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Matt Smith, Marketing Manager

Kurt Roberts, Q’s Director of Technical Services, recently shared his expertise and opinions about SaaS apps (Software as a Service Applications) in an interview with DigitalMediaBuzz.com. The story by writer Lauren Fritsky - “Sending SaaS Apps into the Future” – looks at how SaaS apps will change in the coming years to better serve both businesses and users.

Roberts, who has led Q’s Technical staff for nearly two years, noted in the article that the key to developing user-centric SaaS apps is to identify “a very sharply defined task, and focus a lot on that one task. … That helps make it easier because you’re eliminating wrong choices. The interesting [apps] are going to be the ones that redesign real world tasks online.”

Digital Media Buzz is a site that helps digital media professionals keep up with the latest trends, news, discussions and new products and services in the industry.

Content-delivery system for ASCD helps ‘teachers become better educators’

Washington, DC – If improving the knowledge and learning of students around the world hinges on the skills and abilities of today’s educators, then an award-winning online professional development tool built for international education leadership organization ASCD may help usher in a new era of educational excellence.

“PD In Focus™” is a Web-based multimedia system developed by digital agency Q-Industries to help ASCD deliver interactive, on-demand professional development to its global members, which include 175,000 principals, teachers, superintendents and professors of education in 119 countries. Named a winner in the Teacher Tools category of the ComputED Gazette’s Education Software Review Awards (EDDIEs), PD In Focus was cited as “a unique technology tool for expanding professional development, and we highly recommend it.”

Matt Smith, Marketing Manager

Attention Q social media friends, fans and followers: For the next couple days, marketing intern Michelle Reed will be offering dispatches from the Inbound Marketing Summit outside Boston. The conference, hosted by Justin Levy and Chris Brogan of New Marketing Labs, will bring together some of the brightest experts in new media marketing. Speakers such as Brian Solis, Diedre Breakenridge, Gary Vaynerchuk and Dharmesh Shah will share their tried and true new media strategies, practices and tools.

Taking place in the Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots football team, the event aims to answer questions to some of the profession’s greatest challenges. The two-day conference includes panels such as “Innovative Marketing Programs Using New Media,” “Growing Bigger Ears and Becoming Engaged in What’s Being Said About You” and “Listening and Monitoring: The New Way to Market.”

Michelle, a senior at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., will be Tweeting live from the Inbound Marketing Summit with the hashtag #ims09. Stay tuned.  

Matt Smith, Marketing Manager

Man, what a crazy summer.

The raging all-night beach parties straight out of a beer commercial.

That torrid romance with the Labor Day expiration date.

Those long evenings and weekends cooped up in the office making a website.

Um, yeah. About that last part …

D.C. digital agency adds staff to meet demand, maintains recruiting efforts.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Q-Industries, a digital marketing agency that develops online brands, websites and custom applications, is continuing its steady growth in 2009 – bringing on five new employees in response to a significant increase in customer demand.

In recent weeks, Q has added to its Client Services, Creative and Technical teams; Q is still seeking other experienced individuals interested in joining its group of smart, dedicated web professionals. If current trends hold, Q will more than double in size this fiscal year, further expanding its already-robust client base and customer offerings.

“The companies we work with tell us that in this challenging landscape, a full-service agency like Q has become even more essential to their success,” said Tim Neill, CEO of Q-Industries. “We pride ourselves on the great work that we do, and that wouldn’t be possible without our talented staff. I’m pleased to welcome our newest employees, who will join in our ongoing efforts to help our clients successfully navigate the constantly changing digital marketing space.”