About Us
We are a local, grassroots company
PortlandOregon.com was created to help our community find and share information in an effort to enrich community interaction and promote the support of local businesses. We hope you find PortlandOregon.com lives up to its name, reflecting what we believe is the best community in the world. We are working feverishly to create new publications and services for the site that enrich our city and promote the benefits of local commerce.
This site and company started from the vision of a single Portlander who believed that the best businesses enrich the communities around them. We hope you see that goal reflected in our Publications and the services we create. As part of this commitment, we develop five free community services for every advertising service we create to keep our lights on.
PortlandOregon.com is Portland's most comprehensive website for finding and sharing information about local businesses, events, activities, places, community news, opinions and advice.
A little History
Stumptown Publishing is founded and acquires the ownership rights to the domain name — PortlandOregon.com.
Stumptown Publishing launches PDXPERT.com as a Blog designed to provide local advice based on the insights of local professionals.
5 years are spent refining the framework, search algorithms and overall functionality for PortlandOregon.com. You don't want all the details, trust us.
Stumptown Publishing redesigns PDXPERT.com, bringing together 20 new voices from the Portland community to share their daily thoughts and advice.
Stumptown Publishing hires a small development team consisting of a project manager and 2 programmers to begin scripting the codebase for the website.
Stumptown Publishing privately launches PDXWEEKLY.com as a proof of concept project.
After 6 years of design and development, PortlandOregon.com launches to the public! (BETA)
PortlandOregon.com Mark
Other PortlandOregon.com services Coming Soon!
REPORTLAND™ Phase II
"Where Portlanders Report the News"
REPORTLAND is a service that allows Portlanders to report local events and news from their phone or computer in real time.
PDXCHANGE
Want to find someone to carpool with or who will let you borrow their gardening tools in exchange for piano lessons? Are you willing to trade your bike for a table saw, a pile of compost for a harvest of tomatoes, legal advice for financial? Post what you need and what you can offer in exchange on PDXCHANGE! Launching this year!
SUPPORTLANDOREGON
We believe that the best companies are those that recognize there is far more to a business than making money. Our company's mission is to enrich our community while creating sustainable local business. SUPPORTLANDOREGON will be a local campaign to encourage our users and business members to contribute back to local, not for profit organizations through the donation of time and money.
This mirrors our belief that a stronger community makes for a stronger economy.
OTHER CITIES?
While we live in Portland and developed the site to specifically serve this community, we recognize there are other great cities outside Portland. We are exploring the licensing of our codebase and proprietary framework for other communities around the world. If you represent a city outside Portland, Oregon, a better business bureau or serve as an entrepreneur who wishes to replicate our efforts, please contact us for more information about our licensing services.
CREDITS
Stumptown Publishing thanks Bryan Capitano and his team at Sync Interactive for their dedication and support on the development of PortlandOregon.com. Without their involvement, PortlandOregon.com would not be the success it is. I consider Bryan a friend and business partner who we intend to work with for many years to come.
Jim Arnal, Creator/Principal, Stumptown Publishing Co.
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