Street Journal's Special Report section.
The article is titled "Sick & Getting Sicker" and covers the effects of rising health care costs on small business. Paul was one of several business owners featured in the article.
You can read the article by picking up a copy of the Wall Street Journal at your local bookstore or news stand. You can also read the article here: Sick & Getting Sicker or by visiting the homepage of the Wall Street Journal Online....
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MM owner Paul Ward interviewed by WSJ| Date posted: Mon, 18th May 2009 7:11 pm |
MM founder/owner Paul Ward was recently interviewed by the Wall Street Journal for an upcoming summer feature. Currently, we have been asked that the details of the article be kept under wraps until it's release. We will have more details here at Media Mechanic when we receive word of when the article will hit newstands. Stay tuned!...
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Paul Ward invited to White House roundtable| Date posted: Thu, 16th Apr 2009 11:03 pm |
The Small Business Majority has asked Media Mechanic founder Paul Ward if he would join their delegation at the White House on April 24th for the Small Business Roundtable. The topic will be the rising costs of Health Care and the impact on Small Business. ...
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Paul Ward speaks to Oregon Legislature| Date posted: Thu, 16th Apr 2009 10:00 pm |
Paul will join other small business owners concerned about the skyrocketing costs of healthcare as they hold a press conference in conjunction with the Oregon Small Business Healthcare Initiative's (OSBHI) Small Businesses Go to the Capitol for Healthcare Legislation event to urge Legislators to put Oregon on the map for healthcare reform.
Prior to the press conference, Paul will speak with legislators during a hearing in the Oregon State Capitol about the impact of rising health care costs on small business. ...
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MM announces Styleapple BETA| Date posted: Tue, 18th Nov 2008 3:06 pm |
Good Day! After months of 'top secret' development - Media Mechanic is proud to announce the Beta release of Styleapple.com. If you would like to sign up to be a Beta Tester, please send us an email to request a username & password. What is Styleapple you ask?...
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Welcome Burrell Color Imaging| Date posted: Tue, 14th Oct 2008 7:08 pm |
Media Mechanic is proud to announce that Burrell Color Imaging, one of the nation's leading & largest photo printing/developing companies has just signed on as a new Media Mechanic client! This is a very exciting partnership with profound long term implications for our company. ...
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Welcome Better Choices and Constant Search| Date posted: Fri, 12th Sep 2008 11:08 am |
I would just like to take a moment to welcome our two newest clients: Better Choices For All and The Constant Search. ...
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FREE Hosting! FREE Domains!| Date posted: Fri, 18th Jul 2008 3:54 am |
What? Is this a joke? FREE Hosting and Domain names you say? No joke! Read more about how to qualify for this special promotion...
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New TV and Radio portfolio sections| Date posted: Fri, 18th Jul 2008 1:46 am |
Media Mechanic will be adding two new segments to the PORTFOLIO section: TV PRODUCTION and SOUND DESIGN. Recent Media Mechanic produced TV spots, Voice Over and Sound Design work will be showcased. (read more for current samples)...
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Media Mechanic now on Twitter| Date posted: Fri, 11th Jul 2008 11:45 am |
Twitter is one of the more popular new Social Networking tools currently available. Connect with Media Mechanic's Twitter page....
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Welcome StyleApple| Date posted: Wed, 11th Jun 2008 11:40 pm |
I would like to take a moment to welcome Media Mechanic's latest client StyleApple.com of New York. This is a very exciting new project. We can't reveal too much until the site launches in September - but let's just say it will be an amazing resource for fellow designers. In the meantime, StyleApple has a fantastic blog with great advice for people looking to choose a web design firm and for designers in general - a great read....
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MM moving from Grand Rapids to Portland| Date posted: Fri, 6th Jun 2008 3:10 pm |
Media Mechanic has moved from Grand Rapids Michigan to Portland Oregon. The new contact information is effective immediately.
What this means to you as a client of Media Mechanic...
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US Postal Service, other new clients and more| Date posted: Thu, 15th May 2008 6:59 pm |
I am proud to announce that MM has been chosen to assist the United States Postal Service on a new USPS CDROM. Also: I am happy to welcome Keystone Business Solutions (of Tenn), Henkel Interactive(of Detroit) and Michigan First Realty to the growing list of Media Mechanic clients!...
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MM now on Facebook, LinkedIN, MySpace| Date posted: Fri, 25th Apr 2008 9:40 am |
Media Mechanic now has business profile pages on Facebook, LinkedIN and MySpace. Become a fan, friend or linkup today! Visit the Media Mechanic profiles on Facebook, LinkedIN or MySpace...
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Media Mechanic launches Source 24-7.com!| Date posted: Wed, 16th Apr 2008 3:09 pm |
I am extremely proud to announce the launch of Source 24-7.com. Source 24-7 is a new Michigan based Staffing & Recruiting agency. The website not only serves as an online job search, but also provides powerful business tools for the team at Source!...
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Option 1 Credit Union TV Commercials| Date posted: Tue, 15th Apr 2008 3:37 pm |
I am excited to announce the launch of two new TV spots created by Media Mechanic for the Option 1 Credit Union "AddSpareChange.com" campaign. The site was also created by Media Mechanic.
Click "READ MORE" to view the commericals!...
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Welcome Spartan Stores! -- Audio Project| Date posted: Thu, 6th Mar 2008 9:31 am |
I would just like to take a moment to thank Spartan Stores for their business! Media Mechanic provided voice-over recording work for a large Spartan Store Training CDROM program. Over 20 different training modules were provided with audio tracks. To hear samples, click READ MORE below.
Spartan Stores operates 102 supermarkets across Michigan and Ohio...
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Welcome back Kawasaki -- CDROM Project| Date posted: Mon, 25th Feb 2008 8:13 am |
I just wanted to take a moment to thank the people of Kawasaki for the recent return of business! Media Mechanic has completed a CDROM project (in partnership with Barrett & Weston Creative Group) showcasing Kawasaki Robotics different lines of automotive plant robotic arms.
Thanks to...
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Option1 Credit Union mini-site launch| Date posted: Thu, 21st Feb 2008 7:22 pm |
We are pleased to announce the completion of the Option 1 Credit Union "Spare Change" Program mini-site. Visit the AddSpareChange.com website
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Children's Leukemia Foundation -- Web App| Date posted: Tue, 29th Jan 2008 11:57 am |
Media Mechanic and Barret & Weston Creative Group have teamed up to build a new website and web application for the Children's Lukemia Foundation of Michigan. The new application will allow CLF to accept and track donations for charity drives....
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New clients and a new partnership| Date posted: Thu, 24th Jan 2008 7:39 am |
Well the first month of Media Mechanic is off to a great start. I would just like to welcome Source 24-7, Quixtar, Select Resources and Life Options to our family of clients. Thank you for your business!
I am also proud to announce the new strategic partnership between Media Mechanic and Detroit's Barret & Weston Creative Group ...
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| | New Project Environment!| Date posted: Tue, 9th Feb 2010 7:09 pm |
Over the holidays, Media Mechanic installed a new project environment to better suit our client needs. We have upgraded our Live server, added an additional Development server, added new development stations and better integrated them all....
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New payment gateway installed!!| Date posted: Fri, 15th May 2009 1:15 pm |
Media Mechanic is pleased to announce our new Authorize.net payment gateway is fully installed and ready for business. Now when you sign up for hosting, purchase a domain name, or pay an invoice for web development services, you can select Authorize.net to insure a secure credit card transaction quickly, securely and easily. We accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover and AMEX....
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New payment gateway being installed to MM!| Date posted: Wed, 29th Apr 2009 3:42 pm |
We are in the process of installing a brand new payment gateway to Media Mechanic. This will allow you to purchase domain names through our site as well as pay with a credit card via Authorize.Net.
We will announce when the install is complete. Thanks!...
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Majority of people online via mobile by 2020| Date posted: Wed, 31st Dec 2008 6:39 pm |
The mobile device will be the primary access point to the internet by 2020, according to a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The shift will impact nearly every industry that relies on the web for business growth, interactive marketing notwithstanding....
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Scheduled Maintenance 11/18/08| Date posted: Tue, 18th Nov 2008 11:20 am |
We will be performing scheduled maintenance on our server on November 18th @ 8:00 PM PT. During this time we will be upgrading our Apache web server to version 2.2.10 (from 1.3.4x). We will also be upgrading the operating system from CentOS 4.7 to CentOS 5.2....
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Major Server Upgrade - PHP5| Date posted: Wed, 9th Jul 2008 4:28 pm |
The Media Mechanic server is being upgraded to PHP 5 (versus currently running version 4) effective immediately. Click READ MORE to learn how this will impact you as a client of Media Mechanic. ...
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ICANN Approves Expansion Of Domain Names| Date posted: Sun, 29th Jun 2008 1:35 pm |
Calls it an Internet milestone
By Mike Sachoff
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to approve lifting restrictions on the classification of domain names, allowing for new customized Web addresses. ...
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Who Will Rule The New Internet?| Date posted: Thu, 12th Jun 2008 12:01 am |
By Josh Quittner/San Fransico
"Take what man makes and use it,
But do not worship it,
For it shall pass."
An anonymous wit scratched those lines on the side of a junked car door and lugged it to a trail near my home in Northern California. The middle of a pristine, ancient redwood grove is the wrong place to find a rusted-out car door, but the words magically transformed the thing from an aggravating piece of junk into art....
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No More IPs for Web?| Date posted: Tue, 1st Apr 2008 9:03 am |
By Abby Prince - Mon, 03/31/2008 - 3:50pm.
Wow. Is it really happening? Are we really going to run out of IP addresses? The answer is yes, but the outlook isn't as bleak as it appears....
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Can We Fix The Web?| Date posted: Thu, 20th Mar 2008 12:27 pm |
The problem with the modern Web is that it's insecure and fixes may be a long time coming....
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Those Expanding Internet Domain Names| Date posted: Thu, 20th Mar 2008 12:23 pm |
33 million new domains were registered in 2007. Did you get one?...
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Microsoft Identifies Culprit in Hotmail Outage| Date posted: Thu, 20th Mar 2008 12:22 pm |
It took several hours for Microsoft to get users of its Windows Live ID service back online....
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VeriSign Strengthens DNS For IPv6| Date posted: Thu, 20th Mar 2008 12:21 pm |
DNS gets scaled for the challenge ahead, as the Internet infrastructure giant works to similarly ready its other systems....
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Don't get scammed by phishers| Date posted: Tue, 19th Feb 2008 8:43 am |
Responding to an urgent e-mail about your compromised bank account is tempting, almost involuntary. That's exactly what phishers are counting on when they link you to a false site and pump you for personal details. ...
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Internet failure hits two continents| Date posted: Fri, 1st Feb 2008 10:22 am |
High-technology services across large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
This could impact some of your services....
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Is your domain suffering from Spam attacks?| Date posted: Mon, 21st Jan 2008 1:44 pm |
Hello everyone. Has your site recently fallen victim to email spam attacks? Have you opened your email, only to find 2000 returned emails from accounts that don't exist? Are the subjects "failure notice" or "Returned mail: see transcript for details"?
If so you have fallen victim to what is called a "Spoof Email Attack"....
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Are you having troubles reaching your site?| Date posted: Thu, 20th Dec 2007 10:00 am |
Over the past week, I have received several complaints from clients unable to reach their website or retreive their email. After spending 4 days tracking down the issue, the problem has been located and corrected....
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3 great hosting packages!| Date posted: Mon, 1st Oct 2007 8:17 pm |
Are your looking for affordable webhosting with great support & features? Be sure to check out our hosting deals! We offer 3 different packages - all at prices you can afford!...
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