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July 26, 2010 Cool Blue Announces Atlanta Drupal User Group Sponsorship |
| Cool Blue Interactive is pleased to announce their new sponsorship of Drupal Camp Atlanta that will be hosted by the Atlanta Drupal User Group (ADUG). | |
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July 13, 2010 Atlanta-based Web Design and Marketing Firm to be Honored at Seventh Annual International Business Awards |
| Cool Blue Interactive – an Atlanta-based boutique website, development and marketing agency -- has earned a Distinguished Honoree medal in the ‘Website & Blog’ category for ‘Materials & Construction’ in The 2010 International Business Awards, also known as The Stevie Awards. | |
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June 17, 2010 2010 Communicator Awards Recognizes Cool Blue with 2 Awards of Distinction |
| The 2010 Communicator Awards have been announced and Cool Blue Interactive was recognized with 2 Awards of Distinction in the Interactive competition - one for Terminus in the real estate category, and one for Greater Parkersburg CVB in the tourism and travel category. | |
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May 8, 2010 Cool Blue's Newest Team Member |
| Cool Blue would like to welcome its newest staff member, Senior Developer Robert Bates. Rob is coming to Cool Blue with 20 years experience in software development. | |
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April 21, 2010 Cool Blue's Terminus Site Selected as Finalist in AiMA Awards |
| The Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association (AiMA) has announced their 2010 finalist. Cool Blue Interactive’s site for Cousins Properties -Terminus was selected as a finalist in the Most Effective Use of a Website category. | |
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February 10, 2010 Cool Blue's Angie Fore maintains Google Adwords™ Certification |
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February 3, 2010 Google ceases IE6 support on March 1, 2010 |
| Google announces they will cease support for Internet Explorer 6 on Google Apps – beginning with Google Docs and Google Sites – by March 1, 2010. | |
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January 6, 2010 Understanding the Google Analytics Upgrade |
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With its recent upgrades, Google Analytics goes beyond just capturing data. New, enhanced features help you leverage the data and transform your website into a smarter, more powerful online resource for your customers–and for you. |
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December 29, 2009 Bing: A Warning Bell for Google? |
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Bing! Someone's at the door, and Google might not want to answer. See what we make of Microsoft's newest search engine, Bing, and how it stacks up against Google. |
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December 29, 2009 Cool Blue Interactive Takes Top Awards in 2009 |
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Research shows that people form opinions about websites at alarming speeds, which makes presenting a powerful first online impression more crucial than ever. But it can be done, and done well, something Cool Blue Interactive has proven with our highest number of awards won to date. |
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December 29, 2009 Case Study Spotlight: The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival |
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Taking top accolades from Horizon Interactive, Web Awards and others, our website redesign for The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival is a prime example of Cool Blue Interactive in action. |
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December 2, 2009 Cool Blue Receives 3 Davey Awards in 2009 |
| This year, the 2009 Davey Awards recognized Cool Blue Interactive with 3 Silver Davey Awards for the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival and the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. | |
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November 15, 2009 The 2009 W3 Award Winners Announced – Cool Blue Takes Home 2 Silvers |
| The Conservancy of Southwest Florida's site - designed by Cool Blue – won two Silver Awards at this year's W3 Awards. One for Best Structure and Navigation and one in the Non-Profit category! | |
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October 18, 2009 Cool Blue Wins Two 'Standards of Excellence' WebAwards in 2009! |
| Cool Blue Interactive is proud to announce that this year the Web Marketing Association awarded Cool Blue two 'Standards of Excellence' Awards; one for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida's website and one for the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival's site! | |
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October 6, 2009 2009 Grow Your Cause Update: For Pete’s Sake Foundation Website Coming Soon |
| Cool Blue Interactive, Atlanta’s premier internet marketing and web development agency, has wrapped up their Grow Your Cause project for 2009! | |
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September 23, 2009 Is Content Marketing the new Advertising? |
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In other words, web related content marketing is about providing your current and potential customers with something that is valuable to them so they want to come back to you. |
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August 31, 2009 Improving Site Content |
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Your Site : Reinventing the Wheel |
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August 27, 2009 Growing Anti-IE6 Movement Supported by CBI |
| Small companies band together to ban troublesome web browser, Internet Explorer 6. | |
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August 26, 2009 Improving Site Content |
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Your site : Visual Distractions |
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August 24, 2009 Improving Site Content |
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Your site : Writing for Search Engines and Your Customer |
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August 24, 2009 Cool Blue Interactive increases award-winning status taking home several awards in 2009 |
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With the year a little more than half over and the hot, Atlanta Summer in full swing, Cool Blue is staying cool and celebrating their award wins to date in 2009. Earlier this year, The Horizon Interactive Awards, a leading international interactive media awards competition, announced their award winners. Cool Blue Interactive was recognized for their excellence with a Gold award in the Public Service/Non Profit category for the redesign of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida Web site (www.conservancy.org) and a Bronze award in the Entertainment category for the redesign of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Web site (www.ajff.org). |
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August 21, 2009 Improving Site Content |
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Your site : Self-centered copy |
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August 19, 2009 Improving Site Content |
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Your site : Jargon, Acronyms and Lingo - when is it enough? |
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August 17, 2009 Improving Site Content |
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Most effective websites share a few basic best practices. Conversely, the ones that don't work so well also seem to share some common mistakes. In this article, we've identified three of the top website pitfalls to avoid. |
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June 8, 2009 Cool Blue's Angie Fore: Now Google Analytics™ Certified |
| In early March of this year Google announced the launch of a new skills qualification program, Google Analytics™ Individual Qualification (IQ), which allows individuals to demonstrate proficiency in Google Analytics™. As of May 2009, after completing the program, Google’s classes, and rigorous testing, Cool Blue Interactive’s Technical Project Leader, Angie Fore, is officially Google Analytics™ certified. | |
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June 1, 2009 For Pete's Sake Foundation: Winner of 2009 Grow Your Cause |
| With all votes counted for the 2009 Grow Your Cause effort, Cool Blue Interactive is proud to announce this year’s winner, For Pete’s Sake Foundation. The foundation is a volunteer-run organization that strives to maximize relief to families affected by the disease Wiskott-Aldrich Sydrome. | |
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May 30, 2009 The 15th Annual Communicator Awards Announces 2009 Winners |
| Awards have been announced by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, and Cool Blue Interactive has been awarded 4 Awards of Distinction in the Interactive competition. | |
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May 15, 2009 Cool Blue Interactive Recognized with Prestigious Interactive Media Award |
| Cool Blue Interactive Wins Gold and Bronze at the 8th Annual Horizon Interactive Awards Competition. | |
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April 30, 2009 Conservancy of Southwest Florida Website Yields Substantial Results |
| After 6 months of tracking trends for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida’s website, www.conservancy.org, Cool Blue Interactive is happy to publish remarkable results, including a near 100% traffic increase on the site since November 2008 when Cool Blue launched the newly designed Conservancy site. | |
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April 12, 2009 Cool Blue's Film Festival Site a Finalist in AiMA Awards |
| The Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association has announced 24 finalists for the 2009 AiMA Awards. Cool Blue’s site for the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival has been selected as a finalist in the Most Effective Use of a Website category. | |
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February 24, 2009 Cool Blue is a finalist in the American Marketing Association’s 2009 AMY Awards |
| Cool Blue’s site for the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival was selected as one of three finalists in the Web & Interactive Marketing category for the “AMY” awards held by the Atlanta Chapter of the American Marketing Association. This year's AMY Awards Ceremony will be held March 19, 2009 at the Fox Theatre. | |
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February 4, 2009 Greenway EMR Awards Cool Blue Interactive Online Marketing Business |
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ATLANTA – Cool Blue Interactive, an award-winning interactive marketing firm, has expanded its roster of clients with the addition of Greenway EMR, the world renowned provider of the single-database electronic medical record (EMR), practice management and interoperability solution PrimeSuite®. |
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January 22, 2009 B2B Marketers focus on performance based advertising in 2009 |
| According to Adotas, a daily email newsletter and web site for over 100,000 advertising professionals, a large majority of business-to-business marketers said they will be focusing on performance-based advertising in 2009, at the expense of traditional display advertising, a new survey reveals. | |
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September 26, 2008 Cool Blue Wins Three WebAwards Including 'Best Entertainment Site,' Their Second Such Win in Three Years! |
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On Tuesday, September 16th, the Web Marketing Association officially awarded Cool Blue Interactive three WebAwards: two Standards of Excellence and one Best in Industry. To date, Cool Blue Interactive has been awarded 12 prestigious WebAwards. A joint venture with Duffey Communications, waterSmart.net, a water conservation education program initiated by the Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority, took home an Advocacy Standard of Excellence, while the Greater Parkersburg Convention & Visitors Bureau Site, greaterparkersburg.com, earned a Travel & Tourism Standard of Excellence. The Alliance Theatre's web presence, alliancetheatre.org, earned the coveted Best Entertainment Site award. |
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August 20, 2008 CBi is a Premier Rackspace Partner. |
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Cool Blue Interactive is now acknowledged as a Premier Rackspace Partner providing managed hosting for its clients. “Although Cool Blue began hosting in 1998 and dedicated servers in 1999, by joining forces with the most recognized market leader in the managed hosting space, our clients are assured 24/7 state of the art services,” says Bo Simmons, President of Cool Blue Interactive. |
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August 1, 2008 Community Life Concepts in full production |
| Things are getting exciting between Cool Blue Interactive and Community Life Concepts. Cool Blue, Duffey Communication and Community Life Concepts began the process with strategic planning. The planning phase has past and design and development are now in full swing. | |
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July 25, 2008 Google is now incorporating page load time into their quality score |
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How does this affect existing Pay Per Click accounts? The cost per click is determined by two things, the number of competitors (and the amount they are bidding) and the respective quality scores. |
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July 1, 2008 WebAwards choose Bo Simmons as a Judge for the 3rd Consecutive Year. |
| Bo Simmons, president and founder of Cool Blue Interactive has again been chosen to judge the WebAwards. The 2008 ceremony will be the 3rd consecutive year that Bo has been invited to judge the awards. “It’s an honor and a privilege to be chosen to judge the WebAwards. Every year I judge the awards I never cease to be impressed by some of the sites I see. It’s always exciting to see what fresh and innovative ideas other top companies are producing. Judging is also a wonderful learning experience, every year I learn and see something new.” said Bo. | |
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June 20, 2008 Cool Blue and Duffey Communication moving forward with Community Life Concepts |
| After being named the winner of the 2008 Grow your Cause campaign, Community Life Concepts has been working simultaneously with Cool Blue Interactive and Duffey Communications to create an inventive and beneficial website. | |
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April 1, 2008 Cool Blue welcomes their newest team member. |
| Cool Blue would like to welcome its newest staff member, Senior Designer Thomas Law. Tom is coming to Cool Blue with 10 years experience in the design industry. | |
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March 15, 2008 The First Annual Grow your Cause winner announced as Community Life Concepts, sponsored by Lane Co. |
| Cool Blue Interactive and Duffey Communications have teamed up to develop a functional and beneficial website for Community Life Concepts. When we first began with Community Life Concepts, the organization was running on a one page site. By gaining access to the latest and greatest in web design they will receive a new web presence. An updated website allows expansion of their organization by making customers more aware of the services offered, thus creating more volunteers and donations ultimately impacting their partners and communities. | |
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February 1, 2008 CBi Staff Member becomes Google AdWords Certified |
| Google has certified Cool Blue's own Angie Fore as an AdWords Qualified Individual. This celebrated distinction showcases Angie's expertise in the area of Google AdWords. | |
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January 1, 2008 CBi Chosen for Another Woodruff Arts Center Project |
| The Woodruff Arts Center chose CBi yet again for their latest collaborative project. After redesigning the Alliance Theatre's site and putting together the first ever joint project - Paris at the Woodruff - CBi has been chosen to put together The Atlanta Dialogue for the Woodruff Art Center in partnership with the National Black Arts Festival. | |
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October 30, 2007 Atlanta, GA - Cool Blue Interactive wins three Silver Davey Awards |
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The International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), presented Davey Awards to Habersham Designs (www.habershamdesigns.com) for Consumer Products/Services and the Alliance Theatre (www.alliancetheatre.org) for Branding and Best Practices. Both sites were redesigned by Cool Blue Interactive. |
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September 18, 2007 Atlanta, GA - Cool Blue Interactive wins two Outstanding Level WebAwards from the Web Marketing Association |
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The Web Marketing Association presented awards to Habersham Designs (www.habershamdesigns.com) and the Alliance Theatre (www.alliancetheatre.org) for Outstanding Website Redesign. Both sites were redesigned by Cool Blue Interactive. |
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March 1, 2007 Cool Blue Interactive Announces the Launch of the Alliance Theatre Website |
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February 20, 2007 Judging the 2006 WebAwards By: Bo Simmons |
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October 6, 2006 Cool Blue Interactive Wins Big In the 2006 WebAwards Competition |
| Cool Blue Interactive, Atlanta’s premier internet marketing and web development agency, announced this week that they have won five WebAwards. The WebAwards, are the leading international interactive media awards. | |
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October 2, 2006 Atlanta's Alliance Theatre Selects Cool Blue Interactive |
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September 16, 2006 Introducing Adobe Flash 8 to Cool Blue's website |
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Cool Blue Interactive is staying ahead of its competitors through use of the latest tools and technologies. We recently introduced Flash 8 to our own site. The home page case study introductions, executed in Flash, have been upgraded, giving the page a fresher look. |
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May 1, 2006 Cool Blue Demonstrates Speed & Capacity in the Launch of New Sage Software Product |
| Cool Blue Interactive, an award-winning interactive marketing firm, has helped Sage Software bring its new top-of-the-line addition to its Peachtree Accounting software to market. | |
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May 1, 2006 WebAward competition names Bo Simmons to Judging Panel |
| The Web Marketing Association is pleased to announce that Bo Simmons has been selected as a judge of the 10th annual international WebAward competition for Web site development. | |
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April 17, 2006 Cool Blue Wins Its First Webby Honor for San Jose Rep Web site Revival |
| Judges for the prestigious Webby Awards named Cool Blue an Official Honoree for its superior redesign of the San Jose Repertory Theater Web site. | |
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April 14, 2006 Cool Blue Wins at the 5th Annual Horizon Interactive Awards Competition |
| Cool Blue was recognized for their The San Jose Repertory Theatre's site and for the 2005 redesign of their own Cool Blue site. | |
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November 8, 2005 Cool Blue Captures Three Davey Awards |
| Cool Blue has been named winner of three Davey Awards (www.daveyawards.com), an international competition that honors the creative excellence of small firms and agencies in print, television, online and multimedia. | |
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October 13, 2005 Cool Blue Wins Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association's "Best of the Best" Award |
| The Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association (AiMA) announced that Cool Blue Interactive won its "Best of the Best" award in the National Awards category. | |
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September 28, 2005 Cool Blue Attends Email Marketing "Excellence Summit" in Indianapolis |
| Nearly 500 marketers representing many of the best-known companies and interactive agencies in the world converged in Indianapolis for the 2nd annual ExactTarget Global Conference where attendees learned the latest techniques and best practices in email marketing. | |
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September 15, 2005 Atlanta Interactive Agency Wins Two Awards in International Competition |
| Cool Blue, an Atlanta-based interactive media agency, won two awards in the 9th annual Web Marketing Association's WebAwards, an international competition that attracts top advertising firms, as well as Fortune 500 companies. | |