Increasing Morale with “Mad Props”: Azenith Salenga

The Morale and Culture Committee is pleased to announce Azenith Salenga as the most nominated employee of the quarter for Mad Props. Azenith Salenga, or as we like to call her “Zee”, is Red Door Interactive’s Junior Designer. Her day-to-day tasks include designing emails, banners, and subpages for clients like Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes, Cricket, < [...] Continue Reading

Increasing Morale with “Mad Props”: Maggie Francisco

The Morale and Culture Committee is pleased to announce Maggie Francisco as the most nominated employee of the quarter for Mad Props. Maggie Francisco is Red Door Interactive’s Operations Coordinator. She is the first person who greets you when you enter or call the Denver office, and she’s one of the first people new hires meet when starting a job at Red Door. In the past three months, Maggie has coordinated numerous events such as the Denver Continue Reading

Red Door wins 3 IAC Awards and 1 ADDY award

Red Door is proud to announce a great start to the 2010 award season. In the last week, we have won three IAC Awards and one ADDY Award. More information about each award and project is listed below. Click each entry title to read more about the project goals and achievements. Congrats to the entire Red Door team for making these projects a success.

IAC Awards

Increasing Morale with “Mad Props”: Ron Hadler

The Morale and Culture Committee is pleased to announce Ron Hadler as the most nominated employee of the quarter for Mad Props. Ron Hadler is Red Door Interactive’s Technology Supervisor. His role at Red Door includes managing a team of Web Developers and ensuring technical development runs smoothly. During the last few months, Ron has proved to be a huge asset to the Garden Fresh project team. He successfully launched the new Continue Reading

Increasing Morale with “Mad Props”: Lindsay Estrada

The Morale and Culture Committee is pleased to announce Lindsay Estrada as the most nominated employee of the quarter for Mad Props. Lindsay is a Senior Project Manager at Red Door Interactive. During the last few months, she has received well-deserved props for leading the Cricket Communications Website redesign project team. Lindsay brought the team of strategists, creatives, and developers together with daily collaborat [...] Continue Reading

Increasing Morale with “Mad Props”

The Morale and Culture Committee is pleased to announce Lindsay Estrada as the most nominated employee of the quarter for Mad Props. Lindsay is a Senior Project Manager at Red Door Interactive. During the last few months, she has received well-deserved props for leading the Cricket Communications Website redesign project team. Lindsay brought the team of strategists, creatives, and developers together with daily collaborat [...] Continue Reading

Red Door Core Values: Increasing Morale with “Mad Props”

Being recognized as one of the best places to work in San Diego has a lot to do with the amazing people who work here. We are extremely passionate about our work and embrace a number of “Core Values.” To recognize dedicated individuals who go above and beyond we developed a program called “Mad Props."

“Mad Props” was created and implemented by Red Door’s “Morale and Culture Committee” back in 2006. It lives on the home page of our intranet and gives employee [...] Continue Reading

Behind the Scenes at PETCO Park

With opening day being less then two weeks away, the Padres’ downtown San Diego Stadium, PETCO Park, is buzzing with excitement. Being PETCO’s next-door neighbor, all of us in the office are looking forward to baseball season. To kick off the season, Red Door’s Morale and Culture Committee planed a behind the scenes tour of the stadium. Inspirational outings are held quarterly to encourage employees to ge [...] Continue Reading

Getting festive at RDI’s Pot-o’-Luck

What better way to spend St. Patrick's Day in the office then a Pot-o'-Luck! The Morale and Culture committee asked coworkers to "bring something green, something Irish, something rainbow, or whatever tickles your fancy." The lunchtime potluck was a success and showed off the talented chefs we have at Red Door. From corned beef sandwiches to Irish meatballs to cupcakes galore, we were all able to get into the festivities. Even half the office showed up wearing green. Happy St. Patrick's [...] Continue Reading

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” -Pablo Picasso Every so often, the Red Door creative team makes an outing to a local museum for inspiration. Interactive Designer Michelle’s sister Lindsay works at the New Children’s Museum, just a short stroll along the embarcadero from the RDI offices. Continue Reading

Creative outing to the New Children’s Museum

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” -Pablo Picasso Every so often, the Red Door creative team makes an outing to a local museum for inspiration. Interactive Designer Michelle’s sister Lindsay works at the New Children’s Museum, just a short stroll along the embarcadero from the RDI offices. Continue Reading

An Environmentally Friendly Google??

Word spread quickly about a new approach to save energy while browsing the web. Blackle, a search engine using Google's technology is designed with an all black homepage, which claims to use less energy than an all white screen. After some online research done by my friends at Patagonia, an environmentally conscious clothing retail [...] Continue Reading

The Key to Web-Video Advertising

A recent study done by AOL and Google provides more insight to what consumers believe about online-video advertising. An interesting statistic:"63% said they prefer online-video sites to have an ad-supported model vs. a subscription model. And 57% said they understand that online-video advertising is important for keeping websites free." So, although online advertising is known to cause annoyances, most consumers respect the notion that advertisers are paying for their free video streaming. [...] Continue Reading

Microsoft Takes on Adobe’s Flash

A new product by Microsoft called Silverlight was launched last week to compete with Adobe Flash.The good:High quality streaming video. "Simply Gorgeous".The bad:You can't view the content until you download the Silverlight plug-in. [...] Continue Reading