Re: Communications, and Public Relations

[John I Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com>]

As to the functioning of the Website:
On Apr 23, 2007, at 8:47 AM, ChatOWhitehall@aol.com wrote:

> As for the information on the AIS webpage being monitored for  
> currency:
> Well, yes, if course, if the information is up there it needs  
> always to be  valid.
> Someone needs to confirm all information on the  AIS webpage on a  
> quarterly
> basis, at the very least, and more often in  prime recruitment  
> season. I'd say
> the Electronic Services  Committee was the one to take care of that,
> soliciting  confirmation on Affiliate contacts and so forth from  
> the RVPs, who should
> have it readily at hand, or, failing that, from the Membership   
> Office.
>
> Perhaps the RVPs might be asked to supply Electronic Services with   
> updates
> as they occur, and the AIS Secretary might be asked to supply   
> Electronic
> Services with AIS national updates as they occur, and all such   
> updates might be
> forwarded by the Chairman to the Webmaster, with  instructions to  
> deal with it
> in a timely manner.

We are continually improving the process we use to update the  
website. The Affiliates chair provides an updated list of Affiliates  
and contact information after the annual certification of affiliates.  
Certainly during the year changes occur and often I get them from an  
RVP or from the Affiliate.

It would be reasonable to query the RVPs in the summer and fall for  
updates. Trying to contact each Affiliate is beyond the scope of what  
Electronic Services can do. (I am in the process of trying to find  
additional "editors" for the website to collect and preprocess  
information for the website which may help the overall situation as  
well.)


John                | "There be dragons here"
                         |  Annotation used by ancient cartographers
                         |  to indicate the edge of the known world.

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