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On a cold, clear, moonless Friday night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Almost, Maine inventively explores the mysteries of the human heart, touching us with laughter, heartbreak and hope.

proVanceTek worked with Hilliard Davidson High School Theatre's Technical Director to create a collapsible, internationally traveling, Northern Lights backdrop for the school's 2009-2010 winter production. The show was first performed January 29 & 30, but will be traveling to Edinburgh, Scotland.

Almost, Maine is the production that Hilliard Davidson High School will be traveling to Edinburgh, Scotland, in August 2010 to be presented in the American High School Theatre Festival as part of The Fringe Festival.

Yet another yummy website courtesy of the Drupal Content Management System - http://ifood.tv/

Drupal has been becoming the industry standard content management system and is now being used by corporate companies, universities, the government, etc.

Some high profile Drupal sites include: Sony, Sony Ericsson, Lifetime Television, Harvard Law School, MIT Media Lab, New York State Senate, President Obama, Warner Bros, Francesca Battistelli, Michael Jackson, Virgin Radio, and more.

There's soo many reasons that Drupal is awesome, but let's just name only a few: User Management, Page Titles and Meta Tags, Custom Content Types and Views, Revision Control, Taxonomy, Advanced URL Control, SEO Friendly, PHP Template, Hundreds of Community Contributed Modules, Hundreds of Community Contributed Themes, Stable and Reliable, Excellent Documentation, and Drupal the Large and Friendly Community, etc.

Let's briefly mention some awesome Drupal modules in no particular order: Views, CCK, Contemplate, Printer Friendly Pages, Pathauto, Date, Ecommerce, XML Sitemap, Captcha, Service Links, Token, Taxonomy Access Control, Fivestar, Google Analytics, Event, Panels, and there's many more.

Basically, Drupal is awesome. If you're interested in creating an awesome, easy-to-manage, feature-rich website, contact us today!

Owner of proVanceTek, Robert Vance, has been serving as an Associate Executive Board member of East Carolina University Up 'til Dawn, a group that does fundraising for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. proVanceTek designed, hosts, and helps maintain the group's website and assists them with the design, preparation, and execution of their marketing campaigns.

A couple of recent projects that Robert has helped the group with include designing marketing materials for their booth a the Down East Holiday Show at the Greenville Convention Center, event planning for a Trick-or-Treat, so St. Jude Kids Can Eat food drive, creation and printing of marketing materials and event planning for their annual Letter Sending Campaign, marketing materials and event planning for Chili's Big Day event, and more.

Robert was invited to join the group in their visit to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN November 20-22, arranged by ALSAC. Through business connections, Robert was able to make arrangements for the group to also visit the Memphis Ronald McDonald House, which strictly houses patients and families of patients of St. Jude.

For photos and video clips from the trip, please visit the East Carolina University Up 'til Dawn website.

We've been working with several clients in Greenville, NC who wanted us to design an advertising campaign for them using a different concept. Loosely, here's how it works...

Traditionally, companies have spent thousands on advertising. The concept, specifically, that we're twisting is mobile billboard advertising - big billboard advertisements that drive in circles all day around town hoping that potential customers will see the big billboard driving around and have enough time and coordination to write down the phone number or website that just passed them. While this concept is kool, it's ineffective and ridiculously expensive.

We took the neat idea and adapted it and have created a website dedicated strictly to our mobile marketing services. Our plan is to, not have one large moving billboard, but rather, have smaller advertisements affixed to tons of cars. We've built a network of college students who commute to and from classes each day, drive back and forth to student activities and club meetings, and scurry around town running errands. Our concept was to utilize inexpensive car door magnets, affix a couple to a car, have tons of cars with the advertisements, driving around all throughout the day.

Our concept saves our clients money because 1) we use reasonably sized car door magnets that are inexpensive to produce compared to the large billboard prints used elsewhere and 2) we utilize cars that are already driving on the road instead of paying for a driver and all the gas to circulate around town all day. Our strategy also reaches more of our client's potential customers because 1) their ads are on tons of cars at once and 2) their potential customers are more likely to see the ads multiple times in a day.