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This is ANT
A website created using ExpressionEngine for a subisdiary company of Garmin. The website was developed with extensive features that go beyond the tradional content driven websites.
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Cenovus - More 2 the Story
This was a mini site for Cenovus Energy. It was a way to engage the public with attractive info graphics and dynamic videos. It utilizes HTML5, a lot of jQuery, Facebook commenting and a lot of interactive elements.
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AICP - iPhone/iPad App
An iPhone app built for award winning commercials.
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Mercedez Benz Fashion Week
This Mercedez Benz mini site features full-screen photo galleries, stunning graphics and videos, downloadable content and a unique navigation
Need a website? We can help. Kinoli has extensive years of experience perfecting the development process so we can simplify our clients lives.
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Our understanding of the most popular website technologies and languages have helped us to create award winning solutions for many highly recognized brands.
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We build customized solutions for the iPhone and iPad including other mobile devices. From the conceptualization stage all the way through to app store submission.
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EE has quickly become the internet's go-to CMS for small, medium and large businesses. Kinoli has a growing EE development reputation.
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Welcome to Kinoli
Kinoli is an interactive design and development boutique focused on delivering unique interactive experiences. Located in the tech hub of Calgary, Alberta, Canada we have been fortunate enough to have worked on several highly recognized and award winning interactive projects.
We mainly focus on website and interactive development but also work in other areas like iPhone/iOS application development and database driven website development, including ExpressionEngine.
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Our past few years in a nutshell
Who is Kinoli?
Kinoli is an established web development company with an emphasis in databases, flash, CMSs and even the mobile arena. We love interactivity and have a passion for pushing the development envelope. We seek challenges in what we do, and we're always learning more tricks of the trade. Our client base ranges from local Calgary companies to many interactive firms and companies from across Canada and the United States. We are always looking to work with new companies and to make friends along the way.
In 2005 Kinoli started with just a simple developer out of his condo in downtown Calgary. Since then Jesse has intentioned to keep things small, working with respected designers and developers of the trade when necessary. Of course, his main desire is to keep his clients happy. Kinoli is a full fledged Canadian corporation and is continually taking on new clients.
Brands Served
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Disney
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Rolex
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Dreamworks
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Mercedez Benz
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Veer/Corbis
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Sony BMG
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TransCanada Pipelines
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Chevron USA
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Verizon
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Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Association
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Hyatt
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Pampers
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Arc Resources
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Parks Canada
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NBC
Accolades
Taught Adobe Flash for Training Calgary May 2010
Jesse Knowles from Kinoli was asked to teach a two-day course on the fundamentals of Adobe Flash.
Official Honoree Distinction @ 12th Annual Webby Awards June 2008
The AICP Show developed in Flash by Kinoli received an "Official Honoree" distinction at the 12th annual Webby Awards.
Winner in the self-promotion category @ 2008 Applied Arts Interactive Awards November 2008
The Veer - Rest Stop Flash website (Veer Solus) that Kinoli developed won the Applied Arts award in the self-promotion category.
Adobe Showcase Site of the Day Award February 2007
Kinoli developed two of the main section on the Rolex.com website helping to receive this prestigious award.
Site of the Day Award @ Adobe.com February 2006
The campaign website that Kinoli developed for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Association (LVCVA) was awarded an Adobe Site of the Day Award. The website was intended to allow visitors to become someone else in Las Vegas, so the website allows visitors to choose the type of character they would like to become. Kinoli animated and developed the website utilizing MVC framework in ActionScript 2.0.
Interactive Media Gold @ the Central Florida Addy Awards February 2005
Jesse Knowles received a gold in Interactive Media for the interactive promotional game Dress the Turkey. It has been a viral marketing success story and has been Nationally recognized.
Asked to be the Guest speaker @ the Washington DC Flash Users Group November 2001
Jesse Knowles was asked to speak at the Washington DC Flash Users Group on the use of tweening in Flash. He demonstrated the way to shape tween (morph) complex objects together over a period of time.
Skillset
Our clients come to us because they have a problem that they want solved. We are lucky enough to live in a time when their are hundreds of ways to come up with a solution to these problems. Kinoli is an Apple shop, we do consulting for our clients but most of all we develop good looking, fully usable websites.
What | Level |
PHP/mySQL | 95 |
HTML/CSS | 95 |
XML | 95 |
JavaScript/JQuery/Ajax | 90 |
ExpressionEngine Development | 90 |
ActionScript 2.0/3.0 | 80 |
Objective-C/iOS Development | 70 |
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Singleton | 95 |
Model/View/Controller (Favorite) | 90 |
What | Level |
Adobe Flash | 90 |
SublimeText | 95 |
Adobe Photoshop | 80 |
Adobe Fireworks | 90 |
Adobe Illustrator | 75 |
ExpressionEngine | 80 |
Wordpress | 75 |
Final Cut | 70 |
Xcode | 70 |
What | Level |
Flash PureMVC Framework | 90 |
Storyboarding | 90 |
Sitemap Creation | 85 |
SEO | 80 |
JQuery Mobile | 80 |
Git | 75 |
Photography | 75 |
Video Editing | 70 |
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Stuff we've done
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This is ANT
Nearly all of the pages on the website have a custom design, it also features a discussion forum, news blog, lots of member restrictions and user group features. The graphics on the website are stunning and the development was a challenge at times but very rewarding as the website is something we can be prowd of.
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Cenovus - More 2 the Story
This was a mini site for Cenovus Energy. It was a way to engage the public with attractive info graphics and dynamic videos. It utilizes HTML5, a lot of jQuery, Facebook commenting and a lot of interactive elements.
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AICP - iPhone/iPad App
Kinoli was hired to build an iOS application that integrats with an existing database to replace a yearly printing booklet that cost the client over 45K annually. The application runs natively on the iPhone and the iPad.
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Mercedez Benz Fashion Week
Created to showcase Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, this mini site features full-screen photo galleries, stunning graphics and videos, downloadable content and a unique navigation. Kinoli was responsible for all the Flash development on this site.
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Arc Resources Touchscreen
Arc wanted to do away with the traditional paper sign in process at their front desk, so I worked on an interactive touchscreen interface for them using flash. It is connected to a database and can retrieve employee lookup information as they type. A connected webcam seamlessly
takes a picture of the visitor.
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Disney Photo Pass
Disney Photo Pass hired Kinoli on a 1 year contract to build interactive mini sites that sold products for the Disney parks. These product websites brought in millions of dollars for Disney and has been a huge success for them. They were also a wonderful client to work for.
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You Pin, Cats Win - iPad Application
This iPad application was used by Real Simple magazine who partnered with Cooking Light and Purina to help raise funds for stray cats. It allowed people to select magazine photos, apply filters and add picture frames, allowing the person to submit the photo to a database that website was connected to. It even allowed the person to post their creation to their Facebook wall.
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Kids Go Global - Website
An ExpressionEngine website using multiple user account types to connect NGO's with schools, students and teachers.
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AICP Website
This is the main website for the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP). It was built using ExpressionEngine and also features a members section for member companies to update and list their company information. ExpressionEngine is also used to manage their mobile app that we also build prior to building the website.
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Veer - Rest Stop
We worked with Veer to develop an interactive showcase of their creative visual elements which include stock photography, illustration, motion clips and typefaces. Check out Rest Stop, your ultimate relaxation destination. AWARD - winners in the 2008 Applied Arts Interactive
Awards in the self-promotion.
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ARC Resources Website
ARC commissioned Kinoli to redevelop their website using ExpressionEngine. We pushed the envelope with EE, the pages load in under 1 second and the website has an enormous amount of content. The website uses a lot of advanced jQuery and CSS techniques to achieve a stunning visual experience.
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Rolex.com
Critical Mass hired Kinoli to handle the Flash development of the 'Sport and Culture' and 'Sales and Service' sections on the award winning Rolex web site. Visitors experience the luxury watch collection and Rolex brand through stunning graphics and video, as well as rich
transitions and navigation.
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Wakamow heights B&B
The website was built using ExpressionEngine which allowed us to give the client full access to update everything. We even set it up so they can change the theme (background image and colors) depending on the season of the year it was.
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Wallace Gallery
This was a website for an art gallery in Calgary Alberta. It has ExpressionEngine running in the background. It utilizes a carousel, lightbox preview and some custom jquery (as usual).
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Canoe Financial
ExpressionEngine once again propels a company in the online space. Canoe Financial got a major facelift on the front-end and back-end. Kinoli was happy to make this happen.
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TransCanada Pipelines Interactive Map
This is an interactive map of all of TransCanada's pipelines throughoute North America. It features some pretty intricate image maps and interactivity utilizing jQuery. It is being updated often as their pipelines are changing regularly.
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Calgary Coop Mobile Website
Calgary Coop wanted a more simpler experience for their mobile customers. It uses the popular jQuery mobile framework to allow a majority of mobile browsers to have the same experience.
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Ray Caesar
The artist Ray Caesar hired kinoli to partake in the development of his portfolio. Kinoli realized the complexities of the website and chose to build a custom cms that allows the client to navigate his website and edit anything he sees. Props to
Ian McFadyen for the design.
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Trico Centre for Family Wellness
Trico Centre gets to use ExpressionEngine on their new site with smiles all around.
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Coupon Sherpa
This was our first iPhone application. It offers in-store coupons that have bar codes which can be scanned at check-out. It has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.
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Charmin iPad Application
Charmin used this iPad application at an event in New Orleans to record peoples most unique bathroom experiences. It was a great success and the videos will be used for other marketting opportunities in the future.
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Caribou Fences
Parks Canada hired Kinoli to develop an interactive flash presentation to be used in a national park in the Yukon. This educational piece explains how the Inuit peoples of Canada and Alaska built these massive fences to corral and trap and ultimately kill herds of caribou in order to feed
and cloth their people.
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AICP Show
This all flash web site was created for AICP to showcase all of the award winning commercials since 1992. All commercial data is pulled in from a database and features a unique filtering system by year or category. Kinoli developed the web site to use xml, css and custom
flash components.
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Las Vegas - Be Anyone
This website was created to be the main focus of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) Be Anyone campaign. It was a viral marketing success with hundreds of thousands of page hits. It is a flash application that allows the visitor to choose a charachter to
be in Las Vegas.
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ARC Resources - Mobile Website
This was an ExpressionEngine website created in jQuery Mobile specifically to handle ARC Resources ever growing mobile visitors. It is a slimmed down version of the full website.
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Great Commission Ministries
Kinoli designed and built the css for a mission organization in Orlando. Great Commission Ministries hired us to rebrand their web presence and give their developers some nicely CSS'd templates to work with. So we did just that.
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Pampers E-Cards
The client wanted a viral marketing campaign that would feature one of thier products. The web site allows visitors to design an animated ecard to send to their friends. I was the only Flash Developer working on this project. Did you just start using the potty? If so, go send an ecard.
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Veer – Sales Presentation
This is an interactive piece that run on Veer's sales team’s laptops when presenting to clients that can easily be updated through XML. The presentation has an elaborate navigational system that allows the sales team to navigate entirely using the keyboard. It also features a video
player and slideshow.
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Las Vegas - Interactive Map
Built for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) and features a 3D interactive map that allows visitors to search for Las Vegas activities by different categories and displays the location of the activities on the map. A custom cms was also built so LVCVA staff could
make content updates.
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Zanisa E-Commerce Website
Zanisa is an e-commerce site that sells handmade and environmentally friendly products. The web site offeres a customized checkout process, personalized gift lists, a concierge section, gift certificates and a lot of other innovative technologies including a wind
powered hosting environment.
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Westside Recreation Center
This website was developed for West Side Recreation Center and they needed an easy to use content management system. Expression Engine was the likely option. The website has a unique navigation system build in jquery and features some other unique elements.
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H2O Church
This award winning flash website built for Orlando-based H2o Church was designed and developed by Kinoli to appeal to a young Gen-X audience. This web site uses music and photography to recreate the high-energy feeling of their church services and features a custom CMS for
updating all content.
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Hyatt Fall Brand
Every six months Hyatt creates a seasonal interactive mini site that showcases their products. For the Fall Brand we developed a completely Flash site that incorporates a hidden navigation, hidden fireflies that emphasize different parts of the images, as well as a photo
gallery of products.
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W Fort Lauderdale Hotel
Created to announce the launch of a new high-end condominium and hotel being developed in Fort Lauderdale for Starwood Hotels and Resorts, this web site and online brochure feature stunning graphics and cool page transitions.
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Anson Stoner Corporate Website
We developed anson-stoner.com along side Anson's creative team and ended up with an all flash portfolio website that is easily updatable by non-flash folks on their end. It is very simplistic in its design and animation and dynamic in its development principles.
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Wilton Resources
This website features a unique scaling background slider. It stretches to the size of your browser window. The content is layed out in an easy to follow manner. It uses php to manage the content.
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The World of Kinoli |
The folks at Dynastream Innovations hired Kinoli to build them a brand new CMS driven website. The website launched a couple of weeks ago and is powered, once again, by the best CMS on the planet, ExpressionEngine. Check it out.
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Kinoli recently worked with Studio Forum to develop a static website for an up and coming oil producer headquartered in Calgary. The website has a unique image scaling technique that stretches to the size of the browser window. The striking images emphasize the work that Wilton Resources does and the content is layed out in a straight forward manner.
Have a look at WiltonResources.com
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posted on September 1st, 2012 by Jesse Knowles in HTML, PHP, EE, Design with
This was a brand new website for Trickster Theatre company. They had this idea of connecting schools and students with NGO's to help raise awareness and funds for projects around the globe. The website has several different user groups that have different experiences based on their account type. NGO's are able to add projects that they are working on and schools can get involved with these projects to partner with the NGOs. Schools are also able to create their own projects to get students involved in their communities. We wish the best of luck to Trickster Theatre and hope it is a great success story.
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posted on August 1st, 2012 by Jesse Knowles in HTML, PHP, Mobile, Design with
Real Simple Magazine partnered with Cooking Light and Purina for a promotion they were putting on in Grand Central Terminal in New York City. They hired Kinoli to develop an iPad application that would be shown on 10 ipads and allow people in the terminal to add magazine photo's, apply filters to them, attach a picture frame to it and submit it to a website that was displayed on a large screen. The photo's were uploaded to the website and the website would automatically reload the most recently submitted photos. It also allowed people to post their creations to their facebook wall.
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posted on July 1st, 2012 by Jesse Knowles in HTML, PHP, EE, Mobile with
Mobile seems to be getting a leg up on the desktop world these days or at least at Kinoli. We were hired as the web development company to develop a jQuery Mobile website for Calgary Coop. We integrated it into an existing ExpressionEngine environment using jQuery mobile on the front-end to ensure the majority of mobile browsers would have the same experience. It shows store locations, hours for individual stores, featured recipies and even recent flyers.
View Calgary Coop Mobile.
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posted on June 14th, 2012 by Jesse Knowles in Mobile, Design with
Kinoli was hired to create an iPad application for Charmin. It was a simple application that was used at an event in New Orleans. They created a ficticious booth that represented a bathroom stall. The iPad was mounted on the inside of the door, where the user would tell their strangest bathroom story. The iPad was the perfect solution for this, we got to design it and develop the entire application. It even stored the video recordings on the hard drive so the staff at Charmin will now be able to do promotional marketting with them.
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After completing ARC Resources' mobile website last fall, ARC hired us to develop an ExpressionEngine website that would replace their existing website. A lot of challenges were in place including complex navigation, custom interactive mapping, management of both mobile and desktop from a single location and the need for load times to be tiny. All of which were accomplished and in the end we enjoying working with the team at ARC. They helped us push the envelope in terms of page load times with ExpressionEngine. The complexity and amount of content was huge, it forced us to work with a team of dedicated staffers to plug in all of the necessary content and imagery. We were happy to have worked on this wonderful project and are proud of what we came up with in the end.
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Trico Centre for Family Wellness, a community-operated fitness and wellness facility located in South Calgary, saw the importance of having a strong online presence when they contacted Kinoli. Their aging website was in need of a new design and an easy way to manage the content. Wordpress was their first option until Kinoli convinced them of the strengths of ExpressionEngine. After agreeing on a final design with Trico staff, Kinoli built out the website using ExpressionEngine, the client easily added all the content they wanted, they were able to create the menu the way they wanted their pages layed out, create all of the forms on the website through ExpressionEngine and can now fully manage their own website. Kinoli was happy to see them have success.
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The Archives
Canoe Financial Gets a Facelift | January 10th, 2012 |
Kinoli Likes Wakamow Heights | December 7th, 2011 |
Our Latest ExpressionEngine Website - Kinoli 2.0 | September 17th, 2011 |
Westside Recreation Center | August 8th, 2011 |
Kinoli Made a New iPhone Application | July 14th, 2011 |
Caribou Fences Interactive | October 29th, 2010 |
Arc Resources Flash Touch Screen | October 18th, 2010 |
Online Gift Lists with Discounted Gift Items | April 5th, 2010 |
1 Million All-Time Visitors to Coupon Sherpa | April 2nd, 2010 |
Coupon Sherpa 2.0 | September 14th, 2009 |
New Site Launch – Ray Caesar Portfolio | April 19th, 2009 |
Mobile Coupons | April 6th, 2009 |
Another Award for Kinoli | November 20th, 2008 |
Interactive Showcase for Veer | August 24th, 2007 |
Be Creative. Be Passionate. Be Original. | June 29th, 2007 |
What’s Your Favorite Commercial of All Time? | June 5th, 2007 |
Happy Birthday Kinoli | May 7th, 2007 |
A New Breed of Watches | April 12th, 2007 |
Another Site of the Day award for Kinoli | February 8th, 2007 |
W Fort Lauderdale Launches | February 1st, 2007 |
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week | January 17th, 2007 |
Rolex.com Launches | January 16th, 2007 |
Wakamow Heights Bed & Breakfast | December 3rd, 2006 |
The Story of Us, You and Your Audience | November 13th, 2006 |
Kinoli gets Environmentally-Friendly with E-commerce Site | October 9th, 2006 |
The Event that Captivated a Nation… and Changed a Life | October 3rd, 2006 |
Kinoli Helps Launch Non-Profit Web Site | September 6th, 2006 |