Steve Flint
Hello Stuart,
I agree that we need to bolster the EMGS on-line presence, but as I alluded to in my (printed) write-up on page 243-4 of the January Newsletter, running a website requires different skillsets; technical, artistic, promotional, literate and so on. Whilst there are individuals within the Society that are adept at some of them, no single individual has come forward to volunteer their services as an all singing, all dancing fully skilled ‘webmaster’.
We do have a website sub-committee/working party examining the various elements. It is a work in progress at the moment.
A key requirement is to improve access for members to post news etc, without the need for them to have knowledge/command/experience of the software processes. Typically a ‘forum’ style of access will probably be the model and indeed we have just opened a topic thread under the ‘miscellaneous category’ for Area group News. The notion behind it is to alleviate the present need for members to email their ‘news’ to either of the Society Officers with ‘backroom’ access, who then have to upload it verbatim using the software: a two step process which we hope to transform into a one step process.
However, not everyone wishes to use forum style communications; and the Society cannot compel its members to participate if they do not want to; perhaps they prefer to do some modelling instead?
Anyway its work in progress with the Society Website: “Site under construction…please call back later”