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New places to sleep in the city that never sleeps…

posted by Tim on June 21st, 2010

We’re always pulled to stories of smaller is often better, being different and passionate can be “the” product, and of course, reading about buildings being used in a way that not only serves a purpose, but brings them to life.  The NY Times recently ran an article on the growth of boutique hotels that touched on all of these topics. From an online perspective, and a reason why paper doesn’t live up to web in the richness of information,  the NY Times does  “functional” web graphics well. In this case, an interactive map that supports the article and allows users to explore hotel locations, photos and profiles right there within the article. The addition of the interactive map extends the usefulness of the article, and is sure to get visitors to come back for more.  The map, (like the hotels) is elegant, functional, and creates an experience that people will want to (and can) share with others.

NYC_boutiqueHotels

Our Hagerstown office has moved!

posted by Scott on February 9th, 2010

Bulls & Bears in Hagerstown, MD

Today is a good day, even with the snow.

We’ve moved into our new office at 38 S. Potomac St, above Bulls & Bears. The offices and our landlords (Bryan and Steve Koontz) at 240 S. Potomac are great, but we wanted to be closer to the restaurants and shops that we enjoy so much, and it was so hard not to fall in love with the exposed brick, wood beams and everything else they’ve done to this space. We plan on being here for awhile.

Stop on up if you’re around and we’ll show you around the building!

We’ll add some pictures as soon as we get the rest of our stuff in here.

Cheap plug

There is office space available at both 240 S. Potomac and 38 S. Potomac, get in touch with me if you want contact info.

2nd Floor is a finalist in this year’s Washington County Business Awards

posted by Scott on February 1st, 2010

We were excited to learn that 2nd Floor is a finalist for the Impact Award at this year’s Washington County Business Awards! Washington County has many excellent businesses and organizations, so to be recognized among them is truly an honor. Below is a list of the WCBA finalists for each category. Congratulations to everyone!

At Your Service

Homewood Suites by Hilton
Leiter’s Fine Catering
University of MD Extension, Washington County

Going Green

Cookie’s Catering
Hub Labels, Inc.
Volvo Powertrain

Impact

2nd Floor
Sierra Nevada Corporation
Susquehanna Bank

Non Profit Impact

Boys & Girls Club of Washington County
Community Free Clinic
Ravenwood Lutheran Village

Small Business

Centra Bank
Palmyra Farm Cheese LLC
Specialized Communications Corp

Washington County Business Person of the Year

Andrew Sargent
Donald Hoffman
Greg Snook

Team-building with online gaming.

posted by Scott on September 8th, 2009

Rock Band 2 - Image courtesy IGN.com

This evening I stumbled upon an article that I had bookmarked a few weeks ago. I had intended to post it to the blog but I must have been sidetracked or had another idea.

I only have one thought on the article.

Let’s do this!

Actually, Joe and I have worked together previously where we had LAN (local area network) gaming sessions at the end of the day and they were a lot of fun! Back then the team-building aspect of it was more or less just about having fun together and relieving stress because we were all in the same big room — strategy and tactics didn’t exist. :)

I think it would be fun to include some of our partners and clients as well. Heck, we’ve been discussing doing something like this with games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero anyway, so why not expand on the idea? The difficult thing is finding out who the Gamers are. People are sometimes surprised when they find out I’m a Gamer, and I admit to occasionally being caught off guard when I hear that the President of a company is playing World of Warcraft every night until 4am. I wonder how many of our clients are going home and logging into MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games) or staying up late on their Xbox/PS3/Wii?

Maybe we could even set something up for Fridays at the end of the day in our office. We’re going to move our Hagerstown office from its current location at 240 S Potomac, which we’ve been at for over a year, to a larger space above Bulls & Bears, anyway. We’ve discussed setting up a lounge area in the new space, so why not just add a 46″ plasma, an Xbox/PS3/Wii, a nice little home theater that will rattle the silverware on the tables below in the restaurant (just kidding, Matt!), and have at it!

We’re a small company, so teamwork and positive energy is absolutely essential in order for us to continue to produce the exceptional results that we’re accustomed to delivering. This might be one of those ideas that may seem “out there” to some, but that’s okay, it sounds like fun to me!

Joe — you, me, Tiger Woods 10. It’s on!

Here’s a link to the article on CNN.com.

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