An open letter to those who are interested in the coming CERT training and being on a team here at LVH to serve our friends and neighbors. We think a web page for CERT is a good means of communicating with one another. It would be especially cool if it were interactive allowing 2 way communication between members. It would even allow for fewer organizational meetings as information could be communicated simply by a member writing what needs to be said and punching a button. Then that information would be published on that website instantly.
This is possible now and requires no training whatsoever. Blogger, the tool we use to publish our website, has made it so easy no experience or special knowledge is necessary. All that is needed that members join the web page team when an invitation is sent to them by email and that they download a new toolbar to their computers.
The invitation has you pick a user name and password and requires you accept the terms of using Blogger... That’s it. Then you download the toolbar and the use the install wizard to get it on your computer..... THE TOOL BAR... Now here is how ez this is...
The tool bar is loaded directly on to your Microsoft Word, word processor.
What this means is you do not have to be on line to write what you have to say.. You just write your article at your leisure and when it’s ready to publish after you have used all of Word’s features (off line) such as spell check and anything else you want ... Just click the PUBLISH BUTTON on the tool bar and your article will be published on line for all the members to see.. That’s all you need to do.
In fact..... That is how this article was posted this morning.
I can set this up for CERT members here and/or for all Newport Cert. If you are a member or you are thinking about it and would like to give it a whirl let me know.
Enough interest and I will start building the website (a pretty simple job itself).
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