The Sheila Lyons for State Senate campaign website utilizes the WordPress MU platform to create an easy to update website that can adapt and grow with the needs of a State Senate campaign. The site includes an integrated online donation system and email marketing system. The site also utlizes MU’s multi site feature to create a sub domain site specifically for events (to take advantage of search listings).
Maryland State House
This past weekend was the annual session of the Maryland Student Legislature (MSL). MSL is a nonprofit organization that brings “students from universities and colleges across Maryland together to write, research and debate issues of local, state, and national importance.” More importantly, MSL teaches college students about the legislative and political process.
Annual session takes place in the House and Senate chambers of the actual Maryland Legislature in Annapolis. It was a great weekend of debating, politicking, censuring and voting! Here are some of the highlights:
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Below is a piece of legislation that I have submitted to the Maryland Student Legislature. The bill creates a single payer health care system in the State of Maryland, called MaryCare.
To do so the bill create two main boards. First, is the MaryCare Board of Directors that is responsible for setting the benefit packages, creating a pay structure based on outcomes not services, set a global budget for Maryland’s health care system and ensure that all doctors and hospitals are appropriately licensed. The second board is the Patients Rights Board. This board is responsible for educating the Maryland public about MaryCare and health related information as well as acting as a mediation board for medical malpractice suits before they go to court. Read the rest of this entry »
Below is a piece of legislation I sponsored in the Maryland Student Legislature. I am happy to report that the legislature passed and the governor signed the bill. As a result, this legislation will be sent to the the folks mandated at the bottom as well as the Health and Government Operations Committee of the actual Maryland Legislature.
The purpose of the bill is to allow the State Board of Education to become the sole authorizer of Charter Schools in Maryland Counties that are under performing. Although it is clear that Charter Schools work, local education boards across the country are hesitant to authorize them because Charter School funding comes out of the district school that each student would have come from (Charter schools get the money that student would have cost, had they attended their district school). State boards are far more likely to approve charter schools.
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The International Caterers Association Website
The Casual Gourmet Express Website
Remember that old saying “you get what you pay for”? Turns out that’s not always true.
Leaving all names aside, I recently ran into an organization that paid a web company a very large sum of money to build them a website. The main part of the site is in a content management system but the organization always wanted a blog. So, the web company that was hired I am sure did a Google search for the best blogging software and came up with WordPress and designed a WordPress theme that would match the rest of the site.
The Internet Age is here and it’s here to stay! In fact, we have now entered the Google Age where people don’t go to the library or the phone book or their friends for information, they go to Google. So, there should be no question that every small business, no matter what their field is, needs a strong web presence.
This summer I have been working on a web and marketing strategy for my mom’s catering company, The Casual Gourmet. So I spent a great deal of time researching what other small businesses and and caterers have for a web presence. I looked at what worked and what didn’t worked and well… mostly I looked a really bad websites.
The Hyannis Youth & Community Center Foundation Website
Visit www.hyannisyouth.org
The Point News is St. Mary's College of Maryland student run Newspaper
Visit www.thepointnews.com
“Dave’s talent and vision has finally brought The Point News into the 21st century.” -Justin Perry, Editor-in-Chief of The Point News
