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Shirley Timashev
I have selected a WordPress template for our website and am happy with my first attempt of a trial build out. I crowed about this success to members of the Residents Council executive committee — and the response was underwhelming. (Sigh)  I am not deterred. I have a vision for what this website can do for us and will work on its realization over time. Yet I recognize that I have a lot I can learn from others. Can y’all share website addresses if you have them?
Richmond

My age cohort lacks online literacy. So, you have to educate people, and that is a slow process. COVID-19 propelled many into the 21st century and the use of Zoom to stay connected to people.


Residents established a website celebrating the history of our community: TOSpv.org. This is not in any way an official site for the community -- it's undertaken as an all-volunteer resident project of independent residents. The design of the site is novel because it is not a logical tree with branches and roots. It's based upon taxonomy and new pages are connected to the tabs of menus automatically based upon tags and categories assigned to each page. We got the idea from viewing the site of the Cleveland Historical Society.


Richmond Shreve

NaCCRA Board Member

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Barry Peters
Dear Tech Forum members,

Shirley Timashev suggested that we share with one another the URL address of any websites we’ve helped to develop for any of our communities or groups within our CCRC community.

Shown below is a link to the website I designed and developed for our 2,100 resident community at Wind Crest (an Erickson community), for the group of 200 “Veterans at WindCrest”

For $48 per year (which includes a custom domain name for the first year), the web platform at WordPress.com also includes a reliable email service that automatically sends out each new website post to any and all subscribers (in this case, the 200 members of Veterans at WindCrest). So far, that email service is performing better and more reliably (with fewer bounces) than the Google Groups email list that it superseded.


Also, for the same group at Wind Crest, I’ve created a free account at Airtable.com that allows an interested resident to sign up for Veterans at Wind Crest using a custom online form, as follows:

https://airtable.com/appJtXenWXXOGe260/shrRCWzERacDMaeqj

The responses that a person enters into the online form are transmitted to an Airtable membership table in grid format that can be edited and viewed online by our leadership team for the Veterans, as follows:

https://airtable.com/appJtXenWXXOGe260/shrQLuG4NsaecJI5T

-Barry Peters
Wind Crest, Highlands Ranch, Colorado
206-963-7701


Ann MacKay

Charlestown started the resident sponsored website in 2009 with a resident working with a college student who used HTML to build the website. We switched to WordPress in 2016 and built it from scratch with the help of the now full-time employed former student. I worked as the webmaster with two others when we switched. I had been using WordPress for my own website as well as for a few nonprofit groups so I knew we could manage. the website by ourselves rather than sending changes to our consultant and waiting for him to find time to add new content. The website is https://ccicharlestown.org/ and is now managed by three residents with Hope Tillman chairing the Website Subcommittee of the Resident Council Communications committee.

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