With the passing of the torch from the old millennium to the new, all the predictions of calamity, destruction and catastrophes did not come to pass, so everyone carried on business as usual. But, for those of us in the business world, business as usual has, and will, dramatically change.

The reason for this is not interest rates, governments, global warming or the thinning ozone layer that protects Mother Earth. It is an explosive platform for communicating that we all know as the INTERNET. An idea that was originally developed for academics has changed the way companies sell their products and service their customers so dramatically, that we wonder how we ever did without it. The traditional "bricks and mortar" companies are quickly becoming, as the cliché goes, "clicks and mortar" companies.

Even your humble CSA launched our Web presence with AOL over two years ago. In those two years, we have seen a dramatic rise in our members' use of the site for information and for communicating with the CSA staff. The Board of Directors have also become Internet "literate" to help control costs.

On July 1, 2000, the CSA went beyond the boundaries of AOL and opened up the CSA world to everyone on the World Wide Web (alias www). We continue to enjoy our AOL relationship and we still believe it is your best platform for Internet use, but we do need to provide access to our site for those folks who are not members of AOL.

Well, we're here. Well, technically, we're everywhere. www.snowbirds.org