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Boston, MA - January 12, 2011 – Verndale, an award-winning digital agency, is proud to announce members of Verndale’s program management, search engine marketing, and engineering teams recently became Adobe®  Certified Experts (ACE) – demonstrating their proficiency with the Adobe Test&Target product, part of the Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite of applications for online business optimizations. 

Boston, MA – January 3, 2012 – Verndale, an award-winning digital agency, is proud to announce that six members of Verndale’s engineering team have recently completed the Kentico CMS developer training and certification.  These additional certifications double Verndale’s active Kentico trained staff and reinforces its commitment to Kentico CMS. The completed training and resulting certifications demonstrate Verndale’s ability to create and deliver dynamic web applications utilizing Kentico CMS 5 and the .NET Framework.  

Boston, MA – December 15, 2011 - Verndale, an award-winning digital agency, is proud to announce the addition of 12 newly certified Sitecore 6.5 developers. The recently minted Sitecore Certified team took part in the three day .NET Developer Course, which provided Verndale’s engineering team with the training needed to master Sitecore CMS development practices.

Inc. magazine named Verndale, an award-winning digital agency, to their 2011 Honor Roll list of Multi-year Alumni – recognizing Verndale’s remarkable achievement of being named to Inc. 5000’s prestigious list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. five years in a row.

Verndale, a full-service digital agency announced it has added another Google AdWords Certified colleague to its Pay-Per-Click Management team – further distinguishing itself as a skilled partner in AdWords management.

Inc. Magazine named Verndale for the fifth consecutive year to its annual Inc. 500|5000 list, an exclusive ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent entrepreneurs. Verndale was placed on the list at position #2549, with an extraordinary three-year growth rate of 92 percent.

Verndale, a leading digital agency has announced that it has entered into a partnership with EPiServer, the world’s fastest growing provider of Web Content Management (WCM) and online community platforms. The EPiServer solution combines web content management, community, e-commerce and marketing platforms that enable web owners to create consistent and engaging online experiences throughout their web presence.  EPiServer is based out of Stockholm, Sweden and has offices in the United States, Denmark, Norway, Finland, The Netherlands, South Africa, Australia and the United Kingdom.

Verndale, a leading mid-market digital agency is pleased to announce the launch of a new website for the Children’s Hospital at Scott & White, located in Temple, TX. An affiliate of Scott & White Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest and most recognized multi-specialty group practice health care systems, the recently opened Children’s Hospital in Temple has state-of-the-art facilities and highly skilled practitioners in 40 pediatric specialties, including pulmonology, gastroenterology, and cardiology.

The New England Direct Marketing Association (NEDMA) recognized Verndale as a 2011 gold winner for “Best Website Design” for its work on the Symmons Industries Corporate Website. The 30th Annual NEDMA Awards for Creative Excellence honored creative excellence in categories including direct mail, print ads, broadcast, search engine marketing and more.

Verndale, a leading mid-market digital agency, continues to expand its presence throughout the Southeastern United States. Since January 1, Verndale's Raleigh, N.C. office has helped extend Verndale's digital services from Washington, D.C. to Florida, supporting existing clients, growing new accounts and extending technology partnerships.

Verndale’s Interactive Strategist and Search Marketing Director, Sean Rusinko and HTML Creative Developer, Laura Vecchio, led a full-day workshop at the NEDMA annual conference held at Bentley University.

The Horizon Interactive Awards, a leading international interactive media awards competition, announced the 2010 award winners to highlight this year’s “best of the best” in interactive media production.Verndale was recognized for their excellence with a Silver award in the Activism/Non-Profit category for their work on the Boston Athletic Association’s (B.A.A.) corporate website.  Verndale was also recognized with a Bronze award in the Consumer Information category for their work on the Symmons Industries Corporate Website.

Verndale, a leading mid-market digital agency, has recently completed the CMS conversion and launch of Logility’s parent website. The project included a one to one move from a dated Cold Fusion environment into Kentico CMS while maintaining the existing site architecture and graphic design.

The Boston Business Journal’s Pacesetter Program recognized Verndale, an award-winning digital agency, as the 25th fastest-growing private company in the region. The award was given to a select number of companies that maintained a 20 percent or more growth rate over the past three years (2007-2010). This is the fifth time the firm has been honored with this award, and fourth consecutive.

Verndale, a leading mid-market digital agency, continues to build on its technology partnership with Sitecore, the leading provider of .NET Web Content Management. As a Sitecore Certified Solutions and Hosting Partner, Verndale has been designing, building and supporting Sitecore’s entire suite of tools since 2006.

Sitecore, the leading provider of .NET Web Content Management System (CMS) software, announced the list of 2010 Sitecore Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), which included Sean Connell – Verndale’s Engineering Manager. The program recognizes exceptional technical community leaders who encourage free and objective exchange of knowledge by actively sharing their real-world Web CMS expertise.

Verndale, a leading mid-market digital agency, has been named the Sitecore Site of the Year winner for Best Legal Site in North America. Selected from several customers, Verndale is being recognized for its use of Sitecore’s Web technology to develop more effective business processes and advance online strategies.

Verndale, a leading mid-market digital agency, announced the opening of its new satellite office in Raleigh, North Carolina. The strategic location gives Verndale a local presence to better serve many of its current clients in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions while effectively extending its digital service offering to support future growth.

Verndale launches VerndaleTV – the online video resource for digital marketing news, strategies, tips and techniques. With on-demand access to Verndale’s talented team of consultants, engineers, search marketers, user experience and project management staff, VerndaleTV shares their knowledge, ideas, and experiences surrounding a number of different industry-related topics.

Inc. magazine named Verndale, a leading mid–market digital agency, to their 2010 Top List for Multiple–year Alumni – recognizing Verndale's remarkable achievement of being named to Inc. 5000's prestigious list of fastest–growing private companies in the U.S. four years in a row.

On December 1st, Verndale will launch VerndaleTV – the go-to video resource for digital marketing strategies, tips and techniques. VerndaleTV has been created by the Verndale team to provide our audience with useful information on current industry-related topics.

Verndale, a leading mid-market digital agency, was recently honored by the Web Marketing Association with two WebAwards for Outstanding Achievement in web development for their work on the new Commonwealth Magazine (www.commonwealthmagazine.org) and Money Management International (www.moneymanagement.org) websites.

Inc. magazine named Verndale, a leading mid-market web technology and consulting firm, as the nation's 2,284 fastest-growing private company, moving up 180 spots from last year on the 2010 Inc. 5000 list. The award recognizes Verndale's ability to generate robust revenue while managing a growing business and developing successful business strategies. This is the fourth consecutive year that Verndale has been recognized in the Inc. 5000.

Verndale has launched Alcoholscreening.org, a re-designed, custom engineered alcohol screening site and free service of Join Together - a project of the Boston University School of Public Health.

Verndale is a silver winner in the 2010 Summit Creative Awards® B2B Service Website category for its creative work on Foley Hoag’s “Emerging Enterprise Center” website www.emergingenterprisecenter.com.

The Boston Business Journal named Verndale as the region’s 19th fastest-growing private company in its annual Pacesetters awards. The honor recognizes Verndale’s skill in managing a rapidly growing company, showing robust revenues and creating business strategies that led to success in a competitive business environment.

Verndale, a leading mid-market web technology and consultancy firm has released Jumpstart, an all-in-one, web marketing and technology suite for small business, which is redefining the way websites are designed and managed. With Jumpstart, clients get a robust, professional and custom designed site that can be deployed in 4-6 weeks and at a fraction of the cost of a traditional web project.

Verndale, developers of CatholicTV.com, has built an iPhone App and Widget, named CatholicTVjr, exclusively for CatholicTV. With the recent release of these two applications, CatholicTV has greatly expanded their interactive offering, allowing viewers the flexibility to access content in a variety of ways.

Verndale, a leading mid market web technology and consultancy firm, has been selected to host the 2009 Ingeniux CMS, Boston Road Show. The ‘Road Show’ is a four day collaboration of system users and developers from organizations around the region showcasing various implementations and best practice techniques. The ‘Road Show’ will be at Verndale’s corporate headquarters in Boston from October 19 – 22, 2009. This summer, stops have already been made in Chicago, IL and Washington, DC.

Inc. magazine named Verndale, a leading Internet consultancy, as the nation's 2,464 fastest-growing private company. The award recognizes Verndale's ability to generate robust revenue while managing a growing business and developing successful business strategies. This is the third consecutive year that Verndale has been recognized in the Inc. 5000.

Verndale announced that it has entered into a partnership with Coveo, a leading provider of information access and search solutions for the enterprise. Coveo's search platform provides instant and secure access, from anywhere, to valuable information by indexing all relevant data found in e-mail servers and archives, intranets, customer relationship management, enterprise-wide information systems, databases, web content and multimedia.

John Snow, Inc. (JSI) announced the release of a technical assistance management and tracking system operating on the Bugzilla bug-tracking software platform. JSI uses the system to manage the fulfillment of technical assistance requests from small organizations based in Haiti and sub-Saharan Africa.

Verndale is a gold winner in the 2009 Summit Creative Awards Microsite category for its creative work on Money Management International's website www.financialliteracymonth.com. The Summit Creative Awards recognizes and celebrates the creative accomplishments of small and medium sized advertising agencies and other creative groups with annual billings of $30 million or less. The competition has established itself as the premier arbiter of creative excellence for firms of this size.

The Archdiocese of Boston released its new web site, BostonCatholic.org, as a more modern, visually appealing, and informative online destination for the local Catholic community. Designed and developed by Verndale, the site features a fresh look and feel, new media components, and an Ektron Content Management System, helping to further the mission of the archdiocese and extend its communication strategy. The new web site incorporates all of the information found in the archdiocese’s previous web site, www.rcab.org, but in a more streamlined and easy to use format.

The Boston Business Journal named Verndale as the region’s 34th fastest-growing private company in its annual Pacesetters awards. The honor recognizes Verndale’s skill in managing a rapidly growing company, showing robust revenues and creating business strategies that led to success in a competitive business environment.

CatholicTV announced today that its website CatholicTV.com has been nominated for Best Religion and Spirituality Site in the 13th Annual Webby Awards. Hailed as the "Internet's highest honor" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.

The Integrated Media Cooperative announced that it has entered into an agreement with Verndale to offer Internet consulting and strategy, web design, application development, search engine marketing, and integration services to the IMC membership base.

CatholicTV® announced the launch of their new website, www.catholictv.com, developed by Verndale. The site features many new improvements including advanced streaming video technology, social features to engage a community of viewers, and an updated design that reflects the organization’s philosophy. Viewers can now not only view live streaming broadcasts from CatholicTV, but they can play a variety of Catholic broadcasting episodes, and even submit videos of their own to the site.

Verndale announced today that it has been named the Sitecore Site of the Year finalist for Best Financial Site in North America. The award recognizes Verndale for their work on First Pioneer Farm Credit’s new website, creating more effective business processes and advancing First Pioneer’s online strategy. The website, www.firstpioneer.com, features updated content and site structure to better target prospects and new applications that improve communication between First Pioneer and their current customers.

The deployment of State-Wide MLS of Rhode Island’s new website, www.riliving.com, further solidifies their reputation as the premier source of real property information and business services for the Southern New England real estate industry. Redesigned and developed by Verndale, the new site design, personalized search, and account features have created an improved user experience for those seeking information on properties in Rhode Island and bordering Connecticut and Massachusetts communities.

First Pioneer Farm Credit announces the launch of their new Web site, www.firstpioneer.com. The site, designed and developed by Verndale, unifies First Pioneer's online and offline brands for the 90+- year-old financial cooperative. Updated content and site structure better target prospects and new features improve communication between First Pioneer and their current customers, or members.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay launched their new website, www.bbbsmb.org to improved user response. Developed by Verndale, the site redesign features a more intuitive interface, an updated design, and a sophisticated web content management solution. During the 60 days following website launch, users visited an average 56% more pages per visit, were spending 14% more time on the site, and were 29% less likely to leave the site immediately after entering, compared to the 60 days prior to launch. Results were obtained using Google Analytics web traffic analysis.

Symmons Industries, and their Internet strategy consultant Verndale Corporation, have launched the new website www.symmons.com as a transition piece for their large corporate rebranding movement. This user-driven website provides a unique online experience for three distinct user types: homeowners, contractors/engineers, and architects/designers. Using an innovative navigation, visitors can browse Symmons’ premier commercial and residential plumbing products with the enhanced capability to filter products by room, type, or family. Users are also able to download installation guides, brochures and catalogs, as well as find local Symmons retail providers based on how they have identified themselves.

The Web Marketing Association awarded Verndale and Money Management International the 2008 WebAward Financial Services Standard of Excellence for www.financialliteracymonth.com. This WebAward recognizes the standard of excellence for which all Web sites should strive, and is evaluated by three or more expert judges on the following seven criteria; website design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, copywriting, and ease of use. This prestigious award reaffirms Verndale’s position as a small to mid-market Internet industry leader.

CCA Global Partners has engaged Verndale to provide web strategy and support services. Verndale will immediately assume responsibility for a core group of internal business applications that control pricing, ordering, and product distribution across thousands of global affiliates. Verndale will service all divisions of CCA Global Partners, including Flooring America and Carpet One Floor & Home, two leaders in the international flooring industry.

Inc. magazine named Verndale, a leading Internet consultancy, as the nation’s 2,571st fastest-growing private company. The award recognizes Verndale’s ability to generate robust revenue while managing a growing business and developing successful business strategies. This is the second consecutive year that Verndale has been recognized in the Inc. 5000.

Dexrex recently engaged Verndale as a Search Marketing partner to promote Dexrex in the social media arena. Verndale will provide social media optimization services intended to place Dexrex in front of instant message and texting communities through industry blogs and news sources.

The Boston Business Journal named Verndale as the region’s 35th fastest-growing private company in its second annual Pacesetters awards. The honor recognizes Verndale’s skill in managing a rapidly growing company, showing robust revenues and creating business strategies that led to success in a competitive business environment.

Money Management International announced the launch of a microsite www.financialliteracymonth.com, dedicated to promoting financial literacy and responsibility. The site features April as Financial Literacy Month and encourages the public to complete the ‘30 Steps to Financial Wellness.’ Each of the 30 steps, one for each day in April, provides insight and direction for attaining financial wellness.

Ektron Inc., a technology and market leader in web content management software, today named Verndale, a leading Internet consultancy, as a Certified Platinum Partner in Ektron’s elite partnership program. As a premier partner, Verndale architects many of Ektron’s most complex and dynamic deployments.