Moving On - Castle Leaves PRWeb / Vocus
August 10, 2007 Posted by Al Castle
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Categories: Castle, Insider, PRWeb, Puter Stuff, Web Design & Dev, gnash-teeth
Just this last month, I posted about my two year anniversary as the CIO of PRWeb. I’ve accomplished quite a bit with David, Kevin, Jed, Karl and Poem. Tons of new features, widgets and thousands of lines of code to make PRWeb what it is today. Too many feeds to count, the first to implement Trackbacks for press releases, the recently released Feature Video, the creation of EON for Business Wire, Billboard Publicity Wire, and IssuesWire. Many services have been built from the ground up — including 301url, PRWebPhotowire, PRWebPodcast, and RSSPAD. There’s so much more, it’s exhausting just thinking about it all.
David McInnis founded and built a great company, hired talented people (cough), nurturing a controversial vision and leading an industry. You’ll find a recent article on CNN about just that, confirmation of our ongoing success. With Business Wire embracing us as partners, countless copycat companies springing up like weeds, tremendous growth, and finally the sale to Vocus just last August.
This past week I was in Lanham, MD, to coordinate with several of my co-workers to prepare for a smooth transition as I have resigned from my post as the unofficial ‘creative thunderstorm’ and leader of the PRWeb development and network operations team. Mark Heys, the VP of Web Development for Vocus, will be taking over the reigns, and I have complete confidence that he and the team I built will continue to innovate and provide the tremendous quality of affordable service PRWeb is known for.
I also had the pleasure to partake in the festivities of the Vocus quarterly boat cruise in Annapolis and the highly energetic post cruise activities. It was a lot of fun and a great way to step aside for a new prosperous era of PRWeb/Vocus to begin.
To all those that I’ve met along the way and had the pleasure of working with at Vocus East, I shall miss you. To those in the Washington office, I shall be by to have lunch with you all from time to time. Be well my friends.
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*sniff*
BTW, you better come back soon. After today, I owe you quite a few horizontal hacky sack bombs.
I’ll miss you
From a million miles away, you will be missed far more than you’ll prolly ever know.
P.S. Hope yer not expecting a blog post dedicated to your departure. You may recall a certain post from yourself devoted to stupid Paolo. You may also remember not writing one for me. An eye for an eye, brat.
Actually I blogged about Paolo because he left the company. You moved to another apartment. That’s not blog worthy, you lil turd.
I second that.