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WHy webmasters like the MIdnight Mission website and despise the Union Rescue Mission Website

Many greedy webmasters despise Content Management systems such as the Union Rescue Mission Website. Why? It is obvious. If I build a website that can be maintained by the client I can't charge exorbitant fees to update the website whenever they need to have the content changed.

Today we have learned that having a static site , like which is up at the Midnight Mission website is not conducive to the new way we do things in the internet . People like to be updated on what is happening. A static site does nothing but sit there. You go there once , see the same things , and why go back ?, same ole same ole.

Interactive sites are the wave of the future. Take the Union Rescue Mission website for instance. You can go there and the content is constantly changing. We get to see photos of the steak lunches ,we get to see ourselves in photos if we volunteer , we get to hear and see the president of the union rescue mission let us know what is happening and we hear him in video and his blog let us know what the needs are. We get it it from the horses mouth. And we get it quickly. What is also neat about syndication of things such as Andy's blog at URM is that we can subscribe to a feed that allows us to be updated in our e-mails or at our blog reader of our choice.

Living downtown and understanding that politicians hate blogs , well, I know that blogging has a bad connotation. But a blog is nothing but a website that is constantly updated by the client themselves. It was the blogs that have made the open source content management system movement possible. Wordpress is now used to build CMS websites, I use drupal simply because of it's power , and there are many others.

The facts are these. IF any organization is to survive one must release themselves from those who have gimmicks such as SEO . Hey, I can teach you how to optimize SEO , a child can do that. It is no longer just about SEO. It is about building whole communities around these websites and allowing the client to be able to update their website in a timely manner without doling out ton's of money and thus having to wait for the content changes.

I have many clients and don't have a website. Simply because I would be overwhelmed , my clients are word of mouth and soon I will be teaching people how to build their own CMS websites and be able to use SEO and other items without the HTML knowledge.


Gimmicks, gimmicks , gimmick. What are needed are solutions and the URM has found the right solution. Content Management system.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Amen. More non-profits need to do what it looks like Union Rescue Mission is doing. The "high end" content management systems are basically a racket/scam. The web is about getting content out right away in the easiest way possible, and old corporate content systems are just old overpriced tech.

Thanks for this article. It's cool to see a non-profit doing this. More need to.
January 03, 2009 12:32 AM
Andy Bales said…
Thank you, Don, for the encouragement. We are trying! Blessings, Andy B.
January 04, 2009 6:17 PM
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