FEATURE/Reunited on the Web: Reunion Home Pages created in a click.FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE FEATURES)--March 20, 1996-- Information about your high school, family or military reunion Reunion Arafat, Mt . Adam and Eve met here after 200 years. [Muslim Legend: Berra, 44] chickweed flower symbolizing a rejoining. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 322] Esau and Jacob after many years, they are reconciled. [O.T. is now on the World Wide Web. ReunionNet, the global reunion resource on the Web, now features an online program for creating reunion home pages. The service is located at http://www.reunited "Reunited" was a #1 hit in the United States in 1979 by the Washington, D.C.-based group Peaches & Herb. Preceded by "Heart of Glass" by Blondie Billboard Hot 100 number one single May 5 1979 Succeeded by "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer .com. "Groups planning reunions are faced with two major challenges," explained Jonathan Miller This article is about the British physician, theatre and opera director, and television presenter; for other people named Jonathan Miller, see Jonathan Miller (disambiguation). Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller , creator of ReunionNet and owner of Reunited Inc., a professional reunion planning firm located in Fort Lauderdale. "The first challenge is making as many people as possible aware that a reunion is taking place. The second challenge is maintaining communications between reunion events. A reunion home page on ReunionNet is the ideal solution for providing information and establishing a central point of contact for future events." ReunionNet charges a one-time processing fee of $25 to create a standard home page. Those wishing to create a home page fill-in the details of their reunion into an online form. After submitting the online form, the new home page is usually online within 48 hours. Reunion groups may publicize pub·li·cize tr.v. pub·li·cized, pub·li·ciz·ing, pub·li·ciz·es To give publicity to. publicize or -cise Verb [-cizing, -cized] the Unique Record Locator A record locator is an alphanumeric reference number used by airlines and travel agencies to identify an individual booking. It usually consists of between 5 and 7 letters or numerals, thus allowing a sufficient number of unique combinations and negating the need to duplicate over (URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. ) of their home page in reunion literature to let others know of the page's existence. For those searching for information about their reunion, ReunionNet provides intuitive navigation for locating a specific reunion. ReunionNet even features a search service for old friends and family members to find each other. "The World Wide Web is the perfect medium for this type of service," said Miller. "ReunionNet has been an overwhelming success because everyone is affected by some kind of reunion and because the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the is available to everyone." Besides reunion home pages, ReunionNet offers an online resource for reunion information and ideas. The Reunion Services and Products section includes information on companies offering items specifically geared to the reunion market. For those people in search of information about professional reunion managers, ReunionNet includes a section on the National Association of Reunion Managers. A section with links to other reunion-related sites on the Web is also a part of the ReunionNet offering. For more information about ReunionNet, contact Jonathan Miller at 305/389-3636 or toll-free 1-800-881-REUNION. The company may also be reached via e-mail at: reunionnet@reunited.com. and by regular mail: 2269 South University Drive, No. 115, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33324. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: In the Internet/email addresses noted in this news release, there is an "at" symbol reunionnet and reunited.com and between jmiller and reunited.com. In the World Wide Web address note there is a double slash between http: and www.reunited.com. These symbols may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: Reunited Inc., Fort Lauderdale Jonathan Miller, 305/389-3636 email: jmiller@reunited.com |
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