EnSky News

EnSky has announced the launch of their newest website project. The newly redesigned Meredith Village Savings Bank website, located at www.mvsb.com, features an updated look, built using the latest technological features in web design, and improves the site's navigation—and information architecture throughout. Meredith Village Savings Bank is an independent mutual savings bank serving the lakes region and central New Hampshire.

EnSky managed the entire project, including a custom designed access controlled, role restricted, content management system. The new system allows employees to manage key areas of content throughout the site “The system was completely tailored to the needs of the employees and customers of MVSB,” says Matthew Chase, senior web developer on the project.

“We’re very happy with the positive reaction from our customers to the new site, as well as EnSky’s ability to portray our personality and relationship with our customers via the web,” said Lisa Garcia, vice president marketing at Meredith Village Savings Bank. “EnSky’s ‘can-do’ attitude made this a positive experience during development and throughout the launch.”

In the fall of 2006 EnSky founder and CEO David Flood undertook the challenge of capturing the excitement and allure of the Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass & Bluefish Derby. The Annual event, the oldest and most prestigious Striped Bass Tournament in the United States attracts over three thousand anglers from all over the world. The Flood's (wife Louise and their 3 boys) moved to the island for the entire 5 week long Derby in order to capture on film the complete Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass & Bluefish Derby. The completed documentary serves as a guide to this 62 year old fishing contest, as well as the Island of Martha's Vineyard.

"My goal was not only to introduce people to the [Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass & Bluefish] Derby, but also introduce people to both Martha's Vineyard and Chappaquiddick. It's not all about fishing. It's also a story about the tournament and the people who fish in it; draped on a canvas of one of the most beautiful island communities on the east coast."

"If you have never been to Martha's Vineyard, "Feeding the Water" will give you a taste of why people come to visit year after year. If you enjoy fishing, well the Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass & Bluefish Derby is by far the most exciting fishing Derbys of its kind in the world." – David A. Flood

The movie features interviews with some of the most famous anglers on the island, plus a special interview with Ray Ellis (probably the most famous local artist on the island). Plus you'll learn about some of the most famous fertile fishing spots on the island. If you want a shot at winning the Derby, this is the ultimate visual guide.

The film aired locally on the island during this year's Derby on MVTV for a limited showing and is now available on DVD with a lot of bonus footage not shown in the TV version including outtakes, aerial footage of the Vineyard and Chappaquiddick, and more.

Next year Flood will release Vol 2 featuring footage shot in last years Derby.

The DVD is available for sale online at FeedingtheWater.com and select Island Retail Outlets.

EnSky announced recently that they have been retained by Merrimack County Savings Bank to redesign their website, www.mcsbnh.com. This will be the third redesign for EnSky and MCSB since their first site in 1998. Merrimack County Savings Bank recently completed its acquisition of Bow Mills Bank and Trust, the redesign had been on hold until that project was completed.

The new site will be a face lift and technology upgrade to bring the banks site up to date with current web coding and browser technologies and the evolution of the institutions marketing and branding initiatives.

David Flood, EnSky founder and President, “To be given the chance for a third time to upgrade the Merrimack County Savings Bank is a true honor for our company. Our business relationship with The Merrimack spans a decade next year, and we hope it continues for another ten years after that”.

EnSky has been selected to redesign the Meredith Village Savings Bank website. Located in Meredith, New Hampshire, MVSB serves the financial needs of the Lakes Region. EnSky is most known for it's work in web design and development especially in banking and financial industry sectors. EnSky designed it's first bank website over 10 years ago. The project will commence immediately with a proposed launch in the Fall of 2007.

IC Federal Credit Union's website, www.iccreditunion.org, won Best Corporate Website (for sites of organizations located outside of New Hampshire) at the NH Internet Awards, held in Manchester, NH Thursday March 15.

David Flood, President of EnSky, accepted the award at Thursday's ceremony.

"We were thrilled that IC's site won the top award. I presented the trophy at a meeting with the Sr. Executives the following day, and everyone was very surprised, and thankful," stated Flood.

"The competition was tough this year in a lot of catagories, and we are happy to walk away with at least 1 award, although we were disapointed some of our other client site's didn't make the cut...you can't win them all." In particular Sigma-One (http://www.sigma-one.com/) and Eastern Boats (http://www.EasternBoats.com) I thought had a good chance of winning.

IC's website was redesigned last year and was the first project tackled after EnSky won agency of record duties and completed a wildly successful rebranding strategy for the Fitchburg Massachusetts based credit union.

Rochester, NH - EnSky Corporation, a full-service web-development, advertising and multimedia firm based here, announced that it has been selected to help BrandPartners, also based here, create content for its innovative digital signage systems.

BrandPartners' digital signage product enables financial institutions and other retailers to market their branded products in the context of live headline news and weather feeds on LCD displays. EnSky has developed the generic news, weather and other content modules that will be delivered to customers with each installation. A bank, for example, can inexpensively add its own brand identification to the business banking module that EnSky developed, which customers waiting in line will view in between news headlines.

The project uses a range of EnSky's capabilities, from Flash programming to design to copywriting, in the new medium of digital signage for the first time. Digital signage is a form of out-of-home advertising in which content and messages displayed on an electronic screen, or digital sign, can be changed without modification to the physical sign, typically with the goal of delivering targeted messages to specific locations at specific times.

BrandPartners provides an integrated approach to customer environments through brand translation, integrated business strategies, design-build services, retail display and in-branch communications products and services, from concept and design through implementation and training. The company serves domestic and international markets from its Rochester, N.H. home office, New York design studio, and several regional U.S. offices. BrandPartners installations are in more than 1,800 companies at more than 28,000 retail locations worldwide.

Rochester, NH - EnSky Corporation, a full-service web-development, advertising and multimedia firm based here, is nearing completion of an innovative DVD/brochure project for Solid IT Networks, incorporating testimonials about the exceptional customer service offered by the Texas-based VAR (value-added reseller).

EnSky originally filmed testimonials by four customers while developing a new website for Solid IT last year; in March, EnSKy will travel to Houston for additional shooting on location. In April, EnSky will author the DVD featuring video edited from the combined footage, as well as designing a cover/insert that will serve as a printed brochure about the company.

"The idea of a dual-use marketing piece is very appealing to customers," commented David Flood, EnSky CEO/Founder. "Solid IT has everything they want to communicate to prospective customers in one compact package: first, a video piece featuring great footage of real IT Directors from major institutions praising Solid IT, as well as interviews with key personnel; and second, a printed piece, the DVD cover and liner notes, that contains everything you'd expect to find in a corporate brochure. It's the perfect marketing tool to mail or hand out at trade shows."

The two phases of EnSky's work on the project, including design, shooting and DVD authoring, will be completed over the course of 14 months, at a cost of less than $50,000.

February 1, 2007 - EnSky has announced it will be moving from 18 North Main Street to 25 Old Dover Road. We have made every possible arrangement to ensure that our customers will not be affected by our move, but as it is happening during the middle of the week, we cannot guarantee that some might encounter times when we are unavailable.

We are excited about our new space and are looking forward to showing it off in the near future.

Rochester, NH -- EnSky Corporation has just completed the production of a corporate video presentation for AMI Companies of Strafford, NH. The production tells the story of AMI's summertime campaign at major U.S. zoos to promote the new Curious George cartoon show that debuted on PBS KIDS this fall.

EnSky handled the entire production, from pre-production to shooting to the editing of multiple versions of the video: one, for PBS, focused on the campaign to reacquaint the public with the classic Curious George character; another goes into more depth about AMI's branding and advertising strategies at zoos, amusement/theme parks and Minor League baseball stadiums across the country.

EnSky President David Flood commented,"While the subject made the production a lot of fun, it also required careful planning and good collaboration with AMI and PBS to complete it on budget in an extremely tight time frame." The Zoo footage was shot at Southwick Zoo in Mendon Mass.

Click here to view the presentation now.

Rochester, NH— EnSky Corporation has just launched a new, state-of-the-art website for IC Federal Credit Union, one of the largest credit unions in central Massachusetts. The new site, located at www.iccreditunion.org, is the culmination of a comprehensive re-branding effort that EnSky has orchestrated over the past eight months for the Fitchburg, MA-based credit union.

The IC website represents a milestone for EnSky, as well: “It’s the first site we’ve designed while serving as the client’s full-service advertising agency, so we had complete creative control,” explained David Flood, EnSky’s President/CEO. “We were able to integrate the design with our own work on IC’s new logo and ad campaign, as opposed to that of another ad agency or internal marketing department.”

EnSky was initially contracted only to redesign IC’s website, but during the planning process IC management decided to name EnSky agency of record. As the new agency, EnSky has developed a new logo; signage and collateral; and a multimedia ad campaign, all centered around the new theme line, “Your money. Your life. All together…now.”

IC Senior Vice President Judy Kaddy said, “We’re excited about our new website. It presents users with a very clean visual design, and makes quite an impression compared to other institutions in our community—and even the big banks such as Sovereign, TD Banknorth and Bank of America.

IC Senior Vice President Phil Richards, who ran the project on the IC side, added, “EnSky has designed a website with everything any institution like ours might need in terms of marketing, functionality, technological robustness and security."

The landing (or home) page features a marketing area with a flash animation sequence updated to reflect current advertising campaigns. There are secure areas for rates administration and for job administration by the HR department. The highly intuitive navigation scheme includes easy-to-find quick links to online banking, bill-payer and various online loan applications.

EnSky Corporation, based here, was founded by David and Louise Flood as a new media design agency in 1995, and has worked with banks and credit unions for nearly the entire time.