Valentine’s Day was more than a week ago, but we’re still feeling the love. We’ve been fortunate enough to get a bit of press attention recently and were thrilled to share our thoughts and ideas with the community.

Business Innovations with Larry Eiler

Last week, MetaSpring’s own Casey and JP were invited to record a podcast with Larry Eiler, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Eiler Communications. The podcast is part of a weekly series entitled Innovative Business Results. Guests on the show discuss their organization, as well as other business-related issues in the news.

We were very excited to join Larry on the podcast and thank him for the invitation. Topics discussed include:

• MetaSpring Company News
• Our recent exploration of Web 2.0 in the Academic community
• Ann Arbor’s Tech & Innovation Community

You can listen to our segment here: February 23, 2010 Podcast

And, you can find the full archive of shows at the Business Innovation website.

Job Searching in a Tough Economy

As many of you know, the MetaTeam has a pretty extensive online presence. Whether you’re on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or other social networks, you can usually find someone at MetaSpring to connect with. That was the case when a student at the University of Oregon was recently looking for job-searching advice from recent college grads through Twitter. This sort of crowd-sourcing technique was one of the skills Casey discussed in his last post about Web 2.0 and its role in career preparation.

Casey was happy to answer the call and bestowed upon her the knowledge that he’d gained from his job search last summer. The student, Paige Landsem, was able to condense Casey’s thoughts into a very helpful blog post for her class entitled Gateway to Media. The post is intended to help students combat current economic conditions. Well done, Paige!

Upcoming MetaSpring Appearances

We’re continuing our publicity run next month with another local engagement:

Lucy Ann Lance Business Insider – March 16

Lucy Ann Lance is one of the most ardent supporters of the Ann Arbor business community, emceeing events and chairing several local advocacy groups around town. She also hosts a daily (Mon-Sat) radio show called The Lucy Ann Business Insider, 9am-12pm on 1290AM WLBY in Ann Arbor. The show can also be found streaming online on 1290AM’s site or archived on Lucy Ann’s website. We start our day listening to her show co-hosted with Dean Erskine.

After a few conversations with Lucy Ann on Twitter, we were fortunate enough to receive an invite to appear on her Tech Tuesday segment on March 16th . This pre-St. Patrick’s Day show will be a lot of fun and we invite you to listen along.

Contact MetaSpring

As you can see, MetaSpring loves to talk. Usually we let our web designs do most of the talking, but we love to chat in person too. Most of our staff is on Twitter and we maintain an active Facebook presence. If you’d like to get in touch with a member of our team for an interview, networking event, or speaking engagement, email us at info@metaspring.com or check out our staff pages for social networking info.

The Fall development rush is in full swing here, at MetaSpring, and we’ve been working extra hard to crank out some awesome new projects (stay tuned for a future Fall portfolio showcase)! While we have some great posts lined up for the weeks to come, our blogging schedule’s been a bit shuffled this week.

So to make sure that we don’t totally fall off the blogging bandwagon, we’ve put together a special Halloween treat for you - a Facebook Photo Album of the MetaTeam wreaking Halloween havoc around Ann Arbor.

There are even some cute cameos from the youngest members of the MetaTeam!

From all of us at MetaSpring, we hope you had a very Happy Halloween!

Remember the first day of school? When the teacher would have the entire class regale each other with tales from their summer vacations? Well, we’re admittedly a bit far into the fall semester for that analogy, but hey, if the shoe fits…

We’ve certainly had a busy summer at MetaSpring - bringing on several new staff members and moving into our great new office space. In between those big changes, we’ve been working really hard on some awesome projects that we’d like to share with you now.

More, Coming Soon…

We’re already well into the Fall quarter now, with a number of exciting launches fast approaching. If you’d like to keep up to date with all of our new launches and other MetaNews, follow us on Twitter @MetaSpring!

MetaSpring is excited to announce a new feature coming soon to our blog - on the fourth Friday of every month, we’ll be posting the MetaSpring Web Marketing & Development Blog Carnival!

What’s a Blog Carnival?

A blog carnival is a type of blog event (thanks, Wikipedia!) that can be easily compared to print magazines - they’re published on a regularly scheduled basis, they revolve around a central topic, and they usually contain content from multiple sources.

Blog carnivals allow authors to provide regular collections of recently published, high quality resources. This helps to raise the standard of information being generated on a topic and encourages thought leaders in niche web communities.

In addition to MetaSpring’s carnival, you can find a wide range of carnivals, or even start your own, at BlogCarnival.

The MetaSpring Carnival

The MetaSpring Carnival will be posted every fourth Friday of the month.

If you’d like to submit your post for inclusion, entries will be due by the third Sunday of each month.  That means that submissions for this month are due by Sunday, October 17, with the first carnival going up on Friday, October 23.

Submissions can made in one of two ways:

1. Complete the form on our BlogCarnival page
2. Email us directly at media@metaspring.com with the URL, title and a brief description of your post

Please only submit posts that fall within the following topics:

• Online Marketing
• Social Media
• Digital Design
• Web Development
• Web Innovation
• Small Business
• Meta/Philosophy

The articles we accept will be rewarded with a do-follow link from our blog and will have the honor of being included with some of the best content on the net.

Please limit your submissions to two posts per month.

Thanks for reading and we look forward to your posts! Let’s have some fun, it’s a carnival after all!

Editor’s Note: Now that the moving dust has settled, we’ve finally had a chance to sit down and write up a press release about our new office. In case you haven’t yet heard, we’ve moved from our old location on Jackson Road to 704 State Circle on the south-side of Ann Arbor’s business district. We’re very excited and proud of our new digs and would love to show you around sometime - let us know if you’d like to stop by!

Ann Arbor, MI, September 15, 2009 – Undeterred by a challenging economic climate, MetaSpring, LLC (MetaSpring), a leading web consultancy and digital marketing firm, opened its doors in a newly renovated warehouse space this summer to make room for expanding employee and client needs. In order to manage increasing client demands and a newly diversified service offering, MetaSpring nearly doubled their employment rate over the last few months.

Ann Arbor is a pioneer in the internet industry and its community atmosphere is extremely conducive for growing web-based businesses,” said Joe Minock, head of MetaSpring’s Sales and Business Development Department. “The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Spark, A2 Geeks, Coffee House Coders and others have already laid a solid foundation to support the acceleration of our industry’s growth.”

MetaSpring’s new office opened on June 15, 2009 at 704 State Circle on Ann Arbor’s south side. After two months of intense renovations, the new office now reflects the company’s innovative approach to web design and marketing. Renovation efforts added a conference room, creative design space and band room – all painted in bright, distinctive colors. The unique, open layout was designed with high traffic events in mind. In the future, this space will host future networking events and seminars on a variety of Internet programs and services. Read more…

Tech Sector Succeeds in Tough Times

While Michigan’s unemployment rate recently reached 15 percent, according to CNNMoney.com, its business community continues to foster growth with businesses like MetaSpring and other Michigan web design companies. Southeastern Michigan has seen marked growth in the tech sector following the departure of Pfizer and other pharmaceutical businesses soon thereafter.

“This community has a very educated and progressive population with business leaders who understand the value of the internet and realize that websites should be more than just brochures,” said co-founder John Paul Narowski. “Additionally, Ann Arbor has benefited from an increased availability to resources and networking groups, which is allowing for local businesses to expand beyond state boundaries.”

About MetaSpring, LLC

MetaSpring is a privately owned Digital Marketing Consultancy in Ann Arbor, Michigan that is focused on maximizing the effectiveness of marketing campaigns in all of their forms. MetaSpring’s highly trained development and design teams assist clients in areas of logo design, dynamic web application development, search engine marketing, scalable e-commerce solutions, web hosting and IT guidance.

Through custom-made proprietary software, MetaSpring has developed several methods of measuring the results of their marketing campaigns. Since their rebranding in 2006, MetaSpring has been a leader in Michigan web design. The web consultant has been able to craft custom solutions for clients of all sizes and industries by building strong relationships with those they work with and in the public eye.