Webmaster Report - October 2024

Greetings, Area people! Happy Saturday/Sunday!! Website transition is well underway, in fact for all intents and purposes it is completed except for some troubleshooting and fine tuning! Many thanks to Charlie S. for his years of dedication to the website and his continued willingness to learn and to help others to participate. His service took us from a time when the website was a nice addition to the Area, indispensable for those who couldn’t travel from the far corners of the state, to a time when the website and electronic services have become indispensable to almost everyone an essential extension of Area information and service to all members and to the still suffering alcoholic.

On the new WordPress site there are a host of new services available for Districts, Committees, and officers. We are working to develop these services as the need for them arises, but there will be dedicated pages available for each service committee and officer position—administrable by the people in that committee—and we are eager to hear from the fellowship about ways we can use the site to serve the Nebraska membership more effectively!! Google Workspace should be fully implemented and Area servants should be able to login using their provided credentials.

We need feedback if anyone discovers something which doesn’t work as expected so we can investigate. There will definitely be some growing pains with the new site and approach to email but we expect that it will be more intuitive and familiar, and we have faith the fellowship will step up to help each other and we will have answers! If we have made things more difficult, we need to hear about it so we can fix it!

We have a list of known issues with the website we are working to address, including forms destinations, functions on the meeting finder (currently the list is not displaying as desired and contact buttons are not displaying), and refinements to the pages and improved contact options. The new site presents the opportunity for a lot of new service positions, including administration of email, administering pages on the site, managing events, and others we haven’t even thought of. There is an endless opportunity for service available in AA, and we’ve added to it! If you need a small service commitment, please, please, please reach out! We would love to have you helping out. You can make us more effective.

Please reach out to me, the Tech Chair, or any Tech Committee members with any questions! Many thanks also to Sarah, Chris, and everyone who has been involved in the web/tech transition, including past members whose service faithfully brought us to this point and anyone who steps forward in the future to help carry the message to the still-evolving, still-suffering alcoholic.

May the Taco Bar always be with you! 🙂 Yours in Service, Loren R.