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Holiday Cheer comes in 40oz

Hannah — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:36:59 +0000

Things I like: cheesing for the camera, beer, the holidays, websites that include all of these things.

Lucky for me, and you, eROI shares in my adoration for the aforementioned things.

To commemorate the holiday season we wanted to say “Cheers in the Name of Frugality” to all of our clients, supporters and friends. Joyfully, the entire company is as narcissistic as I am and thought the perfect gift to you was pictures of us (my go-to gift outside my professional life).

Highlights included: beer showers in the kiddy-pool, “organized falling”, clothing removal and, of course, pet cameos. It was loads of fun and brought all of us together even more. This one will be hard to top.

See the email we sent out »

See the Holiday Cheer landing page »

eROI Rappers, Dollars on Bar Ceiling, Limbo Contest

Ryan Buchanan — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:05:30 +0000

Yesterday evening symbolized eROI family for me – it was a great day. It started with the eROI NYC video to the whole company. Then, a few eROI event organizers put together a great event where 8 teams of 6 employees competed in a scavenger hunt / bar crawl which involved freestyle-rapping (Kelsey was good, but couldn’t hang w/ Maureen’s Philly-style talent), getting dollar bills to stick on the ceiling at Kell’s, and the last and most important show-down was a limbo contest at Someday Lounge. At this last gig, Mai Nakamura, who is part yoga-master and secretly tours with Cirque de Soleil for being able to contort her body to fit in small boxes, backpacks, whatever. She hardly even tried and she effortlessly destroyed the competition in the limbo contest.

And today, as I was doing some Christmas shopping at the Seven Planet store in Old Town, I saw 500 Santas descend on the corner of NW 4th and Davis like a swarm of red and white locusts. My 7 year-old daughter was with me and we had to capture this unique bar crawl on video:

eROI Event Spreads Holiday Cheer

Ryan Buchanan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:03:58 +0000

I recently got an invitation from Techspace, the office building that houses our New York City office, for a holiday party filled with networking, food, music and drinks. To my delight, when I clicked on the RSVP link I was taken to their eROI Event page. We did some custom themeing on their event site to match their website. What I love about this event is that they took the bones of our design and customized it for their purpose. The addition of the holiday image and red button give it a little more holiday cheer than their normal event site would have.

Techspace’s eROI Event Page

Techspace’s website

Halloween eROI Style

Ryan Buchanan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:28:53 +0000

eROI employees live by the work hard – play hard motto and Halloween always presents a great opportunity to balance out the work. This year one of our employees took it upon herself to throw a bash and invite the gang. With Halloween a week away the invitations have been sent out and the tone has been set for this once a year event. Kelsey and her team came up with an amazing email that translated into a one of a kind event using eROI Event’s custom-theme capabilities. One of our designers, Stephen, created a zombie cool invite complete with his signature hash-tags (you would know why I say signature if you follow him on Twitter).

One of our Web Developers, Christine, busted out the production on both the email and the event. The result is a Halloween art piece brought to life.

2 Days until the Old Town Block Party!

Ryan Buchanan — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:58:11 +0000

We are only two days away from the Old Town Block Party and the entire neighborhood is buzzing with anticipation. As I mentioned in my last Block Party post, this was born out of a brainstorming session at eROI and now has grown into an event with over 20 booths, a record release party, Seven Planet store opening and a rummage sale just to name a few happenings. The eROI lounge will be by the exit on 5th, between Couch and Davis. Come down and say hi to us and all the other Old Town businesses. I can’t think of a better way to spend a Portland Saturday then with food, drinks, shopping and a lot of music. Let’s celebrate our community and help re-erect the Hung Far Low Sign!

Check out the Old Town Block Party»

Donate to help re-erect Hung Far Low»

Old Town Block Party + eROI, Sept 12

Ryan Buchanan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:32:31 +0000

On April 8th, we got the news that the legendary Hung Far Low Sign had been cleared to be brought back to its home in Chinatown. The challenge was to find the funds to do it. What ensued was an epic email strand of brainstorming throughout our team. The top of all of our lists (well, besides the “Naked Limbo Contest”) was our Marketing Coordinator’s idea to have a huge block party. I think he put it best with “yes, the answer to everything is a dance party.”

Here we are four months later in the final stages of a huge collaboration to introduce the first Old Town China Town Block Party. I’m so psyched that all the creative, delicious and just cool business in this area have all banned together to have fun for a great cause.

It’s all going down Saturday September 12th from 3pm-11pm in the parking lot between Ping, Seven Planet, and eROI. The party is all ages and free for everyone. Music will flow through the streets compliments of the DJ’s from the Fix, with live performances from Yacht, M64 and May Ling. There will be art, food, retail and a lot of cool people trying to bring back a Portland landmark.

Check out the website here »

See all the latest OTCT Block Party news on Facebook »

Will eROI take PAF Battle of the Bands for 3rd Straight Year?

Ryan Buchanan — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:58:16 +0000

Alcoa presents (sorry, that’s the beginning of a TV commercial of “The Catch” in the 1982 NFL NFC Championship flashback when Dwight Clark levitated to grab a perfect pass from Joe Montana to lift the 49ers over the Cowboys). But, I digress. My mind faded to the dramatic music to Monday Night Football, but it’s now back on the prize – bragging rights to the Third Annual PAF Battle of the Bands at Someday Lounge in Old Town / Chinatown, Portland, Oregon where the creatives show their true colors after dark. If you want to take a look at videos from prior year’s Battle of the Band, now is your time to really soak in some entertaining video for 2008. It’s going to be almost impossible for eROI to win it for yet a third year in a row, but we’re going to bring our “A” Game. Check it (this is PAF’s main event email and all the info is below):

BATTLE OF THE BANDS

DATE:
Wednesday June 17, 2009

TIME:
6:00 pm

PLACE:
Someday Lounge
224 NW 5th Avenue
Portland, OR

COST:
$300 per band

Yes, it’s time once again for the infamous PAF Battle of the Bands. And if you haven’t guessed, the theme this year is the 90′s.

Ahhh, remember Jon Bon Jovi, Dee Lite, Madonna, Nirvana and the most wonderful of all, M.C. Hammer?

So put on your pantaloons or your plaid shirt (or both) and sign up your band for a chance at glory.

Sign-up Deadline is May 30th

Do you know your membership status? Join the dynamic men and women of Portland’s Creative Services
Contact the PAF office, 503.224.2623, or jamie@portlandadfed.com.

PLEASE WRITE A HAIKU COMMENT ON YOUR LOVE OF 90′S ROCK BANDS, RAP, POP MUSIC, ANY OF IT. CONTINUE THE INSPIRATION!

eROI Launches Event Registration Software – Beta Release

Ryan Buchanan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:20:23 +0000

We, at eROI, have been working the last year on creating a new generation of Event Registration Software, eROI Event, with an enhanced user experience. We are currently in the Beta Launch Phase with a limited feature set, but we are excited to get this early-release version of the product out in front of our clients and the tech community in Portland. Our goal is to gather real user feedback as we continue to develop and enhance the product. We are offering a freemium version of the product for free events, but should a user prefer to hold paid events, we can enable the Payment Gateway feature for a minimal monthly fee of $50.00.

Novel concept, but I actually used our eROI Event tool to create an event for our Employee Disco Party on June 26th (if you are one of the 2 friends that employees can invite, then you too can join in the fun). I thought some screen shots of the back-end admin area would help you see why we are excited about this beta release (even though the feature set is slightly limited for the next 1-2 months until we get feedback from all of you that want to signup for a FREE account for free events (to use for RSVPs to dinner parties, seminars, BBQs, industry networking events, business meetings, etc.)

During this Beta Release, we will continue to support, maintain, and offer our eventROI product to our clients for complex events as it contains a larger feature set than the current Beta release of eROI Event. The goal is to eventually replace eventROI with eROI Event, when the features of eROI Event exceed those of eventROI. eROI Event has been developed in a manner that will allow users the ability to upgrade easily.

Please write your own haiku about ways you’d like to use this event registration tool – I’m waiting to see your haiku in the comments below.

eROI Team Helps Friends of the Children: Bowl-a-thon

Ryan Buchanan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:28:39 +0000

eROI employees, significant others, and kids joined in the festivities to help raise $110,000 for Friends of the Children in this year’s smash hit Bowl-a-thon! More than the dollars raised, we had an awesome time this past Saturday rocking out to Britney Spears (special request from Sydney) to learning more about the Friends organization in movies and meeting a bunch of the kids and mentors in the program. Check out this slideshow:

The Team Donates to the Women’s Shelter

Ryan Buchanan — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:32:15 +0000

Thank you to everyone at eROI who donated to the Women’s Shelter! I’m really appreciative that you ran with this whole donation effort on your own and got so many employees here to give so generously. Garrett, Summer, Chuck, Meaghan and Kelsey delivered the boxes of various warm donations to the shelter on NW 5th and Burnside in Portland this morning. They were very grateful and surprised by the amount of donations eROI had collected for them. I am sure we have made many Women happy (and warm) this Holiday Season.