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Are you a small business owner who wishes you had a more effective web presence?

Collective Knowledge Works can provide you with a complete web site, with rich content and community features, for an amazingly low cost.

The site will establish your business as an information hub for your specialty or product area, providing a steady stream of new customers and deepening your engagement with your existing customers.

Our tools give you everything you’d expect, such as:

  • An easy-to-use content management system that makes it easy for you to update your site.
  • Flexible visual designs and layouts; choose from one of our existing designs, modify it to your liking, or create a design of your own.
  • Highly reliable hosting, with automatic backup and analytics.

To this we add our unique capabilities, including:

  • A full set of community features.
  • A knowledge management system that makes it easy for you to create and maintain a rich, up-to-date information resource using information from RSS feeds and web services.
  • An assortment of modules to meet your customers’ needs, from finding dealers to making appointments and accessing documents.
  • Want a blog, a forum, a wiki as part of the site? Just ask.

We make it incredibly easy to create your site:

  • You can set it up yourself, using our easy-to-use wizard and control panel, and there’s no setup fee.
  • Or, order our “Make it so!” setup service and you’re done! We’ll discuss your needs with you, extract the content from your existing site, set up your new site, and teach you how to modify and update up—all for a small setup fee.

If you have needs that aren’t met by our standard platform, we can develop custom modules to do exactly what you want.

 

Founders

Michael Slater is CEO of Collective Knowledge Works, Inc. He has 30 years of experience creating value from leading-edge technologies. He also manages BuildingWebApps.com and BoatingSF.com.

Michael was previously Director of Technology Strategy at Adobe Systems. He joined Adobe when it acquired Fotiva, a venture-funded photo software startup he cofounded. Prior to Fotiva, he was President of MicroDesign Resources, where he created the Microprocessor Report newsletter and the Microprocessor Forum conference.

Christopher Haupt is Chief Technology Officer at Collective Knowledge Works, Inc. He is a software architect and developer with over 25 years experience. Christopher was previously the Director of Engineering of Consumer and Hosted Application and Online Services at Adobe Systems. He also held engineering management roles for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and PhotoDeluxe.

Prior to Adobe, Christopher was a co-founder or lead engineer at a number of start-ups focused on educational and game software. Christopher holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology.