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| Love Letters - Editors eMatrimony Celebrates Its First Anniversary Happy Anniversary, eMatrimony ! One year ago today, on Sunday, July 27, 2003, eMatrimony was first unveiled to the Worldwide Marriage Encounter family at the national Convention in DeKalb, Illinois. An overview of the project and a preview of the site was given to the assembled couples and priests by editors Jack & Karen Baker of Bellevue, WA and webmasters Ralph & Jane Becker of Milford, MA. The presentation explained that Matrimony Magazine, which had been WWME’s print publication for many years, had become an expensive burden. With the growth in the availability of electronic information, it became a natural to move the publication to the internet. An online news resource for WWME became the dream of Bob & Huli Tabone, the National Executive couple at that time. The Bakers and Beckers were selected, and agreed to bring eMatrimony to life. With much help from other couples, especially tech wizards Gene & Mary Leduc from San Diego, CA, the necessary tasks were accomplished. A site name was chosen, email addresses were configured, server space was set up, development tools were selected, and the site was designed and finally built. At the 2003 Convention, eMatrimony was displayed on the big screen with several news articles, including pictures from the convention itself! The value of being able to quickly post content online was self-evident. The presentation went flawlessly (after a nerve-wracking computer crash 15 minutes before the start!), and was enthusiastically received by the audience. In the year since its introduction, eMatrimony has grown tremendously. There are now over 200 articles on the English-speaking side of the site, with more being added all the time. Spanish-language eMatrimony opened in March of 2004. Visitors to the site have grown steadily. Since September, 2003, an email newsletter called the “eMatrimony News Flash”, has been published to draw readers’ attention to newly-published articles. Several ongoing features have been added, including a prayer intentions page, and most recently biographies of our beloved WWME priests. We hope that the best is yet to come! Come celebrate with us on the first anniversary of your WWME news web site, eMatrimony.org ! Click for a printable page (PDF, 9KB)
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