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International Consortium for Social Development selects 18th Street Design for Online Application Development.

October 7, 2005

18th Street Design (www.18street.com) announced today that the International Consortium for Social Development, an organization of practitioners, scholars and students in the human services sector has selected 18th Street Design to re-design the overall look and feel of their existing web presence as well as enhance and develop a membership management database.

"IUCISD provides an outstanding service for the human services sector and we're excited to be able to help enhance the group's online presence to not only include a new, fresh look but also an interactive level for both members and visitors to the web site. ", stated Jay Wingard, President of 18th Street Design.

"We chose 18th Street Design because I have worked with 18th Street Design on projects before and they are one of the few "techies" around who has the patience to explain complicated code in everyday language. Jay is also a person who will honestly give his advise regardless of the fact that he may lose money on it! In other words, he keeps the organization's needs and resouces in mind when coming to a decision which works best for the client.", stated Dr. Goutham Menon, Vice-President, Communications and Public Relations of IUCISD. Menon adds, "After a name change, our organization was looking to revamp our old web presence into something that can be easily recognizable worldwide. Being an international non-profit organization, we had to expand our offerrings to make it easier for our membership to participate in our activities. I believe the new website will provide just that."

18th Street Design will create a new web site for IUCISD that includes enhanced navigation, a fresh more innovative design and a full-scale overhaul and enhancement of their online database-driven membership system.

About 18th Street Design, LLC
18th Street Design (www.18street.com) is a privately held, award winning new media development company located in the historic Vista in Columbia, SC. Owned by Jay C. Wingard, 18th Street offers creative web development, new media services and music composition. Founded in 1995, 18th Street provides intelligent new media solutions for small, medium and enterprise businesses.

About the International Consortium for Social Development
Social development processes aim to empower people to bring about economic and social improvement in their lives. Often this involves institution-building and structural change. The Inter-University Consortium for International Social Development (IUCISD) is an organization of practitioners, scholars and students in the human services. It was started in the 1970's by a group of social work educators to respond to pressing human concerns from an international, interdisciplinary perspective. The organization seeks to develop conceptual frameworks and effective intervention strategies geared to influencing local, national and international systems. It is committed to creating peaceful solutions to the problems of survival at the local, national and global levels.

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