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We’re looking to add another developer to our team.

A developer who works for dynamIt will be experienced with:

• XHTML & CSS: competence with a good deal of experience using CSS for layout (no table based layouts)
• JavaScript: A good working knowledge of JavaScript and the DOM. Experience with JS frameworks is a plus, but not required.
• PHP & SQL: experience building a wide-variety of data-driven web applications using PHP and SQL
• AJAX: Experience writing AJAX-based applications is recommended, but not an absolute necessity
• E-commerce experience is a plus, API/Web Service experience is a plus
• Good ability to learn and thirst for knowledge
• We’d rather have experience writing code than experience with jobs/in an agency, but it’s certainly a plus
• Experience is important, but personality is key. Our culture is what drives us, and we’re looking to build our team with someone who both fits and contributes to it.

The position is full time at our office in the Arena District in Columbus, Ohio.

If you meet this description and are interested, please submit a resume along with portfolio to work@dynamit.us.

About dynamIt
dynamIt is a digital agency based in the Arena District in Columbus, Ohio. We work with clients and brands on digital initiatives that include strategy, design, user experience and development. We influence communication and commerce.  Client work includes Charley’s Grilled Subs, McGraw-Hill, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), American Electric Power (AEP), Columbus College of Art & Design and the Ohio State Medical Center (OSUMC).

dynamIt was featured in last Friday’s Columbus Business First in an article about the changing agency model.

Here’s a snippet of the article:

While some traditional agencies have cut employees or gone out of business altogether, small, local, nontraditional ad firms are growing. The key the upstarts say, is keeping rates and overhead low by offering just one service.

Check out the full article here.

There’s  a lot of conversation about agencies - Can digital agencies lead? Or will traditional firms continue to have that role? Who is best suited to handle emerging media? Where should budgets be devoted? Regardless of where it nets out, what we’ve learned over the past few years is that leading with strategy, executing for a reason and being a business partner that can wrap themselves around a client results in great work and sustained relationship.

Like the Business First article says, its about doing what you do really well and cutting the other fat - whether it be overhead, or unrelated services.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 9, 2009

Arena District Firm Continues Growth Amidst National Recession

Columbus, OH, November 9, 2009 — dynamIt, a Columbus-based web engineering and digital strategy agency, is pleased to announce the addition of Kevin Pfefferle as web developer and Jamie Timm as strategist.

Kevin joined dynamIt in September bringing a wide range of experience in web design and development. In his most recent position as web manager at COSI – recognized as the top science museum in the U.S. by Parents Magazine, Kevin managed the daily operations of digital strategy, design, and development for COSI’s web presence. Kevin also collaborated on COSI’s social media strategy, which has been recognized nationally for excellence in the educational science industry. The COSI marketing team was named Outstanding Marketer of the Year by the American Marketing Association’s Columbus Chapter.

Kevin holds his BA degree music from The Ohio State University.

Jamie Timm joins dynamIt after a career in public relations and marketing at the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, Bob Evans Farms, Inc., and Highlander Logo Products. Jamie most recently was the director of marketing and communication for the Columbus Chamber where she supported the Chamber’s mission to lead and support economic development by developing integrated communications campaigns to attract new business and help existing businesses expand. During her time at Bob Evans, Jamie was one of the first communicators in the country to collaborate with a CEO on an internal blog and has spoken to communicators on the subject of social media in business nationally. Jamie was named the 2007 Rising Star by Central Ohio PRSA.

Jamie has her BA degree in communication arts from Ohio Northern University.

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Based in the Arena District in Columbus, Ohio, dynamIt combines technical, creative, and business perspective to create strategic digital solutions with corporations, non-profits and international organizations. dynamIt’s core services include: digital brand strategy, information and application architecture, database design, graphic and user experience design, content management and application, database, intranet and website development. In addition, dynamIt crafts and executes integrated communication (PR and social web) initiatives and digital campaigns with experiential components. For more information, visit www.dynamit.us or call +1.614.538.0095

Our blog has been pretty quiet for the last month due to the fact that we’ve been pretty busy. It all came together last week as we saw the launch of four different client sites. Here’s a brief rundown of what we’ve been working on:

Columbus College of Art & Design

www.ccad.edu
We spent the last several months working with CCAD to completely re-orchestrate their website. Starting with web strategy and new architecture, designing the concept and the user experience, and finishing with web standards programming, we delivered the complete package. Our developers even got their hands dirty with a custom designed, AJAX-driven calendar integrated with the Google Calendar Data API.

CATCO

www.catco.org
CATCO is place to go for live theatre in Columbus. We worked closely with the people at CATCO to provide the online destination for information their organization and shows they put on each season. After many hours executing strategy & IA, concept design, UXD, and web standards programming we launched their new site. We had so much fun working on the project we even volunteered to help them promote the new site at Gallery Hop last weekend.

CallCopy

www.callcopy.com
Call recoding software specialist CallCopy came to us looking for a sleek redesign of their website as well as some guidance on navigation and architecture. After the first week of having the new site live we’ve heard reports that the new site has already yielded an increased conversion rate.

The Ohio State University Medical Center: CITIH

citih.osumc.edu
The Ohio State University Medical Center came to us looking for design and development of a microsite for its Center for IT Innovations in Healthcare (CITIH). This one had a tight timeline but we rolled it out in time for them to start accepting registrants for their summit Leveraging Federal Stimulus Funding for Healthcare IT Innovation.

Oh yeah, these are also the first four clients running the new version of the dynamIt Content Management System (dCMS). We launched that in July too.

Each week, The Columbus Chamber features one member company in their spotlight. This week, they chose dynamIt. Pretty good choice if you ask us! The full feature is available here, and below we’ve posted our response to the question, “Why We’re Members.”

Columbus is a leader in the Midwest. The city can boast a culture of growth and business know-how where people, ideas and capital are coming together. The Chamber is and should be the expression of Columbus’ economic hub. dynamIt is a member, first and foremost, because of the opportunities afforded to participate in the local economy and thinking. In a business era of interdependencies and quickly-dying vertical solutions (regardless of industry), businesses should commit to creating an environment of opportunities for all economic players. dynamIt truly believes that if this city and economy succeed, we will too. Through membership, we also benefit from the programming, events, and connections which the Chamber facilitates.

In case you missed it, dynamIt was also featured recently in two university publications - Xavier Magazine, and the Miami University Farmer School of Business.

Please view this. If we write more words here, it will only be redundant.