Why a Web Site? Here are a few reasons...
- It's a resource library and information communication center.
- The Internet Web provides another, powerful means of communicating information
to readers. However, it is not just a new way to distribute information from
author to reader. The Web, from the beginning, was designed to provide an
information superhighway which could communicate information, stored in Web
sites, over a network of connections called the Internet, in any
direction, to anyone connected to the Internet. As the name Internet Web
implies, Web pages within a Web site, and Web sites themselves can be interconnected
via a system of links which enable the reader to "jump" from one page
to another, or from one site to another. (Our Region's Web site home page
and several other pages - especially the Fun Links page, have many links to
other Web sites.) With this new medium we also have the ability to read the
most current information available, and immediately provide feedback to, or
ask questions of, those providing the information.
The National Ski Patrol national office, every Division, many Regions, and
even some Patrols have together created a vast network of Web sites providing
patrollers with the essential, useful, and even fun information relating to
ski patrolling. Our Region's Web site is an extension of our newsletter, The
Western Region Patroller; it's not a replacement of that essential newsletter.
As mentioned above, two of the major goals have been to develop our Region's
Web site as an information resource library, and to provide a convenient way
for people to ask questions of, and receive answers from, our Region's advisors
and administrators.
- It's cheap.
- Even with all of the information stored in this site, our Region's Web
site costs very little to operate. The programming and development time is
volunteered.
- It's current and easy to maintain.
- New material, updates, corrections, and changes are easy to put in. Just
seconds after the information is entered, our Web site will display the revised
information.
- The Web is good for the environment.
- This medium provides an alternative to millions of tree-killing publications.
Within organizations, voluminous publications - directories, manuals, agendas,
reports, bulletins, calendars, rosters, revisions to any of these - are being
put into Web sites.
- It may even bring us all a little closer together.
- Folks at the Region, Division and National levels of the Ski Patrol system
are just like you and I. They're dedicated patrollers, helping our organization
to succeed in providing the best it can for our membership and the skiing
public. Got a question or concern? Getting in touch with our advisors and
administrators couldn't be more convenient; it is as easy as a little web
navigating and a couple of clicks of the mouse.
Interested? Check out the "Put
Your Patrol on the Web" workshop.
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