RedFusion Media Designer Honored for IEAC Logo

March 16, 2007, REDLANDS, CA – Cindy Barents, winning designer of the Inland Empire Ad Club’s (IEAC) 25th Anniversary Logo, was recently honored at the prestigious 2007 IEAC ADDY Award’s Dinner, held at the historic Mission Inn in Riverside. The annual awards event was presented by the Inland Empire Ad Club and the American Advertising Federation.

Barents was presented with an honorary ADDY® Award, for creating the symbol of IEAC’s 25th Anniversary. Her winning logo will be entered into the IEAC 2008 ADDY Award Competition. The contest was open to all IEAC members and Inland Empire students, and the logo will be used through July 1, 2008 on all IEAC 25th Anniversary promotions, as the IEAC celebrates its 25th Anniversary.

Barents is employed as a webmaster and designer by RedFusion Media in Redlands. She is experienced in concept development, project coordination, and production. Originally from Michigan, she holds two degrees: a BA in graphic design from California State University, San Bernardino and a BA in business administration from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

RedFusion Media is a leading web development and content maintenance company in the Inland Empire, providing comprehensive services for clients combining content development with marketing and targeting strategies, using proven techniques increasing targeted search results that help businesses grow. For more information visit RedFusion’s website at http://www.redfusionmedia.com/.

RedFusion Media Student Employee Wins 3 ADDY Awards

March 16, 2007, REDLANDS, CA – Elizabeth Haefer was recently honored at the prestigious 2007 IEAC ADDY Award’s Dinner, held at the historic Mission Inn in Riverside. The annual awards event was presented by the Inland Empire Ad Club and the American Advertising Federation.

Haefer, a senior at the University of Redlands with a double major in design and business, won three Student ADDY Awards for her series highlighting California Safe Haven Law Awareness. She received a gold ADDY for her billboard design entered in the Out-of-Home Division. She additionally won two more silver ADDY awards, in the Mixed Media and Magazine Ad Campaign categories.The Inland Empire Ad Club’s Advertising Awards is the first level of a three-part competition of the American Advertising Federation. Gold winners from this local competition will go on to compete in the AAF District 15 competition against winners of the competitions in Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange Country, Palm Springs, Las Vegas, Bakersfield, Yuma/El Centro and Santa Barbara/Ventura/San Luis Obispo Counties. Winners in that competition will go on to compete against district winners throughout the nation in the national American Advertising Federation competition to be judged in McLean, Virginia in May and awarded at the AAF national convention in Louisville, Kentucky in June.

Elizabeth is a work study student as an administrative assistant at RedFusion Media in Redlands, a leading web development and content maintenance company in the Inland Empire. After graduating in May, she plans on pursuing her career in advertising.

Leading Inland Empire Media Companies Form New Partnership

RedFusion Media joins with Altek Media Group to provide cutting edge technology to IE businesses

March 2, 2007, REDLANDS, CA– RedFusion Media of Redlands, and Altek Media Group, located in Riverside, CA, announce that they are forming a unique partnership that allows both companies to offer a complete range of products ranging from website and content development, to video production.

“RedFusion Media is excited to partner with Altek Media Group to provide businesses with exciting new technology to meet our clients’ sophisticated web design needs. As the Internet matures, our customers’ level of need has become more complex. More frequently, sites are requiring a higher-level of video production capacities than ever before,” Ron Burgess, RedFusion Media CEO said recently.

RedFusion Media is a leading web development company in the Inland Empire, providing comprehensive services for clients combining content development with marketing and targeting strategies, using proven techniques increasing targeted search results that help businesses grow. Partnership with Altek Media, a full-service advertising agency, expands RedFusion’s currently available platform to include a high level of media-rich marketing.

“We are excited about how this partnership enables us to enhance dynamic sites to increase the traffic of businesses’ targeted markets. Altek’s strength lies in its proven leadership in video production that includes dynamic graphics and streaming media, with cutting edge animation and 3D graphics. Together, we have the capacity to make great websites extraordinary, as we combine our strengths to supply our clients with the perfect blend of artistic and technological services,” Jon Burgess, Internet Manager at RedFusion stated.

“This partnership demonstrates the true leadership of both firms,” stated Dwight Cromie, President/CEO of the Altek Media Group. “It gives our clients the strength of a double-edged sword, and the new media product and strategy we have developed is unmatched in the industry. In less than three months, over two dozen clients including banks, colleges, developers, consultants, and government agencies are now implementing this program. Both our companies are adding staff to keep up with the demand for this new media strategy.”

To learn more about this unique partnership visit their websites at http://www.fullservice.com/ or www.RedFusionMedia.com.