This comprehensive report details the specific tasks, technical improvements, and content updates completed by the team, including all relevant live site links.
1. Web Development & UI/UX Design
Alex
- Youngs Stouffville: Designed and launched “Meet Our Team” and “Our Carriers” pages. Re-engineered the header widget to fix mobile responsiveness and added entry animations to the Home, Auto, and Commercial pages.
- OneSense: Customized icon color schemes to match brand identity and successfully integrated reCAPTCHA to SureForms.
- Youngs Stouffville | OneSense
Kevin
- Allen Mayer: Completed a full technical audit covering link integrity, form validation, and cross-device testing. Fixed all identified alignment and padding issues.
- Ethos Talk Lab: Configured the YouTube API via Google Console and created a dynamic “My Videos” page to sync channel content.
- Maintenance: Rebuilt the Vintners Cellar home page for better mobile performance and connected the Mission Statement to the AAWS main header.
- Allen Mayer | Ethos Talk Lab Videos
Mike
- My Legacy Studio: Implemented a major content overhaul including the “How It Works” section, “Trusted Partners” layout, and added a “Workbook Purchase” call-to-action with advanced care planning guides.
- Durham Power of Sale: Audited 123 listings and manually added 9 new properties based on the latest POS email alerts.
- My Legacy Studio | Durham Power of Sale
Henry & Maria
- Durham Snow: Executed structural customization using the Astra theme. Finalized 80% of the Home and About page designs to align with the brand’s visual identity.
- Durham Snow
2. SEO & Digital Marketing
Kat
- Allen Mayer SEO: Performed deep SEO optimization across 6 primary pages. This included setting “No Index/No Follow” for technical URLs, optimizing H1/H2 heading hierarchies, and writing professional meta descriptions for a commercial real estate tone.
- Social Media: Resized and configured Open Graph sharing images to ensure professional previews on LinkedIn and Facebook.
- Allen Mayer
Nancy
- Oshawa Chiropractor: Resolved home page Open Graph (social tag) issues and updated canonical links to prevent duplicate content. Created new blog posts optimized specifically for high-volume competitor keywords.
- Oshawa Chiropractor
Emma
- Canadian Obituaries: Managed the funeral home directory by updating SEO metadata, location data, and website links for 50 individual funeral home profiles.
- Live Directory: Canadian Obituaries Funeral Homes
4. News Publishing & Internal Reporting Coordination
Zara
- Team Summary: Compiled and published the detailed Staff Task Summary for January 20, 2026.
- News Publishing: Published 11 articles on Aruba News and 04 articles on All About Durham. Managed the full editorial process: editing cover images with titles and optimizing SEO for 5 previously posted articles.
- Aruba News | All About Durham
- Team Collaboration : Held a strategic meeting with Elon regarding news operations.
- Conducted a training session with Henry to explain the workflow and requirements for the Durham News task, ensuring departmental alignment.
4. News & Obituary Publishing
Jake
- Obituaries: Posted 44 new obituaries across Ontario (35), Durham (05), and British Columbia (04).
- Site Maintenance: Reviewed and edited 228 local news categories for content consistency on the Durham site.
- Canadian Obituaries
5. AI Training
Adam
- AI Training: Completed the first two courses of the Google Prompt Essentials specialization and reached 25% of the third.
- Product Strategy: Reviewed the Lexify AI Product Requirements Document (PRD) to prepare for system development.
6. Technical Training & On boarding
New Onboarding Staffs (Sophia, Maya, Riya, Nolan, Amela)
- Systems Proficiency: Successfully completed Modules 1–3 (and up to 5 for Amela).
- Tasks: Mastering AceProject (time tracking, task management), Titan Email integration with Gmail (POP/SMTP), and WordPress site building with the Astra/Spectra framework.
- AAWS Onboarding Portal
