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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 | News & Updates
Thanks to everyone able to make it to our Annual Holiday Party! We had great food provided by Old City Entertainment and wine provided by Bag O’ Wine! We are looking forward to the new year and everything it has to offer! We appreciate the ongoing support from the community!
Happy Holidays to all!


Sunday, December 18th, 2011 | News & Updates
Check out Lizzie, Daniel, and Melissa in the WIVK / Fowler’s Christmas Parade in Downtown Knoxville on Friday, December 2, 2011. The parade is a holiday tradition we look forward to every year here at Slamdot.

Have a safe and joyous holiday season!
Sunday, September 25th, 2011 | News & Updates
First, there was Scare in the Square, then there was a Nightmare on Gay Street, and now your friends at Slamdot are taking it BACK to Market Square for the 3rd Annual Scare in the Square!
This Halloween, if you’re in the mood to see ghosts, watch zombies, play with werewolves, converse with vampires and hang with superheros, all while taking in some great live Halloween music from a local band, and enjoying food, games and other entertainment, then come Friday, October 28th, there’s no other place you should be than Scare in the Square! And the best part is, there’s no admission to attend!
Below are the highlights, but you can get full details with directions, times, parking info, games, entertainment and food vendors at www.scareinthesquare.com.
- So, when is it again? Friday, October 28th, 2011.
- And what time? 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm.
- I forgot, where is it? Market Square in downtown Knoxville.
- How much does it cost to attend? It’s $0, that means no admission whatsoever! But you should bring a little money for some of the food and entertainment vendors.
- So, what is this Scare in the Square all about?? Glad you asked! Check it out…
- Live Music by Bedtime for Dracula
- Live Performance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” by Momentum Dance Lab
- Candy Crawl on the Square
- Costume Contests with Prizes
- Pumpkin Carving Contests among downtown businesses
- Face Painting by Royal Magic Events
- Magic Show by the Pressley Brothers
- Fortune Telling by Wisdom Wagon
- The Paranormal Sensation with special guest appearance by Eunice Hatfield
- 2 Haunted Bounce Castles (will close at dusk for safety purposes, so come early!)
- Kid’s Halloween Games
- Spooky Photo Booth from Memories in a Flash
- Creepy Critters from the Knoxville Zoo
- Food Vendors, including Bread of Heaven BBQ, Scooter Doo’s Hot Dogs, and Rita’s Italian Ice
- And much more! Much, MUCH, more…
So, if you’re 10 months old, or 10,000 (you know, like Vampires), then you should come check out Scare in the Square, and bring your friends, family, spouse, and anyone else you think has a cool costume!
Don’t forget, mark your calendars for Friday, October 28, 2011, from 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm, to come celebrate Halloween in a fun, family-friendly atmosphere on Market Square in downtown Knoxville.
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 | News & Updates
With 2010 coming to a close and 2011 around the bend, we’re excited to announce some great new additions to our product and service lineup, all of which have been reflected with updates to our website.
First, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of a brand new website package, called Premium. This package provides all of the features and marketing tools of the popular Business package, but with a totally unique design built from scratch. Now customers needing stronger brand integration can work with us, using a proven platform that works, with a handcrafted design, tailored just for them.
Next up, Ready. Set. Logo! provides our customers with an affordable, streamlined logo design that can be added to the purchase of any full website package, providing a crisp, professional brand for their business. It’s the perfect fit for anyone who already knows what they want their logo to look like, and just needs our help bringing it to life. And, it’s ready in just a couple of days!
Lastly, let’s talk a bit about OnSite Mobile Support. In addition to group trainings and seminars, we can assist with basic email configuration and installation of FTP software, among other services, so look for “Slamdot on Wheels” around your neck of the woods! Can’t come to us? We’ll come to you! Oh, one more thing…
We’re rolling out the icing on the cake with our exclusive Slamdot VIP Program for top customers who require additional care and access to the best expertise each month. VIP includes our Pro hosting plan, priority technical support, proactive website software upgrades, monthly website changes and no-charge access to our monthly SlamCamps. There’s also a little something extra that only VIP customers will know about :)
Saturday, October 9th, 2010 | News & Updates
You’re invited to Nightmare on Gay Street, a family-friendly Halloween event hosted by Slamdot, on Friday, October 29th, from 5:30 pm to 10 pm, on the 100 Block of Gay Street in downtown Knoxville, with a private Haunted Open House at the Slamdot Store for our customers and friends.
For all those souls who dare, come join your fellow humans…dead or alive…and bring your young to partake in the night of fright and eve of enchantment, where we hope you’ll escape unscathed to tell your own twisted tale of….
- Live music
- Trick-or-treating
- Costume contests
- A pumpkin carving contest among downtown businesses
- Creepy critters from Ijams Nature Center
- A Bounce house
- Kid’s Halloween games
- Face painting
- Ghost stories
- Food vendors, including Bread of Heaven Catering BBQ, Larry’s Coney Island, Rita’s Ice, and funnel cakes from Concessions by Cox!
- And much more!
At the Slamdot Store, we’ll be having a private Haunted Open House for our close friends and customers. We will have beer, wine, Halloween music, and a bone-chilling scene to mingle and network with others, along with some fangtastic door prizes.
For the official Nightmare on Gay Street flyer, please visit http://www.nightmareongaystreet.com/, and share this with anyone you know, including zombies, ghosts, goblins, werewolves, vampires, witches, mummies or any other supernatural beings you may be acquainted with.
Please RSVP no later than Monday, October 25th, to rsvp@slamdot.com with your name and the number of additional guests you will be bringing.
We’re requiring all those attending Slamdot’s Haunted Open House to RSVP, as we’re limiting entry to those who are signed up to come. However, all are welcome to come out for the Nightmare on Gay Street event!
Driving directions are available on our Facebook event page.
We’ll be celebrating our 5th year anniversary in style tomorrow, August 31st, from 3 pm to 8 pm at the Slamdot Store in downtown Knoxville at 108 S. Gay Street.
Since our initial announcement about the 5-year anniversary party, we have scheduled Phil Williams from Newstalk 98.7 FM to come out and do a live remote broadcast here at the Slamdot Store from 3 to 6 pm, so come out and listen live in person!
We’ve also partnered with one of our good customers, Bread of Heaven Catering, to bring a smoker and provide some of the best BBQ in East TN right here at the store! They’re one of the best kept secrets in town, and if you’ve had their food, you know why you need to be here. If you haven’t, don’t blame us for any regrets about not showing up…
In addition to the great food and live Phil Williams broadcast, we’ll be giving out tons of door prizes, including gift certificates and goodies from Elegant Essentials, The Shrimp Dock, Angela Floyd Schools, The Irish Times, ECO Clean Carpet Solutions, Spirit Driven Coaching, Coffee and Chocolate, Tea at the Gallery, Meadow View Greenhouse, and the Knoxville Opera!
There will also be beer, wine, some great music, and of course, like always, some tasty Italian Ice from Rita’s Ice. Please come join us as we show our support to all of our customers and friends who have helped Slamdot hit the 5-year milestone.
Not only can the websites we develop go mobile, but now our support team can, too. We’ve begun to put together our fleet of Slamdot service vehicles with the addition of a newly-wrapped Nissan Cube. With our OnSite Mobile Support, we can come to you and your office for website or social media training, seminars, basic email configuration, FTP client setup and other related support issues.
Check out what’s coming to a street near you:

Thursday, August 5th, 2010 | News & Updates
Slamdot turned 5 years old today (Happy Birthday to us!), which is amazing. We have done a lot and come a long way in 5 short years, and we’re already looking forward to the next 5 years ahead of us. This fall we have a lot of new things going on, and we are very excited about everything that is happening, especially with the Slamdot Store. We have received numerous positive comments about it, with overwhelming support from our local community of Knoxville, TN. Business continues to get better and better by the day, and more people are realizing how easy and accessible it is working with us in the retail format.
We’d like to thank our awesome customers, and our close friends and colleagues, who have been with us all of these years and understood our vision for the future. We hope to continue improving our services even further, and offering many more options to our clients.
Since starting out working remotely from home, to the handful of smaller offices we’ve called home in between, and opening the first Slamdot Store earlier this year, we have loved every minute of the journey and can’t wait for more. We hope those who are available to join us in Knoxville on August 31st will come by the Slamdot Store to hang out from 3 pm to 8 pm, as we gather in celebration.
Thanks for 5 great years, from the entire Slamdot Team!
We had the opportunity to attend the official ribbon cutting to celebrate the opening of the new 100 Block of Gay Street in downtown Knoxville this morning, which has undergone a major renovation over the past 17 months with the entire street being closed to vehicular traffic. The “Streetscapes Project” was done to fix the old infrastructure of the street, sidewalks, utilities and other aspects of the block, while beautifying the block even further and adding more character.

As you can tell from Elaine jumping high into the air, we’re beyond thrilled about the re-opening of our block, where we’ve called home for the last couple of years. Right now it’s only open to pedestrian traffic, but the entire street will be open to vehicular traffic on August 15, in a few short weeks, which comes just after our 5-year anniversary on August 5. The timing is perfect.
Mayor Bill Haslam came out to address the crowd and lead the ribbon cutting.
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