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The newly formed website committee met informally over the telephone to discuss some strategies for supporting members and the leadership of the organization. The committee is considering assigning a designated person to several members of the board and committee chairs as the "go-to" person if they need help. This approach should provide a distributed workload between committee members and foster a supportive and more personalized raport.
For the short-term the committee is working on the continued deployment of features for the website. Committeee members new to the Joomla platform are taking this time to get their feet wet and learn the ropes so that they will be ready to transition to role of supporting the work of others through the website.
Notable features released in the past month:
Event calendar
- Add an event feature for people to use. Public access has been temporarily closed because a spammer tried to post a bunch of things to the calendar but we caught it. When site registration is ready to go, then registered users whether members or not will be able to add events.
- All the various calendars that are used in planning were imported into a single calendar
PayPal Payment Processing
Thanks to Richard and Robin for their suppport in facilitating the setup of a PayPal payment processing. Apha testing of online event registration and payment is being conducted this week. Public launch of event registration and payment is planned to take place after the board meeting.
Online Event Registration
So much to say about this functionality! I think it can best be summed up with a picture.
SCRID Official E-mail Conversion
SCRID now has an official home for e-mail, documents, calendar, etc. through a non-profit implementation of Google Apps. November 15, 2009 marked the official conversion date for many of the board and committee to the new virtual office for SCRID.
What impact have the members experienced?
The membership continues to show good polling numbers in reaction to the launch of the new website. No major problems have occurred since the beta launch. 83% of the voters like where the website is going so far. 8.3% are still waiting to to see if everything promised is delivered. Finally, 8.3% hate the new site, but they want to help improve it. Important to note that so far there are only 12 votes so there is not a large enough sample to derive any validity from the numbers yet. However, it is a start and the membership seem to be slowly but surely warming up to the interactive nature of the site.
Respectfully submitted for your information and deliberation.
Daryl Crouse, Chairperson
Marjorie Foster, Committee Member (Xtreme! - Thanks for your hard work in learning all this new tech. You're doing great!!!)
Bob LoParo expressed interest in joining the committee and his involvement will start this coming month hopefully.
