[consulting] Keeping Web Sites Updated

[Steve Kessler]

The problem with volunteers is they need to be constantly motivated. There
are those, bless them, that do thankless tasks for our organizations and do
so without looking for praise but they not generally doing the web updates.
Back end web updates are not the kind of things that people are clamoring to
do paid or volunteer. They are something that needs to be done.  It is
important when determining where to engage volunteers that you find places
they will be appreciated and recognized. 

Now, if your organization has a way to recognize a volunteer for doing
Drupal updates this could be a good opportunity. It all depends on the
person and the way your organization is set up. 

On another note and possibly the most critical point I will make is that
updates must be done with backups. Backups are an issue of accountability.
It is far easier to hold firm accountable than it is a volunteer. 

I teach a class for Teaming 4 Technology Colorado on this topic and the big
pieces are accountability, reliability, skill and long term availability. 

There are lower cost options, in fact I back channeled you option from my
firm. 

Thanks,
Steve 

Steve Kessler 
Denver DataMan 
303-587-4428 



-----Original Message-----
From: George Lee [mailto:georgeleejr617 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 7:55 AM
To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
Subject: Re: [consulting] Keeping Web Sites Updated

Whatever is reliable, which I would guess is the latter -- but hoping
there's a good way to find paid folks less intense than full-out
full-price web developers, since it's just about maintaining web
sites.

Peace, community, justice,
- George


On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Sam Cohen <sam at samcohen.com> wrote:
> George,
>
> Are you asking how these nonprofits can find volunteers or how they can
find
> paid contractors?
>
> Sam
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:40 AM, George Lee <georgeleejr617 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Scenario: Imagine a small non-profit working to keep its web site
>> updated - HTML generated by Dreamweaver, not Drupal, not too many
>> pages. Like a lot of groups I know they struggle with keeping it
>> updated. A couple options:
>>
>> (1) Someone updates the pages about once a month
>> (2) Move to a system like Wordpress, Drupal, etc. where they can log
>> in and update pages themselves; have someone else maintain the
>> underlying machinery, themes, etc. when needed
>>
>> In either case, if the group needs someone not in-house to do this --
>> how do they best find someone, and how do they set it up right? For
>> (1) for instance, could a group just Craiglist someone, offer a decent
>> rate (I don't know what that would be), and sign a contract? For (2),
>> how do they find someone?
>>
>> Right now I see a lot of groups relying on volunteers or random
>> connects, and then they struggle getting the person to actually follow
>> through. I'm helping some groups fill that gap myself, but I also want
>> to give them advice how they can find other people in general.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Peace, community, justice,
>> - George
>>
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