jon henshaw / internet strategist
I've been developing websites since the day they were all ugly. It was a time when AOL was the Internet and being a teenager now meant you weren't born yet. Since then, I've had the opportunity to create online magazines, e-commerce stores, online distance learning courses, Web applications and social networks. Needless to say, it's been fun.
Before coming to Sitening, I worked as an Interaction Designer for Visa, where I helped develop Web applications for their consumer and corporate customers. Before that, I was the lead designer and product manager for an Internet startup company that provided a web-based CRM and project management tool for non-profit organizations.
I was fortunate enough to join Sitening in its infancy, and with the help of Scott Holdren (and now Patrick Keeble), have grown Sitening into a unique and talented team of designers, developers and SEO & Online PR specialists.
experience
If people can't find your website, let alone use your website, then there's really no point in having a website at all.
My passion, for as long as I can remember, has been communication and human-computer interaction. Developing for the Internet has encompassed both of those passions, including, strangely enough, my education in Human Development and Psychology. For me, the Internet is the most important and influential thing that's ever happened during my generation. It's enabled anyone with access to it to obtain knowledge that was previously out of reach, publish anything to anyone in the world instantly and change how we think about the world, our home and even our existence. It has truly become our modern interpretation of the tree of knowledge and has opened up communication channels and social connections in ways that few have ever dreamed of.
It's for those reasons, and many more, that I see the Internet as an important tool that we must understand and utilize to its fullest potential. For me, that means engaging and pushing the limits of the Internet. Engaging it, through participation of new ideas and keeping a sense of awe for what can be done. Pushing it, through refining current methods of communication and collaboration — and if lucky enough, inventing new ways to interact on it.
