ViewSource Founder Featured on Wall Street Journal’s Web Site

(Cincinnati, OH -- Nov. 27, 2000) -- The Wall Street Journal featured ViewSource Founder and CEO John C. Harris today in an online article titled “Erasing Barriers.” The 1,300-word article charted Harris’ success running his branding, marketing and eCommerce firm, despite a congenital bone disorder that keeps him in a wheelchair.

The article notes, “It is as hard, or even harder, for disabled people to work around people’s perceptions of them as incapable or deficient as it is to overcome an actual disability. The Internet blindfolds business partners to physical appearance. By the time the e-partners meet, the physical disability is irrelevant.” 

Harris’ business success proves that, ultimately, clients are more interested in business abilities than disabilities. ViewSource Media client John Bookser Feister, managing editor at the St. Anthony Messenger Press, noted that 1,500 Catholic churches use the Saint of the Day and Minute Medication icons that Mr. Harris designed. “You’ll see a lot of really boring, dreadful stuff [online], and then a really beautiful Saint of the Day Logo or Minute Meditation,” said Bookser Feister in the article. “John did those.”

Reporter Beth Crowley, who works at The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, also included comments from spokespeople at the President’s Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act information center.

The online article includes a color photo of Harris. To see the article, click here.

ViewSource Media is an integrated marketing communications firm known for blending creative solutions with the latest technology. The company provides Internet, integrated marketing communications and eCommerce solutions, including Web design and programming, for consumer and business-to-business clients including WGUC Cincinnati's Classical Public Radio, The Contemporary Arts Center, Champion Window, Mercy Health Partners, Graeter's Ice Cream, Oxydol, Shure-Glue Systems, Inc., and Magnode . ViewSource Media is based in Cincinnati and serves clients throughout the United States.