Welcome to VAAE’s new website. This is a temporary place — it is technically a “blog” — but I switched over to this site in order to be able to put out fresh information in a very timely way. Depending on how this new concept works, funding, and other factors, I’ll be using this site to get out the word about VAAE as best I can. In the future, the site may get shinier and a bit bigger, but for the time being, I’m pretty excited just to write about what’s happening with VAAE.
Websites are funny things. . .the way many are constructed require a many-handed technical approach. Someone to do the writing, editing and soliciting of information. Someone to do the input to the site. Someone to keep up the back office. Each of these tasks takes time and skills that are not necessarily related. I am not a technical genius, and the needs of our organization requires more contact than I have been able to manage by trying to reach out to our former web designer, who lives many miles from me.
So with some help from my friends at Found Line, I put our old site to sleep and brought this one forward. There are a number of advantages to utilizing WordPress, the foremost being its simplicity of use. Which, for me, is paramount. Much of the information I receive is timely and has a deadline. Posting it immediately, and using our email to notify you of updates, will allow you to see more information more quickly than I have been able to provide for the past year.
Keeping with the theme of simplicity, I will be reaching out to anyone who would like to write for this site, add their thoughts via comments or posts, or who would like to input information they would like to see disseminated. Adding a representative from each of our partner organizations is simple and will allow for you to have direct contact with VAAE and everyone who is connected with the organization.
I will be adding information to this site over the next several weeks, including running information about our conference in October. As it is shaping up, we will be having an exciting two days at Goddard College.
Again, welcome, and come again!
Tom
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