Michael Nutt of Movable Ink is helping make e-mail more current

Published: Tuesday, August 07, 2012, 9:05 AM

By Mike Marshall, The Huntsville Times 

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Now, he's in New York City as the co-founder of a company that does work with some big-name businesses: Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, American Eagle Outfitters and Verizon, among them.

But years ago, Michael Nutt was living in Huntsville, dreaming of the day he could capitalize on his lifelong interest in computers.

Nutt knew when he was 5 that he wanted a career in computer science. He liked the "limitless possibilities" of computers, as he puts it.

Some fatherly influence helped, too. His father, now an employee of World Wide Technology, worked for computer companies here.

"It was all accessible," he said. "Anybody can buy a home computer and build something without having to spend millions of dollars or asking anybody's permission."

In 2010, Nutt co-founded Movable Ink, along with Vivek Sharma. Sharma is also the chief executive officer; Nutt is the chief technical officer.

Nutt describes Movable Ink as a way for companies to "make their email marketing campaigns more dynamic.''

Movable Ink does this by making emails more real-time. Among the company's chief goals is to make email current when the user opens it, instead of emails that become stale as time passes,

"We determine the content that goes into an email when the user opens it as opposed to when it is sent," Nutt said.

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MONTGOMERY -- A political action committee has been formed to promote the passage of a Sept. 18 referendum on taking money from a state savings account to prop up the state's ailing General Fund.

The Keep Alabama Working, or KAW, PAC was formed July 25, and has so far received $125,000 from the Alabama Nursing Home Association. The PAC is promoting a website by the same name: www.keepalabamaworking.com.

The Keep Alabama Working campaign is being backed by individuals and organizations to educate voters about what is at stake with the Sept. 18 vote, campaign spokesman Rick Journey said.

"These are groups of people who see the threat if it doesn't pass," Journey said.

Groups involved in promoting the amendment include the Nursing Home Association, Alabama Hospital Association, Alabama Association of Volunteer Firefighters and others Journey said.

Voters go to the polls Sept. 18 on a proposal to transfer $145 million a year for three years from the Alabama Trust Fund to the General Fund. The Trust Fund is a state savings account fueled by the state's royalties from offshore natural gas drilling leases in Alabama waters.