If you are thinking that the LiveWorkPlay website is rather comprehensive for a grassroots charity with a small staff, you are probably right. From as far back as 1997 we realized that limited use of print materials only made sense for an organization that was quickly evolving. The site you are looking at now was launched in May 2008, not to expand the amount of information available, but rather to provide easier access through a modern menu system.

The content of this website has been influenced by many, but the author is LiveWorkPlay's Co-Founder & CEO, Keenan Wellar. Before making LiveWorkPlay a full-time vocation, Keenan was the director of the Special Needs Education (SNE) initiative, part of a nationwide program offered under the auspices of the Industry Canada SchoolNet program. He was hired for his expertise in Special Education, not for computer skills or website design, but he learned on the job. He continues to apply those skills to the benefit of LiveWorkPlay as our webmaster.

With the launch of the new 2008 website, it is now much easier for others to contribute content to the site. Keenan is working to make his own expertise of lesser importance so that the organization is not overly reliant on the skills of one particular individual for the continued success of such an important communications tool.

Making the transition to the new website was a massive challenge. The old site (one of our old home pages is pictured here) comprised more than 300 pages and 5 gigabytes of data. The hardest part was getting started, and for that we must thank the supportive staff at Simmetria. They provided their services at highly competitive rates, but most importantly made themselves available at times and in ways that went far above and beyond an ordinary business relationship.

We hope that you enjoy our website, but we do welcome comments and suggestions, and we are always anxious to correct errors. If you do get in touch for that reason, please be as specific as possible. Our site has hundreds of pages and it is often very difficult to figure to understand the exact location of a particular error.