The History of CMAG - Corporate Media Arts Group The concept for CMAG arrived in a dream somewhere in early 1996. The idea was to create an organizational umbrella that would contain the variety of media production skills and experience of the founders and make the result marketable to the small business community. Since 1982, Mark Stevens, the founder of CMAG, has consulted with small business owners about how to better present their companies to the marketplace. Mark?s media background began in high school with the school newspaper and his efforts to start a school radio station. Those efforts were followed by a 17 year period of working in commercial radio broadcasting. Positions as announcer, producer and writer were augmented with the consulting work that would form the basis for CMAG. In early 1996, a company in Vancouver was starting a local version of the America Online concept (AOL) and was seeking marketing help. While the venture was ill-fated as the internet itself grew in popularity, the concept brought together the original partners of CMAG - the same three partners that are the core of CMAG today. The meeting of the partners was also the beginning of the vision to attempt the marriage of broadcasting and publishing into the online culture that we know today as the internet. So CMAG started out creating "brochure" web sites as well as offering the core skills of design, photography and print output. Since those days, we have continued to offer media production skills and experience, now much deeper, and have added data handling and network deployment knowledge to our repertoire. That's how we came to bill ourselves as a "Small Business Communications Company". the story continues....