On August 27, the Communications Committee released an updated version of the CUCC website. This transition was approved by Church Council at its August 19 meeting and had been under development since late May.
The primary purpose of the transition is to allow greater direct participation by groups in the church and an improved flow of information. Rather than have a single webmaster who services all groups in the church (as has been the case since creation of the church website around 1995), the new approach allows groups in the church to choose who will be posting and maintaining information on the church website on their behalf. So groups can have very direct involvement if they so choose, or they still have the option of passing their information for the website on to somebody else. If they do choose to ask someone to post information on their behalf, they can choose from any of several members of the Communications Committee, or anyone else in the church who has blogging skills or is willing to learn simple blogging skills on the group's behalf.
Already approximately half a dozen people have been involved in "webmaster" work on the new website, with an additional half dozen or so contributing information. So the collaborative effort is up and running. And you'll see a lot more activity and frequent updates at the website than you've seen in the past. Feel free to contact a member of the Communications Committee (Lavon Page, Chair) with your suggestions or requests.
The primary purpose of the transition is to allow greater direct participation by groups in the church and an improved flow of information. Rather than have a single webmaster who services all groups in the church (as has been the case since creation of the church website around 1995), the new approach allows groups in the church to choose who will be posting and maintaining information on the church website on their behalf. So groups can have very direct involvement if they so choose, or they still have the option of passing their information for the website on to somebody else. If they do choose to ask someone to post information on their behalf, they can choose from any of several members of the Communications Committee, or anyone else in the church who has blogging skills or is willing to learn simple blogging skills on the group's behalf.
Already approximately half a dozen people have been involved in "webmaster" work on the new website, with an additional half dozen or so contributing information. So the collaborative effort is up and running. And you'll see a lot more activity and frequent updates at the website than you've seen in the past. Feel free to contact a member of the Communications Committee (Lavon Page, Chair) with your suggestions or requests.