Have you heard the old adage that the cobbler's children have no shoes? It shames us a bit to say that, for a social media agency, we've been a bit, uh, remiss in keeping our blogs up to date.

But we have excuses! New employees! New clients! New offices! New services! In short, it's been a crazy couple of months around here as you'll know if you've been following our Facebook and Twitter feeds.

We'll have more to share shortly, but in the meantime... clients! It's been an exciting time with multiple launches, rebranding, new campaigns and more. Two worth mentioning:

First to the oldie but goodie. IID (www.internetidentity.com) (Internet Identity), which has delivered solutions that help keep the Internet safe and trusted since 1996, recently re-launched its brand which VOXUS helped drive from a PR and design perspective. IID also launched IID ActiveTrust, the first security solution of its kind for the domain name system or DNS (essentially the address book for the Internet). Coverage of the company within a couple weeks of the product launch and company re-brand were in, but not limited to, outlets like:

- Q13 (Fox Seattle affiliate) (http://www.q13fox.com/videobeta/c922a221-66e3-4328-8592-0475e1bc58d3/News/Preventing-Cyber-Crimes)
- Network World (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/051710-one-source-for-most-phishing.html?hpg1=bn)
- eWeek (http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Avalanche-Cyber-Gang-Dominated-Phishing-Attacks-636570/)
- Dark Reading (http://www.darkreading.com/securityservices/security/perimeter/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224701084)
- SC Magazine (http://www.scmagazineus.com/avalanche-phishing-slowing-but-was-all-the-2009-rage/article/170052/)

Now to the new guys on the block. doxo (www.doxo.com) - backed by Bezos Expeditions and Mohr Davidow Ventures, and founded by three former Qpass execs - came out stealth mode to announce it is pioneering the way for people and providers to connect and go paperless with all of their transactional mail (i.e.  bills, statements, notifications, policy updates, and other critical documents). Coverage again was overwhelming. doxo's launch was picked up by, but again not limited to, some pretty top tier outlets like:

- TechCrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/10/doxo-bezos-mohr-davidow/)
- U.S. News & World Report (http://www.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2010/05/19/smart-tools-for-a-paperless-home.html)
- ZDNet (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/green/amazons-book-billionaire-bezos-bets-big-on-paperless-transactions/11640)
- Xconomy (http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2010/05/10/doxo-backed-by-bezos-and-mohr-davidow-comes-out-of-stealth-wants-to-help-businesses-go-paperless/)

How did you do it, you may ask? Let's just say we had a little help from our friends...

Rodika Tollefson of the Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal recently sat down with our Founder and fearless leader Paul Forecki to learn the secret to VOXUS' success. Check out the story here.



-posted by Lindsay

VOXUS is now hiring a Program Director/Senior Account Executive to work from its swanky new downtown Tacoma office. Think you got the right stuff? Click here or view our ad on Craig's list.

-posted by Lindsay

We are now a group on FaceBook. Log in, search for "VOXUS" under groups and request to become a fan. We'd love to hear from you...

-posted by Lindsay

This week, our fearless leader, Paul, was part of a panel presentation put on by Businesswire (www.businesswire.com) about PR during times of recession. A few of us had the pleasure to attend and heard some really interesting insights from a variety of industry experts, including Jennifer Gehert (Communique PR), Amy Bohutinsky (Zillow) and of course, our very own Paul Forecki. The panel was moderated by Erik Elvejord (Holland America Line).

Below are some pictures from the event, enjoy!


The panel (From left: Erik Elvejord, Amy Bohutinsky, Jennifer Gehrt, and Paul Forecki)














-posted by Stephanie

Although we're not sure what to call it (anniversary? birthday?), VOXUS was officially TWO YEARS OLD on Saturday, March 1. To celebrate we gave everybody the day off. Woo Hoo! And for the record... over the past two years our staff and revenues have both tripled. Not a bad present at all. Special thanks go out to all of our fantastic clients... we couldn't have done it without you. Here's to Year Three!

-posted by Paul

UPDATE: pictures from the party on Monday...

You may have noticed a little new paint and spackle around here. We haven't "officially launched" the new site, so stay tuned for more commentary and keep your eye out for a promotional mailer or two. Still, it's up. Whew.

We hope you like it.

-posted by Paul

You may have noted a certain, um, sparseness to the blog postings of late. There's actually a reason for this. (Not a good one, mind you, but still...).

You see, we are putting up a new web site, and the idea was to hold blog posts to roll over into the new site. But like all tech projects, this one has experienced certain unanticipated delays. So we have neither a new site nor any recent blog entries to show for all the hard work of the last several weeks. While the site redesign is still being wrestled to the ground and beaten about the head and neck, we will post these updates to ensure that we don't close out December with NOTHING to show. Enjoy.

And stay tuned for updates on the new site.

-posted by Paul