| 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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| | 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. After working with several very patient clients, the tech support staff of my hosting facility and the tech support staff of several ISPs, the problem has been diagnosed as a failed DNS server within the Charter Communications network. We have run a full battery of tests on our network, servers, connections and software and can report with great confidence that the issue is not on our end. We have not blocked your IP addresses or Domains, nor are your servers down. While working closely with several different clients, we have eliminated the possibility that the issue resides in your local network (routers, firewalls, anti-virus, etc). This led us to the conclusion it must be the fault of one or more ISPs. After running trace routes from the various clients experincing the outages, we traced the problem to Charter Communications. They have been contacted and notified of the issue. They claim that due to the recent ice storms in the midwest, one or more DNS exchange servers are currently down, which is causing a failure for some users to view certain (but not all) websites. Charter has assured us the problem should self-correct itself with a few days.
Until then, if you are experiencing the following issue - you can view the rest of the internet but not your own website or any site associated with Media Mechanic - then you will need to manually bypass your Charter DNS address. This can be done using the folling steps:
1) Open your router management software
2) Under general settings locate "Obtain DNS automatically"
3) Change the setting to manual
4) Enter the following two DNS IP addresses: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
5) Save the settings and close the software
This will bypass the Charter provided DNS address and should clear up the problem. In a week or so, try changing it back to "Obtain Automatically" and the problem should clear up on it's own. We are already getting reports from various clients that the problem has gone away.
If you continue to experience difficulties, contact our Technical Support team.
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