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Organization
Although much copied The Dog
House is the original and leading provider of content on the
topic of SM Dog Training and related subjects allowing members to learn
more about themselves, within the context of SM Dogs, be it as a Trainer
or a dog whatever in between.
The DogHouse aims to be all things
possible to those into SM Dog Training, with the main point of forming a
nucleus that attracts like minded people to thinks of this place as
home, like a dog slave heaven.
- To provide contact both
Nationally and Internationally for Human Canine Pets and their Trainers.
- To provide a forum for
discussion on Human Canine Pets issues, to prevent from feeling
that you are either dysfunctional or alone, and to enjoy this diversity.
- To provide a sense of
community via mail lists, chat
channels that will allow you to keep in touch with like other club
members with in a global discussion group.
- The Newsletter can be distributed
electronically as an publication, with contact adverts, venue details,
manufacture's addresses (related products), stories, international news
and diary of events. The Electronic copy is 'protected' where
appropriate, and can be decrypted using both your Membership Number and
your mail ID.
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Although we have many visitors to the
site, there are those where a sense of belonging is important. Many
members are also contributors to the site, adding to its richness.
Members may also choose to have an advert on the site which is shown in
the Adverts section.
- Personal Ads
- News Items
- Training information
- Resource material
- Discussion groups
- Suppliers resource
- Venue/Club and SM Vacation listing
The Doghouse runs on traditional
higher performance server located in San Francisco.
The content makes use of CSS and is best viewed MSIE 5.0 or
later,
and Netscape 4.7 or later
This is covered
in some length in our Privacy Statement
In summary we retain the right to protect the privacy of our members, we
do not sell their information as a mailing list or other information
that they choose to supply to us we receive in confidence.
The Doghouse revenue
plan is a Advertising and Sponsorship model.
Organizational Timeline ^
Fall 1996 -
The DogHouse website founded.
Spring 1997
- List Server discussion Groups first started
Summer 1997 - Construction
on the Adverts site.
Fall 1999
- Large scale web automation as size of site grows
Summer 2000 - Site
Make-over, more responsive.
Summer
2000 - Membership over 2000, hits over 7,200 unique visitors
a day.
TopDog - Founder,
Publisher Editor-in-Chief
The DogHouse
PO Box 2699
Brighton
Sussex
BN1 8RQ
UK
www.TheDogHouse.org
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