Migration Notes

• Some users may receive duplicate messages. This is a one time issue. Most users will notice no issues.
• Some users may be using very old mail settings. As such this may result in the need to update to the latest settings discussed below.
• Some passwords are not importing for certain users, this has to do with a password format incompatibility. Reseting the password will allow these users to retrieve mail once again.

Server Settings

Incoming Mail Server:
POP or IMAP (IMAP is recommended for your safety)
user name/account name is full email address
msg.ironkeep.net
enable TLS/SSL (Secure Socket Layer)

Outgoing Mail Server:
SMTP
msg.ironkeep.net
Requires Authentication (same username and password as incoming)
port 587 (usually found under advanced)
enable TLS/SSL (Secure Socket Layer)

Admin Tool

The new email admin tool is located here: vault.ironkeep.net
If you do not have a VAULT account please call and we will get one setup for you!

Web Mail

The new webmail is located here: webmail.ironkeep.net

For Best results please use Firefox 2.01+ Safari 31.2+ or IE 7+

User Settings

All user controlled settings can be set via the options panel within the webmail. There is no longer a reason for a user to have to login into VAULT. This includes: vacation message, spam filter threshold, password reset, mail forwarding and copy to, etc.

Spam Filtering

All filtered messages are now deposited into a folder accessible via webmail or IMAP called “Junk”. To retrieve messages move the messages to your “Inbox” from the “Junk” folder. Adding an email contact to your webmail address book will “whitelist” messages from that sender.

Notable New Features

• 1 GB IMAP accessible mail box
• Web 2.0 Webmail Client
• Unified domain management via VAULT
• Improved Blackberry and iPhone interoperability
• Option to subscribe to exchange calendaring system
• Option to subscribe to email archiving system
• Improved authenticated sending performance (it’s faster Johny)

Upcoming Features

• Improved SPAM recognition engine (in testing phase)
• Push Email/Calendaring/Contacts
• Full Snow Leopard/iPhone Calendaring and Contact integration
• 2GB+ mailboxes
• Improved Archive Search Interface

Traverse City, Mich., August 7, 2009 – Lovers of craft beer, world music and local harvest won’t want to miss the first annual Traverse City Microbrew & Music Festival Saturday, August 29, in the historic trees and on the front lawn of the Village at Grand Traverse Commons. Tickets are available at Oryana, Right Brain Brewery, Old Town Coffee, North Peak or online at tcbeerfest.com and porterhouseproductions.com.

A $25 ticket includes seven bands, education, and entitles attendees to eight pours with more available, from breweries including: Right Brain, Short’s, Founders, Bell’s, Jolly Pumpkin, Tri City, New Holland, Magic Hat, Sierra Nevada, Michigan Brewing Company, Three Sergeants, Red Hook, Goose Island, Stone, Arcadia, Keweenaw and others, plus regional mead, wine, cider, nonalcoholic ales and specialty brews. There is a $50 Brewers’ Happy Hour ticket that enables participants to meet the brewers for a two-hour early entry, enjoy inclusive catered food-and-beer pairings and receive limited-edition festival merchandise.

This event is the first such in Michigan that pays 100 percent for beer, waives all table fees. Also it supports the brewers and their families with rooms at the Grand Traverse Resort,a presenting sponsor supporting craft beer and busy brewers. Ticket buyers must be over 21.

Blues, zydeco, acoustic folk, bluegrass, gypsy jazz, funk and rock musicians, as well as Scottish bagpipers will perform on two stages. The lineup includes the legendary Buckwheat Zydeco Band, Clumsy Lovers, Caravan of Thieves, Mike Moran & Levi Britton, Delilah DeWylde & The Lost Boys and Luke Winslow-King.

Master of ceremonies is Chris O’Brien, award-winning author of “Fermenting Revolution: How to “Drink Beer and Save the World,”breworganic.com and beeractivist.com. A dining tent will feature local food for sale, demonstrations by “Lord of the Gourd” carver Pat Harrison, and workshops educating attendees about local hops, home brewing and mead making.

“Our goal is to establish a long-standing tradition that celebrates great beer, music,
culture, local food and sustainable practices with northern Michigan patrons and vendors,” said festival creator and owner of Porterhouse Productions Sam Porter. “The long-term vision is to create an anchor event with the Microbrew and Music Festival to support a community non-profit week-long annual Epicurean Harvest Festival celebrating food and craft beverage as well as arts and culture for all ages. We also aim to raise funds to support local youth empowerment programs through the Good Work Collective (GWC) and Little Artshram,” he added.

The festival will be a “green” event, with Porterhouse and 350.org, a Michigan Land Use program, providing support including compostable serving ware, eco merchandise, green printing and even a wind-powered stage, lights and sound.

The Village at Grand Traverse Commons is on 11th Street a block west of Division Street just west of downtown Traverse City.

Porterhouse Productions is now accepting applications and ideas from breweries, artists, sponsors, vendors and volunteers via info@porterhouseproductions.com

http://www.tcbeerfest.com

Since 1997 Porterhouse Productions has created awarding-winning beer festivals, concerts and events across the northern Rockies and is now operating and producing events throughout northern Michigan.

About Lawton Gallagher Group

An atypical blend of online and offline marketing and communication expertise raises the bar of this diverse firm located in the heart of vibrant downtown Traverse City—-Michigan’s “Ann Arbor North.”

“We make sense of it all,” is a common rejoinder to potential clients calling about online web marketing dynamics,  or maybe inquiring about introducing a widget to the new world order of Internet savvy consumer.

“Our mission is to assist small to mid-sized businesses realize marketing opportunities while utilizing Web-based communication services, new online media and the traditional tools of the trade,” observes Dee Lawton Smith, firm founder.  “In that capacity we collaborate with Ironkeep as an ISP provider and consultant,  while utilizing its wide range of services and technology expertise.”

Facebook, Twitter, Google, press releases, media relations, traditional advertising, MySpace, PPC, analytics, SEO/SEM, blogs, E-mail marketing, website design, writing and programming…..

We leverage every channel in this new world of social marketing, driven by personalization and the challenge of shaping relevant messages for diverse and far flung demographic groups.  All seek information geared to them.  They find it—on the Internet and elsewhere.

We get it.  And we want you to get it too.

The proof is in the results………

Great Lakes/Caribbean Sailing Charters

Objective: Communicate with former, current and potential new customers worldwide.  Leveraging a respected and branded industry name within traditional media, while integrating and expanding a comprehensive online campaign.

Tactics: Diverse mix of online/offline that included print ads, news releases, direct mail campaign, SEO (search engine optimization), SEM (search engine marketing), E-newsletters, social network campaign, analytics implementation and monitoring.

Results: Off season bookings have increased dramatically.  Website traffic has doubled month over month.  70% of new business is traceable to customers discovering the business online.  Customer involvement and communications have been greatly enhanced due to online social and interactive initiatives.  Traditional advertising spend has been reduced and redistributed to more profitable and trackable online efforts.

National Wood Stove and Fireplace Retailer

Objective: Maintain and grow current search engine positions.  Increase traffic for specific product areas and keyword sets.  Increased performance of current PPC (pay-per-click) campaign.

Tactics:  Search engine optimization (SEO) and enhancement of the website.  Introduction of a company blog.  Blog writing and posts.  Audited, edited and customized current PPC campaign.  Analytics implementation and tracking.

Results: CTR (click-through-rate) increased from 3.64% to 10.61%.  PPC site traffic jumped 368%.  Organic/natural traffic experienced a significant increase for the specific product and keyword set, due to SEO modifications and blogging efforts.  Prime search engine positions not only were maintained, but experienced an increase on several important industry terms.

International Functional Food Company

Objective: Build already significant E-commerce activity.  Rebuild website to reflect expanded and improved product mix.  Affirm company’s brand as the industry leader.  Implement blogging and social networking.

Tactics: A mix of online/offline initiatives, everything from writing and design of a new website, to product testimonials, E-news releases, and company features in newspapers, trade journals and magazines.

Results: Increased brand recognition and steady rise of blog traffic.  Maintain current customer base while attracting new website visitors.  New product design and launches.  Growth in new products, equipment and facilities

Tell Us About You:

Lawton Gallagher Group
Conventional and Online Communications/Marketing

Phone: 231.947.2304                    
E-Mail:  dsmith@lggroup.us
Web: http://www.lggroup.us

125 East Front St., Suite 201
Traverse City, MI  49684

We would like to thank Jim Bolinski at Advanced Computer Solutions for recommending IRONKEEP™ email and web hosting services to his clients.

About ACS

Advanced Computer Solutions is a small to medium sized business support service, with special expertise in Electronic Medical Records systems for Medical Clinics.

Established in 1999 with a focus on providing affordable networking services to the small business community, my (Jim Bolinski) 38 years in the field has allowed us to propose solutions that will accomplish the given task without excessive technology investments for our customers. Always keeping the customer’s need first we have grown steadily without any advertising, relying totally upon referrals from our customers.

What People Are Saying About ACS

Contact ACS

http://www.acs-service.com/
806 Hastings St
Traverse City, MI 49686
231.933.6333

The Sun Microsystems™-based Email service enhanced and modified for user friendly provisioning by IRONKEEP™, is competitive with local exchange installations and hosted exchange services, explains Zachary Schneider, CIO (Chief Information Officer) and Ironkeep™ Systems Engineer.

“Today’s business hinges on solid Email communications and frankly our market deserves better,” he said, noting that existing Microsoft Exchange solutions are in his opinion costly with steep licensing fees, require ongoing maintenance, don’t run well on low quality hardware and support limited users with high quality hardware.  He also predicted future customer service announcements this summer involving Sun Microsystems’™ new Aries technology.

In contrast, Zach pointed out that IRONKEEP’s™ new Email system competes favorably with MS Exchange in all areas.  It provides Email, groupware and calendaring functionality, outlook integration, spam and virus removal, and online mail storage.  “Plus, your Email data is also secure since it’s hosted on our resilient storage platform with off site replication.”

Other features of the new Email service:
•    No licensing fees
•    A lack of 24/7 exchange server monitoring costs
•    No costly updates
•    Monthly flat rate per account
•    Safe data storage
•    Free and open platforms offered by a local company