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April 2004
NEW BIOLOGY INTERACTIVES:
Over the past year and a half we’ve been working on a multi-media science education project for Oregon Public Broadcasting (http://www.opb.org) called “Rediscovering Biology.” The site is not yet live to the public - but you can view the video series online, and two more interactives are ready:
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WE'RE STILL AMAZING:
Years back, before the Internet bubble had started “Amazing Online Marketing” seemed like a good name to us. But the truth is, the core of our business is *building* top quality, functional Web sites - not internet marketing. Our name has been misleading prospects for years, so we're changing it. We’re still AMAZING, but our name is now “AMAZING! Web Development”, because we feel that says it all.
March 2004
NEW EDUCATIONAL SITE
Built for Oregon Public Broadcasting (http://www.opb.org) and the Annenberg Foundation (http://www.learner.org) Artifacts & Fiction is a multi-media professional development workshop series for teachers. The workshop includes eight hour-long video sessions, printed session guides and an extensive interactive Web site. Take a look:
February 2004
NEW EDUCATIONAL SITE:
Built for Portland State University, Amazing's Extended CLRAS (Career and Life Role Assessment System) enables Oregon's primary and secondary teachers to evaluate all special education students' year-to-year improvements. Funding for this project is provided by the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) through Portland State University.
Previously when Oregon teachers went to assess their special education students they had to wrangle through a stack of 400 potential pages of paper forms *per student*, number 2 pencils, and a long turn-around time to get the results. What do teachers gain by moving this system to the Web?
- A simpler system to deal with forms - XCLRAS chooses which forms the teachers need
- Immediate results available for printing or downloading via PDF
- Tracks the student from elementary through post-secondary schooling
What does the Oregon Department of Education get out of this?
- Integration with the other ODE online assessments
- Faster reporting for Federal requirements
Best of all, the new system helps the parents and students by making it easier to track the student's progress over time. XCLRAS is built to capture data for at least 10,000 students, and hold at least 200,000 assessments over the next five years.
This new system positions Oregon at the forefront of the student assessment software industry for special education students and proves a valuable example for teachers in other states. Amazing is proud to contribute to the education and well being of Oregon students.
The XCLRAS system is not available to the public. Please call if you'd like to arrange a demo.
December 2003
BEST DOCUMENTARY & WEBSITE
American Passages won the Gold in the educational documentary category of the
Chicago International Film Festival. AMAZING! provided the "gi-gundo-normous"
Web site for the American Passages project, and also the show open for the video series.
Why is American Passages so good? See for yourselves:
http://www.learner.org/amerpass
New site: East Penn Bank serves the communities of the Lehigh Valley in Eastern Pennsylvania.
EPB has been an AMAZING! client since 1997. This latest redesign of their site brings
the design up to date with contemporary standards and also adds some useful new features,
such as online banking. See the new site:
http://www.eastpennbank.com
November 2003
CELEBRATION - 8 years of creative independence!
It's looking like 2003 is going
to finish up as a record business year. If we've made it this far, we must have learned
something along the way.
CURRENT PROJECTS:
Portland State University
Remember those standardized tests you had to take in elementary school? Since February 2003
we've been working with the Department of Special Education at PSU to move their
paper-and-pencil based assessment system to the Web. The system we're building
will be used by special education teachers in the State of Oregon whose students
participate in a functional living skills curriculum. The system will allow teachers
to assess and track the progress of their students throughout their entire secondary
and post secondary school education.
OPB - Rediscovering Biology: Molecular to Global Perspective
The Biology project is a multi-million dollar effort to bring America's high
school biology teachers up to speed on the latest developments in the field.
AMAZING is providing web site design, textbook layout, 3-D animations, and
flash-based interactive case studies based on current biology research.
We're close to finishing this one up. Here's a preview of the flash interactives,
developed with the help of Bergmann Graphics and Darrel Plant:
http://www.amz.com/frogz
http://www.amz.com/HIV
OPB - Bridging World History
Bridging World History is an Annenberg-funded project to create an educational series to bring High School teachers up to speed on how to teach World History. This series is the biggest project OPB has ever undertaken. In association with Hot Pepper Studios we're delivering several important things for this project - creative direction for the series logo and video materials, incidental illustrations and all the maps. We're proud to have the opportunity to contribute to the education of millions of American children.
Master Solution
We're proud to announce that we have a new educational products client - Master Solution. Master Solution makes products for managing technology in schools. We've been streamlining their Web site updating process by creating dynamic templates that greatly reduce the work of keeping their site up to date. Check it out:
http://www.mastersolutionus.com/
July 2003
We've Moved!
We've been busy... too busy to update the news section of our own site. In addition to the sites we've been producing for customers we've also moved into spacious swanky new digs at 3377 SE Division, Suite 104, Portland, OR 97202. For the time being the office phone number will stay the same. Drop in and visit sometime!
August 2002
New Site
EyeHealth Northwest - OK, I have to admit we actually launched this site months (May 1, 2002) ago but here's the first time we've announced it to the world. EyeHealth Northwest has been serving the eye care needs of the Portland Metropolitan and Clackamas County areas since 1954. If your eyes need it, they have it: www.eyehealthnw.com
August 2002
New Site
Oregon State Marine Board. Need to find a place to take your boat? Now you can browse through over 900 marinas, boat ramps and other marine facilities. Everything from your canoe to your 100 foot yacht will find a home here. The site includes information on how to find good fishing, information on nearby State Parks, regulations, local hazards and more. Nearly everything you see on the site can be edited by the Marine Board from a web-based administration tool. In fact, the database we created for the site is also now the centralized master repository for the details the Marine Board keeps on their facilities.
http://159.121.106.106/osmb/
(OSMB's main site: www.boatoregon.com)
August 2002
Coming Soon
Keep your eyes on your Web browser... We're getting close to launching a new site for Rogue Brewing. And we're only a few weeks away from launching American Passages the American literature education project we've been working on for OPB for over a year!
August 2002
Craig's travel site
Due to the lack of a decent internet connection he's currently well over a month behind in updating it. We generally hear from him a couple times each week. If you look at his map of Australia he's cutting across the horn in the upper right. He says that it's not practical to ride all the way to the top because there aren't any bridges across the rivers and big things with spiky teeth live in the water. More info at www.lunky.com
August 13, 2002
Internet Email just turned 20!
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc822.txt
August 10, 2002
And just for fun again...
Broadband users prefer Net over TV
From www.macuser.co.uk
November 27, 2001 - A survey for Btopenworld (UK) has found that broadband Internet users are spending more time on the Net and less time watching the boob-tube. According to research by Fletcher Advisory, 34 percent of those surveyed said that time once spent on the couch watching TV is now spent surfing.
Broadband users have reduced their TV time by an average of five hours a week. They also reported that their viewing habits have changed, saying they now watched less 'junk' TV and more late night shows and films.
Nearly half of those surveyed, 48 percent, revealed that their computers permanently are left on 24/7 to take advantage of the always-on broadband connection.
March 31, 2002
On Surviving and Thriving
Everyone out there who's glad 2001 is over, raise your hands. The dust is settling. A lot of companies who thought they'd do "web stuff" are gone. We're still here, going on seven years of helping clients in Portland. For those of you who believed in us in the early days, thank you. I think we've proved that you don't have to hire the largest company to get business stability. It takes something more, heart and dedication. After all the turmol of the past year, things are looking up for 2002. To celebrate we're offering our customers free time - two hours of our time - to do anything you need web-wise. HTML-editing, graphics, programming... need it done? Just call us. Speaking of calling us:
NEW PHONE NUMBERS:
Voice: 503.827.3500
Fax: 503.827.3505
The old numbers will continue to work for several months, but these numbers are stylish, new, and much more fun to dial.
March 29, 2002
New Client
We're proud to announce that the Oregon State Marine Board has chosen AMAZING! to build their Online Boating Access Guide. When completed in mid-may (we started at the end of January) the Boating Guide will help Oregon boaters to find a great place to get their boat wet. Their current site can be found
at www.boatoregon.com
March 29, 2002
Teleport Fallout
Bad things happened to a lot of Teleport customers as a result of the series of buyouts. Fortunately, our clients generally took our advice and hosted with a quality ISP (you know who you are). In case you know anyone who got burned, we're passing along this information on the class action suit: If anyone was using Teleport for hosting during the meltdown (from January 2001 onward) and had trouble uploading pages, or any other website-related problems, the attorneys would also like that information. They are particularly interested in commercial sites, but any corroborating information will be welcome.
Email Cecil Strange at cecil_strange@involved.com
March 25, 2002
Pearl the Elephant
Over the summer Steve built a life-sized elephant over his VW Thing to take to the Burning Man arts festival in Nevada. He's putting it back together for the Burning Man art show being held at the Crystal Ballroom this Thursday evening.
Pearl, the Celebrated Elephant Car: http://www.amz.com/sbp/bm01/pearl-polaroid.jpg
Event information: http://www.portland.aiga.org/calendar/month.html
March 2002
Site of the Year!
It's right here; Craig's HumanClock.com site made Yahoo's picks of the year for 2001!
http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/20011224.html
January 2002
New Site!
We've recently launched a site for the Assessment Training Institute. ATI works to help teachers maximize student motivation and achievement through better assessment practices. Their new site brings their Internet presence up to date with their print materials, brings online all you'd want to know about them, and also includes a dynamic product catalog and ordering system. If you're interested in learning more about ATI and the project please visit this link: www.amz.com/missions_ati.htmlor you can visit ATI directly at www.assessmentinst.com
January 2002
We Love Qwest!
No we don't. I won't bore you with the details of them connecting, disconnecting, reconnecting, and disconnecting our phone service, but we have a new voice phone number: 503.827.3500 The old one will still work, but will be phased out. Our fax number is currently in limbo.
October 25, 2001
Timing is Everything
If you pick up the Portland Tribune that hit the streets today, Computer Genius, Amazing Staffer, and all-around great guy Craig Giffen is featured on the front page for his site www.humanclock.com.
If you haven't been there before, you'll find Craig has built a site that tells the time, using a different photo for every minute of the day. You may recognize many locations from around Portland, and since it was launched he's received many more submissions from around the world. Beware - it's addicting.
The Portland Tribune picked Craig to focus on the daylight savings time change this weekend.
Check it out: www.humanclock.com
October 16, 2001
Amazing Event
October 16th, 4:30pm at the Portland Chamber of Commerce building Steve Peters will be part of a panel discussion on outsourcing: the pros and cons, how to do it, what to expect. Get more done, save money - Outsource! Details here.
October 1, 2001
Office Move!
We are downtown! At long last we found the right space for us downtown. We can now be found at 2nd and Stark, right above Mother's restaurant in a classy old office building. Drop in and see us sometime! Our phone numbers are staying the same (or so Qwest says). The new address is:
208 SW Stark Ave, Suite 306
Portland, OR 97204
October 1, 2001
New Client
We are very happy to announce that we have been chosen to provide the Web component of the American Passages project for Oregon Public Broadcasting. American Passages is an education project providing video, print, and Web coursework and materials for learning American Literature.
August 1, 2001
Internet-based services come to Oregon State Park system
By Jo McIntyre of The Business Journal
Amazing featured in the Business journal for groundbreaking State Parks site
[Full Story]
July 20, 2001
Investor calls start-up Fios a money magnet.
By Steve Woodward of The Oregonian staff
If venture capitalists are cats, then Portland-based Fios is catnip, says one of the cats.
Investors have pounced on the electronic documents company with $10.1 million in new investment, Fios planned to announce today. That's $2 million more than Fios was looking for.... [Full Story]
June 2001
Job Titles of the Future
By Alison Overholt of FastCompany Magazine
Working like a slave? Hey, make the most of it. That's what Tim Cleaver did. As an intern at a marketing company that is striving to meet the online design needs of an increasingly Webified Portland, Oregon, Cleaver is at the beck and call of everyone.... [Full Story]
April, 2001
Oregon Parks and Recreation Department unveils revamped websites
After three years and millions of visitors, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) rolled out a newly-designed website in April. Among a long list of significant improvements, OPRD now offers service... [Full Story]
Feb. 1, 2001
Cunningham to Lead Amazing Sales Team
Kathryn Cunningham has joined Amazing Online Marketing as sales manager.
Formerly a corporate consultant from San Francisco, Cunningham said she is excited to be a part of the innovative team. She'll focus on reaching corporate clients who want a strong, effective presence on the Web.
"Amazing listens to what the client wants and then they deliver creative, Web-based solutions that sell more products and generate positive public awareness," Cunningham said. "They are doing exciting, cutting edge work, in direct response to their client's needs. I'm excited to be a part of it."
Oct. 15, 2000
Amazing Online Marketing in Business for 5 years
Amazing started small in 1995, three guys, a few computers and a dream of building a great company. It's five years later and while Amazing is an established company, we continue to be Internet business pioneers, pushing the boundaries of what can be done for customers. We're proud to have been able to work with some of the best companies in Oregon and we look forward to many more years of challenging and rewarding work.
Oct. 2, 2000
Business Expansion Propels Amazing Online Marketing into Laurelhurst Office
The web design firm, which has doubled its revenues from just a year ago, moves to larger space. Amazing Online Marketing's world headquarters have moved to a 4,000 square foot space near the Laurelhurst neighborhood. The company, which develops online web marketing materials and sites for clients including Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department and PassEdge Corp. outgrew its 800 square office space... [Full Story]
Sept. 5, 2000
Amazing Online Marketing Develops Companion Site for Broadcast to Aid Caregivers
The Portland-based firm has been hired by Senior and Disabled Services, a Division of the Oregon Department of Human Services to develop a content-rich site that will offer resource material in conjunction with the special OPB program. Amazing Online Marketing is working with Senior and Disabled Services to provide information and resource material, via the Web to people caring for elderly or disabled friends and relatives... [Full Story]
May 11, 2000
Transitions For Health Launches Site That Speaks to Consumers
Amazing Online Marketing often upgrades existing sites in an effort to appeal to consumer's changing needs and interests. It was a question of content when Transitions for Health turned to Amazing Online Marketing to update its website. "We wanted to speak directly to the consumer," said Alysa Rose, vice president of marketing for the Portland-based company that sells natural health care products to menopausal women. "The content is a mechanism to provide information to our customers. A way to develop trust and credibility. It's our way of communicating directly to the consumer."... [Full Story]
February 28, 2000
The problem: How can a start-up company reach a lot of clients and investors fast? The solution: Hire Amazing Online Marketing to develop a web site. That is what led to www.fiosinc.com, a new web site developed by the company and web marketing specialists at Amazing Online Marketing. The Fios corporate site, focused on the litigation services market, launched in March. Fios provides litigation teams with a complete solution surrounding the acquisition, conversion, management, analysis, and distribution of electronic data associated with the litigation discovery process... [Full Story]
December 25, 1999
Merry Christmas! All Amazing clients received a completely blank card that had nothing but a URL on it. It's not too late to see our Flash-animated Christmas greeting. Click here to visit it now!
September 15, 1999
"Think Big. Start Small. Grow Fast." That's the mantra at NetValue Holdings, Inc. Net Value Holdings is an Internet business incubator, using their talent and capital to nurture the next wave of Internet businesses. Net Value is more than just another VC firm. When a company joins the NV family, they can draw on the collective experience of all the NV companies. Net Value moves fast and chose Amazing to develop their online presence because we could match their pace.
September 7, 1999
Amazing is proud to announce a new Web site for the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Sustainable Development Training Network (a.k.a. APEC). APEC was formed in 1989 to promote trade liberalization, trade facilitation, and technical assistance among the major economic partners in the Asia-Pacific region. The APEC Network's mission is to enhance communication and share resources among the APEC working groups, technical committees and member economies to support capacity building and human resource development that promote sustainable development.
In short the APEC network is here to ensure a cleaner environment by promoting sustainable development practices in Pacific Rim countries.
We at Amazing stand behind this mission and are proud to contribute to this effort. APEC's Web site is the organization's primary face to the world. Member countries need the Web site to be an easy way to get information and stay in touch. How do you make a Web site functional across 17 cultures and even more languages? Through planning and testing. The APEC Web site is an evolving process. In the months to come we will be launching additional features, including a searchable database of sustainable development training providers in the APEC Network. It's an exciting project, and we're glad to be part of it. Visit their site at http://www.apecnetwork.org/.
August 18, 1999
Amazing is proud to announce the launch of a new Web site for Renaissance Holdings, Inc. Renaissance Holdings is a dynamic company in the Portland area, providing sub-prime credit card products and management systems. RHI was selected as the 18th fastest growing private company in the US by INC. magazine in 1996, and was listed in the Oregon Business magazine top 100 companies to work for in 1997, 1998, and 1999.
August 11, 1999
Today Amazing launched an online service for the Portland Chamber of Commerce Leads and Information Exchange Group. Previously members had no way of getting a complete up-to-date list of everyone's contact information. Now everyone's just a few clicks away on the Portland Chamber Web site. Now the Chamber can keep everyone in the group online instead of faxing out paper when a member needed a phone number or an address. As an added bonus Amazing created an email tool so that the leadership can send broadcast emails to everyone in the group simply by typing in a Web form. It's a great example of how an Extranet can make everyone in a workgroup more productive.
August 9, 1999
AMAZING launches web site for Big Shot Photo. Big Shot Photo is the studio of David Larrance. For over ten years, David has been doing the finest in architectural, corporate collateral and portrait photography. David came to Amazing to create a web site that could showcase his work while representing his personal style. Amazing created a site that provides information about David, his work and photography in general. The site was designed to draw the visitors' attention to the content on each page.
July 24, 1999
Earlier in the month AMAZING launched a simple redesign of the Oregon Brewers Festival Web site. In it's twelfth year, the OBF is the largest gathering of craft brewers in North America and attracts over 90,000 beer lovers to Portland's Waterfront Park during the three day event. AMAZING wow'ed the crowd by sending electronic photo postcards live from the festival. Happy beer drinkers were able to get digital photos of themselves with their friends posted to the OBF site and an email sent with the address. This promoted the festival as a whole, and drove additional Web traffic to bring people back next year.
April, 1999
Steve Peters is named Volunteer of the Month by the Portland Chamber of Commerce. Steve serves as the co-chair of the Chamber's popular Business Leads & Information Exchange group. When asked about his involvement Peters explained, "Portland is a relationship based market. You can't just walk into a company and get business, it's important to develop relationships first. You have to get to know people, how they work, what they're looking for. The leads group helps you learn to do that effectively, expanding your local network so you can reach more people."
Visit the online calendar for more information about the Business Leads & Information Exchange and other Portland Chamber events.
February 9, 1999
The Cynic's Sanctuary is selected as a Netscape cool site of the day.
January 11, 1999
The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California has named the OMSI Millennium Bug exhibit one of its Top 10 for January. The Top 10 focuses on web sites that provide clear, concise and thought-provoking information on science and technology.
January 1, 1999
Amazing Online Marketing and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry has launched the OMSI Year 2000 Millennium Bug exhibit. The web-based information for this project can be seen on the web as well as part of The Millennium Bug exhibit at OMSI. The site provides information about the issues involved in the Y2K problem as well as online activities, suggestions for how to prepare for the problem and additional resources about the Y2K problem.
January 1, 1999
Amazing Online Marketing has launched the web site for the Resource Development Group. The Resource Development Group works with company executives, managers and employees to provide proven tools for businesses to improve their growth, profitability and reach higher levels of success.
December 18, 1998
Amazing Online Marketing has launched the redesigned Vista Balloon web site. Vista Balloon provides hot air balloon adventures in the Willamette Valley over Oregon's wine country. The web site provides information about hot air ballooning and allows visitors to purchase gift packages online.
October 27, 1998
Amazing Online Marketing has been chosen to design the 1999 Oregon Brewers Festival web site. The Oregon Brewers Festival is the largest gathering of independent brewers in North America. Their web site will provide general information about the festival while a secret site provides information to brewers interested in participating in the festival. Amazing is excited to be a part of this celebration of hand-crafted beer!
October 21, 1998
Amazing Online Marketing announces the launch of the newly-designed National Association of School Psychologists web site is launched. Check it out for yourself at www.naspweb.org
September 23, 1998
Amazing Online Marketing announces the launch of the fourth stage of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Stage four brings added interactivity with site users through its Visitor's Tales section which allows state park visitors to submit their personal experience at the state parks.
August 10, 1998
Creative director Tim Bakke appears in the August issue of Oregon Business, sharing his most-visited web sites in the My Bookmarks section on page 50.
August 7, 1998
Amazing Online Marketing has been chosen by the National Association of School Psychologists to redesign their Web site.
July 15, 1998
Amazing Online Marketing announces its new look and feel with the launch of our redesigned web site. The current site was designed by our newest member and Art Director, Tim Bakke.
July 10, 1998
Amazing Online Marketing announces the launch of the third stage of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Stage three brings the addition of an events calendar and travel suggestions in the form of trip packages.
June 2, 1998
Amazing is proud to announce the launch of two new client sites. Arnerich Massena & Associates launched their first web site this week, while Envoy launched an entirely redesigned corporate site.
May 3, 1998
Slam City Jam, the 5th annual North American skateboard championships, was the first all professional contest for Amazing-sponsored local skater Mike Crespino. Mike finished in the top 35 percent overall. The competition was top-notch, but Mike had the crowd cheering with a well executed hard flip over the hip as the finale of his second run in the qualifying heats.
Portland-area skaters made a strong showing at this year's event. Amazing Online Marketing is a proud supporter.
For more information about northwest skateboarding, visit Concrete Disciples.
March 23, 1998
We've moved! Our office is now located at 2134 NE 19th Ave., Portland, Oregon. Our telephone and fax numbers are the same.
March 12, 1998
Amazing Online Marketing is proud to announce that Jennifer Geyer of VoiceStream wireless was the Grand Prize winner at Marketplace '98, the Portland Chamber of Commerce trade show.Jennifer will receive $2500 of Internet consulting and development services from Amazing Online Marketing.
March 11, 1998
Marketplace '98
Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Amazing Online Marketing is proud to announce that we are giving away the Grand Prize at Marketplace '98, the Portland Chamber of Commerce trade show. The winner will receive $2500 of Internet consulting and development services customized to fit their needs. These services include Internet strategy development, website design and enhancement, graphic design and website traffic analysis.
If you are interested in attending Marketplace '98, contact Amazing Online Marketing for free passes to the show. Send email to Amazing, or call us at 503.287.8186.
To find out more about this year's Marketplace '98 trade show exhibitors, or to see a schedule of events at Marketplace '98, visit the Portland Chamber of Commerce website at www.pdxchamber.org.
February 1, 1998
Amazing Online Marketing is proud to announce the launch of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department web site. Oregon has long been recognized as a state with abundant natural resources and great scenic beauty. Its state parks play host to more than 40 million total visitors each year, the fifth largest overall attendance rate in the country. Designed to promote the appreciation and use of the exceptional park system, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department web site includes descriptions of every state park plus information about services, programs, park history, and online support for reservations.
Please visit this exciting new addition to the Amazing Online Marketing portfolio at www.prd.state.or.us.
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