Contact:
Melanie Yanon
Director of Corporate Marketing and Communications
Phone: 301-596-8899 ext.236
Fax: 301-596-6274
email: yanon@ncsi.com
NCSI Launches Improved Website
Columbia, MD (April 9, 2007) – Shortly after 6 PM today, Jeremy Bellusci, NCSI’s IT Director and Webmaster, pushed a button on his PC and launched a new corporate image for National Conference Services, Inc. “Going live with our new Website represents the culmination of a 3-months-long project where we reorganized the content of more than 50 Web pages,” Bellusci said. The last major overhaul of NCSI’s website, www.ncsi.com, took place three years ago.
The vision for the new Website came from Frank Hazzard, one of NCSI’s senior executives, who sought a new image and technical enhancements for his company’s Website. “From the beginning I wanted a customer-oriented, intuitive organization of contents that would facilitate sales and better serve our government and contractor customers,” Hazzard recalled. “We formed a small committee to overhaul our website and the members agreed early on that we wanted pages that exhibited a high-tech, sophisticated, animated, engaging, and dynamic Web presence. I am proud to say that we hit the mark,” he added.
Vanessa M. Segars, Manager of Communications Services for In-Q-Tel became the first official visitor to the new Website. “I like it!” she said, only a few minutes after the launch. Early feedback from other contacts has also been positive.
NCSI hired Studio Amel to provide design assistance and programming expertise for the project. “Kim Thurber of Studio Amel was quite simply the most talented designer I have ever worked with,” said Hazzard, recalling his collaboration with Studio Amel’s lead designer. “She has that rare mix of artist, technical know-how and business sense that is hard to come by in one person,” he said.
Melanie Yanon, who is NCSI’s Director of Marketing and served on the NCSI committee, noted that every objective for the new Website was achieved except for making it an award winning design. “It hasn’t won any awards yet, but we think it’s good enough that it might,” she said.
