Do you have skills in PHP, mySQL, jQuery, HMTL & CSS?
If you answered yes to all of these and you are looking for a job at a small, fast-moving interactive company, we would like to talk with you. Here is a detailed breakdown of what we need out of this person.
Must Haves:
Extensive Real-World PHP Experience
Experience with the MVC concept (experience with CodeIgniter or CakePHP a plus)
Ajax, Javascript & jQuery Skills
Modern HTML & CSS Coding Experience (HTML5 a plus)
Willingness To Learn
Ability To Work With A Team or as an Individual
Love For The Interwebs
Bonus Items (1up!)
CodeIgniter Experience
HTML5 Experience
Photoshop Experience
Flash Actionscript 2/3 Experience
Foosball Skills
In real terms: we want someone that we get along with, loves building websites, wants to stay current with technology, has real-world experience and strives to impress our clients every day. Oh, and you HAVE to live in Sioux Falls (or move here). If you are this type of person please email your COVER LETTER, resume, links to sites you have built and anything else that we should know about you to: jobs[at]44interactive[dot]com.
No Phone Calls, Faxes, Telegraphs or Outsourcing Companies Please.
We just got finishing wrapping up a new website for The River of Hope Foundation and we are pretty excited about how it represents the foundation. Here is a brief video that Nathan (@nlheinert) shot of me outlining our thought process for the design and development of the site.
A few months ago we entered into a partnership to build the OTASessions website. In return we would receive a few things: recognition on the website, mentions throughout the conference, a video during the conference and some tickets for admission. Aside from one, all of these things worked out great for us. There turned out to be some technical difficulties in getting our video to play during the conference (we blame Windows). Fret no more, here is the video in all of its glory.
Provoking Thought & Opening Minds
What I liked most about OTA Sessions were the people there that had never heard of the speakers, the authors and some of the concepts these people were talking about. (I had kind of forgot that there were people who hadn’t heard of @garyvee) You could see minds being blown all across the room. I think every person in that room got tangible, realistic advice that would help them become more passionate, more relevant and more educated in their personal and business pursuits. I had just gotten back from SXSW the previous week, so I was a little “conferenced out,” but the speakers were great and had great things for me to learn.
The speakers each brought their own style, attitude and content to the stage with enthusiasm and a true passion to help people become better at what they do. (The exception here was Chris Brogan, who I found to be really underwhelming.) My hands-down favorite of the day was Jonathon Harris, creator of wefeelfine.org and a variety of other face-melting projects. The fact that he comes up with these awesome ideas and then implements them in such a usable, artistic way keeps people coming back to his projects years later. Oh, and he can write, draw and shoot photos like Chuck Norris can dispose of bad guys.
What I took away from the OTA Sessions was a renewed passion to do everything a little bit better and put extra effort into learning more about the process of creating instead of just jumping in and shooting from the hip. I am highly passionate about building solutions for our clients that make their users happy and exceed their expectations and OTA Sessions helped stoke that fire. I work hard to learn more about how businesses can relate to, connect and interact with their customers in the personal manner possible and OTA Sessions gave me more insight to making that happen.
A Bookvalanche
Send in a Saint Bernard with a barrel of whiskey around its neck, I am trapped in blizzard of new books to read. I think I walked away with 7 new books and Bryan left with 5. This was one thing that stuck out for me as a difference with OTA Sessions in comparison to other conferences. This is in tune with the goal of making OTA Sessions not just a one time event. I have 7 books to read over the next couple of months and OTA Sessions will stick with me every time I crack one of those books open.
Thanks a lot to @hughweber and @mikebilleter for all of the hard work they put into the event and I hope to see everyone there next year.
