<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; ">MIT Sea Grant announces the launch of a brand new website at </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://seagrant.edu/">http://seagrant.mit.edu/</a>.</span></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; ">Our new website is powered by eSeaGrant (eSG), the content management system created in-house to handle Sea Grant RFPs, reporting, and all related program information. Much of the content on the new website -- the RFP, project descriptions, news, publications, images, and people</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; ">directories -- are managed and dynamically presented by eSG. MIT Sea Grant's website is the first program website to run on this platform.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; ">The site features:</div><ul><li>shallow navigation allowing users to get quickly to content</li><li>database of over 900 MIT Sea Grant funded projects</li><li>database of over 1,400 MIT Sea Grant publications</li><li>easy access to all in-house and advisory projects</li><li>news, announcements, image and video galleries, and calendar of events</li><li>features for sharing our content, signing up for our e-newsletter</li><li>and much, much more</li></ul><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; ">A website is a living thing and as such we are always at work refining content, enhancing search functions, checking links, and organizing images. Our next wave of features will include an RSS feed, podcasts, and pages for individual staff members and PIs.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; ">We welcome your feedback! Let us know what you like and yell, "Gotcha!" if you find a typo.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; ">cheers</div></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; ">Nancy</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; "><div><div><div><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; ">Nancy Adams</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; "><i>Communications Specialist</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00558E">MIT SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; ">292 Main Street</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; ">Cambridge, MA 02142</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; ">617.253.3461</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; "><a href="http://seagrant.mit.edu"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00558E">http://seagrant.mit.edu</font></a></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Sans">Like us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/MIT-Sea-Grant-College-Program/199623216721560?sk=wall"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00558E">Facebook</font></a></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></span></div></div></span></body></html>