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In addition, from a business perspective, having a team member concentrating on the business 60+ hours a week will allow DANIMA to grow various aspects of the business, co-ordinate projects and project teams more effectively, provide higher quality services, and take the business to different heights. We've always been working hard and long hours to ensure client satisfaction - we're just taking it one step further.

We are eagerly awaiting this new phase of our business and believe this is just the beginning of bigger and better things. It's onward and upward from here!

A heartfelt congratulations to Warren Rees (Systems Administrator extraordinaire) on his new appointment as Library Systems Administrator at Brock University. Warren has worked closely with DANIMA for the past 3 years and has been an integral part of our growth and success. His past 4 years as Systems Administrator for the Business Education Council provided him with the practical experience needed to move forward. We are pleased to know that he will still only be a stone's throw away and will continue to assist the DANIMA team with his wide range of skills!

Also, our very talented co-op student, Will Farrell, from Westpark Secondary School in St. Catharines, Ontario was accepted into Waterloo University's Electrical Engineering program. Will assisted in the development of Small Business Club's new Flash Meeting Presentation, Jewel of Niagara's Flash introduction page, Spencer Hockey's web site, and much, much more. We will see more of Will as he continues working for DANIMA on a contract basis over the summer and during the upcoming school year.

The DANIMA team would like to congratulate Warren and Will on their new found success. The future's definitely looking brighter!

Highlights:

DANIMA partner, Alex Erazo played his first round of golf since arriving in Canada via Ecuador. He still can't believe that you can drink beer while playing a sport! Co-op student Will Farrell spent the entire day drinking Root Beer and badgering Dave and Nick for more work (crazy kid). Designer extraoidonaire, Dave Bush, along with Dave Rotella and Nick Svab provided the young folks at the BBQ (Will, Warren and Vip) with a Retro-history of music, games and clothing. Vip is still trying to figure out what the heck Pong and 8-Tracks are!

The weather was great, the conversation was stimulating and nobody went home hungry. All-in-all it was a great day. Thanks again, to all of the DANIMA team for helping make this past year a success. We'll see you again next year for an even bigger event. In the meantime, please write an essay on the following topic "Macromedia's DreamWeaver: Does it really save you time?". Until then...keep your eye on the ball and follow through!

But this person raised a very important point, unknowingly, and made us think. The companies that are selling Content Management Systems to their clients are charging fairly high prices - sometimes extremely high prices - for this technology. It seemed to me, at least at that moment, that we are missing the boat in this web-game and not utilizing the powerful lingo (tech-talk) that exists in today's E-World. You'd think that with all the research I do on this topic that these techno-terms would just flow off my tongue like the words to Born to Run (never enough Springsteen references for my money).

You see, at first I wanted to head immediately to my laptop to start making the changes to the terminology on our site, but then I realized that many of these terms tend to sound more difficult and impressive than they really are. Many companies are out there touting the fact that they build extremely functional and effective Content Management Systems, and they do! Most of them have high price tags on them. Not a problem when you are dealing with large corporations or government funded organizations who have the money to spend, but what about the small businesses who need that functionality but can't afford CMS?

Before I answer that humour me and let's take a look at the definition of CMS:

Content Management Systems (CMS) are used to store and subsequently find and retrieve large amounts of data. Content Management Systems work by indexing text, audio clips, images, etc., within a database. In addition, CMS often provide version control and check in/check out capabilities. Using robust built-in search capabilities, users can quickly find a piece of content from within a database by typing in keywords, the date the element was created, the name of the author, or other search criteria.