Editing Sagamore online goals 2014 (section)

==Long term goals==

''[[#Long_term_goals_2|See what's been done]]''

===Reengage social media===

Sagamore's [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sagamore-Hills-Elementary-School/147475945284146 Books of Faces] and [https://twitter.com/SagamorePTA Twitterings] and whatnot…

Monica Ellingson: major work needed here. Other schools push notifications and parent volunteer beat using existing social media channels. Push relevant content where people already are. Maybe less emphasis on web site (passive) and more on social presence (active) for parent engagement.

: 2014-05-09: ''[http://list.9.0ne.org/archive/sagamore.online/2014-May/000206.html Discussion started elsewhere]'', conclusions to be copied here

====Facebook====

'''See also: [[Sagamore Facebook]]'''

===District school site role===

Talk to [[Ms. Brown]] about how the [[Sagamore Hills district site]] should relate to ours.

Dave, 2015-02-17: Have talked to Ms. Brown and she doesn't see a problem with the district school site (I think it has usability issues that can be improved (navigation, proper use of news articles vs site pages)), she seems quite protective of it and not interested in outside help.  Considering talking to Principal Taylor about the weakness of the district Sagamore site and if we can gain access to improve.

===Workspaces===

Have ''workspaces'' on the site where project work process is shared with collaborators and the curious (future volunteers!)

===New Newsletter mechanics===

It might be best Newsletter (and other push channels) content is the produced on the website first and then automagically republished on other channels.

Dave, 2014-05-07: [http://list.9.0ne.org/archive/sagamore.online/2013-September/000104.html I mentioned one possible method last September].

Dave, 2014-06-11: To a traditional Wildcat Update, adding a listing of recent selected website posts (like after the traditional "from the presidents" intro) is possible via [http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-can-i-add-any-blog-post-to-a-regular-campaign/ MailChimp tags]

Dave, 2014-08-18: Or maybe we just make a Google Group announcement list that folks subscribe to and have Wordpress email content there.  I need to look and see what plugins would do that…
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe2/ Subscribe2]
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-email/ WP-EMail]
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-email-template/ WP Email Template]
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ WP Mail SMTP]
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smtp/ WP SMTP]
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-wp-smtp/ Easy WP SMTP]

===Media management===

* Can we do better than mailto:sagamorephotos@gmail.com ?
** Dave, 2015-02-17: Created [[Sagamore Hills PTA Google account#photos.40sagamorehillspta.org|<code>photos@sagamorehillspta.org</code>]] and is still working on transitioning to it
* Should the PTA online storage play a part?
** Dave 2015-02-17: With [[Sagamore Hills PTA Google account#photos.40sagamorehillspta.org|<code>photos@sagamorehillspta.org</code>]] comes its own Google Drive space where all the photos that had been collected under [[Sagamore Hills PTA Google account#sagamorehillspta.40sagamorehillspta.org|<code>sagamorehillspta@sagamorehillspta.org</code>]] ownership have been transferred to, but still working on phasing out <code>sagamorephotos@gmail.com</code>
* How about sharing via social media (designating a unique Sagamore hashtag)?
* Regularly updated highlights on the website?

===Support parent-to-parent communication===

Like with [[Sagamore PTA discussion groups]]

Dave, 2015-02-17: A few have been created (see http://sagamorehillspta.org/groups ) and used to a limited degree (they haven't been publicized yet).  Don't count this as done until each grade and/or class has one?