We’re hiring a part time web developer! We need someone for around 20-25hrs/week.  You must be proficient in XHTML & CSS. Able to write code that is cross-browser and web standards compliant.

Additional skills we’re looking for:

• PHP and MySQL experience
• Able to utilize jQuery or similar libraries
• Familiarity with plesk/hosting
• Design/IA experience
• Print design experience

Send your resume, compensation expectations and examples of work to info@overhaulmedia.com.

Agencies or contractors outside of North America need not apply.

I had to stop all production and everything in the office to blog about a piece of email marketing I received. This is from a personal email probably BCC’d out from outlook to everyone they had in their contacts. Please note that was the entire email, there was nothing below this sentence. I wanted to share and let everyone know what NOT to do when email marketing. Shame on you _________ for sending this out and confusing so many people.

Remember we’re here to help. We can create & deliver custom email campaigns with metrics and all kinds of other bells and whistles. Have a look here

Just got some business cards back for a local Edmonton Mortgage Investment Corporation. We actually have an entire set of printed collateral and website coming to watch out for so stay tuned!

Our mascot/model Jaeger. Shot with our new AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G & Nikon D5000.

Finally after 2+ years of speculation about a tablet like hand held device Apple has made an official release. I am sure you have read about this somewhere else since twitter is alive with iPad tweets and the bloggers are going nuts too. Anyways, here are some pictures and a link for you!

Source: http://www.apple.com/ipad/

Wow, so local Edmonton Alberta University has someone on board I like! The University of Alberta plans to outsource e-mail to google, setting a precedent other major Canadian universities are expected to watch closely. We commonly suggest this to clients for most of the same reasons it seems the university has pointed out.

♥  The move would upgrade service and save $2 million a year, but privacy is a key concern, says Jonathan Schaeffer, the man behind the project.

Read the full article here

I know this is only Edmonton related and not Edmonton web design, development or industry related, I also feel like I’m a little late with posting this but I had to. The comments on the article we’re such a good read in addition to the entire thing making the news.

Read the Edmonton Journal Article and comments

I came across Dave Hill Photo this morning while drinking my coffee and was amazed at the work and the awesome behind the scenes footage he provides.

Check it out! http://www.davehillphoto.com/

The source of the data this month is the same as last, primarily Twitter Search but also from Twitter directly. If a user has his or her location set to Edmonton, St. Albert, Sherwood Park, Leduc, Nisku, Stony Plain, Fort Saskatchewan, Beaumont, Spruce Grove, or matching lat/long coordinates, they are considered an Edmontonian.

For November 2009:

# of local users: 5850 (an increase of 219 from October)

To clarify, that means there were 5850 users who posted at least one tweet in November 2009 with their location set to something that makes them an Edmontonian as described above. This number should be treated as a minimum – there are probably many more Edmonton users without their location set.

Here are the rest of the stats for November 2009:

# of tweets by local users: 290542
# of tweets by local users containing #yeg: 17282 (5.9%)
# of tweets by local users that were replies: 106992 (36.8%)
# of tweets by local users containing links: 63595 (21.9%)
# of tweets by local users that were retweets: 17756 (6.1%)
# of tweets by local users that were twooshes: 10054 (3.5%)

Source Mastermaq Edmonton

We’re pretty busy with all our beloved clients web site design and other  needs so we’re still working on a nice creative card to send out, until then Merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Overhaul Media team in Edmonton!