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Flat Creek is one of the fastest growing online public affairs, marketing, and technology firms in the South. The firm provides a variety of services in online technology, political strategy, and public affairs. Clients include advocacy groups and political campaigns across the country.

The E-Marketing Account Executive will be responsible for managing client projects, updating websites, conducting e-marketing campaigns, and other duties as assigned, including:

* Serving as a liaison between clients and vendors
* Managing vendors to ensure deadlines and budgets are met and high quality work is delivered.
* Ensuring creative design and code are delivered according to strategy.
* Managing project timelines and budgets.

Desired skills:

* BA/BS degree in marketing, communications, computer science, or similar discipline.
* 1-3 years related e-marketing and/or political experience.
* Experience with paid search marketing (i.e. Google, Yahoo!, MSN and second-tier engines), search engine optimization and online media.
* Demonstrated ability to be highly organized and excellent at multi-tasking.
* Excellent Microsoft Office skills.
* Must be HTML proficient and have significant exposure to web development and editing work (Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks or other web development software).

Location: Murfreesboro, TN
Hours: Full-Time
This job is salaried.

(Opening also listed on Facebook)

Flat Creek is proud to be a sponsor for Podcamp Nashville, taking place right now at the Cannery Ballroom. The room is very full for a Saturday morning with new media early adopters and those just curious about podcasting.

Podcasting has had its ups and downs with political campaigns. It’s a terrific way to reach an audience long before a candidate starts their media buy. It’s also a great way to reach out to the media through an innovative channel.

We look forward to hearing new ideas and case studies today - and bringing those ideas to our clients.

Flat Creek is expanding, and your web development expertise may be the perfect fit. For details, check out our listing on Facebook or take a look at the description below:

Flat Creek, an interactive marketing and online public affairs firm, is seeking a part-time or full-time web developer to manage the technical development and implementation of our online projects.

The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, capable of full-service web development from concept through production, and be excited to learn new skills for working in a Web-enabled world. The successful candidate will be the primary web developer in a marketing and public affairs company developing applications and mark up for a variety of web sites. Necessary experience includes a working knowledge of ASP.Net, Dreamweaver, XHTML/CSS, Javascript, and PHP. A well qualified candidate understands today’s changing web development/design landscape, and possesses excellent communication skills, as well as the ability to work independently. This candidate also functions well in a detail oriented environment that requires prioritizing multiple tasks to meet tight deadlines. This position will enable the candidate to coordinate the implementation of larger projects by working with terrific independent freelancers and small development firms as well.

To be considered, candidates must either be a current college student or have a college degree and background in web development. Experience developing technical specifications for web projects is a plus. Ideally, the position will start part-time and require a work commitment of 20-30 hours per week, with the potential to turn into a full time position. The Web Developer will work out of our office in Murfreesboro on the Square. Interested candidates should send a resume and writing sample to jobs@fcreek.com.

Blogs have become a regular source of information in this age of new media, and the governor of Tennessee has taken notice. Gov. Phil Bredesen now receives a weekly round up of Tennessee topics from the blogosphere, dubbed his ‘New Media Hotsheet’.

Bredesen believes that bloggers’ (often opinionated) pieces offer another dimension by which to gauge public sentiment on issues. The acknowledgement of blogs as an important information source is a great step for the Governor to take.

But only once a week? Those of us who religiously check our favorite blog readers and blogrolls know that a lot can be covered over one day in the blogosphere, much less an entire week.

Good job to the Governor on recognizing the growing influence of blogs, but he should understand their rapid fire approach to news, and it’s hard to cover that if you only check in one day a week.

Last Wednesday (11/7/07), we put a post on Notes from Flat Creek discussing the continuing decline of print newspaper subscriptions, while internet usage and broadband subscriptions are on the rise. This shifting trend might not leave out the newspapers, though. CNET’s News.com is reporting that the online readership for newspapers, and their online subscription numbers, are climbing. The technology news website reports that the number of people visiting U.S. newspaper web sites rose 3.7 percent, over the same period last year, during the third quarter. Translated into total numbers, this increase means more than 59 million people, 37.1 percent of all active internet users, visited a newspaper website in the third quarter.

Maybe this is why Arthur Sulzberger, owner, chairman and publisher of The New York Times isn’t worried about declining print subscriptions:

“I really don’t know whether we’ll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don’t care, either,” he says.

Don’t misunderstand him, though. He knows that the Times’ readership is moving to the internet, and he is preparing his paper for the change. Citing the merging of the venerable newspaper’s print and online news desks, and development of online media readers, Sulzberger is leading his empire into the internet age. It is a sign of changing times when barons of printed news respond to a shift in the communications industry.

Communication is becoming increasingly digital. Make sure your message is not going to be left behind in the newsprint world.

Today Flat Creek launched www.nvgopcaucus.com, an information resource from the Nevada Republican Party that will provide Nevadans resources, news and details about the GOP Presidential Caucus taking place on January 19, 2008.

Full details are in our press release, found here.

It’s okay, we understand. In a billable, 80-hour work week world, redesigning your website is not a top priority.

We know you want to refresh the look of your website, but it’s an easy project to push to the bottom of your to-do list.

So as our holiday gift to you, Flat Creek is offering a deal with a deadline - a brand new, custom website suited for you and your audiences by December 31, 2007.

Gear up for a campaign year. Reach out to new clients. Enhance content for donors. Whatever your organization does, with a new, compelling, and interactive website from Flat Creek, you can do it better.

Contact us today to get started. To get your site done by December 31, we’ll need to get started by December 1. First come first serve.

Kick off the New Year with a new website from Flat Creek. It’s a great project to check off your list.

A recap of recent blog posts and news from the digital marketing agency Flat Creek.

I’m really excited to announce the launch of a new portfolio feature, Flat Creek Stories (found here), on our main website. We called it Flat Creek Stories because the results of the creative, strategic services we offer are more than a portfolio. They are our stories, and help tell the stories of our clients.

We’ve had the opportunity to bring to life many exciting stories over the last few years. From the classic stories of swanky Washington, DC events to heartfelt tales of championing a cause, Flat Creek has a few memoirs from integrating the marketing capabilities that today’s professional firm needs.

There’s only a few to start, but we’ll add more soon. I realize it’s not the flashy-est portfolio around, but it tells about what we do and why we do it. And at the end of the day, I believe helping our clients tell their stories is what we do best.

This is last minute notice, but I’ve been asked by M.E. Sprengelmeyer of the Rocky Mountain News to join an online panel of debate analysts tonight for the Fox News presidential campaign. You can join in the fun here.