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Jumpstart is now available. Learn more about Verndale’s all-in-one, web marketing and technology suite for small business and stay tuned as we look to bring you the latest Jumpstart news and success stories.
Next month, Verndale will be a sponsor at The Boston Bar Foundation (BBF) Casino Night Fundraiser, being held March 18th. As the charitable affiliate of The Boston Bar Association, the BBF assists with the Boston community to advance access to justice and civic involvement by providing legal assistance to those in need, creating opportunities for children, and addressing the needs of the communities. Proceeds from this event help advance the philanthropic and community service missions of this foundation.
Summit Phadke joins our team as a Support Engineer. His previous work experience includes development positions at both Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York, NY, and CyberTech Systems & Software Ltd., in Thane, India. Summit earned his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Mumbai, India and just recently received a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University.
Also, we welcome Emily Hurley as our newest Project Manager. Emily is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. She majored in both Communications and Psychology. Emily’s past work experience includes Roll Call Entertainment, a full-service music management agency which she helped launch and the Bridgespan Group, in the role of Associate Manager of Company Knowledgebase. Her most recent position was as a Product Manager at Thinking Screen Media, Inc. where she served as company expert on all products and their 30 websites.
Ashley Rumbough also joins us as an Account Manager. Ashley holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston University where she majored in both Advertising and English. She is also working towards her graduate certification in Project Management, also at BU, which she anticipates on completing this May. Ashley has spent the last three years working at BigBad, Inc. as both a Project Coordinator and also as a Resource Manager. She assisted multiple PMs with all project-related work and managed short-term projects as well.
Lastly, Verndale congratulates PI Worldwide on the recent launch of Desktop PI and welcomes Marble & Granite, Inc. as our newest client.
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People have always gone to search engines with the intent to seek specific information, which makes it no surprise that more and more people are using search terms that are in the form of a question. Recent search trends show that as we turn the corner…
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Part 1: Converging Forces Make 2010 a Game-Changer for Publishers. It’s no secret that the last 10 years have been tumultuous for publishers. It could be argued that no segment of the publishing industry has been harder hit than newspapers…
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As many of you already know, a SaaS (Software as a service) application is a cloud computing term that describes software that customers use for on-demand service that is provided through a subscription and is accessed anywhere there is…
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Did You Know?
Wired Magazine recently published an article about the power of Google’s algorithm and how it rules the web. It starts off by mentioning Google’s plans for this year to make the search engine even smarter by introducing approximately 550 improvements to its already impressive algorithm. The article also provides some interesting areas that separate Google from its primary competitor, Microsoft’s Bing, along with a history of key advances that further explain the quality behind Google’s search algorithm and reasons why Google remains today’s search engine leader.
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Websites that Work
Our monthly choice for the coolest sites on the Web.
uberVU brings together community metrics and analytics. On uberVU you search for something - such as your brand or your blog, and whole conversations are returned in a single thread. Not just the post, like on Google Blog Search, but comments to the post from all over the Web - blogs, Twitter, Digg, FriendFeed, Reddit and a lot more.
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As of last month, this number reflects the amount of unique visitors on Facebook, which has now catapulted itself past Yahoo.com as the second most popular website in the world, trailing only Google.
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$2 million
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The donation amount made from Google to support Wikipedia, a volunteer-driven reference tool that has emerged as one of the Web’s most read sites, allowing it to expand while keeping the site commercial free.
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