Website Re-Purposing
By Jim Costa
The Problem
What should we do with our original website after the Announcement to Stand-Up?
The Plan
1)Immediately develop a Vision/Plan for your website, which is currently designed for marketing your group and national history. New pages can be prepared now so upon Announcement, you can replace some old pages with new ones instantly.
2)Your new version of the website should be focused on: locating new members, allowing them to introduce themselves and analyzing their skills, and training them to be useful and productive.
3)Move some history pages as links on a new page titled "Our Nation's History." Upon Announcement, all persons should know all of this anyway.
4)Realize that now your website and Assembly will no longer represent a political group — it will only represent your county. So all political group information can be dropped. Purchase a new Domain Name and install it. Run it in conjunction with the current name.
5)Begin today by updating your Meta Tags for a functioning assembly for your county. After Announcement, clear out the old political group Meta Tags. This makes a smooth changeover.
6)Immediately add a Chat Forum to your website. Allow for a thread for Introductions, asking for a good Bio of skills.
7)Somehow codify the Bios by Name, Bio, Skills, Personality, and a head-shot picture in a database so others can find you quickly.
8)If there is no County Assembly website, build one (or copy from another), get a domain name and open it immediately. It takes about two weeks before search engines locate it.
Note
FlaRepublic.us already implements many of these features — member registration, county pages, forum, document library, and training modules are all built in.