Sagamore online goals 2014

Sagamore Hills online presence is getting some much needed attention in 2014. A core group of volunteers (David Klein, Dave Barker, John Lenz, Nancy Shober) and anyone else too, are discussing in the Sagamore online group (email • archives • subscribe & more) and making notes here (anyone can use the "edit" links).

Near term goals

Domain name

Is sagamorehillspta.org the right domain? See Sagamore online#Domain for what we're currently working with. No? Which one then?

Dave, 2014-05-07: John's sagamorehillselementary.com might be good, if not a little long. It could work like Jen pointed out http://fernbankelementary.com/ does.

Website platform

Wordpress?

• The pulse seems to be for Wordpress
• Any reason not to stick with the Sagamore Hills PTA Dreamhost account hosting it?
• The http://test-wordpress.sagamorehillspta.org/ is available for testing. Login credentials the same as the PTA site (check the password file in the Google Drive).

Wordpress mechanics

Dave, 2014-05-07: Decide how we're going to use Wordpress's organizational conventions: menus, categories, tags. As I understand Wordpress, "themes" are often far more than just "skins"; in addition to changing the look of the site, they can shape how content is organized and provide additional site features. I think it's important that we keep our content easily portable to future changes, and that means using lowest common denominator Wordpress ideums and not leaning hard on features of a particular theme. Being new to Wordpress, I'm trying learn what that means. Checkout the Sagamore PTA Wordpress notes.

Relaunch existing PTA site

Let's start out by providing a refreshed version (new domain, new look) of the existing PTA site only.

Styling

What will it look like…?

URL redirects

Leave behind url redirects! (Dave?)

• Can Wordpress post ids be manually assigned? Would simplify redirects.

Next term goals

Incorporate test-google-sites content

Bring in content from http://test-google-sites.sagamorehillspta.org

New content

Go, David!

All the reference material we wish was online.

Some bits:

• Treasures hiding in Constant Contact
• Things like old handbooks that might be hiding in the PTA Google Drive
• Sagamore reference
• Sagamore information inventory 2013
• Sagamore communication

Long term goals

District school site role

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

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: I mentioned one possible method last September.

Reengage social media

The Books of Faces and the Twitterings and whatnot…

Media management

Can we do better than mailto:sagamorephotos@gmail.com ? Should the PTA online storage play a part? 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