Good meeting today May 4, 2020. The following are my notes (updated May 15, 2020). Items that I request you review and give me your input are bold in italics.
We have created a WordPress blog using the same software that we will be using for our new website. It is widely used software for simple websites and fairly easy to use. I have invited all of you to join the site and you can try out the software and see how it works for you.
I did some work on the draft site. It is working now but not pretty.
https://sarasotamoaa.wordpress.com/
The RFP is at https://websitemoaa.blogspot.com/ I sent it to 27 companies.
We will post the bids we receive as we receive them at https://bidsmoas.blogspot.com/ Proposals are due May 10, 2020. (This blog is private, if you want to review it ask and I will invite you to read it) I will post all the proposals and give you a short summary of the proposals. We will meet shortly after May 10 to pick the top consultant or consultants.
Take a look at the four sites on this blog – our site, National MOAA, the Florida Council of Councils, and Sarasota Sister Cities. Let me know what top menu items you prefer.
I have posted a number of photos on this site. The top 7 or 8 are the photos I think we could use for our site. Let me know if you agree or if you have better photos please send them.
https://websitephotosmoas.blogspot.com/
After our discussions today perhaps we do not need a Members only log in site. Relatively few people use these log in sites. Since we are dropping the data base I believe that we will revert to using a spreadsheet to keep track of our members.
I shared an old MOAA Membership spreadsheet with our Website Committee. It is an old out of date copy of the MOAA Roster. Only those who are invited can view and or edit the spreadsheet. We can of course email by copying the email addresses.
We can use this approach with our current data.
This can be kept on Google Drive and shared among key members. You can also export the sheet to a spreadsheet to a pdf to email to our members so they can contact other members.
One thing to remember is that the four or so people who can edit it could make a mistake and delete some data. Therefor it should be saved frequently to a hard drive in case someone accidentally screws up the data.
I would suggest that our new spreadsheet with member data be in two parts – the roster of our paying members, and the roster for everyone who we ever had a connection with
More info about our website development process:
RFP https://websitemoaa.blogspot.com/
Bid Analysis https://bidsmoas.blogspot.com/
Website Organization Newebsitemoas.blogspot.com
Photos for the website https://websitephotosmoas.blogspot.com/
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We will link back to the following sites under the communication menu:
sarasotamoaa.com aka sarasotamoaa.blogspot.com
sarasotamoaa.us
sarasotamoaa.blogspot.com
thesarasotabreeze.blogspot.com
photosmoaa.blogspot.com
bigphotosmoas.blogspot.com
videosmoas.blogspot.com
www.militarystories.us
historymoas.blogspot.com
Social Media
facebook.com/sarasotamoaa
twitter.com/sarasotamoaa
linkedin.com/in/sarasotamoaa
pinterest.com/sarasotamoaa
Other MOAA Sites
moaa.org
moaafl.org
WordPress Tutorial https://wordpress.com/learn/
everyone else that we have been involved with. No reason to delete them – keep on emailing them as an inducement for them to rejoin or donate. Does not cost us anything.
