Happy New Year!

Well, another year has gone by, and as I look back on everything that has happened in 2007, and wonder how 2008 can be any more fullfilling at home or at the office.

It was truly a busy year. 2007 brought us some new family adventures with our RV this year. We spent some great weekends away from our busy home / work lives at some beautiful spots in Alberta, as well as a relaxing vacation in Radium and the Shuswaps. 2008 will hopefully bring some US travel down the Oregon / California coast...

Mark started playing hockey this year, and he absolutely loves it. He's turning out be a great little player, and I really think it's due to his love for the sport (between NHL 08 on the PS3, street hockey, Oilers games and Flaming pucks, he doesn't leave much time for anything else). It's awesome to watch these little guys progress throughout the year as they get more ice time under their belt. This Christmas, the Flaming Pucks (Marks team) played in a city wide tournament and won 4 out of 5 of their games. The whole family was present for all the games, and we had a blast cheering on the team. We've definitely turned into a hockey family....and we all love it.

On the work front....where do I start? Dianne is getting busier and busier, and puts in 3-4 days a week, depending on the time of the month (billing / payroll etc). She does the bookkeeping, and although it's turning into almost a full time job, she really enjoys it (at least that's what she tells me :-). Our team at the office has really gelled. We've got a great team of 8 people right now, everyone is working hard, and it shows in the progress we made this year. In fact, this year, we were published in Alberta Venture magazine as one of the top 50 fastest growing companies!

This year our company launched the ProExchange, which is a content library of training titles that our training sites can tap into and either sell training on their site, or consume for internal training. Along with launching the ProExchange, we also upgraded our training software to be fully SCORM compliant. Unless you are in the training industry, you probably don't know what SCORM is, but if you do want to run a training site, SCORM is very important as it provides a standard for learning content that you create and upload to our system.

This coming year will bring more innovation at ProTraining. We are currently working on a project that is due to be launched inside of a month or two that will allow us to penetrate a new market for us, and build our volume of retain training sites. Oh, and in between mainting putting up new sites and working on a couple other special projects, we plan on launching a new version of our website....again.

Other than than, our kids had a great year at school, family is healthy, we have finally settled in one place and don't plan on moving for a while. We had an awesome break between Christmas and New Years, and look forward to another great year!

Happy New Year!