Central Midwest UU District Podcasts

Look at what this UU team has done with podcasting using this service.

Here’s their district web home.

UUA 30 sec. video

From 2007, a UUA 30 second video:

report to CLUUC BoT

[this is under development]

Andy was asked to tell the CL Board about the web team’s work. This will be a 5 min presentation followed by 5 minutes of discussion. This is tonight (Tues, 18th) at 7:55pm.

Our new name: Cedar Lane Web Team (CLWT)
We’ve met twice. People on the team.

Youth & Social Justice & the Web at CL

Karen Goozner is looking into inviting some of the senior high student to work with a subset of us to create a virtual history of Cedar Lane’s social justice work.  That’s a great use of web tech.

ChUUG Design Work

The images below are from the work ChUUG (the UU regional group of 30 churches) is doing for the Google Ad campaign.  They reflect the site design for the new regional website that is being built with Drupal by Shai Sachs, author of Welcoming Websites.  The graphic designer did a good job I think.

Note the use of color and whitespace.  This will now be used to build a Drupal theme for the ChUUG website.

Arlington

Have a look at the beta version of the new Arlington UU website.

WTF meeting 6/1, 7:30 rm 30-31

Hi, from the email I sent out last week:

Proposed agenda:

1. 15 min. Welcome & Introductions
2. 10 min. Overview, Scope of Work
3. 10 min. Charlie’s Presentation (5MB PDF), an opportunity to stimulate ideas & get us on the same page with respect to website design .
4. 20 min. Q&A, Discussion and Planning
5. 5 min. Wrap Up, Next Steps

Let me know if you would like to add to or change the agenda. My preference is to keep the meeting to an hour (it’s a kickoff after all!), start on time, end on time, and make sure we have some next steps in place to keep the energy up.

Here’s some background on a few of us. Feel free to add yourself.

Here’s the original post on the web task force.

Great UU Video

This one is short and to the point:

A longer, but very engaging presentation:

A good one from the pulpit:

One church’s use of youtube:

Even the Military

Check this out.

Earlier this year, the Army established an online and social media division within its public affairs office. The division’s director, Lt. Col. Kevin Arata, said the search is on every day to find new avenues online to reach not only soldiers, but their families and the general public.

The Army is on Facebook now, has a blog, and uses Twitter.

Even Gen. Raymond Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, has a new Facebook page to answer questions about the mission in Iraq and spread the word about what the troops are accomplishing there.

There’s more…

The Air Force has also established a Facebook page, Twitter feeds and a blog, while the Marine Corps is using various networking sites mainly for recruiting purposes. The Navy is “experimenting” with several forms of online media, and some of its commands are using Twitter, a spokesman said. Even the Coast Guard commandant regularly updates his Facebook status while traveling.

Who are we?

We’d like to get a sense of the team in preparation for the launch meeting.

Please know our task force is open to everyone since we are all web site users and friends or members of Cedar Lane. Some of you have told John D, Sara, and me (the people who read the it [at] cedarlane [.] com email) quite a bit about your skills or that you don’t think you bring much to the table beyond enthusiasm. Please share what you can with each other to break the ice and so each of us can learn who to look to for what. I’m sure there is quite a lot of variety. For example, any of the following might apply:

• I’m just interested in helping out, not sure I can do more than make suggestions as a potential user and review work as it progresses.  [We need testers/evaluators and people to represent ordinary users.]
• I know or can learn how to use a CMS, so I can help as an admin.
• I know something about what at least some people need and want to make sure the new website provides it.
• I can help find out what various groups in the church want/need.
• I can help suggest and organize the content.
• I’m a competent writer and will help create/edit content.
• I’m an artist (or graphic designer or photographer) and can contribute my work.
• I can provide home cooking and 24×7 emotional support.
• I’d really like to learn how a CMS works.
• I rock with Dreamweaver.
• I know PHP, JavaScript, XML, HTML, & CSS pretty well and am interested in helping develop custom modules.

Use the comment section to tell us as much or as little about your interests and skills as you like.