Am thinking about over riding my us gen web time to yours. Its a work day so am here n there and grabbing messages on the cell phone. On Nov 14, 2013 10:34 AM, "Joyce Gaston Reece" <bjreece@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Please just one more try? > > Really, with the plans that we have for tapping into all the different > types > of social media, the volunteer recruitment committee the marketing > committee > and a load of other things then perhaps you won't have to HUNT for > volunteers.....they'll come to you. Just getting a state site up is the > primary thing right now. THAT has to come first. Take the site....do the > cemeteries as you want to. Find an assistant or we'll help you find one if > we can....if you want one, that its. I know what its like to have way too > much to do....most of us are the same. I could give you a long list of > things I'm behind on...... > > We have states site managers that are doing the whole state, Colleen, for > one does all of Alaska. > > Just give us another chance. > > > > Joyce Gaston Reece,President > American Local History Network > Join us in celebrating our 20th year! > www.alhn.org > -----Original Message----- > From: jpowelljr@gru.net > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 1:22 PM > To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] Linking to blogs > > First, no matter how old I get, it is Jim. I know I was taught and say > Mr. and Mrs. and Yes Mam and Yes Sir, but I'm just Jim. > Second, I suck at finding volunteers for other counties. I spent years > trying. > Third, If I could clone myself 66 times plus me, I could handle it. > Fourth, my expertise is here and is shared with anyone that seeks it out. > I can help set up ColdFusion pages and Hostek.com has reasonable > ColdFusion prices. My Virtual Cemetery is there. ColdFusion can make > just about anything interactive via a database. We use ColdFusion at the > Clerk's office, it drives the Volunteer forms and allows transcriptions > and indexing to be done on any of our documents from anywhere in the > world, but you first have to have online documents. ColdFusion uses > database information to build html pages on demand. It is a fairly simple > code. > > Lastly, like I said there is so much here to do, I have about 30 > cemeteries that we have photographed that I need to edit, build databases > for and deploy for Volunteers to add the info from the stones. We are > still fighting to get something into the legislature that separates > Ancient Records from Modern day Court Files. Our Local Representative is > into history and says he supports us, but can he pull off something in > Tallahassee. We will see. > > For Now, I have to turn you down, I don't often say "no", but I believe it > is in our mutual best interests that I do say that awful word. I will be > here just in case any one taking on Florida or a ColdFusion site could use > my help. > > Sincerely, > Jim > > Jim Powell Jr > Wizard of AR > http://www.wizardofar.org/ > http://www.facebook.com/wizardofar > Ancient Records Coordinator > Alachua County Clerk of Court > http://www.alachuaclerk.org/archive > http://www.facebook.com/ACARVol > > > Mr. Powell, Florida is vacant and needs your expertise .......... > > please? > > > > > > > > Joyce Gaston Reece,President > > American Local History Network > > Join us in celebrating our 20th year! > > www.alhn.org > > -----Original Message----- > > From: jpowelljr@gru.net > > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 10:03 AM > > To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] Linking to blogs > > > > If you are going that way, why not Facebook pages too? Things on both are > > a little less formally laid out. I have Facebook pages for my > Volunteers, > > but others use them all the time. They do lead to my websites in many > > ways... > > BTW... those that don't remember me. I was part of USGenWeb, way back. > > On the board and more... I set out to make Volunteering more creative, > > less rote and follow the rules type places. I was with both ALHN and > AGHP > > for a long while. Now I mostly do my Ancient Records job and our Alachua > > County Virtual Cemetery Project. (And of course try to keep up with my > 12 > > grandkids, 4 of which are big contributors to the Virtual Cemetery > > Project) I used to be the Florida Coordinator here, with Alachua and > > Gilchrist as my linchpins. I tried to give Florida to a Board member > > awhile back. I don't know if USGenNet helped out or not. There is so > > much here in Alachua County, so much to share, that to add other places > > wouldn't be fair. So I may not even belong here any longer. > > > > Jim > > Jim Powell Jr > > Wizard of AR > > http://www.wizardofar.org/ > > http://www.facebook.com/wizardofar > > Ancient Records Coordinator > > Alachua County Clerk of Court > > http://www.alachuaclerk.org/archive > > http://www.facebook.com/ACARVol > > > >> It is getting harder to find people who are willing to create websites > >> and > >> I feel that this is hurting our recruiting efforts. I already link to > >> some > >> blogs from my webpages, but blogs could serve as county sites too. > >> > >> Should we consider linking to blogs that are about the history of a > >> particular are? Blogs are easier for people to create. I can think of > >> several blogs that would be great additions to our sites. > >> > >> Cyndy > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > >> the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >