SCN: Hello?

[Joe Mabel]

Where it is our own SCN content - meetings that don't take place, etc - we 
should update the content! However, I strongly believe that even a page devoted 
to a meeting that no longer takes place should be modified to say "this page 
used to describe a meeting ..." etc. rather than be deleted, or you break 
someone else's link.

Not sure what page you mean by "The Volunteer Community Page". Can you give a 
URL?

--------------------
Joe Mabel

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, patrick fisher wrote:

> I can think of one example: The Volunteer Community Page had a lot of out of date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 Maybe by outdated, Jim means anachronistic?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 outdated content?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 completely outdated mere weeks after it is originally posted, because tse evenv 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 "outdated" pages?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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