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Bannerline has created all manner of business and
industry publications for our customers. These include: annual reports,
brochures, house magazines, news releases, and specialty pieces. Let us
help you get the word out.
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Web and Internet Services
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STRATEGIC PARTNERS
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| A key strategic partner of BANNERLINE for
25 years, Richard Pitt, has been one of Canada's foremost leaders in the
evolution of the Internet. Richard and his
associate Doug Cook bring an aggregate of over 40 years of marketing
media expertise, from print, audio and video to the latest in Web
technologies and content.
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Richard Pitt
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| Richard is among the preeminent
pioneers of the Internet industry. He and partner Stuart Lynne launched
Canada's first commercial ISP, wimsey.com, mentioned frequently for
years on CTV National News. From1986 to mid 1993, Wimsey was the main
gateway for e-mail and other Internet access in Western Canada.
This was a logical progression for his personal firm,
Pacific Data Capture. From an early career in still and motion
photography and graphic design, Pitt evolved through retail management
and sales in the high tech industry, to his present consulting business
dealing with all manner of technical integration consulting to
businesses, specializing in integration with the Internet, especially
marketing and sales technologies.
Wimsey Information Services, Inc., became a major
evolution, not just in the formation of a regional ISP, but also in the
most sophisticated of e-mail and Web systems and technology. This firm
developed and marketed a software system called "Internet in a box"
including software for virtual e-mail systems titled VPO (Virtual Post
Office). One major customer for this software was the first ISP in
Beijing, China, in mid-1995. Under Pitt's guidance,
Wimsey grew from two staff members and billings of
$15,000 per month, to 14 full time people and over $1 million per annum
in sales. The web site was twice named the Canadian commercial site of
the year and was rated in the top 50 servers in the world for the amount
of transited news. Under Richard's guidance and management, the Wimsey
systems were instrumental in the development of the Web business in
Western Canada, and at a time when the rest of the Internet was still
teething, handled over one million web hits a day and 50,000 e-mail
messages for 30,000 users. Wimsey was sold to iSTAR (now part of PSI NET)
in 1995. Pitt was retained for a considerable period as a management and
systems consultant to the new firm.
Following the sale of Wimsey, FirePlug Computers was formed to carry
forward a number of software and Internet systems development projects.
In this new company, he and Stuart Lynne continued as pioneers in
expanding the impact of the then fledgling Linux operating system and,
most-notably its use in embedded computers. Their trademarked software
ThinLinux was sold to an Lineo Inc., an American firm spun out of Novell
Inc.
Richard Pitt is among the Canadian computer industry's most frequently
quoted personalities. He has been interviewed by or contributed articles
to scores of publications of all sizes, over the years, and appeared as
an expert guest on countless numbers of radio and television shows.
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Doug Cook
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| Doug and his company, DigiCom WebDesign,
have created award-winning web sites not only for Bannerline customers
but also a clientele that is international in scope. One of these,
(www.vanishingtattoo.com),
has earned so much international acclaim it has become the most popular
site of it's kind on the Internet. |
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Quality Visuals Of All Types
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Patricia Bannerman as well as associates
such as John Batchelor and Lloyd Sutton create some of the most stunning
visual elements for our clients' publications, presentations, web sites
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