In this day of instant information, your audience isn't always willing to take the time to read paragraphs about your company, service, or product. A great solution is a Flash Presentation by Blue Compass Interactive. Our presentations use Flash animation to artistically blend text, photos, graphics, music, and voiceovers to create a dynamic presentation that spreads your message in an entertaining manner. Compared to shooting and editing a video or TV commercial, this is a much quicker, more flexible, and cost-effective solution that allows you to showcase what your business has to offer.

Flash Presentations are fully interactive movies. Your viewers can seamlessly pause, fast forward, rewind, or even jump to different sections of the movie.  Presentations are extremely flexible - they can be put on web, used via Email, on CDs, or DVDs. 

Today, Ruan Transportation is getting great results using their Flash Presentation to engage potential clients in many different ways. Their sales staff is currently armed with the Flash on CD, which is greatly enhancing their presentations to clients. Ruan also has the presentation posted on websites, and is Emailing it to potential clients.

"Recently, we partnered on a Flash Presentation for Ruan Transport Corp. We're thrilled with the outcome! I enjoy working with the Blue Compass team and highly recommend them for all interactive needs. They delivered for an amazingly competitive price."

Tara Meier

Vice President of Marketing and Communications, Ruan Transport Corp.

You can check out Ruan's Flash Presentation here! 

Blue Compass is excited to announce its recent victories in the 2009 ADDY® Awards! Honored with a Gold Addy and BEST OF CLASS in Interactive Media for the Kum & Go website design, we are very excited to win top honors in the website category two years in a row. We would especially like to thank our friends at Kum & Go. 

Blue Compass also won silver awards in the Internet Special Effects category for the WHO Radio Virtual Tour, and in the Interactive Public Service category for the Save the USS Iowa website design. 

The ADDYs® are the advertising industry's largest and most representative competition, recognizing creative excellence in the art of advertising. Every year approximately 60,000 entries are submitted in local ADDY® competitions across the United States.

Blue Compass offers its condolences to the Ruan family as John Ruan, founder of Ruan Transport, has passed away today. John Ruan had an incredible life filled with hard work, many achievements, and extraordinary compassion towards others.

It all started with a truck and a young man's resolve to provide for his family. The year was 1932. With the Great Depression worsening and his father having passed away, 17-year-old John Ruan needed a good job. With a friend's encouragement he sold one of the family cars, bought a truck, and began working for the friend's father, hauling gravel around Iowa. 

Now, more than 75 years after John Ruan loaded his first order of gravel by hand, The Ruan Companies continue to be driven by his founding principles of integrity, hard work, innovation, quality service, and compassion.

At Blue Compass, we have had a wonderful relationship with the Ruan team for years, and have witnessed the wonderful services, people, and charities Ruan supports first-hand. Ruan is truly dedicated to their customers and community, and we have always been impressed with the incredible integrity John Ruan's company displays.

Please visit www.ruan.com to see the wonderful life of John Ruan.

WesleyLife has launched a new website. With new marketing direction and branding, WesleyLife wanted to invigorate their online presence. WesleyLifes' multiple retirement communities are very distinct and each have its own atmosphere. The newest community, Edgewater, is like no other in Iowa. Carrying its own branding, while housed under the WesleyLife name and culture, Edgewater was given its own design while staying cohesive with WesleyLife.  

The site features a very contemporary design with intuitive navigation that communicates WesleyLifes' outstanding retirement communities and services. To achieve a great site, Blue Compass provided the following solutions:

• Multiple Flash maps to help find a WesleyLife retirement community  or services near site visitors
• Designated sub-navigation for each retirement community
• Multiple graphical calendars to showcase events throughout WesleyLife and its retirement communities
• Photo gallery opportunities for each service line and retirement community
• Easy-to-use content management system (CMS)
• Search engine optimization enhancements 

Check it out at www.WesleyLife.org !

Proliant Health and Biologicals just launched a new website for their trademark product, ImmunoLin. Proliant needed an online presence for this prominent product that was clean and professional in quality design as well as a simplistic user friendly navigation.  They have two core audiences that were vastly different and it was important for this site to reach both targeted groups.

The goal was to launch this site from start to finish in less than two months, which happened without a hiccup.  The Proliant team was great to work with and they choose to break in the new content management system right away with great reports on how easy it is to use.  Anyone on the staff can now easily and instantly update their new site without making phone calls and raking up expensive bills. 

You can check out the new site at www.Immunolin.com

One of Iowa's top malls has a fresh, new, web presence. With over 90 stores in a recently renovated, shopper-friendly facility, Merle Hay Mall has a lot to offer to the Des Moines community - both in store and online. 

Looking ahead to the mall's 50th birthday celebration, the Merle Hay Mall team came to Blue Compass for a new website. Blue Compass delivered a bold new design, new functionality to improve the visitor's experience, and a content management system that allows the Merle Hay Mall staff to easily and instantly update the site. 

The Diocese of Des Moines has launched a new website. Wanting to update the look and usefulness of their website, the Diocese of Des Moines approached Blue Compass to help them reach their web goals - 1) creating an inviting atmosphere that portrays the Diocese's general information while also conveying love and charity, and 2) providing a reorganization of content that would help various audiences find the information they are seeking. 

The Diocese of Des Moines made information a priority. To help provide site visitors with various methods to access information and events within the Diocese, Blue Compass created a homepage that helps site visitors instantly review lots of information - 1) News, 2) Events, 3) Blog entries, and 4)Multiple callouts to provide direct information about particular subjects. 

The site features a charismatic, inviting, and open design with intuitive navigation. To achieve a great site, Blue Compass provided the following solutions:

"Thanks to the help of Blue Compass, we've got a fresh look and state-of-the-art technology," said Anne Marie Cox, director of communications for the Diocese of Des Moines. "The redesigned site has features that appeal to a broad audience including online giving, blogging, online event registration, a parish and school locator, a section for information in Spanish and a content editing system that will make it easier for diocesan staff to keep the site updated. Blue Compass has done an excellent job of meeting our needs." 

Check it out at www.DMDiocese.org!