entrepreneurial activity, benefited a great deal from monthly phone conferences with the
online products committee and weekly reports given as part of the course CED 794:
Project Implementation and Monitoring (See Appendix 7, the condensed Project
Monitoring Weekly Reports). Paul Fitzpatrick, the technical consultant, implemented key
features of the directory as identified by the Board of Cooperative Life, received frequent
feedback from project leader Noémi Giszpenc and regular feedback from members of the
online products committee, and refined the directory and added new features. This cycle
of implementation and feedback resulted in a very usable and attractive product.
By chance, one of the respondents to the survey volunteered in the Comments section his
services as a Web designer. Once a beta (testing) version of the online directory was up
and ready for public viewing, Noémi Giszpenc contacted Jason Lemieux of the Eggplant
Active Media Workers' Collective to ask for his feedback on the site. Lemieux praised
the site and offered a few attractive stylistic changes. He also set to work designing a
brand-new, polished look for the site. See figure below.
Figure 2: Online Directory (Lemieux version) Screenshot
The integration of the fully-functional version of the directory with the professionally-
designed look created by Lemieux was conducted by Lemieux and Fitzpatrick in March
of 2005 and marked the end of the beta phase of the directory. It is now fully public.