AlphaGam.Net would like to wish all Alpha Gams and other interested readers a very happy New Year! Best wishes for a healthy and prosperous 2000!

"Portal is a new term, generally synonymous with gateway, for a World Wide Web site that is or proposes to be a major starting site for users when they get connected to the Web or that users tend to visit as an anchor site. There are general portals and specialized or niche portals. Some major general portals include Yahoo, Excite, Netscape, Lycos, CNET, Microsoft Network, and America Online's AOL.com. Examples of niche portals include Garden.com (for gardeners), Fool.com (for investors), and SearchNT.com (for Windows NT administrators).

A number of large access providers offer portals to the Web for their own users. Most portals have adopted the Yahoo style of content categories with a text-intensive, faster loading page that visitors will find easy to use and to return to. Companies with portal sites have attracted much stock market investor interest because portals are viewed as able to command large audiences and numbers of advertising viewers.

Typical services offered by portal sites include a directory of Web sites, a facility to search for other sites, news, weather information, e-mail, stock quotes, phone and map information, and sometimes a community forum. Excite is among the first portals to offer users the ability to create a site that is personalized for individual interests."

Exciting things are always happening in our chapters. This space is dedicated to helping chapters make their announcements to the world!

The Theta Nu chapter of Virginia Commonwealth University has doubled our chapter size with twenty-two new sisters! We are very excited in our growth and cannot wait to show our campus what we can do as we continue to grow. Our very own Brandi Mathis is running the St. Judes Dance-A-Thon that will take place in March. This event will raise money for the St. Judes Children Hospital. Many other Alpha Gams are helping out on commitees. We are making our presence known!

There are several chapter websites that are not yet in the AGD Webring. If your chapter is one of those, we encourage you to please ask your chapter's webmaster to add it!

6/15/99 7/1/99 7/15/99 8/1/99 8/15/99 9/1/99 10/1/99 11/1/99 12/1/99

AlphaGam.Net NewsBytes ("NewsBytes") is published semi-monthly, on the 1st and 15th of each month. NewsBytes is an unofficial AGD publication maintained solely by the webmasters of AlphaGam.Net.

Standard Disclaimer: "Alpha Gamma Delta recognizes the value and potential of personal publishing on the internet, however, the Fraternity can accept no responsibility for the contents of those pages. These pages do not in any way constitute official Alpha Gamma Delta content. The views and opinions expressed in the pages below are strictly those of the page authors, and comments on the contents of those pages should be directed to the page authors."