Re: Clean North losing credibility

[Kathie Brosemer <kathie@cleannorth.org>]

Hi Don, thanks for the alert.  I agree we need to review, but not just one 
wholesale review, we need to develop a process by which the site is 
continuously reviewed.  This information will be out of date again, days or 
weeks after one review is complete.

Too bad someone directed that question to Randy rather than to us.  It's 
not his business or his issue.

Also frustrating having that criticism leveled at us via Randy when for so 
long the city's own page, about it's own programs, was inaccurate!  But 
that's neither here nor there.

For now, what to do?  Is it worth the effort we have to undertake in 
training, supervising and monitoring a high school co-op?  They take a lot 
of work!  Lots of supervision that I can't help with.  And they tend to not 
have any useful skills, we need to teach and train, and if we already don't 
quite know what we want...

Maybe a process where a website committee reviews one page a week, turns in 
new text to be entered?

I'd be willing to devote an hour a week to entering new info/deleting old. 
I would love it if others reviewed pages for 
additions/deletions/corrections, on a systematic basis.  It would drive me 
nuts, though, to be told at random times by multiple people, vague 
statements that the site is incorrect.  Specifics help.

Then there's the other issue of the site map - how easy it is to find 
information, how useful the site's layout is.  Peter's commented on this a 
couple times before.  Dan might have ideas here but he's terribly 
overworked and that won't be changing any time soon.  We might ask Jim Dew 
to have an overall scan of the site, or perhaps I could get my friend who 
has been doing the newsletter to have a look at it.  Any other ideas for 
getting expert eyes on the topic?

thanks again for kickstarting this.

k



--On Saturday, September 17, 2005 12:18 PM +0000 Don McGorman 
<mcgormd@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Last week at Randy Roy's presentation at OFRI a question was asked about
> why the information posted on Clean North's website regarding municipal
> recycling is different from reality (i.e it's two years out-of-date)?
>
> Randy did not have an answer but said that he would look into it (while
> looking directly at me).
>
> We really need to have a web site review project!  I liked Peter's idea
> about having a coop student work on it.  I'm willing to assist.
>
> Kathie:  we can't do anything without your assistance.  Please advise.
> Thanks.
>
> Don



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