nswfc club online

I thought I'd repost this  " Mission Statement " because it occurs to me that as members come online to this separate section of the club website they might have missed the first post I made as website administrator  2 years ago as it concerns the interactive NSWFC Members  " Club Online ". 

Please feel free to comment or ask questions concerning any of this particular statement or any other statement or post I make  for that matter , keeping in mind that they are my opinions  . It was only meant to explain how I thought these pages should be developed and to set some basic guidelines as to how discussion here should be civil in nature . Comments will be resticted to only registered logged on members at this time though .   

Welcome to the NSWFC MEMBERS “CLUB ONLINE “. 

My name is Tim Hargreaves. I'm glad you found your way here .For those of you who haven't met me yet down at the club I've been charged with administrating the NSWFC website at the December 2006 club meeting. The homepage is at http://nswfc.net . I feel privileged to get this site up and working for you folks. I will try to keep this introduction to “Club Online“and the concept thereof brief and to the point ... but I know myself well enough to say that this could be an impossible task .. ha... If you only knew how fast I typed you'd appreciate that statement.

The “mission” I have in mind for this website extension is that the general membership have a venue for informal communication , shared fishing and club event related images, stories, and reports solely between club members and associates. So if and when the e-board and full membership actually conclude that an online community application such as this would serve the club members well then we will all make this site an inviting and informative place to visit . There are several modules and advanced user features that can be employed later with this content management system and I will try to test and implement any of those we all agree could be useful.

I'm going to put this out here right now though ... that I think club politics and ill-stated feelings between any members will have no place on these pages. I think that club rules and policies already have a complete, sound and democratic protocol by way of the executive board, general membership meetings and the monthly newsletter. Yeah that too ... I'm not attempting to take the thunder out of the fishing reports you already get via the newsletter ... Only to supplement reports for those of us that wouldn't mind getting first hand knowledge of the fishing action on a daily basis. The private messaging system running up on “Club Online” will always be private so as to not give out explicit fishing knowledge to Internet “trolls” that can't seem to find their own fish. As a matter of fact ... I think I will make a fishing reports page that is not accessible to the general public at all . That makes more sense I think.

I'm not talking about censorship... just decent human discussion and interaction. If proper etiquette needs to be further explained we will do so. Users here will always be able to edit or delete their own content. You will come to see that this is the beauty of this software. The website administrator (myself) and executive board members or delegated moderators will always have access rights to modify and delete users comments also. So please “play nice” . Mainly because I'm a relatively new member to NSWFC I'm going to put any questionable content into a moderators queue before publishing the page in question . And ... personally speaking, I'm very comfortable with my original stated mission anyway. I'd rather just try to keep the site clean and useful to the membership.

So .. “lets get er done“.

See I told ya .... I could run on and on ... Actually I do have and will think of more to say probably. ...Especially after I get some more input from all of you as to how we can make application work better for all of us.

Thanks for now .

Oh yeah I have an idea .... The first page of the CLUB ONLINE site will always have the picture of the most recent submitted and dated angler with his/her fish as a posted report. The last picture I have is of me in November 2006 that you see now .... So if you wanna get me off the front page send me the photo ....Hows that for incentive?