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Meet the Bloggers of Buckeye Interactive: Sarah Davis
What is your position with Buckeye Interactive? Interactive Marketing Coordinator What has been the most challenging aspect of your position at Buckeye Interactive thus far? Adjusting to working full-time. I served 4 years in college and only worked nights, so it was a big adjustment starting my day at 8:30am. Name your favorite in-office moment. I’d say anytime Noelle (our owner Brad’s daughter) gets to visit. She is full of laughter and fun. It’s been so great having the opportunity to watch her grow! If you could change jobs outside [...]
Tweeting, Checking In, and Texting to Win
While I’m not a huge proponent of foursquare on the level of personal use (I can’t honestly say I think people care about me filling up my gas, or going to the grocery store, or flying to Topeka, Kansas), I am intrigued by the idea that you can check in at an event via your phone. Foursqare’s application in this sense allows users to check-in upon arrival and sometimes digitally receive cool stuff- like free drinks at a bar or a free appetizer.I’m not sold quite yet on this fad [...]
Meet the Bloggers of Buckeye Interactive: TOM GUY
What is your position with Buckeye Interactive? Director, Business Development What has been the most challenging aspect of your position at Buckeye Interactive thus far? Getting the word out and generating enough leads! Name your favorite in-office moment. Building our new furniture If you could change jobs outside of your area of expertise for one day what would you be doing? PGA tour player What is your favorite Columbus “underground” place? Donericks Pub What is your favorite guilty [...]
Leveraging LinkedIn Effectively to Positively Impact Your Business
Join Buckeye Interactive’s Interactive Media Coordinator, Sarah Davis, as she explores the complex world of social media giant LinkedIn. Designed for the businessperson with an established LinkedIn presence this presentation will be focused on giving you tips to expand your client base — daunting task when face-to-face networking will only expose your brand to a limited number of people. In this hour-long workshop learn how to best utilize a powerful tool you already have for exposing your company or brand to an exponential number of contacts. LinkedIn offers many advantages over traditional [...]
The Beginning
Welcome to my weekly blog update! A recent graduate of The Ohio State University, full time experimental baker/cook (just for fun), movie-watching enthusiast and event planner by trade, follow me on my oddessy as young professional navigating the uncharted waters of my first full-time job; event planning for Buckeye Interactive within the Columbus area tech community. Out of the stereotypical sight of a small town high school homecoming parade — a long line of dusty trucks, colorful floats, football jerseys, and screaming children — was born my love affair with [...]
Back by popular demand, Columbus Business First’s Social Media Summer Camp
Buckeye Interactive is at it again, this time showcasing the company’s social media services to the business community at Columbus Business First’s Social Media Summer Camp Expo. This year’s series will focus on social media for specific industries and organizations. August 4 - Nonprofits August 11 - Business Services August 18 - Retail/Consumer August 25 - Community Services Buckeye Interactive will wrap things up by exhibiting on August 30 with the Social Media Summer Camp Expo. A great place to meet social media experts, learn about new social media products and services, and network with local business professionals. Anyone interested in registering for this [...]
Another Successful Workshop!
We did it again with 10 attendees! Leading a 3 hour workshop and providing one-on-one assistance to each attendee is intense, but our team did it effortlessly. Check out two of the sites that were built in our workshop last night! Interested in attending one of our workshops? Check out what’s coming up next!
Buckeye Interactive Hosts, “Build a Website over Breakfast!”
Start using WordPress – the most popular content management system on the web. No previous website development experience is necessary! You will leave the workshop with a fully-functional website! In this hands-on workshop, you will configure and build a WordPress website for your business, organization, or personal brand. Before you arrive, all of the extremely techie stuff will be done so you’ll be ready to learn & implement! Included in your registration fee are: One year of website hosting (a $120 value) Domain name registration/transfer (a $10 value) WordPress basic [...]
Launch of the Innovation Exchange for the Village of New Albany
The Village of New Albany just announced the launching of the “Innovation Exchange“, a blog created to spread the word about initiatives and innovations that are already happening in the community. Developed by the Buckeye Interactive team, the blog launched with a variety of stories, including a post spotlighting eProximiti, a startup business that alerts users to deals and promotions at nearby businesses via their mobile devices. Our very own Brad Griffith was mentioned in the New Albany News today, below is a snippet from the article. Brad Griffith, founder of [...]
StartUp Weekend 2011 Recap
Buckeye Interactive sent two of its developers, Rian Rainey and Brad Griffith, to Columbus’ StartUp Weekend. StartUp Weekend is a 54-hour event that provides networking and resources for individuals and teams to go from idea to launch in one weekend. StartUp Weekends are hosted all over the world and Columbus hosted theirs on the campus of The Ohio State University. The event commenced Friday night with over fifty 60-second pitches. Many ideas were generated and the ideas that created the most interest became the projects that stuck for the weekend. [...]
