<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Milton L Mueller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu" target="_blank">mueller@syr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>William Drake<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If we're talking about savings $100-$150 a year but that would involve much more effort on the part of already busy volunteers, my vote is to respect peoples' time and spend the extra bit of money. Viewed in relation to other expenditures
in our budget, this doesn't seem unreasonable. Of course, fully document etc.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">[Milton L Mueller] Haven’t seen the proposal yet, but from what I’ve heard the “e-team” is talking about BOTH more money AND more time.</span></i></b> <br>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">As Wilson said, the VSP
requires sophisticated programming in the initial stages, whereas Ning is an established platform and one simply needs to add and manage content to it. This is not to say that a greater investment isn’t worth it; another $250/year is not a big deal imho. My
main concern is being stranded.</span></i></b> <br></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US">
<div><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d"> We have one historical episode of enthusiastic volunteers creating a web site and then losing interest and leaving us to start over again.
</span></i></b></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>That is my concern as well, but I don't think it is a problem if we choose our platforms wisely.<br><br>In a message to the EC, I just conveyed that we should go with the VPS and suggested the following:<br>
<br>Content management platform [My suggestion: install an instance of Word Press, point <a href="http://ncuc.org" target="_blank">ncuc.org</a> to it, and use this as the public facing website for NCUC.]<br><br>Constituent relationship management platform [My suggestion: install CiviCRM <<a href="http://civicrm.org/go/features" target="_blank">http://civicrm.org/go/features</a>> and dump "the member list" (after cleaning) into it, making it the "official" membership registry going forward] <br>
<br>Email listserv platform [I believe we've already agreed to install Mailman]<br><br>These are all platforms that, once installed, are well known and easy to manage. Integrating them will take ironing out our business processes and a bit a technical know-how, but shouldn't be to onerous given the skill-sets on the current e-team. And once that is done it's (hopefully) smooth sailing...<br>
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