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Dance Marathon Weblog

I'm going to talk to Dance Marathon's Publications chair about creating a DM weblog. His position is responsible for our website (in case you anyone wants to know, I'm one of the Finance chairs). I think a weblog would be a great way for us to update/inform dancers, committee members, the student body and others in the community about Dance Marathon events and happenings. It would also allow individual chairs to update information on the web themselves instead of having to give it to Matt to post (less work for Matt since he's already bombarded with work).

Also, in addition to having all the blogs posted on our website, we can show everyone how to add RSS feeds into their my.yahoo, install and use Sage or another rss reader. This would be a very effective and easy way for everyone (especially dancers) to get the infromation they need when they want it.

I can't wait to talk to our pubs chair!!!

By the way Bud, can you tell me who your contact was and stuff for getting the class free typepad accounts? I'm guessing you know that Dance Marathon likes to get everything donated if possible.

The New Impact

Well, when I got Scott Moore's email about course bidding and his blog about it, I started thinking about the new layout for Impact. I like being able to customize what information I want to see and to organize it the way I see most useful to me. Its not that aesthetic, but the new layout is very useful, helpful.... I'm trying to think of an adjective to describe the good utility of the new layout.... oh well.

Anyhoo, I just realized that some of these look like RSS feeds and I was wondering if they actually were? It seems safe to assume the BBA Program Director is an RSS feed since all of his stuff are blogs. Not sure about the others though.

Mistake I Made

A couple of times after saving one post, I tried to create a new post just by erasing the text from the previous post and entering in my new post from that one page it takes you to after saving a post. I didn't realize that that page was for only editing your saved post. I feel like an idot, but oh well.