Nancy, If we have rules and a site is not brought in to compliance with the rules within a certain time period, the CC can be fired through delinking. Meaning the state site no longer lists that site as the official county site. It is not necessary to pursue a password because our sites are our own and as a member of the organization we are given the right of identifying ourselves as USGenWeb and MTGenWeb counties. Once a site is delinked they must remove both of those designations. There is no nagging involved. In another GenWeb organization I am involved with, we have much more stringent rules of performance. I am sorry to hear that you feel one new item in six months is excessive. It could be a photo, or an obit or something not too taxing although we all would love to add full transcriptions of something. Every tidbit helps make our sites better. I realize that Teton has amazing data and might not need to add transcriptions of anything but there are always little things that freshen our sites. I agree that broken links should be attended to as a first but "also" order. Everyone can download Xenu, which is a free link checker. It will save your eyes as well as time and tell you what links may have gone bad over time. This enables you to quickly find and correct broken links. I usually print out my report and then mark it off when it has been changed and uploaded. Xenu makes it simple for me. I don't think anyone wants to upset a fellow CC and I hope everyone will be looking at the every 6 months rules as a positive and they will take pride in their site. I know this discussion and rule has definitely got me fired up again. I was getting lazy. Best Regards, Karen On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Nancy Thornton <[email protected]> wrote: > I vote no on the 6 months requirement. > Nancy > Teton County > Reason: While I believe that our polices should have an update > requirement, I believe 6 months is too high a goal, especially after > viewing a sample of our websites today. One county hasn't seen any work in > nine years, and even our state page has bad links and out of date info. > > So once a year is better, I think. > > Added to that, we don't have a penalty for not checking for bad links, > except maybe nagging. What good is that? The other option is to put that > site in a fishbowl, point out the problems. Do we want the trouble of > getting the password and taking over the site? > > I urge our discussion to focus on a formal way of pointing out the bad > links and urging the webmasters to fix them, the goal being "current" > rather than "new stuff". This is genealogy, after all. > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Karen, you have some great points. One every 6 months is not asking for much. MANY CC's update daily or weekly. No patron likes to see stale sites, they are craving information. And most CC's would love to have a co-cc. I know I have some great ones that helps add information or sometimes bale me out when I am tight on time. I have found my best co-ccs just by putting in on the county mailing list. If you think you have run out of info to put online, put a request on the mailing list and beg for obits, photos anything to stir up interest in your county. Jane Keppler On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Karen De Groote <[email protected]> wrote: > Nancy, > If we have rules and a site is not brought in to compliance with the > rules within a certain time period, the CC can be fired through > delinking. Meaning the state site no longer lists that site as the > official county site. It is not necessary to pursue a password > because our sites are our own and as a member of the organization we > are given the right of identifying ourselves as USGenWeb and MTGenWeb > counties. Once a site is delinked they must remove both of those > designations. There is no nagging involved. In another GenWeb > organization I am involved with, we have much more stringent rules of > performance. > > I am sorry to hear that you feel one new item in six months is > excessive. It could be a photo, or an obit or something not too > taxing although we all would love to add full transcriptions of > something. Every tidbit helps make our sites better. I realize that > Teton has amazing data and might not need to add transcriptions of > anything but there are always little things that freshen our sites. > > I agree that broken links should be attended to as a first but "also" > order. Everyone can download Xenu, which is a free link checker. It > will save your eyes as well as time and tell you what links may have > gone bad over time. This enables you to quickly find and correct > broken links. I usually print out my report and then mark it off when > it has been changed and uploaded. Xenu makes it simple for me. > > I don't think anyone wants to upset a fellow CC and I hope everyone > will be looking at the every 6 months rules as a positive and they > will take pride in their site. I know this discussion and rule has > definitely got me fired up again. I was getting lazy. > > Best Regards, > Karen > > > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Nancy Thornton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I vote no on the 6 months requirement. > > Nancy > > Teton County > > Reason: While I believe that our polices should have an update > > requirement, I believe 6 months is too high a goal, especially after > > viewing a sample of our websites today. One county hasn't seen any work > in > > nine years, and even our state page has bad links and out of date info. > > > > So once a year is better, I think. > > > > Added to that, we don't have a penalty for not checking for bad links, > > except maybe nagging. What good is that? The other option is to put that > > site in a fishbowl, point out the problems. Do we want the trouble of > > getting the password and taking over the site? > > > > I urge our discussion to focus on a formal way of pointing out the bad > > links and urging the webmasters to fix them, the goal being "current" > > rather than "new stuff". This is genealogy, after all. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > -- Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong. And do everything with love. ~ 1 Corinthians 16:13-14, NLT