[20699] in APO-L
Re: New APO.org website
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Risner)
Wed Jul 14 13:03:35 1999
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 13:02:26 -0400
Reply-To: Jason Risner <jarisner@MTU.EDU>
From: Jason Risner <jarisner@MTU.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199907141636.JAA09690@smtp2.Stanford.EDU>
Like many of you, I blanched at the idea of us PAYING (if this is actually
being done... we're still not certain on this yet) to have a website
designed for us.
However, as a person working in the communications field, I understand
that the old apo.org, not unlike my chapter's old website, was strictly
geared at members who needed to find specific information. It didn't cater
much at all to anybody who needed to be sold on the reasons to join APO.
This new site isn't perfect, but you have to admit at least thought is
being given to recruiting now, and if it convinced 100 new brothers to
join (not an unreasonable expectation), that's another $1000 in the pocket
of nationals to use (correct me if national dues aren't $10 a head).
Somebody at nationals would need to be smacked really hard if the money
paid on this site exceeded that by much.
Also, remember that there's about a month or so before schools start back
up again, and at this point in the summer it's not critical to have the
site be perfect. In my case, I'm putting the energy I usually expend on
keeping the EL site updated to make a host of revisions to make sure the
site looks better, sells APO to our students better, and making it more
accessible to everybody whose browser isn't named after a Ford or Lincoln
SUV. :) It's not important to have the exact time and date of our
Fellowship committee meetings now, for example... very few chapters have
enough students on campus to make it matter much.
Talk to your National Board and get them to tell you who to throw your
suggestions at, and then keep hitting them w/ those suggestions until they
act. If we are spending $$$ on this, better make it worthwhile.
Risner
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