Dragonfly Media Curacao

A few months ago we came into contact with Janera Soerel, a Curacaoan woman living in New York. At that time her website was in Beta and needed improvements for it to be officially launched. After an interesting meeting and a lot of emails we could start overhauling nearly the entire website.

Janera.com is an online publication and international social network for Global Nomads. A rough description of a global nomad is; “a person who identifies with more than his/her national origins and sees himself/herself as a citizen of all countries”.  Consequently the website’s members come from the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America and I believe there’s a few African people as well. (more…)

Last thursday we did a presentation in Bonaire. We were invited by the Bonaire Hospitality and Tourism Association (BonHATA) to speak about internet marketing before they had their Christmas Social event. Attendance was pretty good and we got a few good questions so people had either prepared or they listened well.

During the presentation we promised to upload the Powerpoint to the website and provide some links to useful tools. These you can find below. (more…)

The second website we launched this month is the new web design for Vidanova. Vidanova is one of the largest Antillean pension funds and they are growing at a rapid pace. Because of this growth they needed a new website. The previous one did not comply with their marketing message anymore.

Vidanova’s new website needed to better convey the idea that retirement is something that you should think about before you actually need it. So, the new design is more youthful and shows the benefits of arranging for your retirement early (with Vidanova of course).

Coming thursday we will be doing a presentation about internet marketing for members of the BonHATA (Bonaire Hospitality And Tourism Association). It will be a similar presentation to the one we did on Curacao, but more focused because we have less time. We will also try and make it very practical with examples that specifically apply to the hospitality companies of Bonaire.

We are really looking forward to doing this presentation. It’s good to see that people are becoming more and more interested in internet marketing and are taking steps to educate themselves. Besides this, I have never been to Bonaire and I would really like to see what everybody’s raving about.

After the presentation we will upload the powerpoint to the blog with relevant links. (more…)

It’s the last month of the year and this is traditionally not only the time of year where people party and eat too much, but also the time of year where people want to finish projects. The web design business in Curacao is no different in this respect so we will be launching several websites and website enhancements this month.

The new website for local newspaper Extra is the first website we put live this month. For the people outside Curacao who read this: Extra is the most popular newspaper of Curacao. The Extra is written in Papiamentu (Curacao’s local language) and they print 25,000 copies per day. On a population of ~150,000 this means that one in six Curacaoans buys this newspaper. (more…)

The news was officially announced today that one of our websites, the one for HSMAI Curacao, has won a silver certificate which we can collect at the Adrian Awards gala in New York on January 28. The website won the award in the category web marketing.

Dragonfly Media is just over a year old and this is the first award we win with this company. For it to be such a prestigious award within our target niche is extra reason for us to be proud. HSMAI Curacao released a press statement today: (more…)