By Joel Davis
May 10, 2012

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Mercersburg Academy: Endowment Video

 

We made another video for Mercersburg Academy, which they recently showed at an appreciation dinner.

The goal was to highlight the importance of endowments for the school, featuring interviews with both students and teachers. Endowments pay for faculty salaries, provides student scholarships, and ensures the highest quality education for Mercersburg students.

We are really proud of how this video came together and the opportunity to work with Mercersburg Academy.

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By Joel Hudson
May 8, 2012

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Client Highlight: Mercersburg Academy

 

Mercersburg Academy is one of the finest academic institutions we know of.

Founded in 1893 in the heart of Pennsylvania, Mercersburg is a private, coed, college preparatory boarding school. Their most notable almuni includes Jimmy Stewart, Benecio del Toro, 3 Medal of Honor recipients, and 54 Olympians. Quite the legacy! 

We worked with Mercersburg to create a video that will engage alumni in their 20′s and 30′s, motivating them to get involved in and support their True Blue Annual Fund. It was an incredible honor for us to work with an educational institute of this caliber.

We are really pleased with the final product, a unique 3-minute animated video that will be used at live events and in digital marketing campaigns.

Take a look…

Would you give Mercersburg a shout-out on Twitter to let them know what you think of the video? That would be amazing!

Tweet them: @Mercersburg
Let US know what you think, too!
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By Trevor Roberts
April 24, 2012

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Staff Retreat

Our incredible staff is what makes us who we are.

Since we began Cross and Crown, we have intentionally kept a high focus on our staff and their families. They are the life-source of our company, bringing not only their talents and abilities but also their energy, passion, and personality.

 

This is our tenth year as a company (Happy Birthday to us!), and we wanted our annual Staff Retreat to reflect the significance and value of that.

We took our staff and their spouses away for three nights and four days of FUN!

We wanted to demonstrate to our team how much we value and appreciate them—for their hard work and for who they are in our lives, personally and as a company.

While our main office is in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, we also have employees working out of Tennessee and Indiana. So the focus of our retreat this year was community.

We rented a house on Deep Creek Lake in Maryland, and the setting was perfect: a cabin in the middle of the woods with every possible amenity you could think of!

Some of the highlights:

•  We brought in a masseuse and treated everyone to a message
•  We arranged for a live-in caterer who prepared all meals and snacks
•  We spent a lot of time in the indoor pool and hot tub
•  We had a blast playing games together as a group

Everyone left the retreat with a stronger sense of community and camaraderie, and excited about what lies ahead at Cross and Crown.

What is done in your workplace to
care for and pour into the staff?
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By Adam Swisher
April 3, 2012

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Favorite iPhone Apps

Trevor’s iPhone app post inspired me to write one of my own.

I’m not a neat freak at all, except when it comes to technology.

I’ll leave piles of clothes all over my house, but when it comes to my Mac or my iPhone, I have to be organized. To an almost OCD level.

I go crazy if my Mac desktop has more than one row of “stuff” and I have to keep my iPhone apps down to just one page worth. If I find a new game I like, I have to delete one from my Games folder so the new one fits.

Crazy? Maybe.

Here’s a screenshot of my one and only iPhone page… ya know, as proof:

 As for my favorite apps…

  • Echofon
    This is a pretty sweet Twitter app because they also have a desktop version for Mac. What sold me is that it syncs with my iPhone, so when I have it open all day on my Mac and I get notifications, it WONT show up on my iPhone as well, until I close out of the desktop app. This is the best in my opinion if you’re an active Twitter user who’s on a computer for most of your work day.
  •  Instagram / Camera+ / PicFrame
    These are my 3 photography needs. I’m in no way a photographer, but this makes me look super hipster and cool. And I like being cool. Camera+ does some different enhancements, then PicFrame does, well, frames, and then finally I upload to Instagram to be cool like everyone else.
  • IMDB
    I’m a movie buff, and I’m constantly in that situation of “What was the name of the dude in ….” and “I’m telling you, the kid from a Christmas Story is an elf in the movie ELF – I’ll prove it.” Enough said here.
  • DrawSomething
    It’s just so addictive. I even bought a SYLUS for the iphone so I could be better. ;) I have a current 80-something streak with a good buddy.
  • Ultimate Guitar Tabs
    Being an active musician, I’m always in a situation where I need to look something up. The app is a couple bucks, but well worth it for guitarists.

Besides those, I rarely use anything else. Well, maybe the Alarm Clock, Settings (to change brightness/WiFi), and Angry Birds seasons when they add more levels. ;)

What are YOUR favorite apps?
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