cybercasemanager.com corporate headquarters

Hi, my name is Stefan Densmore, founder of Cybercasemanager Incorporated. Those familiar with cybercasemanager.com from the beginning have seen a lot of changes to the website over the years. From its simple beginnings as a single page listing frequently used Cincinnati Mental Health internet links, the enterprise has taken off to host a variety of additional resources and has even expanded to include Chicago, Illinois. A significant milestone has been reached with the most recent launch, which I’d like to take a moment to discuss.

One of the first things you may notice is that cybercasemanager.com no longer defaults to the Cincinnati localization, but instead leads here, to this administrative blog. The thinking behind this was that the front end of the web site should be set aside to highlight the mission objectives of cybercasemanager, detail progress on those objectives, and invite peer review.

This format also allows the city localizations to stay what they are, as an online knowledge base of local resources, rather than the resource deficient corporate publicity billboard that most websites for social services unfortunately have become. So this will be the billboard, in all its stuffiness, you can check in as often as you like, or completely ignore it by making a bookmark for a direct link to the localization of interest.

For the past year, behind the scenes, we have been experimenting with a powerful new engine for our Content Management System (CMS). Code-named Cybermu, the new CMS is an installation of the open source semantic publishing platform wordpress mu (pronounced mew, like a cat). We chose to use the same open source solution to handle content management as that used by Harvard University, The New York Times, and Le Monde. The new mu engine enables multiple (literally hundreds of thousands of) integrated sub-installations, which is of particular usefulness to the cybercasemanager enterprise, given the ability to easily add new cities as our model grows.

Aside from the new look, and the “Cincinnati Case Management Forums”, the Cincinnati website is basically the same. Only a few new features have been added like the opinion pools, and links to the suggestion box and support forums. The Chicago website, however, has seen a major overhaul. Before the changeover, the Chicago website had not seen an upgrade of their system in years; they were still operating from the simple list of frequently used resource links that defined the earliest version of cybercasemanager. They now have the full functionality afforded to the Cincinnati website.

As mentioned before, the transition to the wordpress mu engine allows us to easily add new cities, with these full features, at very little overhead. With interest and support from users like you, we hope to add more cities to cybercasemanger.com this year. If you’d like to be involved, please take a couple minutes to review the number of ways you can be involved.

We have also opened up the administrative management of the site, in a grassroots fashion, for case managers, doctors, social workers, nurses, and other direct service providers to join our board of directors. This is a big experiment, no doubt about it, and unprecedented as far as I know. See the board of directors page to fill out the online application if you are interested.

Hi, this is Stefan Densmore, founder of Cybercasemanager Incorporated.

Some of you may remember that I sent out a fund raising request last year on behalf of the National Association of Children of Alcoholics (NACoA). They are an organization which identifies and creates materials for educators and counselors to viably help children who have received the unlucky draw of living with a parent or parents suffering from alcohol or drug dependency. The chaos in these households, due to the lack of dependability or outright emotional and physical abuse, is more pronounced during the

holiday season, as you might expect. Children living in households where substance abuse exists are 4 times more likely to suffer physical abuse than their peers, and 4 times more likely to develop mental illness as adults. What is staggering is that we’re talking about 1 in 4 American children under the age of 18.

You may know that I’ve worked in the field of mental health and chemical addictions treatment for nearly eleven years, and that improving the delivery system of community resources to individuals in need has been part of my personal mission for some time, including the launch of cybercasemanager.com several years ago. You may also know that in the past three years I have been active in my local running community, having completed 7 full marathons, 2 sprint triathlons, several 10k’s, and more than a dozen 5k’s. What you may not know is that, crazy or not, I’ve been sober (continuously) all three of those years! And still am!

I am very fortunate to be able to represent NACoA as one of their runners in January ‘08. I’ll be running a 5k on Friday the 11th, a half-marathon on Saturday the 12th, and then a full marathon on Sunday the 13th, raising awareness for NACoA during the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend. I’d like to raise a little money for them too, and I hope you’ll help by giving whatever you can. You can donate or make a pledge contingent on my athletic performance in any one or more of the races. I would much rather you just flat out donate, but I am open to challenges.

Contributing to NACoA is tax deductible and the money does a lot of good. The most efficient way to donate is at http://www.firstgiving.com/stefandensmore Alternatively, you can write a check payable to NACoA, and contact me to make arrangements for pickup. Any amount you can provide is a blessing.

If you have any questions about my involvement with NACoA, marathon running, sobriety, goofiness, or anything else, you can reach me at stefan dot densmore at gmail dot com, or by calling my cell phone at (513) 379-8992. Thank you for your consideration of this worthy cause, and God Bless!

Stefan Christian Densmore

This post is a place holder for the administrative blog while the new CMS is being tweaked for launch. Code-named Cybermu, the new CMS is an installation of the open source phenomenon wordpress mu. The “former” cybercasemanager.com/cincinnati was based on the standard wordpress CMS engine. The mu engine enables multiple blogs, which is of particular usefulness to the cybercasemanager enterprise, given the ability to easily add new cities as our model grows.