• Beth and Profile picture of George J. WhelanGeorge J. Whelan are now friends 7 months ago

  • Beth posted an update: 1 year, 1 month ago

    Back from meeting with other members of the FAMVIN/Vinformation team. Just reworked the Follow Us widget on FAMVIN News. Hope this version makes good sense and will encourage folks to explore our Facebook presence, Youtube channel and email update service.

  • Beth posted an update in the group Group logo of WebWeaversWebWeavers: 1 year, 4 months ago

    famvin.com is preparing for serving as a place for others to host websites — a bit like wordpress.com. Anyone out there interested? What services would interest you?

  • Beth posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 5 months ago

    In reply to: Connie Anderson posted an update: I’ve been experimenting with the free test version of Constant Contact, an email marketing program. I have a litte background from grad school with HTML. Here’s the website of […] View

    I’m not sure what the PayPal integration does — it’s under ”Integrations” — I found that in the drop down menu under ”Account”– I have been investigating the PayPal donate button for websites, etc as well. But, be have to get the business account set up with PayPal. Do you do that on your website?

  • Beth posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 5 months ago

    In reply to: Connie Anderson posted an update: I’ve been experimenting with the free test version of Constant Contact, an email marketing program. I have a litte background from grad school with HTML. Here’s the website of […] View

    I looked at the trial — I don’t have a pressing need right now. I thought the free level at Mailchimp would do nicely for my needs. But, I see a lot of folks using constant contact…

  • Beth posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 5 months ago

    In reply to: Connie Anderson posted an update: I’ve been experimenting with the free test version of Constant Contact, an email marketing program. I have a litte background from grad school with HTML. Here’s the website of […] View

    oh – mailchimp is here: http://mailchimp.com

  • Beth posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 5 months ago

    In reply to: Connie Anderson posted an update: I’ve been experimenting with the free test version of Constant Contact, an email marketing program. I have a litte background from grad school with HTML. Here’s the website of […] View

    Hey Connie — The email (e-blast) looks very nice. I’ve not used Constant Contact, but I’ve used MailChimp, mostly because of the fact that I can send up to 6000 emails/month (up to 1000 subscribers) for free. I’ll have to check to see if the page from MailChimp email has the FB, LinkedIn stuff available.

    I didn’t see who it was addressed to…[Read more]

  • OK – so the FAMVIN family of websites is looking at some common branding and possibly a new logo to use across all sites… make it a somewhat more seamless experience. If we run a poll on famvin.org/en/ will you guys respond? We will need feedback.

    • Hi, Beth! Yes, I’ll respond. However, it seems I don’t always get the alerts of new posts to our sites. Anyway I can check to make sure I get them? I’m still learning the ropes on FAMVIN. Thanks! c

    • sure. However, as you can see I have not visited regulary in the past month. Life got busy.

  • I’m looking for resources to help me design some usability studies. I know, from a previous life in academic libraries, that I can get most of my data from 7 users… but how to design the questions to be addressed?

  • Beth posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 9 months ago

    Toma: I just joined that site. Looks interesting. It seems to be just getting off the ground however.

  • Beth posted on the forum topic How often do you update a site? in the group Group logo of WebWeaversWebWeavers: 1 year, 9 months ago

    I too am suspicious about the viability of an organization with a website that has not been updated in months or years. One can’t put up a page/site and then ignore it. In many cases this is the public relations face of an organization.

  • Over at famvin.org, we have varying schedules for updating: the “News” sites are updated almost every day; the Encyclopedias are sporadic as folks find the time and energy to add/revise content; Vinformation is updated frequently. Others sites seem to be updated less frequently. Is this a deliberate choice or is it driven by the ease/difficulty [...]

  • The General Assembly is over, so I’ve upgraded all of the cmglobal sites to WordPress 3. Seems to have gone well. That is one of the issues that we face when setting up sites using any Content Management software (Drupal, Wordpress, EE, Joomla)… keeping the background applications up to date. Often for security reasons more [...]

    • WP 3.0.1 is knocking at the dooryet. For those who use WP, Twenty-Ten theme looks quite cute for those looking for something more than basic

      • Yes — I’ve updated many, but not all of the famvin sites to 3.01. I’ll get to the others, probably today. Twenty-Ten is a very flexible theme that is easily customized through the admin interface.

  • Beth posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 9 months ago

    In reply to: Beth started the forum topic Keeping sites current in the group WebWeavers: The General Assembly is over, so I’ve upgraded all of the cmglobal sites to WordPress 3. Seems to have gone well. That is one of the […] View

    Yes — I’ve updated many, but not all of the famvin sites to 3.01. I’ll get to the others, probably today. Twenty-Ten is a very flexible theme that is easily customized through the admin interface.

  • Beth posted an update in the group Group logo of WebWeaversWebWeavers: 1 year, 9 months ago

    Welcome, Maureen! Obviously, this group has yet to ”take off”!

  • Watching a presentation on BuddyPress (the software for this site) on Wordpress.tv. See it yourself here: http://wordpress.tv/2010/07/10/sabin-wilson-buddypress-boulder10/

    • Just saw enough of it feel impatient to get back to it after celebrating yet another wedding of grad nephews and nieces this weekend..

  • Beth posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 9 months ago

    In reply to: Ralph Middlecamp posted an update in the group Research on Ozanam and SVdP Founders: I have many things that I would like translated. I know just enough French to provide the sections that are most informative […] View

    french to english?

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