MnGCA

[Pear Head]

A number of users have mentioned over a long period of time (many years?) that the front page of the website doesn't contain valuable or current information - it doesn't contain information that will further draw people into the organization.

One of the benefits when we rolled out the new website last fall was the opportunity to add content to the front page in an easier fashion, and spread the task out to whomever was assigned.

Some of you have probably noticed in the last month or so that there have been some new types of postings that we hadn't seen before, including sir_zman's TCGCPC, cache policy updates, etc.

We'd like to continue to improve on the front page content. With that in mind, I'd like to solicit content from anyone who wants to create it. A few guidelines:

The webmasters (and ultimately the board) reserves the right to edit or reject content. While it's not likely to happen, the right remains reserved.

We're looking for anything that may be of interest to our user base to read. My original thoughts would be things like:

post-event writeups
pre-event postings
technical articles (cache page creation tips, reviews of new GPSrs, etc)

I think that WeekNIGHT, FNC, and other regular events could be great additions to the post-event writeups, although I'm not sure they would be excellent as pre-event postings (although I may be wrong) unless there is something exceptional happening.

Adding some pictures to jazz up a writeup would be excellent but not required.

To get started, you can contact the webmasters:

http://mngca.org/contact

There is a category for front page articles on the contact form.

I'd suggest if you're interested in submitting material that you're not sure if it's something we're looking for that you contact us before writing the material. Otherwise you can submit the material directly using the form - hold onto your pictures (if you have any) and we'll email you for them (but make sure you mention in the email that you have pictures to add).

If you have any questions, please do ask.

This is an excellent opportunity to make the MnGCA's website your website.
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Hmm...

[Pear Head]

We've had a few submissions so far and I encourage more! What we have now is great!

Lucid (with his never-ending stream of suggestions) has suggested that we create a tab for Tech Tip Articles, which you'll now find in the top menu-bar of the main site.

This tab is a one-stop shopping place for all of our Tech Tip articles. It's currently sorted by the ratings in the articles.
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Hmm...

[Arcticabn]

OK so how do you get the ranking thingamabob on your article? Some have them and some don't.
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Airborne All the Way!

[Pear Head]

[Arcticabn]

I'm more interested in hearing feed back on all articles not just tech. But that's just me.

Maybe it because I want to know if all of the work that goes into writing an article has any real payoff. It doesn't do to spend hours drafting up an article if once it gets posted only two or three individuals read it. Without some type of feed back or at least this article was viewed X times it's hard to figure out where to go next.
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Airborne All the Way!

[LucidOndine]

[Arcticabn]

Tks
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Airborne All the Way!

[Pear Head]

Anyone want to write a short article concerning 10 Years of Geocaching and the events? There are currently 8 events listed for that weekend (first weekend in May).
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Hmm...

[EPMinnesota]

I'd like to see posts removed that become outdated. For instance, once a Breakfast Buddy event has passed I delete from the front/second page. I think only the most current info should be front paged and so on so that readers aren't seeing old junk.

[Pear Head]