Mercury New Media has hired another certified Microsoft .NET developer to join its professional services staff. Jessica Chong joins Mercury New Media as a server-side developer on Mercury’s Technical Services team. Jessica holds several Microsoft certifications, has extensive experience as a .NET developer as in-house staff and as a professional consultant and will bring a plethora of .NET and database skills to Mercury.

Mercury was nominated to participate in the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business of the Year competition. Each year a select group of high performing small businesses (5 ~ 250 employees) are identified to compete for the Chamber’s prestigious Small Business of the Year award.

Mercury New Media has earned Microsoft’s Mobility Competency, a distinction given to select Microsoft Certified Partners.

Mercury New Media is a Bronze winner in the E-commerce Website category in the2010 Summit Creative Awards competition for its work for Sencommunications, Inc.

Mercury’s Technical Services team’s latest addition is Matt Dunphy. Matt is a seasoned .NET Web Developer with an extensive background developing complex web applications using Microsoft’s .NET development platform (2.0 through 3.5), C#, ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript and SQL Server.

Today Mercury New Media has been honored by Microsoft as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

Leading technology market research firms Gartner, Yankee Group and International Data Corp. estimate that the number of mobile device users accessing the Internet on their mobile devices increased by at least 100% through 2008 and consensus estimates place the growth for 2009 to match that rate.

Mercury New Media has been selected as a member of the new Microsoft WebsiteSpark program. The WebsiteSpark program is aimed at web development firms that develop websites for other organizations and is intended to assist with the adoption, spread and implementation of Microsoft web technologies.

Mercury New Media developed a website and secure extranet that streamlines communication of all Auction sale information. The resulting solution provides for real-time publication of vehicle inventory, email distribution of 8,000 sale reports every week and publication of consigner ads, sale schedules and auction regulations.

“When times are good you should advertise. When times are bad, you must advertise.” This phrase hits home for many of our clients. A great number of companies face both diminished budgets and an increased need to market in order to improve revenue stream.