Last updated
August 2, 2007
Won NYSUT contest twice
We have won awards for this Website from NYSUT two years
in a row -- in 2005 and 2006. We have continued the outstanding
quality shown these past years, but we have this year even
made improvements making us even more deserving of a first
place award for an outstanding NYSUT retiree website.
If fortunate to win again, suggestions for how certificates
should be made out
Winning website
If we win first place again for the outstanding website,
please be sure the certificate reflects that Richard E.
Gordon is the Webmaster and the chapter is TRIF -- Clearwater
Unit.
Winning feature article on Pat Lacourse
If we win first place again for the outstanding feature
article, please show that Richard Gordon is the author, the
subject of the article in Pat Lacourse, and the retiree chapter
is TRIF-Clearwater Unit.
Reasons for winning the award a third time --
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Our outstanding Spotlight articles
in which we give a place of honor to those members who
have done something special, something outstanding for
our Unit.
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This year on our Home
page we have included statements clearly stating
the mission or purpose of our Unit.
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Our project page
tells of our continued efforts in helping youngsters
in our community.
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New this year is a password protected
folder www.gordonrichard.com/privatecut .
This private or protected folder contains
(a) our membership
chart which makes it easy to compare the
number of our paid memberships for the last eleven
years -- since 1995; (2) an article by one of
our members giving the early
history of our Unit. This password protected
article includes the full names -- first and
last -- of the persons involved while the unprotected
article, for privacy purposes, only gives first
name and first initial of the last name; (3)
this very page that you are now reading.
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Our President's
page continues to be outstanding, re-written each
month for a new, refreshing change of perspective.
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Our current Calendar page
continues to promote our activities, but even gives a
link to a Calendar of events in our archives. This archives-calendar
page shows events that have already passed and been deleted
from our current calendar page. Someone viewing our site
late in the year, say for example in April when almost
all our activities have been held and been deleted from
the regular Calendar page, can check our Calendar
in our archives to see the kinds of events we sponsor
during the year.
- Our Contents page shows the depth
and breath of our website, with far more content I suspect
than any other NYSUT retiree chapter or unit website. Keep
in mind, too, that our website is not part of a parent website
-- such as a website created by active teachers. We have created
our own, independent website perhaps showing the way for other
retiree chapters in Florida as well as New York State. This
content page provides all the links necessary to get to every
page in the site.
- Our website reflects solid support for NYSUT's, AFT's, and
AFL-CIO's views on issues and endorsements of candidates during
this past election. On our Home
page we provided links to where are members could easily
find our Unions' views.
- Our site continues to be well-written, well organized,
attractive, easy to read, and easy to navigate.The graphics,
including original photos such as those on our Spotlight
pages, add color and life to our pages.
- This site is so popular that when on March 16. 2006 I did
a Yahoo
search on retired teachers Florida, this
site came up number 1 out of 1,740,000 hits.
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