Website Hosting Provider, mindSHIFT Technologies, Powers Boy Scouts of America

Fairfax, Virginia - (Website Hosting Directory) - April 18, 2008 - The Boy Scouts of America organization, has engaged mindSHIFT Technologies, to assist with the launch of its newly redesigned web site.

The new web site, featuring a publishing system from mindSHIFT, eliminates bottlenecks and allows staff at headquarters, as well as Council leaders around the world, to more easily create, publish and update information about their activities.

Jim Wilson, Associate Publisher, Custom Communication Division Director, Boy Scouts of America (BSA) noted, ''This new web site is a huge step forward for the Boy Scouts of America. The publishing system developed by mindSHIFT delivers a consistent design across the site for our visitors, while simultaneously making it easier for our content contributors to post their pages.''

mindSHIFT Technologies, a provider of managed IT and e-business application development services, built the scouting.org web publishing system on the Microsoft .NET foundation, using Sitecore as the content management system software. The Boy Scouts chose Sitecore for its ability to support thousands of Web properties. End users now have a streamlined system for content updates and an online workflow process for approvals. The end result- the Boy Scouts have a scalable platform for all their content management needs in the foreseeable future.

Tyler Roye, Senior Executive Officer, mindSHIFT Managed Hosting and e-Business Application Services remarked, ''We're proud to have developed this new system for the Boy Scouts of America. Our Sitecore and .NET teams have spent many hours in collaboration with the Boy Scouts organization, and the end result is increased productivity and an improved experience for the end users of all BSA web sites.''

The back-end system developed by mindSHIFT is integrated with Cumulus, a digital asset management tool used by BSA to manage its catalog of photos, videos, PDF files, and thousands of other pieces of content that can be used on the web. mindSHIFT developers customized the Sitecore user interface to enable content managers to access and utilize assets on Web pages seamlessly, without leaving the Sitecore environment.

Serving more than 4.6 million youth between the ages of 7 and 20, with more than 300 councils throughout the United States and its territories, the BSA is the nation's foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training. The Scouting movement is composed of 1.2 million volunteers, whose dedication of time and resources has enabled the BSA to remain the nation's leading youth-service organization.

With operations in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., mindSHIFT is a Managed Services Provider (MSP) offering managed IT services, software-as-a-service (SaaS), VoIP, compliance, e-business application development, and professional services to small and medium-sized organizations. The company's portfolio of managed services provides a comprehensive solution which includes such critical services as e-mail management and administration, electronic backup for servers and desktops, virus and spam protection, desktop support, and server management -- either at the customers' premises or completely off-site. Managed services customers are supported by both a 24-hour Network Operations Center for proactive management support and a call center, which diagnoses and resolves all end-user desktop issues. For advanced and larger businesses, the company provides business application migrations, storage area network upgrades, and complex hosting applications. Additionally, mindSHIFT has expertise and experience in meeting the compliance requirements of financial services firms, as well as the complex demands of the legal community for the integration of applications such as document management.

For more information on the BSA, please visit: www.scouting.org.

To learn more about mindSHIFT, please visit: www.mindshift.com.