Toronto, March 17, 2009 - The Council of Ontario Construction Associations has launched a new Baseline CMS website.

"We selected New Media Architects both for the quality and flexibility of Baseline CMS and their clear understanding of our organization, " said Sue Ramsay, Operations and Communications Manager for COCA.

COCA is an advocacy organization for the Ontario ICI and heavy civil construction industry, comprising 32 member organizations that represent more than 10,500 construction businesses and more than 400,000 employees.  

COCA's existing website management system was floundering. Content updates were outsourced, making them costly and difficult to coordinate. These restrictions made changes sporadic and slowed down the flow of timely information to the public, which ultimately kept the website from staying fresh and up-to-date.

Now COCA can take control of their website. With Baseline CMS they can easily change, add and reorganize content on their website - on the fly, in real-time - ensuring that breaking news and the most recent information is presented to visitors right away.

New information can be published to COCA's members just as quickly. The site has a password-protected extranet allowing COCA to publish content to a sub-group of members (such as committee members) or to individually selected members as soon as it's received.

Information sharing among members is more fluid too:

• The Baseline CMX extranet gives COCA members throughout the province the chance to collaborate on policy development.
  
• They can publish their comments associated with specific articles, which can then be used for member feedback on draft policy papers - or for general discussion of emerging issues.

"Developing a new website was a daunting task but NMA was supportive and patient through the entire process, keeping us on track and communicating in plain language. We look forward to working together in the years to come," Ms. Ramsay said.