pTools Content Management Expands into Canadian Market

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Enterprise level CMS provider pTools, today announced the opening of its new office in Toronto and the appointment of its new General Manager for Canada, Mr. Dee Allott.

The company has been working in the Canadian and North American marketplace for a number of years and has gained key customers and partners including Heenan Blaikie, Wolters Kluwer and WatServ ERP Cloud Computing.

Keith Wood, the new CEO of pTools who took over from Tom Skinner, pTools founder, in September last year and has driven the new Canada operation comments:

We have in the past made tentative steps in international markets without the commitment in terms of people and resources needed to grow business and gain long term partnerships and customers. This has changed and we are now a company working equally in Toronto and Dublin. I am excited to be working again with pTools at this important time and believe strongly in the future of our plans for Canada and other international markets.

Smallbox Software to develop and manage websites for Toronto’s Exhibition Place

Smallbox Software has successfully won a bid to develop, host and manage a suite of websites for Toronto's Exhibition Place. Smallbox Software's content management platform Smallbox CMS will provide content management for Exhibition Place, Direct Energy Centre and Allstream Centre.

Exhibition Place reviewed a number of proposals and technology solutions in response to the RFP and selected, Smallbox Software on the strength of the company's product offering, experience and track record. Smallbox is collaborating with Clear Space Design & Communications Inc. on the project, with Clear Space providing the user interface designs for all three websites. All three sites will launch in Fall 2009.

"We are very excited to be the developer on this project. Our content management system is a powerful and intuitive platform which will enable Exhibition Place staff to manage their website online in real time," said Smallbox principal Michael Williams. "We are confident that securing another high profile website in the Ontario marketplace will give Smallbox a good foothold to expand awareness of our product in the region. We see this as a sizable area of future growth for our business and look forward to expanding on this recent success."

10 US Presidents that were also geeks

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The site, eWeek,  posted a little slide show  in honor of Presidents Day.  The slide show lists "10 U.S. presidents who held patents, thought globally and believed in the power of the press—and macaroni".  To the best of my knowledge, none of the presidents have actually managed their own Web site.  What a shame for a US President to not experience the true joys of being a geek.

Actually, I'm more excited about the new Presidential Dollar coins which I blogged about on another site months ago.  Yesterday, I went ahead and purchased a "coin album" for my three year-old to store each the coin for each US president.   I'm excited about it.  My son still thinks he's collecting quarters.

That's right my Canadian friends to the north, we're still using One Dollar paper bills down here.  About a decade ago I tried using a Canadian paper dollar while in Canada and was asked "what is this?" when I tipped my waitress.   It seems Canada made the move to Dollar coins a long time ago and my bank where I exchanged currently didn't know about the change.  I had a very unhappy waitress to deal with that night.  Not sure why, I did ask for a Canadian beer after all.

Back in the IT world

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As some of you may have noticed, I returned a few days ago from my low-tech week. It's taking me awhile to adjust being stuck at the computer so you'll have to bear with me. It's been tough enough to spend the PC time at work, so spending my "free time" on the PC is challenging. It's kind of like not eating fast food for a week and then suddently having to ingest it for every meal. Drupal addict and Yoga for Geeks guru, Sarah Pullman, mentioned a similar experience in one of her posts. To add insult to injury, I blew up three sites on my VPS and had to put the pieces back together.

So how did I spend my time last week? The family drove north to visit our Canadian neigbors and spend some time camping. We camped near Grand Beach at Lake Winnipeg. Lake Winnipeg is in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It wasn't completely without some technology as we had electricity available for the pop-up camper. Translation...lights, water pump, and even a furnace were available. Considering, I usually spend my time camping in the US national forests without electricity this was a camping luxury for the family.

Surprisingly, we were about the only US citizens in the campground which surprised me. If Texans and Californians can spend there time in Colorado...you would think some folks from the Dakotas and Minnesota could visit Manitoba more often. When I get a chance, I'll have to maybe add a picture or two of our time camping, swimming, or hiking. Translation...I still need to find where we put the digital camera.

During the weekend, we spent our time in the city of Winnipeg. This was my third visit to Winnipeg, but the first time for my family. Most of our time was spent in the city's river front area, the Forks. For me the most exciting time was visiting the children museum with my 3 year old son! They have the coolest real train in that building. My son and I literally fought over the conductors chair. In the Forks shopping area, I felt like we were traveling with the Beatles. Japanese tourists have a strong interest in my son and even begged us to be photographed with him. Something in the Japanese culture inclined them to tell us just how cute they thought he was. As strange as it was, I'm proud to say some of my genes were involved in those good looks!