Upcoming Event – The Broken Barker Benefit

Well, I’m horribly late to the game with this one, but still…

As some of you may know, Jeff Barker, a designer at Wirestone in Boise, was critically injured in a motorcycle accident caused by a suspected drunk driver trying to evade police. While the news media reported the injuries as non life-threatening, they were serious nonetheless. Here’s a quick rundown:

  • Broken Scapula
  • Broken Collar Bone
  • Broken Mandible
  • Several teeth were damaged
  • 10 Broken Ribs and punctured lung
  • 3 broken vertebrae
  • Extensive abrasions and bruising

The folks at Wirestone have been organizing a benefit party to help pay expenses that were not covered by insurance, but more importantly to celebrate the fact that Jeff is alive. And as such, the Broken Barker Benefit was born.

While the details are still sketchy, the date has been confirmed: November 14th.

As soon as I know more, I’ll share those details here.

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Job Openings at Wirestone

Wirestone in Boise has a few job openings these days:

Junior Web Analyst
Java / Solutions Architect
.Net Technical Developer

Full details about each position can be found by clicking on the respective title.

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Giving Back – The United Way

For the past several months, a group of folks from several different agencies and the local creative industry in the Treasure Valley have been working to make the United Way of Treasure Valley’s latest campaign a success.

The end result: an integrated campaign that features a four-minute video, three television spots, newspaper ads, a microsite (HelpTheMostPeople.com), radio, online ads, collateral materials and more. This effort will benefit the United Way Community Campaign, which, in turn, allows the United Way to help over 30 local charities with funding each year, such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Idaho Foodbank, Girl Scouts, and more.

This work was done entirely on a pro-bono basis, and those involved sacrificed a great deal of time — often their personal time, before or after business hours — to make it happen. At the very least, they deserve some recognition for their efforts. In no particular order, the group involved includes:

David Cook, Stoltz Marketing Group
Paul Carew, Carew Co.
Dave Sloyer, Wirestone
Kristy Weyrich, W Design
Doug Gneiting, Stoltz Marketing Group
Lorena Davis & Crew, North by Northwest
Todd Meier Photography
Robbin Gibson, Drake Cooper
Snake River Technology

The campaign is also benefiting from media donations from The Idaho Statesman, Journal Broadcast Group, and companies such as Citi, who donated funds toward the media buy.

David Cook provides even more detail about this project on the Stoltz Marketing Group website, if you’d like to read about it further.

At the end of the day, however, the goal is to drive as many donations to the United Way as possible. If you can donate, please do. If you’d like to learn more about the how’s and why’s of the United Way, take a look here.

UPDATE:
Here are PDFs of the print ads –
Print #1 – Time and Money
Print #2 – $10 a Week
Print #3 – $19 a Week

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Job Openings at Wirestone

Wirestone in Boise has had a few job openings as of late, including:

Senior Interactive Designer / Flash / Animator with an in-depth working knowledge of Flash and Actionscript 2 and 3. The job description puts this opening in California, but they are also looking for developers here in Idaho.

Junior Web Analyst with 1-2 years experience with web analytics, analytics tools, content management systems and such.

.NET Developer – This is an unposted opening at this point, but the folks at the Boise office are on the hunt for talented .NET developers.

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Around the Horn with New Hires

It’s been a while since I’ve caught up on new hires around the area, and some of these are older than others. But here goes:

Matt Stevens has joined Drake Cooper as an Interactive Designer.

Jesse Murphy is now an Assistant Account Executive at Red Sky PR.

Wirestone has added Stan Smith to their staff as a Flash Developer.

Are there others that I’ve missed? If so, shoot over an email and let me know.

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