I like the idea of a "What's New" page. I'll have to think about that for my pages--at least for my county. The other two counties I have might be a little more difficult to come up with new things other than possible links. Definitely a good idea tho! On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 14:09:11 -0500 Karen De Groote <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally I feel that the reason many states in the USGenWeb have > gone stagnant is because the project does not require periodic > updating to county sites within the project. Some counties in the > project, (not here), list a last update of 2008, which in my opinion > is shameful. I don't think it is asking too much of a county > coordinator to provide a minimum of two additional sources of > genealogical information a year to our counties. I don't think an > update date within 3 months is necessary but I do agree that there > needs to be something added once every six months at minimum. In > another project we are required to have a What's New page on which we > list our additions. Not only does this make it easy for researchers > to check new additions and promote people's return but it makes it > easy for project members to see that the CC is active. > > Perhaps we could vote in some bare minimum requirements for our state > project? I feel that this could only be a positive move for us! > Karen > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Shirley Cullum <[email protected]> >wrote: >> Correction...the USGenWeb does not have a requirement on updates to the >> county websites. The paragraph from the Policies page is from the MTGenWeb >> rules and is not part of the required elements but is "strongly >> recommended". >> >> I don't think we need to require a "last update date" on all county >> websites but would like to see the MTGenWeb add a requirement for sites >> with a last update date to keep the date current. I personally like a 3 >> month time frame but 6 months works too. <g> >> >> Please post your thoughts on this issue and let's discuss the pros and cons. >> >> Shirley >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Shirley Cullum <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Just a reminder that county websites must be updated at least twice a year >>> per the USGenWeb requirements. Therefore the last update date on our >>> websites should not be more than 6 months old. And according to the >>> MTGenWeb Policies page, it is *suggested* that last update dates be >>> "within a month or so" (see below). With those statements in mind, the >>> County of Excellence rules will be updated. To be eligible for the MTGenWeb >>> COE award, county websites that have a last update date on them must have >>> dates that are no older than 6 months. >>> >>> I appreciate your assistance in making sure your county website is >>> compliant with all rules. >>> >>> Shirley >>> >>> From the Policies page: >>> 10.*IT IS ESSENTIAL* that your site be well-maintained and updated as >>> frequently as possible. Every site needs to have some basic research >>> resources, i.e. Courthouse offices addresses, phone numbers, fees, etc., >>> library, historical society, newspaper, cemetery names & addresses, funeral >>> homes, etc. Many have also provided a bibliography page showing reference >>> books available for their county and much more. Your site needs to be >>> checked often for bad links, new ideas, etc., and the update "date" >>> changed. We do check these and inquire of county coordinators if we find >>> sites that have not been updated within a month or so. If you are ill, >>> going on vacation, or having some temporary problems, the State Coordinator >>> would like to know and, of course, we make exceptions for those times. >>> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Suzanne Andrews [email protected] Volunteer - Butte-Silver Bow Archives Volunteer - MTGenWeb County Coordinator for Butte-Silver Bow, Anaconda-Deer Lodge, and Powell counties, Montana http://www.mtgenweb.com/silverbow/index.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A What's New can be used for a variety of things including housekeeping, new interesting and useful links or the fact that a page on your site has been added to. I am going to start adding a date on pages when I work on them so eventually my sites will have dates on every page but I don't think that should be a requirement. On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Suzanne Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > I like the idea of a "What's New" page. I'll have to think about that for my > pages--at least for my county. The other two counties I have might be a little > more difficult to come up with new things other than possible links. > Definitely a good idea tho! > > > On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 14:09:11 -0500 > Karen De Groote <[email protected]> wrote: >> Personally I feel that the reason many states in the USGenWeb have >> gone stagnant is because the project does not require periodic >> updating to county sites within the project. Some counties in the >> project, (not here), list a last update of 2008, which in my opinion >> is shameful. I don't think it is asking too much of a county >> coordinator to provide a minimum of two additional sources of >> genealogical information a year to our counties. I don't think an >> update date within 3 months is necessary but I do agree that there >> needs to be something added once every six months at minimum. In >> another project we are required to have a What's New page on which we >> list our additions. Not only does this make it easy for researchers >> to check new additions and promote people's return but it makes it >> easy for project members to see that the CC is active. >> >> Perhaps we could vote in some bare minimum requirements for our state >> project? I feel that this could only be a positive move for us! >> Karen >> >> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Shirley Cullum <[email protected]> >>wrote: >>> Correction...the USGenWeb does not have a requirement on updates to the >>> county websites. The paragraph from the Policies page is from the MTGenWeb >>> rules and is not part of the required elements but is "strongly >>> recommended". >>> >>> I don't think we need to require a "last update date" on all county >>> websites but would like to see the MTGenWeb add a requirement for sites >>> with a last update date to keep the date current. I personally like a 3 >>> month time frame but 6 months works too. <g> >>> >>> Please post your thoughts on this issue and let's discuss the pros and cons. >>> >>> Shirley >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Shirley Cullum <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Just a reminder that county websites must be updated at least twice a year >>>> per the USGenWeb requirements. Therefore the last update date on our >>>> websites should not be more than 6 months old. And according to the >>>> MTGenWeb Policies page, it is *suggested* that last update dates be >>>> "within a month or so" (see below). With those statements in mind, the >>>> County of Excellence rules will be updated. To be eligible for the MTGenWeb >>>> COE award, county websites that have a last update date on them must have >>>> dates that are no older than 6 months. >>>> >>>> I appreciate your assistance in making sure your county website is >>>> compliant with all rules. >>>> >>>> Shirley >>>> >>>> From the Policies page: >>>> 10.*IT IS ESSENTIAL* that your site be well-maintained and updated as >>>> frequently as possible. Every site needs to have some basic research >>>> resources, i.e. Courthouse offices addresses, phone numbers, fees, etc., >>>> library, historical society, newspaper, cemetery names & addresses, funeral >>>> homes, etc. Many have also provided a bibliography page showing reference >>>> books available for their county and much more. Your site needs to be >>>> checked often for bad links, new ideas, etc., and the update "date" >>>> changed. We do check these and inquire of county coordinators if we find >>>> sites that have not been updated within a month or so. If you are ill, >>>> going on vacation, or having some temporary problems, the State Coordinator >>>> would like to know and, of course, we make exceptions for those times. >>>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Suzanne Andrews > [email protected] > Volunteer - Butte-Silver Bow Archives > Volunteer - MTGenWeb County Coordinator > for Butte-Silver Bow, Anaconda-Deer Lodge, > and Powell counties, Montana > http://www.mtgenweb.com/silverbow/index.htm > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ------------------------------- > 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