Re: AGA web site -- discontent over content

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

--- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:
> . . .  Between the overwhelming lack of enthusiasm,
> plus the potential
> liability issues, I motion that we can the idea of an AGA
> BB/Forum.


I was wondering if that was still an open issue or we were
waiting on JH or what.  I like your idea. This should give
us enough to help build membership on without the
headaches.


> . . . I think it
> would be better to have a general "AGA Library.  There
> are many authors
> worthy of inclusion... some of whom don't even know that
> they are authors
> yet. ;-)


Sure. But the library has to have more than one room ;-)
> 
> > Having links to other sites might be even harder to
> keep
> > up-to-date than articles. Can we find a volunteer to be
> > librarian -- to keep and eye on when the stuff seems
> > "stale" and needs an edit to bring it back to currency
> --
> > and then charmingly prod the author(s) into doing it? I
> > think that would be a very part time job. And probably
> a
> > thankless one, too.
> 
> There are SOME links up there already.  But you are
> right, it would be
> better if someone monitored them to make sure they were
> working and
> appropriate.
> 
> . . . The other possibility for
> proofing for need of
> updates would be just to have a one-time committee that
> we set up each year
> with whoever offers to help.  Then we could just divide
> up the articles,
> skim them and report back.  Once a year is probably
> plenty often, and it's
> easier to keep enthusiasm up for a short time among a
> "crew" then one person
> for the long haul.  Maybe if we had one person willing to
> coordinate that
> effort.

Good idea. where would you find someone that wants to spend
hours on a long term basis working for free and . . .  uh,
never mind -- let's jsut go with "Good Idea"  ;-)
> 
 
> Absolutely!  Tell Blanche she's hired!<g>

She only works on a per word basis so I offered her 40% of
what I get. She'll come back asking for 50% and we'll
settle on 45%.
> 

> 
> What do the rest of you think?  I think this is more in
> keeping with our
> mission statement than  BB anyway  We have much more
> control of the content
> without upsetting people by telling them they don't know
> what they're
> talking about!<g>

Yes, it would keep us from getting *layered* in stuff we'd
rather not see. 

sh

=====
S. Hieber

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing.
http://photos.yahoo.com/
  ------------------
  To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com
  with "unsubscribe aga-sc" in the body of the message.
  Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-sc
  When asked, log in as username is "aga-sc", and password "incorp".