This June, our team fulfilled its 20,000th job and celebrated the milestone on a favorite roof deck overlooking Boston Harbor. The achievement was made possible by the continued success of our clients and the tireless effort from our team members. Great Job! Verndale is also proud to announce that Director of HR Meg Priest earned her certification as a Professional in Human Resources (PHR), passing a rigorous exam demonstrating a mastery of knowledge in the field. Finally, congratulations to Founding Partner Chris Pisapia and Tech Lead Jacob Ellis on their recent family additions. Emilia Therese Pisapia was born on June 7th at 3:55am and weighed in at a whopping 5lbs. 14 oz.. Gila Raizel Ellis was born on May 20th at 1:13am and weighed in at 7lbs. 11oz..
Our inaugural SEO educational webinar titled - ‘Your Website’s Crawlability Rating and How to Improve It’ was a hit! Sean Rusinko, our Director of Search Engine Marketing spoke to a group of 60 participants who took away real world tips and tactics for enhancing their sites crawlability. Additionally, we invite you to visit the SEM services section of verndale.com where you can find out more about our suite of SEM tools and special offers.
Lastly, Verndale welcomes the following new clients this month - John Nagle Co., the Chicago Area Runners Association (CARA), Advanced Technology Ventures, and Plastex Protective Products.
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Almost all job applications are now sent via email. As an HR Director and Recruiter I’m often asked, “Does anyone actually read my resume when I apply online or does it just end up at the very bottom of someone’s inbox?”...
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You probably have heard about the launch of Microsoft’s new “decision” engine, Bing, and with Microsoft spending $80 million on an ad campaign to promote it, they expect you to not only know about it, but be very grateful for it. The...
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Education Minnesota, an organization representing over 70,000 union educators, underwent recent website design and technological updates to increase awareness and utilization of online resources. As the technical lead and leveraging a provided design, Verndale built out EducationMinnesota.org utilizing Sitecore CMS. Verndale built the site to display a wealth of information about advocacy, school funding, family support, and negotiations within a user-friendly format. Verndale also enabled secure access to a member site for registered state union educators. Registered members can access benefits such as discounts on travel and merchandise or assistance with insurance plans, attorney referrals, financial planning, retirement, and home or car purchase. The new implementation also supports over 40 local union chapter microsites, each with its own set of content authors. Education Minnesota plans to expand the number of local microsites over the years to better serve the immediate interests if its members.
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The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) is dedicated to improving the quality and effectiveness of care provided to patients with cancer. Their consumer website NCCN.com focuses on resources for understanding the different types of cancers, best available treatments and life beyond the terrible disease. NCCN’s marketing and IT staff leveraged the technical expertise of Verndale to implement Ektron CMS as a way to easily manage online content. During a brief planning engagement, Verndale team members worked to validate the current Information Architecture (IA), determine content types within the site, and deliver site design template feedback to NCCN’s creative staff members. Verndale then developed a plan for how the design would interact with the CMS, built out the different HTML templates, integrated the templates with the site’s front end, and created the Ektron administrative interface. The final integration resulted in a highly searchable, information rich resource which cancer patients can visit to better their lives. |
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Did You Know?
You can quickly find out who is linking to your site as reported by Yahoo! and Google with Marketleap’s Link Popularity Check tool. Compare the number of links to your site with those of your competitors and other companies in your industry.
Not impressed with your linking results? Build inbound links by forming relationships with relevant content providers with Verndale’s Link Popularity Development Service. |
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The number of U.S. women who are online weekly (2-3 times) doing some form of social media activity including social networking, blogging, messaging on boards and forums and status updates (i.e. Twitter). |
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US adults are 40% less likely to travel for leisure or business this summer as compared to last summer. |
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