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VMT Taps Royster to Head Marketing & Communications
One of the Mid-Atlantic region’s top innovative and entrepreneurial technology firms, Vision Multimedia Technologies (VMT), is excited to announce the hire of its new Director of Marketing & Communications, Christina Royster.
A Baltimore native with experience in situation comedy writing, journalism and marketing for nonprofit organizations, Royster is the former Director of Marketing & Communications for Irvine Nature Center in Owings Mills, Md. Her diverse career path spans from Hollywood Insider and situation comedy writer for television shows like "Sister, Sister" and "For Your Love" to staff writer for Baltimore City Paper where she won awards from the A.D. Emmart Association, the Association of Black Media Workers and the Society of Professional Journalists. Her seven year career in journalism and marketing have included a focus on education and the environment. For VMT, Royster will manage the firm’s corporate social marketing accounts in addition to the marketing activities for both VMT and SocialToaster, the firm’s revolutionary social marketing automation platform.
“Christina brings a wealth of experience in her field, professional writing talent and unbelievable creative energy to us here at VMT,” said the CEO & Founder, Brian Razzaque. “Marketing the technology products we create is just as important as creating them. We are pleased to have Christina at the helm in what is a very important position for our company.”
Royster is a graduate of Morgan State University. She has also served as Board Member and Marketing Chair for the Reisterstown, Owings Mills, Glyndon (ROMG) Chamber of Commerce, and is on the board for the Social Media Club of Baltimore.
Charm City Cakes hires VMT for Google Apps Deployment
Baltimore’s famous Charm City Cakes hired local web development and consulting firm, Vision Multimedia Technologies, LLC (VMT) to deploy Enterprise Google Apps, which includes Gmail for Business, to help address issues they were having with managing and accessing their corporate email. VMT, one of the largest Google Apps Resellers in the area, configured and deployed shared calendars, email and workflow processes. Using many advanced Gmail tools, the company is better able to coordinate its intense daily email volume, ordering, production and delivery processes.VMT also migrated and archived historical information from the legacy system used by Charm City Cakes. In addition to the deployment, VMT provided user training to the staff.
"The switch to Google Apps has been great. We are particularly glad to be running Gmail as our email solution, it has solved a lot of problems for us in terms of managing and accessing our email, and the anti-spam is excellent. VMT did a great job getting us setup and trained and made the switch over very easy," said Mary Alice Fallon Yeskey, Manager of Charm City Cakes.
“Our efforts to deploy Google Apps for Charm City Cakes was a success largely because most of the staff was already very familiar with Gmail for personal use, and so they were very willing and eager to embrace the technology and apply it in their business,” said Brian Razzaque, President of VMT.
VMT has completed numerous Google Apps implementations for clients in a variety of industries. In addition to Charm City Cakes, VMT most recently completed a 220-person Google Apps deployment for the real estate services firm The Strata Group, which includes the realty firm of Yerman, Witman, Gaines, and Conklin.
VMT has been providing enterprise-class web development and consulting services to a broad range of clients for the past decade. The company distinguishes itself by having technical expertise across multiple platforms and languages, including both proprietary and open-source technologies. This allows VMT the latitude to choose the solution that makes the most sense for each client depending on budget, existing infrastructure, and overall business objective. VMT’s core competencies include: website content management systems, customer relationship management solutions, portal and collaboration solutions, and social network integration and development.
Hair Cuttery Hires VMT for Social Marketing Campaign
Vision Multimedia Technologies (VMT) announced today that it has been engaged by salon chain Hair Cuttery to work on several digital communications projects, including: Web site redesign, social marketing strategy development, pay per click advertising, search engine marketing, electronic lead capture and comprehensive reporting and analysis.
VMT staff will be redesigning the Web site using an open source content management system called DotCMS that incorporates social media functionality such as blogging and electronic newsletters. The new Web site is slated to be launched in fall of 2009.
In addition to the Web site redesign, VMT will be assisting Hair Cuttery with the launch of an innovative company-wide social marketing promotional campaign. Hair Cuttery’s stylists will be trained by VMT on methods of engaging and reacting to various social media outlets and promoting their services online. VMT’s proprietary software solution will enable Hair Cuttery to track sales leads and results that originated from social networks used by the stylists.
“We are excited to be working with Hair Cuttery on such an important digital communications project and we believe that we can have a direct impact on their revenue,” said Brian Razzaque, President of VMT. “By creating a robust Web presence and connecting to social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, Hair Cuttery will be well positioned for the future.”
COLA Awarded Microsoft 2009 Customer Excellence Award in Healthcare
Vision Multimedia Technolgies, LLC ("VMT") is pleased to announce that their customer, COLA, Inc, was recognized by Microsoft® with a 2009 Microsoft Dynamics Customer Excellence Award for excellence in Healthcare and will be honored by Microsoft executives at an awards luncheon on Tuesday, March 10, at Convergence 2009 New Orleans, the premier Microsoft Dynamics user conference.
The 2009 Customer Excellence Awards, which are presented in 11 categories, recognize and celebrate Microsoft Dynamics customers that have achieved notable accomplishments using their Microsoft Dynamics solutions.
COLA was recognized for its strong commitment to healthcare. Working with Microsoft Dynamics certified partner Vision Multimedia Technologies, LLC of Baltimore, Maryland, COLA delivered on its objectives for improving the quality of laboratory medicine through the development of a system that provides for more efficient laboratory accreditation and improved education and training.
Established in 1997, the Customer Excellence Awards are awarded each year at the Convergence user conferences in the US and Europe. Microsoft Dynamics customers, partners and team members submit nominations. Judging teams for each of the 10 categories rated nominees on creativity, vision, and business benefits. Proposed winners for each category were then presented and reviewed by a panel of Microsoft executive judges for final approval. As part of that final review winning customers were chosen including the Overall Excellence Award winning customer.
Microsoft Dynamics is a line of financial, customer relationship and supply chain management solutions that help businesses work more effectively.
VMT, established in 1998, is a leading solutions provider for custom web application development and software integration. The Baltimore-based firm has extensive experience in developing systems for the healthcare and medical research industries. VMT also provides web-based solutions for business, government, and educational institutions.
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VMT Launches www.CityPeek.com
Vision Multimedia Technolgies, LLC ("VMT"), a regional web application development firm, announced today that it has successfully launched www.citypeek.com, a custom website focused on highlighting the region's natural assets from the view of a local.
www.CityPeek.com offers information on dining and events in and around Baltimore, New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Maryland's Eastern Shore. The site provides reliable, easy to read and up to date information on some of the best restaurants, best places to live, best hotels in town as well as best things to do.
VMT developed the site using Drupal (www.drupal.org), an open source content management system that provides for cost-effective development and implementation of rich features. VMT is a leading provider of Drupal website development. www.citypeek.com takes full advantage of the Drupal platform including interactive blogs, comments, rankings of hotels and restaurants, newsletters and online advertising. The drupal platform is used by a number of high-profile websites, including Fast Company, The Onion, SonyBMG and Lifetime Television.
For over 10 years, VMT has provided high-end technical consulting and web application development services to businesses, government and not-for-profit organizations in the Baltimore metropolitan region. VMT's team of seasoned programming professionals, business analysts and project managers are experienced at delivering sophisticated web solutions that deliver a proven return on investment.
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