I am apologizing right here for all the rambling on!  have attached 2 documents - one a policy in word format and one a website check in excel format.

Have updated some of the work done by the previous Community technology workgroup. It looks to me like we have been fairly prudent in creating sites with the AHEC required standards. My suggestions

Review the policy guidelines for additions and changes

Review all viable sites & make easy, quick changes to bring them up to our standards

Contact non-etahec site owners to delete and/or take outdated sites offline ASAP

Consolidate the information from the etahec sites to be deleted into FYI or etxahec as appropriate and delete outdated sites ASAP

Mouyong and Yuanyi to continue to work on Texas Health Match / iAHEC and be ready to help with the pretty STUFF.

The rest of us can begin brainstorming about

What etxahec as a portal to all programs, other sites, AND information for the uninformed general public and the informed user should look like.
 A Mercedes-Benz dashboard
An ipod
A computer keyboard or mouse pad
A dictionary
An open gate
A virtual catalog

How to positively impact FYI AHEC - how to engage AHEC staff in all 3 ahecs to edit their info - could we promote a contest between workgroups (begin and end dates) to develop their sections?  AND what could be the prize?

Maybe it is time we talk realistically about who truly has time to work on these websites and who may want to but are busy doing the hands on AHEC work.  What are the paybacks for distracting an employee from a physical AHEC touch to the technology touch???   (one example I am very well aware of is the HWDC website - everyone had access but only Alex personally put in the conference data for the Houston conference:  I received the information via email for the other conferences and put it in myself - I didn't hear any complaining AT ALL. I had the time to do it and survived the learning curve to become fairly effective at it.