May « 2009 « Finelight Interactive, Indiana

HTML Email Basics Part 2

May 28th, 2009 by Kate Robinson Posted in html email, interactive marketing | No Comments |

In part one of HTML Email Basics I discussed how to prepare an HTML email project. In this post I will discuss tips to keep in mind while writing and designing emails. Part 3 will cover what you need to be aware of when building your emails.
Writing the email
As you begin writing your email it’s

Two annoucements

May 26th, 2009 by Chris Kolehmainen Posted in advertising agency, bloomington IN, html email, interactive marketing, marketing strategy, social media | No Comments |

Welcome, Andi Hudgens!
Andi joined our team this morning as Interactive Media and Marketing Analyst. We are all very excited to have her onboard and are thrilled with all the skills and dedication she brings to the table.
Welcome back, Srilatha Marru. Srilatha just returned from India, where she spent the last month celebrating her brother’s marriage.

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Creating Mosaics with PHP

May 18th, 2009 by Roland Mai Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment |

In this post I will show you how to create a mosaic from a selection of various pictures. This method employs PHP and a MySQL database, and you can find the source code at the end of the post.
Step 1
Collect all pictures you want to use. In my case, I randomly selected 200+ stock photos

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Kutcher vs. CNN Won’t Ruin My Twitter World

May 5th, 2009 by John Jacobsen Posted in interactive marketing, social media | 1 Comment |

Recently my boss and I were discussing the Ashton Kutcher vs. CNN media battle: the race to 1million Twitter followers. As we rounded out our discussion, he asserted that the recent celebrity driven surge of new users will ruin the Twitter experience for it’s early adopters. We agreed that quality followers will become more difficult to filter, and bandwidth could become an issue. However, I disagree with his first prediction: that my Twitter experience might suffer due to the flood of newcomers wanting to try “my” technology. I believe that aside from an occasional trip to the fail whale spurred on by bandwidth issues, all of this hype will have ZERO impact on my Twitter experience.

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