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Township authorizes Buckeye Interactive to design new website
ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 8, 2012 4:21 PM Plain Township trustees agreed Feb. 1 to pay Buckeye Interactive $4,500 to “develop a new township website and transfer existing content.” Township administrator Ben Collins said the township’s website, plaintownship.org, is outdated and is not compatible with some of the newer search engines. Buckeye Interactive got its start in the New Albany business incubator, Inc@8000. The company developed websites for the city of New Albany and the New Albany-Plain Local School District. — Lori Wince
Buckeye Interactive is first to outgrow Inc@8000
By Lori Wince ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 8, 2012 4:16 PM Buckeye Interactive is the first business to outgrow the New Albany business incubator, Inc@8000. “We can accommodate six (employees), but if we’re going to grow further, we’ll need our own space,” said company president Brad Griffith. Griffith said he started the business in 2009 in his New Albany home. In 2010, he moved into the New Albany Business Development Center at 6530 W. Campus Oval, the city’s first incubator. He had two employees when he moved into the new [...]
Buckeye Interactive President Elected to NA Chamber Board of Trustees
By Lori Wince Wednesday January 18, 2012 6:47 PM The New Albany Chamber of Commerce has chosen its 2012 board of trustees to serve as its governing body. New members include: Irene Adams, a consultant; Michelle Adams of PRISM Marketing Communications; Mike Durik, a consultant; Tobi Furman of Accel; Brad Fischer of Aetna; Vianne Gossett of Discover Financial Services; Brad Griffith of Buckeye Interactive; Robert Harris of Huntington National Bank; Barbara Huff of New Albany Investment Management; Jeff Lusenhop of Janova; John McKenna of Blue Mile; Mark Morehead of Big [...]
Buckeye Interactive Partners with Startup Weekend Columbus to Help Aspiring Entrepreneurs
NEW ALBANY, Ohio ( Jan. 16, 2012) — Buckeye Interactive announced today the Buckeye Interactive Scholars Program started to send up to 10 developers, designers and aspiring entrepreneurs to Startup Weekend Columbus. The 54-hour event has helped educate more than 17,000 entrepreneurs at over 120 events worldwide, and has facilitated the launch of over 560 new startup ventures around the globe. Startup Weekend Columbus, kicks off Feb. 17 at TechColumbus, located at 1275 Kinnear Rd. “I am really excited about this opportunity to partner with Startup Weekend Columbus,” said Brad [...]
5 Social Media New Year’s Resolutions
Came across this article today and thought I should share it! (Original Article) We’ve all got our New Year’s resolutions – lose weight, be more active, save more money – but not all resolutions are for personal gain. Sometimes it’s good business to have a few resolutions for your company, as they give you something to shoot for during the year. One area you can look to for goals to achieve is your social media. You may have found over the course of 2011 you’ve become complacent and developed a [...]
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
In the spirit on the upcoming holiday this weekend, I decided to put 10 minutes into making another funny video starring the Buckeye Interactive boys. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!
Buckeye Interactive Blog Pausing for December!
I know what you’re thinking, “but you guys are doing so well!” The point is that we need rest. But most importantly, we need to focus and hit our goals. Buckeye Interactive has decided if we hit our goals this year, the whole team will be rewarded with a trip to SXSW! So the best way to make sure we do both is to hit the pause button of blogging for all of December. But to convince you with a take-away, here are some reasons why everyone should take a break this Holiday [...]
Cities hope to profit from incubated business
By Allison Manning The Columbus Dispatch Friday November 25, 2011 Some central Ohio communities are doing what they can to foster local entrepreneurs, hoping city coffers will benefit when the business hits it big. While small-business incubators aren’t a new concept, several have popped up in the area recently. The latest, in Powell, opened its doors in July, while New Albany’s Inc@8000 has had tenants since February. One of New Albany’s earliest tenants, Brad Griffith and his Web development company, Buckeye Interactive, expects to do just that. Griffith moved his business from [...]
WordPress vs. Drupal Recap.
Did you miss todays event? No worries, below is the recap! What is a CMS A software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease. Why You Need a CMS You can updated your own website if it is built on a CMS! Low Cost to build, host and maintain Easy Customization via settings, plugins and themes Thorough Documentation from the user and developer communities Ease [...]
Could #Hashtags Improve Our Collective Intelligence?
When looking for inspiration for today’s blog post, I came across this article on Mashable. I couldn’t have written it better myself and the information is a very futuristic way to view the trend of #hashtags. I rolled my eyes when the Library of Congress announced in the spring of 2010 that it would be archiving Twitter. Great, I thought — drunken tweets about burritos preserved for eternal posterity. But the Library of Congress, as it turns out, was more forward thinking than I could have imagined. Twitter data, presumed to represent the [...]
