At a committee meeting last night, we began discussing the web site briefly. I've been troubled lately by the duplication of information on the Chapter site & the "dead" links or links that go to pages that say "More information coming soon." I think part of this is due to the detachment of the past web master from Chapter business. For example, in either 2000 & 2001 or somewhere there abouts, the Chapter had a fall series of 2 hour seminars called Avoiding Material & Design Failures (AMDF). These were GREAT seminars with continuing ed credits. We did it 2 falls in a row & have not done it sense. Yet, in 2006, there is a link to a page for AMDF on the web site. This sort of thing drives me crazy.
My wife periodically sends out e-mails to her alumni about alumni business. Lately, she's been experimenting with the electronic newsletter format. The same format used by AIA Maryland. I RARELY visit Baltimore AIA or AIA Maryland's web sites, but I always read the electronic newsletter from AIA Maryland.
Lately, we've been sending out the Constellation newsletter in pdf format. We also post it to the web site. I like this format & the newsletter editor is "electronicizing" it by adding hot links for people's e-mail. Should we do more?
When set out to re-design the web site, what should be on it?
`General meeting information - times, dates, locations
`Specific meeting information - speaker, topics, etc
`Constellation newsletter - current & back issues
`Coming events? LOS, Rebuilding Together, Baltimore, AIA stuff
`Listing of officers & committee chairs
`Links to Institute & Region web sites
That's kind of a basic set of information. Do we need to reprint the President's Message that comes in the Constellation? Do we need to reprint the board meeting minutes that appear in the Constellation? Am I missing anything vital?
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