Most meetings of a student legislature include a packet of documents pertinent to the meeting. Agendas, past minutes to approve, reports to review, and legislation to consider are frequently distributed to members. However, once a meeting has begun, many members cannot take the time to read these documents.
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Announcing SGIMS Roll Call
May 8th 2009
We are pleased to announce our latest offering, SGIMS Roll Call. Based on our state-of-the-art SGIMS 2.0 platform, SGIMS Roll Call provides a straightforward and affordable hosted solution for student governments seeking to maintain and publish legislative voting and attendance records.
Solving Student Government Webmaster Turnover
November 18th 2008
A story frequently replays itself on campus throughout the country. A student government finally finds a good webmaster, who designs and implements a website rich with content, delivering all of the association's valuable information to the student body. Then, the webmaster graduates. Content stagnates. When the next webmaster comes along, often it is easier for them to implement a new website, rather than maintain the old one. Unfortunately, valuable historical content is often left hard-to-find.
Announcing NC Train Photos
March 7th 2008
Today, we are re-launching our side project, NC Train Photos. Now with a blog-style narrative, we believe this will make it easier to view and appreciate the photos. The site features photos and information regarding trains in North Carolina, primarily on the North Carolina Railroad H-Line from Greensboro to Raleigh. Both Amtrak/NC DOT passenger trains and Norfolk Southern freight trains are featured prominently.
Improving Student Government Google Ranking
December 12th 2007
There’s not many easy ways to improve your Student Government’s placement in search results, such as those of Google. However, it is known that rich, frequently update content reflects highly on your site from the perspective of search engines.
One of the many benefits of the Student Government Information Management System is that it enables your Student Government Association to easily maintain updated and comprehensive information on your website. A typical SG will generate dozens of new unique pages each week.
Student Government Software for Productivity
July 13th 2007
Student Government Associations have a tendency to focus on their websites as an external communication tool, seeking improved outreach to student bodies and assistance in recruiting members. Having up-to-date content is a prerequisite to accomplishing these goals. As an example, it’s become an expectation that when a governance group is meeting publicly, that an agenda for the next meeting is online. When such content is missing, and all visitors find are references to meeting that happened months in the past, the creditability of all your content is hurt.
Gallery2 and Flash Slideshow
July 6th 2007
I’m a big fan of gallery2, including using it to power a personal photo sharing site. It’s management features are very good, but it lacks a good built-in solution for a slideshow embedded on a non-gallery page, such as the site home page.
100 Megs Web Hosting Review
July 1st 2007
It can be difficult to select a web host, as many features of hosting services are on the surface the same. Therefore, we like to provide comments on hosts that we have dealt with to aid others in service shopping.
The first host that we’ll comment on is 100Megs Web Hosting, which we use to host washcreek.com. We’ve been using 100Megs for several years, and have been very satisfied.
Color Scheme Tool
July 1st 2007
Particularly if you are colorblind, or simply if you are in need of some color inspiration, a color scheme selection tool can be very helpful. I’ve found the interface on this scheme tool particularly convenient. If you have an idea of one color you’d like to start with, it can ably suggest additional colors to complement it.
Welcome to the Wash Creek Blog
June 28th 2007
The Wash Creek Blog exists for commentary and observations on pretty much anything. In particular, we’ll comment on software, techniques, and websites that we find useful in the course of our business.
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