Montreal, May 12, 2004 - Working with multiple-media.com, the Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys (CSMB), a leader among Quebec's larger schoolboards, plans to develop a Web site, dedicated to inform and support exchanges of ideas, that will be up to par with its mandate and its ambitions.

The school board, which expects to inaugurate the new portal in the coming months, will offer visitors not only news and updates about its activities, but also links towards the sites of the many institutions it manages.

Students, parents, teachers, education professionals and managers of the various institutions will be able to log on to CSMB.qc.ca for information on the school board and on its various schools and training centers, all of which will have their own personalized fact sheet on the portal.

The CSMB portal will also offer education professionals links towards sites built by their colleagues around different educational themes, and a location tool will help parents easily find their neighbourhood school.  A leading edge technical infrastructure will feed the site with the addresses and phone numbers of the various schools from a central database, thus eliminating the risk of errors as well as tedious data entry.

The school board will use MMCM, the user-friendly content management tool developed by multiple-media.com, to update the portal, eliminating the need for highly technical skills.  The institutions that comprise the school board will also use MMCM to update their individual fact sheets as often as necessary.

The future portal will complete a major strategic effort by the school board's communications bureau to overhaul and enhance its information tools.

About the CSMB
The CSMB, which comprises 89 institutions (62 primary schools, 15 high schools, 6 training centres and 6 adult education centres), has 6500 employees and some 44 000 pupil or students. Its territory covers 14 Montreal districts.

About multiple-media.com
multiple-media.com is a Montreal-based communications agency specializing in Web and digital video consulting and production. Whether for Web strategy, creation, programming, design, e-commerce applications, databases or content creation, multiple-media.com is a one-stop-shop that smoothly integrates communications and technology.
http://www.multiple-media.com

About MMCM
MMCM, which supports all file formats and Web graphical templates, is a universal online application designed by and for content producers to create and update Web sites in real time without technical expertise. http://www.mmcm.ca

Brigitte Gauvreau
CSMB
(514) 855-4500 # 4515