Cincinnati’s Barefoot Aquired by BBDO
July 14, 2008
Yesterday Cincinnati agency Barefoot made a press release announcing that they have been acquired by New York-based BBDO. Doug Worple, Barefoot’s Founding Partner and Chief Creative Officer will stay on as the head of Barefoot and join the board of Proximity (which is apparently part of BBDO). BBDO has 287 offices in 77 countries is owned by the giant holding company Omnicom Group.
I think I got that right. Following all of the “who owns who” of the media and advertising world can get a little confusing. I think it means Barefoot and Budweiser are now owned by the same company. 
Project Launch: The Learning Kitchen
June 30, 2008
The Learning Kitchen is cooking school and kitchen boutique that will be opening in West Chester, Ohio on July 19, 2008. They will be open to the public and with hand-ons and demonstration classes by local and celebrity chefs. They also will have a high-end kitchen boutique with fancy kitchen gadgets and professional cookware that will make any food geek salivate.
I had the opportunity to help develop their web site, coding all of the pages including a class calendar and registration, mailing lists and integration with their point-of-sale system. It was a fun project and I can’t wait to get over there and try some classes.
Video: Empower MediaMarketing President Brian McHale talks about the Future of the Advertising on Public Television
June 14, 2008
Here’s a 9 1/2 minute public television video of Brian McHale (president of Cincinnati’s Empower MediaMarketing) talking about the future of the advertising business and the current state of Cincinnati’s economy.
Google Street View Rolls Out Big for Cincinnati
June 13, 2008
This week I saw a blog post by Morris Tsai that talked about how Google Street View has rolled out in a big way around Cincinnati. I decided to take it for a spin and I was blown away by how comprehensive the coverage is. When I lived in Berkeley (not super far from the Google hive-mind) I got to see the major streets in my neighborhood covered but now Google has photos of obscure side streets and rural areas around Cincinnati available. You can even see my mother-in-law’s house out in the middle of farm country by the Indiana border. It looks like the coverage of mid-sized U.S. cities has gotten pretty good across the board.
Oh and yes my house is in there. Here is the observatory near my house if you want to wander my neighborhood.
Mark Celsor Joins ShareThis as Interactive Lead Developer
March 28, 2008
Mark Celsor will be joining the team at ShareThis next week as Interactive Lead Developer. Mark is an Internet marketing technology expert and the famed author of official sounding, 3rd person, press releases about himself, LOL.
ShareThis is internet startup with offices in Cincinnati and San Francisco. Their flagship product is a widget that lets web site visitors easily send pages to their friends or post pages to web services like Facebook and del.icio.us. Each month their widget has over 100 million views and over 26 million unique users. There’ve also recently had a bunch of press on tech news sites like CNET, Wired, Mashable and GigaOM with news of their series B funding.
I’ll be working to help design and develop user interfaces for ShareThis. I’m really excited about working with these folks. It’s really great to see a company like this taking off here in Cincinnati. Did I mention that I’ll be able to bike/walk to work? Gotta love that!
15 Questions about Internet Marketing in Cincinnati
February 24, 2008
Now that I’m back in Cincinnati, I’ve been trying to get the lay of the land again and figure out what’s been going on in the Internet marketing business. I put together a list of some of the questions I want to answer and post to this blog. Here’s 15 to get things started:
- Where are Cincinnati Internet companies putting their offices these days?
- Does Proctor and Gamble work with local Cincinnati companies for Internet marketing? (I’ve got a hint on this one.)
- Does General Electric work with local Cincinnati companies for Internet marketing?
- Does AK Steel work with local Cincinnati companies for Internet marketing?
- Who are some other Cincinnati Internet marketing bloggers?
- Are there local awards for Internet Marketing? Have local firms received national awards?
- What Internet marketing programs are offered at the University of Cincinnati?
- What Internet marketing programs are offered at Cincinnati State?
- What are kind of Interactive Design work is being shown by DAAP students?
- What are the top 10 advertising and marketing firms in Cincinnati and what are their 2007 financials like?
- What do Cincinnati sports teams have on their web sites?
- What do Cincinnati arts groups have on their web sites?
- Do any people in Cincinnati telecommute to other cities?
- Who is creating Cincinnati focused content on YouTube?
- What are some of the Internet technology user groups like in Cincinnati?
Stuff like that. I’ll do new posts as I figure them out. If you know any of these of the top of your head post a comment and let me know.
