Just a quick post to say thank you to all you came out for last Friday’s Open House, celebrating Element Fusion’s ten year anniversary. We had a great turnout and a great time visiting, eating and giving away prizes.

Congratulations to Skip Nolan, who won our grand prize drawing for an iPod touch, and to all of the others who won some great restaurant gift cards.

Events like this remind us of how fortunate we are to work with so many fantastic individuals and businesses. We cannot thank you enough for your support of our company and we truly look forward to continuing to work with you for the next ten years and beyond.

Though the party is over, we’re still celebrating all year long. Remember, we still have three more website giveaways coming up throughout 2010. Stay tuned for more information and for your chance to nominate and vote for your favorite non-profits.

Just a reminder about Element Fusion's Ten Year Anniversary Open House, coming up this Friday, March 5th, 2010. In case you missed our original post about it, here's a little recap.

When you show up, you can register to win an iPod touch and a number of other fantastic gift cards. In fact, we'll be giving away gift cards every twenty minutes to those in attendance and we'll hold a drawing at the very end of the day for the grand prize of an iPod touch.

But there's much more to enjoy as well. The entire EF team will be on hand and there will be food, soft drinks, complimentary chair massages, game room fun, EF trivia and much more.

And the first 40 people through the door will receive a limited-edition Element Fusion t-shirt!

Here's the details:

Friday, March 5th, 2010 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm (come and go as you please)
At the Element Fusion Offices
5400 N. Grand Blvd.
Suite 515
Oklahoma City, OK 73112

All are welcome. We hope to see you there!

Oklahoma City's NBC affiliate KFOR produced and aired a two minute feature on Element Fusion this week as a part of its "Is this a great State or what?" series. The segment highlights our company's history and gives a nice look inside the Element Fusion offices. We'd like to thank Galen Culver and the KFOR team for putting this together. You can check out the full feature below.

Do you remember what the Internet was like ten years ago? Websites were far less common. Email was just taking hold. But excitement about this new medium was building.

At that time, three Oklahoma City entrepreneurs sat around a fold-out card table eating Papa John's pizza and looking ahead, envisioning a company that would bring world-class website development to Oklahoma City and beyond. Ten years ago, Element Fusion was born.

Ten years later, we are ready to celebrate this fantastic milestone. So, we created a little something we like to call “Element Fusion, ten years strong.” Why “ten years strong,” you ask? Because for us, it’s more than just being ten years old. For us, it’s about the strength of what’s been built – a solid, debt-free foundation coupled with rapid growth. As we always say, our company and our products are built to last.

So anyway, on to the celebrations. We’ve got a lot of great things in store that you’ll be hearing about throughout this coming year, but here’s a little overview to get you started.

The Anniversary Website

We’ve put up a little web page at 10.elementfusion.com to house information about the anniversary. You’ll also find links to this page in little badges we’ve added to the top, right corner of most of our marketing websites (including this site). Check out the anniversary site for a little bit about our history and more information about the anniversary.

The Anniversary Open House

Join us at the Element Fusion offices on March 5th, 2010 for this special party. We’ll have food, t-shirts, prizes (including an iPod Touch giveaway!), Rock Band tournaments and a whole lot more when you stop by between 1:30pm and 4:30pm. All are welcome to come and go as you please. Our whole team looks forward to meeting everyone and hanging out at the Anniversary Open House.

The Anniversary Giveaways

We’re ramping up our Website Giveaway program for 2010. We’ll be running the program four times through the year, giving away four separate website packages valued at $5,000 each to four separate non-profit organizations. As usual, we will implement a process of nominations and public voting to help select the winners so stay tuned for more information as these giveaways get going.

Stay tuned

We’ll be posting more information about all of these activities throughout the year, so stay tuned to our blog and Twitter feed for further information. As always, thank you for your support of Element Fusion over the past ten years. We look forward to serving you for the next ten years and beyond.

Last night, the Element Fusion team, spouses and guests had a grand party to kick off our ten year anniversary celebration. That’s right, Element Fusion has now been in business for ten years, and we’ve got some great things planned in 2010 to celebrate this milestone. Stay tuned for more in the weeks to come.

To get things started in style, we got together in the “Showroom” at Red Prime Steak in downtown Oklahoma City for an evening of food and fun. Great food, live jazz, an EF history trivia contest, Chad’s brilliant emcee efforts, and funny stories from EF’s past all made for a great evening. To cap it off, owners Ryan Whitaker and Justin Cowan shared their thoughts on the past ten years, our present team, and a look ahead to the next ten years and beyond.

I thought we’d share a little taste of last night’s event with you in some pics below. Enjoy!

Chad engages and dazzles the crowd as the evening’s emcee.

Owner, Justin Cowan, goes over some of his favorite Element Fusion memories.

Tim Thompson (bass) and Adam Ray (sax/keys) did a great job filling in as last minute emergency replacements for our scheduled band. Oh, and hey look, it’s me sitting in on keys for this one song.

One of our lovely tables of guests including (left to right) Neill and Amanda Harmer, Vivian Hoang, Matt Sanders, Matt Grimm, and Jordan Romero. For some reason, Matt Sanders is the only one with food.