Toronto, Ontario. October 24, 2007 - The Mantis Web Content Management System (CMS) tackles an online event calendar completely customizable to suit the users' interests and location. The event calendar offers instant access to hundreds of community events and information while sifting out content that is not relevant to them. Users can choose to be notified via email of local events that reflect their specific interest. The events submitted to the calendar are entered by community event organizers which fosters user contributed content.

York Region Media Group selected c-Seven Media to build the online application because of c-Seven's speed to market capability gained from its Mantis CMS. The concept for the project comes from The Newspaper Next Report undertaken by the American Press Institute. The goal is for newspaper publishers to increase their audience by providing useful solutions relevant to the communities they serve.

c-Seven worked with the client to analyse and design a viable solution based on their initial concept. The Mantis CMS formed the base of solution allowing the calendar application to be quickly built on top of it in order to meet the critical holiday season deadline.

After the initial launch across York Region the calendar will be deployed throughout all of Southern Ontario. The online calendar can be viewed at http://pop.yorkregion.com

For more information please contact Josh Hayter, Director of Sales & Marketing 416-800-0682 x104.

About Mantis
Mantis CMS as concept was begun in 2000 by a company called c-Seven Media, a group of young web designers that liked building web sites, but didn't enjoy the ongoing text changes and minor revisions that would fill up their days. They realized that giving their customers control over their content would make them happier as those customers could update it themselves, and it made c-Seven happier because they could focus on designing sites and building more CMS tools.

Mantis has grown from just a simple text editor to a full suite of content management tools and is being recognized as the CMS product of choice by companies like Metroland Media Group, SBC Media, and the Girl Guides of Canada.

About York Region Media Group
www.yorkregion.com is a website serving the residents and businesses in the York Region communities of Aurora, East Gwillimbury, Georgina including Keswick, King, Markham, Newmarket, Richmond Hill, Vaughan including Maple and Woodbridge and Whitchurch-Stouffville. Yorkregion.com is packed with community-oriented information including local attractions, events and things to do, places to stay, daily updated news, classified ads, movie listings and other information on York Region communities. The York Region Media Group is a division of Metroland Media Group Ltd.

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