Duane Kennedy

 

Through Pondstone Communications, we develop customized websites to reflect and enhance your mandate and marketing goals, as well as provide a powerful on-line presence.

Duane Kennedy, President of Pondstone Communications, founded his company to help clients make effective use of web technologies to better target messaging and engage customers. His expertise lies in user-oriented interface design, web video, quality assurance and testing, and web programming. Duane has more than 20 years of experience in team and project management, graphic design, and web technologies in both the public and private sectors, and has led national campaign web operations in two federal elections and the IT operations of a federal Parliamentary research bureau.

Duane believes that websites can be powerful tools, but only when they recognize that people, not technologies, are the key. Every web project Duane takes on is designed for the people who will use it, to provide them with the best, simplest, most rewarding user experience possible

Under Duane's lead, Pondstone excels at marrying great design with Web 2.0 technologies to increase readership, boost visitor retention and improve search engine rankings. Our customized websites are designed to reflect and enhance the mandate, marketing goals and strategy of the client through:

• Online Reporting: From annual and corporate social responsibility reports to data and research presentations, we create interactive and engaging micro sites that incorporate video, animation, graphs, tables and more.

• Brand Journalism: Our brand journalism sites are designed to distill large content volumes into intuitive, easy-to-navigate presentations. Our sites incorporate interactivity and engagement tools such as blogs/columns, user commenting and rating, integrated audio and video content, advertising, email signup and social media.

• Online Communities: We build web-based communities with intuitive interface designs that allow users to connect, interact and collaborate online.

• Graphic Design: We provide a full range of graphic design services — logos, business cards, presentations, reports, publications and more — for web and print delivery.

• Mobile Applications: We are a licensed reseller of Purple Forge custom mobile applications for the iPhone/iPad, BlackBerry and Android mobile platforms.