SCN: Hello?

[patrick fisher]

I can think of one example: The Volunteer Community Page had a lot of out of date
stuff: Event information that was 2 years after the fact.

Maybe by outdated, Jim means anachronistic? There is a lot of old stuff: Like
information on meetings that don't take place anymore, email address galore for
people who are no longer with the organization, procedures that don't occur now and
have been supplanted by something else. SCN services, many of which are not
occuring. Training, anyone?

Gross generalizations, but that is what I see from my vantage point.

Patrick

--- Joe Mabel <jmabel at speakeasy.org> wrote:
> So could you please elaborate (by example, or whatever) what you mean by 
> outdated content?  For example, I have pages in the Crisis Resource Directory 
> that haven't been touched in a year.  That's because I haven't had any new 
> information in these categories. Does that make them irredeemably old? I sure 
> don't think so.  On the other hand, a page announcing an event can become 
> completely outdated mere weeks after it is originally posted, because tse evenv 
> is now past.
> 
> So what do you have in mind? And what exactly do you propose to do with the 
> "outdated" pages?
> 
> --------------------
> Joe Mabel
> 
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Jim Loring wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Joe for responding.
> > 
> > You bring up some interesting points. While I don't consider older and/or
> > previous pages "demoted" by being placed in an archive, it is of some
> > importance to figure some way of determining what material is no longer
> > current.
> > 
> > In a sense, merely updating links and adding and deleting notices changes
> > the pages, and this has been one method of keeping SCN current. Yet this
> > method may, by some, be inadequate for larger updates and modifications.
> > 
> > Interesting points, Joe.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Mabel [mailto:jmabel at speakeasy.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:36 AM
> > To: Jim Loring
> > Cc: scn at scn.org
> > Subject: Re: SCN: Hello?
> > 
> > 
> > It's really hard to know what to think of this without knowing what you
> > intend
> > to demote to "archive" status.  How do you intend to decide that certain
> > content
> > is no longer current? I hope that in any case you don't plan to change its
> > URLs:
> > If you do so, you'll screw up any links to it that may exist.
> > 
> > That said, if there is actually any outdated content that deserves such
> > demotion, it may well be a good idea.  But I, for one, would certainly want
> > to
> > know your criteria before I endorsed this.
> > 
> > --------------------
> > Joe Mabel
> > 
> > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Jim Loring wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello All -
> > >
> > > Say, just thinking out loud, I was wondering how everyone felt about the
> > > topic of directory simplification and the archiving old SCN material such
> > as
> > > web pages?
> > >
> > > It would be nice to simplify some of the directories as it might make it
> > > easier for folks viewing SCN web pages to navigate and find information.
> > It
> > > would also be easier to edit the various sections.
> > >
> > > I think it would be interesting to archive some of the old web pages, and
> > > make them available somewhere on SCN - a "Museum of SCN," if you will.
> > >
> > > Finally, we need to update some of the content on the pages, to keep SCN
> > > useful and something folks might want to use as an up-to-date reference.
> > >
> > > So - ideas? We can chat about this at the SCN General meeting on
> > Wednesday.
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > >
> > > Jim Loring
> > > webeditors at scn.org
> > >
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