Karen, Would you elaborate? Tim On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Karen De Groote via <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Tim. > > The biggest addition to the USGW bylaws and recommendations is that some of > the recommended portions were made in to bona fide rules for MTGW. There > are quite a few national "recommendations" that should become SOP in my > personal opinion. > > Karen > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Timothy Stowell via <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Karen and all, > > > > In 1998 or thereabouts the SC of Georgia went off to France and mostly > > disappeared. The ASC at the time was in over his head. At least he > tried. > > Too many years ago to remember but at some point he asked me to become > ASC > > of the state, while he took over as acting SC. > > > > At some point after that we had a election of two candidates, when I > became > > SC. I decided to appoint regional coordinators to assist in running the > > project. With 161 counties (159 current and 2 defunct) it was too much > for > > just the previous two persons to manage. I used a map I found that the > > State tourism department had put together that divided the state into > > regions. Not all regions were the same size but they roughly have 20 > > counties or so per region. > > > > The RCs were to assist CCs in their region. Some took on state wide > > special projects. > > > > The state page was redesigned at least twice during my tenure. Of course > > what one person sees as a logical display of a home page and what another > > one sees is quite different - yet I tried to make such user friendly so > > that items were grouped together of like kind - so that visitors could go > > to the area of interest and use the main page only as a table of contents > > of the site. > > > > It's one thing to start from scratch, another to makeover what someone > else > > has created. > > > > Around 2000-2001, a committee was formed after the national Bylaws were > in > > place to create a set for Georgia. Having been present at the time the > > USGenWeb Bylaws were created, the experience in Georgia was nearly > > identical. I've experienced something similar in Tennessee, but > different > > and much less acrimonious. > > > > Thus I would approach such in MNGenWeb carefully. > > > > I would be curious how MTGenWeb enhanced the USGenWeb bylaws? > > > > Tim > > > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Karen De Groote via <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Greetings Candidates, > > > As a previous SC of a state that had to be rebuilt after nearly dying, > I > > > was curious if any of our candidates had a similar history that they > > could > > > draw upon as MNGenWeb climbs the stairs of success? I know Shirley > does > > > have some of that experience as we rebuilt MTGenWeb but I wanted to > hear > > > from everyone in this matter. > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Karen > > > Becker, Todd and Stearns > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > > [email protected] 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 > > [email protected] 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >