The duties of a County
Coordinator are fairly simple:
Keep the web pages up to date.
Content and format of the webpages, once the minimum
requirements are satisfied, are completely flexible,
and entirely up to the judgment of the CC (within
the bounds of good taste and copyright laws)
Posting research material to the County Website, is
desirable, but not required. The Archives Project
was established to serve as a place for materials to
be accessed.
Always respond to researcher's questions.
An acceptable answer is "I don't know", but try to
point the researcher to another person or website,
if possible.
Avoid argumentative situations. If the person gets
abusive, stop replying and ignore further messages.
Keep the State Coordinator apprised of the CC's
email address.
The CC must be subscribed to the mailing list for
administrative VAGenWeb traffic.
Qualifications of a County Coordinator:
A desire to help researchers.
A personal interest in the county, with some
knowledge of its history and/or families is helpful.
The ability to create and modify web pages. This
includes:
Knowledge of the HTML coding, or use of a software
program that does the coding for you. For example, I
use a text editor and add the encoding myself, but
then I'm something of a control freak. <grin>
Access to facilities to upload/download files from
their webspace. I use a free program called "FileZilla",
that I downloaded from a site on the internet.
If taking over a county, previously hosted in
someone's personal web space, the new host will need
to find web space in which to place the pages
©VAGenWeb solely for the use and benefit of The
USGenWeb Project.
|
