Helping with the Resident Website

The Web Team is always looking for volunteers to help with the maintenance of the resident website. Help can be as simple as just providing information to be published on the website. Or it can be as involved as updating and editing website sections. Volunteers will be trained to do their specific assignments and web team members will always be available to help with the learning process and as backup.

Helping Supply Information

• • • Write short pieces, stories for the website blog, i.e., be a Web Reporter

    • Upload photos from around campus and from WC resident excursions and activities to the website to be used with articles or in the homepage "Seen Around Campus" photo carousel. (view the carousel on homepage - scroll to the very bottom of the page)

    • Suggest information that isn’t but you think should be available on the website

Examples of Maintaining Website Sections & Time Commitments

• • • Curate the front page photo “carousel” using photos uploaded by residents and staff

      • This task takes little time to perform and simply involves adding and deleting photos to/from the carousel module

      • Training time: 15 minutes

      • Assignment Work Time: Maybe 1 hour a week to include monitoring uploaded photos for sharing

• • • Maintain the ABC listing of residents and the list of most recent residents found on homepage as new folks move in

      • Again this is a very specific assignment and requires very little time to perform. It is a matter of keeping on top of when new residents move in and updating the pages

      • Training time: 1 hour

      • Assignment Work Time: Will vary depending on frequency of new resident move ins but rarely more than 1 hour a week

• • • Curate and maintain main sections or sub-sections, such as Admin, Services, Activities, Resident Info

      • Training time: 2 hours

      • Assignment Work Time: Sporadic but usually not more than 1 hour a week

• • • Work with Health Committee to maintain sub-sections of the Health Section

      • Training time: 2 hours

      • Assignment Work Time: Sporadic but usually not more than 1 hour a week

• • • Curate and maintain committee pages by updating lists of members annually (Examples of such pages: Wellness & Dining)

      • Training time: 2 hours

      • Assignment Work Time: when committee membership changes (typically once a year in January) it may take several hours over a week to make changes but, otherwise, it will only require periodic updates if members leave mid-term and are replaced 

• • • Maintain and update the movie announcement pages and homepage listing (Monday Matinees & Evening Movies)

      • Training time: 2 hours

      • Assignment Work Time: Each month Katrina McClane and Susan Thornton announce the upcoming movies in the newsletter for the month. Making those initial entries may take 2 hours to complete. Then, weekly removal of movies shown takes 15 minutes.

    • Curate and maintain Social Hour page 

      • Training time: 1 hour

      • Assignment Work Time: 1 hour monthly - Maintain and update the Social Hour entertainment for each month as well, when possible, maintain list of upcoming performances and add photos to the Social Hour carousel