Re: Suggestions for CN web-site

[Kathie Brosemer <kathie@cleannorth.org>]

replies below...

--On Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:00 AM +0000 Don McGorman 
<mcgormd@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Kathie/Dan:
>
> I've been thinking about the CN website and would like to throw out some
> ideas for changes:
>
> 1. Under the Newsletter tab there are only two newsletters available, Vol
> 14 #1 & #2.  Suggest posting the rest to date as it looks like we have
> not published a newsletter in the past nine months.

Yes.  Dan had been holding off posting these until the new website format 
was up and running.  It's time.

> 2. Suggest renaming the 'Volunteers' tab as 'Employment' since that's
> what most of the posts are

Its actually Help Wanted, on the sidebar.  The Volunteers link should go 
elsewhere, see below.
> 3. Suggest a new tab 'Volunteer' under 'About' Us which links to a new
> page telling people about general volunteer opportunities that exist and
> how to get involved (I would be willing to compose the draft text for
> this page)

You already did, actually.  And it's already on the site, too!  We just 
have the link wrong.  I'd pointed this out to Dan a few months ago but this 
fix got caught in the new website edition delays, too.

> 4. Suggest a new tab 'Donate', 'Contribute' or 'Support' under 'About Us'
> which links to a new page which explains that we are a registered
> charity, receive no government grants and depend almost entirely on
> donations.  We could provide our charitable registration number and
> provide a link to the Revenue Canada Charities Branch web-site for anyone
> who wants to check if we are legit.  The mailing address would also
> appear.

Good idea.  Not certain about posting our number, but maybe.  I'd want 
Ralph's advice on that one, could people write their own receipts?  Would 
it be just as easy to search Charities Branch for our name?  If not, maybe 
post the number.

> 5. Suggest a new tab 'Contact Us' under 'About Us' which clearly lays out
> the mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address. (Not sure
> about posting the fax number as that might encourage junk faxes? If
> someone wants to fax us let them ask for the number)

Another good idea.  Some people miss our address on the About Us page and I 
occasionally get complaining emails about that.

Thanks!
k

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