I was sitting on the Big Green Chair, watching some semi-forgettable TV show, dog at my feet, laptop making my legs sweat. It was after all, September, and it won't cool down until our two week winter in February.
I hear over the lamp and table separating us:
This is a great quote!
What is it?
Sign of a good life: The place your funeral is held is too small to accommodate the number of people who attend.
Wow, who said that?
Mike D.
Of course, Mike d'Oliviera. He's a local journalist here in town. He's also got a knack for telling a story concisely. I could learn from that after all. I am greeted by people by "Hey! There's the Rambling Moose" for a reason.
With that, Mike described the Funeral or Celebration of Diane Cline's Life perfectly. I remembered standing in one of the back rooms of the place for most of the night. I briefly claimed a chair in the center of the room and thought about the crush of people, both Diane's friends and family, how many there were with the sheer volume of bodies in the parlor of the former Richardson's home that Diane sought to save with the help of the Historical Society. Seeing my friends on the board of Wilton Manors Development Alliance, the once Wilton Manors Main Street, where Diane was the Chairwoman for Life, yet another group that she had helped to found, I realized how packed the place was.
The rains had started just before the selected hour. It was as
if Diane nudged a cloud over the park in order to get things going. I
heard someone announce it was time to come on in out of the
rain. When the music started to gather us together, the rain suddenly
stopped. Timing was interesting even if that sort of on-off rain is
something you become accustomed to here in the almost-tropics of Wilton
Manors.
It wasn't me who suggested that we pick up and move to the room in the back next to the kitchen, but I heartily agreed. Crowds are difficult at best for someone who sticks out above them. The Japanese have a saying that the Tallest Nail Will Get The Hammer First. I have quite a few dents on top of my head as a result, hammers and low hanging door closers aside. I got to observe the crowd from my perch near the back.
I'll just stick to the back of the hall. Getting
hit in the head with a hammer is fine for a nail, but for a too tall
person in a too crowded space, it can be difficult.
This was a not to be missed event. Even those who Diane would have told off in public arrived, much to our bemusement. Kremlinology didn't stop with the collapse of the Soviet Union, it moved to public events everywhere where people will ask "what is SHE doing here, doesn't she have a clue?".
Standing there listening to the politicians from our City speak about Diane, followed by the WMDA, then Family, the whole time I was looking at the fruits of her labor. Ironically I spotted a sign against the butter colored walls proclaiming Capacity 92 Persons, and said I doubt very much that the Fire Marshall would dare count heads in this packed building.
With back against the wall and potluck food on a plastic plate, I found my niche. A part of the celebration but on the periphery trying hard not to block the walkway or the doorway to the speeches with the too-low ceiling height. Being where I was, balancing the experience, there were a few things that would float in over the thrum of the crowd. One story about a commission meeting. then later followed by Diane's favorite admonishment to "Never Trust a Naked Bus Driver".
They didn't repeat my comment that if I ever buy a bus, I'll drive it naked.
We eventually left the hall at the South End of the Drive. Walking out I commented that most of what you see in this little city was directly due to the work of Diane and some other very committed people. This is a small city. Small cities all over the world get things done on the backs of the cadres of volunteers working to make life better.
The shape of the Drive, the character of the sidewalks, the widening to four lanes and our ongoing struggle to narrow it back with the Two Lane Initiative, many other aspects of this City that all look like the normal fabric of life here were at least touched by this woman. It really is a case of if you didn't know of her, you probably didn't know what was going on in this quirky little island. The same can be said of some others that I know well who are tireless volunteers.
Speeches are all well and good. In this sort of celebration, knowing what we did, it was interesting to point out, quietly to each other, the intentional revisions of some very specific historical events, all for good effect.
Actions are better. The works of anyone's lifetime can rarely be summed up in a single afternoon's event. Sometimes you can get a better view of that life by leaving the hall and walking down your own Main Street after a September rain.
An Open Letter To My Sister, or Whatever Pops Into My Head at the Time...
Showing posts with label Wilton Manors Main Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wilton Manors Main Street. Show all posts
Monday, September 9, 2013
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Goodbye My Friend, Diane Cline
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When you move to a new city, there are people who immediately grab your attention. Some of these fall by the wayside, and you could never say that Diane Cline would fall away.
Some of my most powerful memories were of her in City Commission meetings in the City of Wilton Manors, Florida. She was once on the City Council, back when it was called that.
Back In The Day when Wilton Manors was on the decline, she worked tirelessly to help slow that progress. There was a time when Wilton Manors was a war zone. You could fire a cannon down Wilton Drive at rush hour and not hit a soul.
She and some others were there trying to help bring people back. It was a place that nobody knew its name. You would call it East Ft Lauderdale if you were trying to sell the house.
Then the bar opened, and some life started to flicker back into the place. Diane was there all the while, and you can easily say that she was directly responsible for the way the City looks today. She would be at almost every Commission meeting giving suggestions to those who would listen, and letting those know who wronged her or her beloved Wilton Manors what they are doing wrong. Some were told in no uncertain terms where they should go and where the boundaries of the City were so they could find themselves on the other side of that line, permanently, preferably.
At some point, Diane was given a sign. I believe that it was made up by someone in one of the City Departments, but I can't be sure. It is a street sign, looks quite official, and says "Diane's Way". She said that they were talking about changing Wilton Drive or NE 26th Street to that, with a twinkle in her eye. The Drive's name has never been changed but the sign should go on the wall in the Mayor's Office facing the Mayor to remind him of the progress that has been made since those bad old days of ineffective government and war zone avoidance.
The picture itself comes from one of the last days of the Old City Hall. Diane met me at what was the Police Locker Room and Gym that morning to help sell off the contents of the building that had been moved to that room. It was all to benefit the Wilton Manors Historical Society, another one of her many Good Works. She and I spent the day rattling around the building, me taking pictures and helping to sell off some things, she was doing the same and giving the history behind some of the artifacts assembled while telling jokes.
One of the most important aspects of that knowledge came out with the Two Lane Initiative that was spearheaded by the Wilton Manors Development Alliance and Wilton Manors Main Street. Diane came up with the germ of that idea that gradually picked up steam. It is the Next Step in the re-creation of Wilton Manors, to take the City one step closer to being a true walkable city and an Urban Oasis. With help, this plan will continue and finally take place now that the debts are being paid off and parking funds are finally being directed with some semblance of sanity to the work at hand. Politics simply could not be separated from Diane, it was too much of what she was. The Two Lane Initiative was something she was absolutely committed to, and its progress is absolutely an indication of the current relative capacity and competence of the City.
Diane was known for the best assortment of groaners and dirty jokes of anyone I could think of. You could always be sure that if Diane was there, she'd have a joke to tell, and it always had a message behind it directed at something pertinent. You would leave the conversation with the light bulb over your head flickering on and realize just who got the brunt of that zinger.
She was the conscience of this city in many ways, and will be sorely missed. She was a friend, a confidant, and an amazing source of information. If you didn't know Diane Cline, you probably didn't really know what was going on in Wilton Manors.
Diane, you will be missed by me and by all.
Some of my most powerful memories were of her in City Commission meetings in the City of Wilton Manors, Florida. She was once on the City Council, back when it was called that.
Back In The Day when Wilton Manors was on the decline, she worked tirelessly to help slow that progress. There was a time when Wilton Manors was a war zone. You could fire a cannon down Wilton Drive at rush hour and not hit a soul.
She and some others were there trying to help bring people back. It was a place that nobody knew its name. You would call it East Ft Lauderdale if you were trying to sell the house.
Then the bar opened, and some life started to flicker back into the place. Diane was there all the while, and you can easily say that she was directly responsible for the way the City looks today. She would be at almost every Commission meeting giving suggestions to those who would listen, and letting those know who wronged her or her beloved Wilton Manors what they are doing wrong. Some were told in no uncertain terms where they should go and where the boundaries of the City were so they could find themselves on the other side of that line, permanently, preferably.
At some point, Diane was given a sign. I believe that it was made up by someone in one of the City Departments, but I can't be sure. It is a street sign, looks quite official, and says "Diane's Way". She said that they were talking about changing Wilton Drive or NE 26th Street to that, with a twinkle in her eye. The Drive's name has never been changed but the sign should go on the wall in the Mayor's Office facing the Mayor to remind him of the progress that has been made since those bad old days of ineffective government and war zone avoidance.
The picture itself comes from one of the last days of the Old City Hall. Diane met me at what was the Police Locker Room and Gym that morning to help sell off the contents of the building that had been moved to that room. It was all to benefit the Wilton Manors Historical Society, another one of her many Good Works. She and I spent the day rattling around the building, me taking pictures and helping to sell off some things, she was doing the same and giving the history behind some of the artifacts assembled while telling jokes.
One of the most important aspects of that knowledge came out with the Two Lane Initiative that was spearheaded by the Wilton Manors Development Alliance and Wilton Manors Main Street. Diane came up with the germ of that idea that gradually picked up steam. It is the Next Step in the re-creation of Wilton Manors, to take the City one step closer to being a true walkable city and an Urban Oasis. With help, this plan will continue and finally take place now that the debts are being paid off and parking funds are finally being directed with some semblance of sanity to the work at hand. Politics simply could not be separated from Diane, it was too much of what she was. The Two Lane Initiative was something she was absolutely committed to, and its progress is absolutely an indication of the current relative capacity and competence of the City.
Diane was known for the best assortment of groaners and dirty jokes of anyone I could think of. You could always be sure that if Diane was there, she'd have a joke to tell, and it always had a message behind it directed at something pertinent. You would leave the conversation with the light bulb over your head flickering on and realize just who got the brunt of that zinger.
She was the conscience of this city in many ways, and will be sorely missed. She was a friend, a confidant, and an amazing source of information. If you didn't know Diane Cline, you probably didn't really know what was going on in Wilton Manors.
Diane, you will be missed by me and by all.
Monday, April 30, 2012
A Small Sign of Things Working In Wilton Manors
That is why the picture of the stop sign.
You see, living here in Wilton Manors, just like any other place, you get a vastly different view of how things work than someone who is a tourist or has a business. Tourists look at things and either have almost all positive or all negative views, never terribly accurate. Businesses have an amplified view of the negatives of a given area, and usually there is one specific issue that set them on the long downward spiral of turning on an area - and again, are never terribly accurate.
We residents are the ones who have to live with the mess of the tourists, and the disruption of the businesses, and generally are the ones that set the rules. If a city doesn't work well, it's probably due to the residents not paying attention. Eventually those who don't work get noticed and those politicians get rolled out.
I have a strongly positive impression of City Government here in Wilton Manors. Being on the Board of Wilton Manors Main Street, I hear many of the complaints of the businesses, and the plans for the future, and sometimes get to hear some news a little before most. I also get to speak with some of the business owners and some of the City department heads.
Again, after all is said and done, I have a strongly positive impression of City Government here. After all, how many cities can you "Walk Through" your permitting for building changes and expedite things yourself? It is possible to get "Personal Service" that a city not much larger than we are cannot hope to give.
I had that driven home to me last night.
We were out with Mrs Dog for a wander around town before bed. There's an intersection near me that needed to have stop signs put on it and the neighbors lobbied for it. There was some push back from a particular whiny group of people who didn't see the people flying down that block after they left the bars and after hearing the stories about drunk drivers crashing into trees, the City Commission approved the three way stop sign for that intersection - much to the relief of the residents nearby.
Last night, around 10PM we noticed that one of the signs was down. People were assuming no sign, no yield, and were back to flying through the intersection at unsafe speeds.
The suggestion was made to email the Director of Public Services, David Archacki, since we knew him. Of course, this being the smartphone era, Kevin immediately did so, while walking into a wet palm tree.
I shrugged and laughed and didn't think too much about it until this morning's 6AM dog walk. When I rounded that corner again, the sign was still down. You really don't expect anything to happen at 6AM on a Monday morning, so I walked on home.
At 830 after Kevin left for work, I get a call saying there was a temporary sign out on the corner. That's the one you see on the top of this post.
So once again, I'm pleasantly surprised at how efficient things can be here. Thanks, Dave, we really do appreciate your work.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wilton Manors Main Street lets you Write Your Name on Wilton Drive
Some cities loom larger than their size. They mean more than the few folks there could imagine because of what they mean to those who don't live there.
Wilton Manors is clearly one of those places.
Right in the heart of town is a little plot of land. It was hardly usable for anything economic. It could have been made into about 3 parking spaces, it could have housed a water tower, it could have been used for something equally as bland.
The city decided to convert it into a park. Makes sense to me! If you look at that map above, the little triangle at NE 5th Avenue, Wilton Drive, and NE 21st Court seems to be screaming to be made into something for the people that live there.
Had a house been built there, it would have had the enviable position of being seen from all corners. That's not desirable, but being where it is it can be made into a meeting place for everyone.
That is what is beginning to take shape, slowly. After all it is a Municipal "Vest Pocket" park in a small city, there are only 12000 people here, roughly, so finances will always be tight.
The first phase was to put in a little picnic area, and add in an area for what is called the "Children's Art Project". That area went through the building of the "post card" feature. An art installation of a chest high replica of a post card that was used to promote the properties of the city back when it was first settled back in the 1930s. You can actually see the post card in this google maps street view and the park to the right.
Technological trickery aside, you will have a chance to participate in the growth of this little area. The artists rendition on this page shows what it will look like once the plaza is complete. The bricked up area is what they're offering you a chance to be a part of.
The group, Wilton Manors Main Street, will be selling bricks to pave that area. You have a chance to add your name or your groups name to the brick and have it added to the plaza. The sale started yesterday, January 11, 2012, and can be participated by people all over the world.
If you have connections to the area, you can participate by clicking on this link and have your name in the sun. Once the next phase begins, after all the bricks have been sold, you know I'll have pictures of the work on my blog. You can also get a longer description of what they're trying to do at the little park. After all, I helped put that page together.
After all, you don't have to live in Wilton Manors to be a part of Wilton Manors. Sometimes a little 4x8 inch brick is all you need.
Wilton Manors is clearly one of those places.
Right in the heart of town is a little plot of land. It was hardly usable for anything economic. It could have been made into about 3 parking spaces, it could have housed a water tower, it could have been used for something equally as bland.
The city decided to convert it into a park. Makes sense to me! If you look at that map above, the little triangle at NE 5th Avenue, Wilton Drive, and NE 21st Court seems to be screaming to be made into something for the people that live there.
Had a house been built there, it would have had the enviable position of being seen from all corners. That's not desirable, but being where it is it can be made into a meeting place for everyone.
That is what is beginning to take shape, slowly. After all it is a Municipal "Vest Pocket" park in a small city, there are only 12000 people here, roughly, so finances will always be tight.
The first phase was to put in a little picnic area, and add in an area for what is called the "Children's Art Project". That area went through the building of the "post card" feature. An art installation of a chest high replica of a post card that was used to promote the properties of the city back when it was first settled back in the 1930s. You can actually see the post card in this google maps street view and the park to the right.
Technological trickery aside, you will have a chance to participate in the growth of this little area. The artists rendition on this page shows what it will look like once the plaza is complete. The bricked up area is what they're offering you a chance to be a part of.
The group, Wilton Manors Main Street, will be selling bricks to pave that area. You have a chance to add your name or your groups name to the brick and have it added to the plaza. The sale started yesterday, January 11, 2012, and can be participated by people all over the world.
If you have connections to the area, you can participate by clicking on this link and have your name in the sun. Once the next phase begins, after all the bricks have been sold, you know I'll have pictures of the work on my blog. You can also get a longer description of what they're trying to do at the little park. After all, I helped put that page together.
After all, you don't have to live in Wilton Manors to be a part of Wilton Manors. Sometimes a little 4x8 inch brick is all you need.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
LinkedIn, Facebook and the Creepy Factor
Today I was amused by a bit of LinkedIn email.
Going through the morning online work, I spotted a piece of email from LinkedIn. Most of us are familiar with Facebook by now. Consider LinkedIn a Facebook for the Professional Set. If you have a career instead of a job, you need to be on there. The account that I use on there could be more effectively used, I am somewhat low on contacts. Since I'm so busy maintaining the presence of Wilton Manors Main Street on Facebook and their Blog and watching over that of New Divine Mercy Church on Facebook, their Blog, as well as my own blog here, I tend to take a passive outlook. If someone spots me, friends me, I accept, smile at the "good thoughts" and move on with a new relationship.
I don't usually search for people unless there is a reason. Once I found a whole wing of the family in Nebraska and another in Washington State, as well as being told of a branch that moved to Saskatchewan and set down roots.
This particular email was asking me if I knew some people. Specifically it was the Mayor of Wilton Manors and one of the Commissioners. Yep! I know them both, but since I don't tend to "bother" people without a good reason I chuckled and deleted the email.
We're all busy, right? Why bother people...
That got me thinking about the ability to use social media for online stalking. If the software knew that I should know the Mayor and the Commissioner and was right, what else does this online database know about us.
Privacy is done for. Actually that isn't completely true, you could always cut your credit cards and pay cash for everything. With the laws in place for health and other records in the United States, if that information got out about you, you could make a tidy sum suing the company that had an "accidental" breach of your personal information, many people have.
Online privacy is non-existent. As soon as someone posts their personal information on a website, and it is found by a search engine, you're public. May as well put it on a post-it or on one of those stickers that say "Hello, My Name Is" because it is that open. Email is a Post Card medium. It is sent out mostly unencrypted out to the world and anyone who wants to learn about you can find it with the right technology.
Sure there are secured Email sites for such people who work in the Health Care and Insurance Industries for example, but they are not used by "normal folk" like you and me.
So what can you do about it? Practically nothing these days. If you use an email that is free and advertisement based, then your information is already out there including your private thoughts. They aren't private, no matter what. This blog is public, it is scanned by all the search engines, and I do employ some Search Engine Optimization techniques to make sure that the articles I post aren't just read today. It also is hosted on Blogger which is a Google site. Google finds my posts and scans them and indexes them. That benefits me because it brings people in a wider audience than just my friends and family.
Now what happens to those databases? You tell me...
The indexes and databases of websites and emails and all the other detritus of our lives that are online are a very good representation of our personal thoughts. Go onto Facebook and like something and you establish a relationship. That relationship can be inconsequential when you "Like" Food. It could be something we consider positive when we Like our own nation or an allied nation. It could be negative when we like a hate group - find them on your own, I won't help you there.
The bottom line is that it builds a very good psychological description of an individual. This sort of thing has not gone unnoticed, and there are many people out there working in Social Networking and the analysis of the psychology of Social Networking. After all, you can sell this information or protect your country against people who are out to commit crimes simply by looking over their shoulders at what they say about themselves.
The best thing you can do is step back next time you see that email or the friendly "Like" button and consider what it says about you. After all, it is easier than trying to do it the Old School way. Who among us has actually written a physical paper letter to a company telling them how well they did lately? I know I haven't!
Going through the morning online work, I spotted a piece of email from LinkedIn. Most of us are familiar with Facebook by now. Consider LinkedIn a Facebook for the Professional Set. If you have a career instead of a job, you need to be on there. The account that I use on there could be more effectively used, I am somewhat low on contacts. Since I'm so busy maintaining the presence of Wilton Manors Main Street on Facebook and their Blog and watching over that of New Divine Mercy Church on Facebook, their Blog, as well as my own blog here, I tend to take a passive outlook. If someone spots me, friends me, I accept, smile at the "good thoughts" and move on with a new relationship.
I don't usually search for people unless there is a reason. Once I found a whole wing of the family in Nebraska and another in Washington State, as well as being told of a branch that moved to Saskatchewan and set down roots.
This particular email was asking me if I knew some people. Specifically it was the Mayor of Wilton Manors and one of the Commissioners. Yep! I know them both, but since I don't tend to "bother" people without a good reason I chuckled and deleted the email.
We're all busy, right? Why bother people...
That got me thinking about the ability to use social media for online stalking. If the software knew that I should know the Mayor and the Commissioner and was right, what else does this online database know about us.
Privacy is done for. Actually that isn't completely true, you could always cut your credit cards and pay cash for everything. With the laws in place for health and other records in the United States, if that information got out about you, you could make a tidy sum suing the company that had an "accidental" breach of your personal information, many people have.
Online privacy is non-existent. As soon as someone posts their personal information on a website, and it is found by a search engine, you're public. May as well put it on a post-it or on one of those stickers that say "Hello, My Name Is" because it is that open. Email is a Post Card medium. It is sent out mostly unencrypted out to the world and anyone who wants to learn about you can find it with the right technology.
Sure there are secured Email sites for such people who work in the Health Care and Insurance Industries for example, but they are not used by "normal folk" like you and me.
So what can you do about it? Practically nothing these days. If you use an email that is free and advertisement based, then your information is already out there including your private thoughts. They aren't private, no matter what. This blog is public, it is scanned by all the search engines, and I do employ some Search Engine Optimization techniques to make sure that the articles I post aren't just read today. It also is hosted on Blogger which is a Google site. Google finds my posts and scans them and indexes them. That benefits me because it brings people in a wider audience than just my friends and family.
Now what happens to those databases? You tell me...
The indexes and databases of websites and emails and all the other detritus of our lives that are online are a very good representation of our personal thoughts. Go onto Facebook and like something and you establish a relationship. That relationship can be inconsequential when you "Like" Food. It could be something we consider positive when we Like our own nation or an allied nation. It could be negative when we like a hate group - find them on your own, I won't help you there.
The bottom line is that it builds a very good psychological description of an individual. This sort of thing has not gone unnoticed, and there are many people out there working in Social Networking and the analysis of the psychology of Social Networking. After all, you can sell this information or protect your country against people who are out to commit crimes simply by looking over their shoulders at what they say about themselves.
The best thing you can do is step back next time you see that email or the friendly "Like" button and consider what it says about you. After all, it is easier than trying to do it the Old School way. Who among us has actually written a physical paper letter to a company telling them how well they did lately? I know I haven't!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
www.canawm.org - Another Successful Web Implementation Project Complete
Between doing Video Shoots and Website Upgrades for New Divine Mercy Church as well as functioning as their Webmaster and Project Manager, I was busy working on a new website for the Central Area Neighborhood Association for Wilton Manors.
Today, all the technical details were completed and the website for CANA went live.
This is the fifth website that I have created for organizations using the Google Sites technology. Google Sites is a great way to get a basic website up and running, especially for Not For Profits as those organizations have been granted free space on Google's Servers. I have heard that they may or may not begin charging for that service in the future, and I have heard that it may or may not go Fee Based.
The benefit of using the technology is that it is completely "Cloud Based". Got a small organization and you don't want to have to worry about whether you have a dedicated server architecture built in an office server closet? This works for you since Sites is hosted by Google. You get access to a limited number of free services such as Google Docs, Gmail accounts, and other things so in theory you can completely run an organization virtually without ever buying a corporate computer. Feel like making a change on a website from your laptop on vacation in a far flung corner of the world - you can do it if you have internet.
I wouldn't personally put any financial information on a "web app" but that's my security preference, you may not agree.
At any rate, CANA has their web site, it's up and running.
The other sites I have created were for the Joe Angelo for Mayor Campaign, the Celeste Ellich for Commissioner Campaign, New Divine Mercy Church, as well as working on my blog.
I am also the Social Media Director for Wilton Manors Main Street helping to voice their public presence on Facebook and on their blog. I also have worked on their current webpage that is expected to go through some changes and a refresh soon.
Having done web development as a Programmer and as a Project Manager as well as doing Implementation of Websites, Large Scale implementation of Legacy systems, and Accounting Systems help in rounding out that list.
I'm also That Guy that people call up for help with their PCs since I've implemented more desktop systems than I would care to count. I've also implemented Servers running Windows Server 2003 and 2007, implemented SQL Server (various versions) as well as created servers running Linux and the LAMP Stack.
The Lamp Stack is a set of technologies that will allow you to serve out web pages to the world as well as function as a regular file server as needed and it's all free.
Most of that stuff can run "virtually" and on a computer using VMWare or Microsoft Virtual PC.
Not a bad cover letter, I may have to use this since I've done this and more.
Today, all the technical details were completed and the website for CANA went live.
This is the fifth website that I have created for organizations using the Google Sites technology. Google Sites is a great way to get a basic website up and running, especially for Not For Profits as those organizations have been granted free space on Google's Servers. I have heard that they may or may not begin charging for that service in the future, and I have heard that it may or may not go Fee Based.
The benefit of using the technology is that it is completely "Cloud Based". Got a small organization and you don't want to have to worry about whether you have a dedicated server architecture built in an office server closet? This works for you since Sites is hosted by Google. You get access to a limited number of free services such as Google Docs, Gmail accounts, and other things so in theory you can completely run an organization virtually without ever buying a corporate computer. Feel like making a change on a website from your laptop on vacation in a far flung corner of the world - you can do it if you have internet.
I wouldn't personally put any financial information on a "web app" but that's my security preference, you may not agree.
At any rate, CANA has their web site, it's up and running.
The other sites I have created were for the Joe Angelo for Mayor Campaign, the Celeste Ellich for Commissioner Campaign, New Divine Mercy Church, as well as working on my blog.
I am also the Social Media Director for Wilton Manors Main Street helping to voice their public presence on Facebook and on their blog. I also have worked on their current webpage that is expected to go through some changes and a refresh soon.
Having done web development as a Programmer and as a Project Manager as well as doing Implementation of Websites, Large Scale implementation of Legacy systems, and Accounting Systems help in rounding out that list.
I'm also That Guy that people call up for help with their PCs since I've implemented more desktop systems than I would care to count. I've also implemented Servers running Windows Server 2003 and 2007, implemented SQL Server (various versions) as well as created servers running Linux and the LAMP Stack.
The Lamp Stack is a set of technologies that will allow you to serve out web pages to the world as well as function as a regular file server as needed and it's all free.
Most of that stuff can run "virtually" and on a computer using VMWare or Microsoft Virtual PC.
Not a bad cover letter, I may have to use this since I've done this and more.
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