We’re been seeking a top-notch new programmer to help us with our application development efforts for clients and 3SidedBox for a while now. We interviewed a lot of candidates, but hadn’t found someone with the right mix of technical, usability, and client skills that we were seeking.

But then we did, in the person of Phil Matheson, who we’re pleased to introduce today as the newest addition to 3000k’s programming staff.

Phil comes to us from the Providence/New Jersey web agency Shazamm.

While at Shazamm, Phil served as Director of Technology and led their programming projects for clients such as Major League Baseball, ESPN, Hasbro, the Providence Bruins, and the Pawtucket Red Sox.

At 3000k, he’ll be working closely with Ali and Ben to deliver the next generation of powerful Internet applications to our clients and for our own use.

We’re thrilled to have him and look forward to his starting here on Nov. 13. Soon after that, clients should start hearing from him.

Welcome to the team, Phil.

As you know, Jim Faris, our previous creative director left 3000k at the end of September. We’re pleased to introduce today his replacement, Patrick Coyle.

Patrick Coyle comes to 3000k from Molecular, a leading web design, consulting, and strategy firm.

Patrick brings to 3000k over 10 years of experience in print and web design, in which time he’s worked for companies like Lycos, Razorfish, and Think New Ideas. His past clients include Morgan Stanley, TJ Maxx, Bank of America, Hasbro, PC Connection, Genzyme, Braun, Boston University, and Fleet Bank.

Patrick’s first day at 3000K will be Monday, November 6. Soon after that, clients will begin hearing from him and working with him on design projects.

We couldn’t be more excited to have him. Patrick will help prepare 3000k and our clients for the next stages in our design, usability, and branding efforts.

Welcome, Patrick.

We’re sorry to say that Jim Faris is leaving 3000k on Sept. 22.

Jim has served for 3-plus years as our creative director, making websites beautiful, graphics crisp, sharp, and appealing, and clients happy. He’s leaving us for the proverbial offer you can’t refuse (including bigger bags of cash than we can give him) and, in a few months, to follow his wife, a National Gaurd recruiter, as she is transferred to the Washington, DC area.

Jim has played a tremendous role in helping to transform 3000k from, as he likes to say, “a few guys in a room” into a thriving, high-style agency.

We’re sorry to see him go, but wish him all the best at his new position, and in his new home when that time comes.

We are, of course, immediately looking for a new creative director. We’re scheduling interviews with candidates already and will be posting the job opening here and in the usual place soon.

Our next creative director, whoever it is, will continue the design and usability tradition Jim has helped establish and will help 3000k reach even greater achievements and continue to serve our customers with the responsiveness, creativity, and style they deserve.

We’ve been conducting an experiment this summer: we had our first ever intern. And today we say goodbye to the Inaugural 3000K Intern, Marcus Ohanesian.

Marcus came to us from UMass Lowell, where he’s majoring in graphic design.

This summer he’s helped us with site design, testing major new client applications, building complex database-driven sites, research for client strategies, and generally helping out wherever needed.

We’d never taken on an intern before because we felt we didn’t have the bandwith in our schedules to supervise someone or give them the training we wanted to give to make the internship truly valuable for them.

As we entered this spring, we felt that perhaps we were ready for an intern and decided to give it a shot. And we’re glad we did. It’s been a great experience for us - and hopefully for him - and we’re sorry to see him go.

He returns to UMass Lowell where he’ll be a senior this fall and to his freelance web development company Perfect Evolution Studios.

Good luck Marcus!

As you probably know, it’s a good idea to keep the content of your site updated and to add new items to your site periodically. This is good both for your readers, who need new content as an incentive to return regularly, and also for search engines, some of which prize regularity of updates as a sign that a website is backed by a growing, active concern.

Well, we take our own medicine, of course, and so we’ve updated a few pieces of our site. You may want to check out these updates. They include:

• On our front page, the box on the right now has a third tab, “News,” that lets you read the five most recent headlines on our blog and click into them.
• Some of you may not know what we look like. Well, we’ve finally updated our bio pages with photos, so now you can put a smiling face to that smiling voice you’ve been talking to all this time. Check us out.
• On the blog itself, we’ve added a number of nice, modern touches. First, over on the right under our list of links, you’ll find a new RSS icon to let you subscribe to our blog feed and read it using RSS aggregators. Also, at the bottom of every post, you’ll find a number of icons for social bookmarking, tagging, and sharing sites - like del.icio.us and digg - to allow you to share posts on our blog with others, assuming you’re a member of those services.

Is there something that you’d like to see on the site that’s not there now? Let us know!

A while back we advertised our need for a traffic manager. Well, we did our interviews and we’ve found our person.

Starting today, Christine Kurtz is joining 3000K as our new Communications Manager.

Christine comes to us with a great track record of experience in both the corporate and non-profit worlds. Most immediately, she’s coming to us from the Worcester Art Museum, where she served as the Manager of Youth and Family Class Programs, overseeing a thriving program of students and instructors.

Prior to that, she worked in a number of non-profits and museums, with the Air Force, and in corporate training.

Her addition not only strengthens our non-profit offerings, but will also help us more closely manage projects, give even better attention to clients, and make everyone happy with her delicious chocolate-chip cookies.

Clients will begin hearing from her soon and meeting her soon after that.

We’re thrilled to have her and look forward to the many ways in which she’ll help 3000K develop + grow.

3000K is suddenly popping up all over the place, with folks saying nice things about us left and right. We were alerted today by friends and colleagues of two major sites for leading edge web development and culture that have taken notice of us - CSS Beauty and Del.icio.us.

CSS Beauty is a site that features websites that are well-designed and well-executed using modern coding practices such as CSS. And here we are right at the top of the page today. See what people are saying about us.

Del.icio.us is one of the next generation of web tools that employs “tagging” to allow users to find content that is similar to other stuff they like. And today, they like us - here we are on the Popular page.

Both were big, happy surprises for us and great ways to cheer up an otherwise rainy, muggy day.

3000K, Inc., a leading web development agency in Worcester, MA, is seeking an outstanding candidate for a full-time position.

We’re growing again and need a new traffic manager to help us manage that growth, deliver projects on time and on budget, and keep our clients happy. Because we’re a growing company we all wear many hats and we’ll expect you to do the same. That may mean answering phones, assisting in sales, doing some coding or writing or envelope stuffing or research, depending on your skills and talents. But the bread and butter of the position is interfacing with clients, delivering outstanding projects, and keeping the 3000K ship sailing smoothly.

If that sounds like fun – and believe us, it is - submit a copy of your resume and portfolio to employment@3000k.com.
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Proposed Start Date: June 20, 2006

3000K, Inc., a leading web development agency in Worcester, MA, is seeking an outstanding candidate for a full-time position.

We need someone who can do a little bit of everything. We’re a growing company, so we all wear many hats and we need you to do the same. In this position, you’re going to be the bridge between all areas of the company. You and your work will be in between the designers, the programmers, and the management staff.

If that sounds like fun – and believe us, it is - submit a copy of your resume and portfolio to employment@3000k.com.

The Interface Specialist, Web Generalist works closely with the Creative Director, senior staff, staff programmers and staff web developers to create, extend, and maintain sites for 3000K clients and work on 3000K properties. This position serves as a member of core project teams that include designers, HTML developers, programmers, and site producers.
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Everyone seems to have a blog.

Not everyone has a good one.

We’ve jumped into the fray wholeheartedly but don’t plan to create just another ‘personal quips’ or ‘links to stuff’ blog. Our aim is to add to the public discourse, cover things not seen before that are relevant to branding, marketing, and the web, and to offer up fresh ideas.

Think of this as a blog designed to improve the web (with enough chunks of broadly relevant ideas to be of interest to the casual business reader).

You won’t hear about what we had for lunch, our favorite movies, or find a link to the latest “news” zipping around the web. But we do hope you’ll stick around and find something worth reading.

Let us know how we do!