Re: IML: Club website ideas/questions

[Christian Walter <cdubya2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kenyon---

My thanks to you and to all others who add to the
website! I know we take it for granted and "don't say
much" but we are part of that great silent majority in
America who appreciate all things Imperial.

May Imperial Margarine and it's bretheren continue to
consume large quantities of gas to sate our need for a
dignified transport.

Cheers to all~~~
C

--- Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> --- Greg wrote:
> 
> > Kenyon,
> > You and the rest of the guys have done a
> tremendous
> > job on the site! I flip back and forth between the
> > site and the emails all day long. 
> 
> That's good to hear, and thanks for saying
> something. 
> 
> 
> Folks sure don't say much here on the IML, and
> sometimes it feels like we're not doing much in the
> way of viewership or helping/entertaining folks
> because it's so quiet within our own club email
> group
> here, but we do get pretty good traffic says the
> electronic traffic meter and we keep on going, as
> Sir
> Edmund Hillary said about climing Mt. Everest:
> "Because It's There".  
> 
>  
> >  
> > Do you update the repair section with additional
> > info as it comes on the regular emails? Or do you
> > just let the additional info be found through the
> > search function?
> >  
> 
> At one Time Chris Trettin was doing a lot of serious
> archiving and organizing in that area (her work is
> still visible) and updating the various "aggregate
> communal knowledge" areas quite regularly.  
> 
> Sadly, she's left the group, and I think that the
> Archive Search function has taken on greater meaning
> since she stopped adding things, unless one of the
> volunteers is doing something that they aren't
> advertising to the rest of us.  
> 
> We all have our own projects, work at our own pace,
> and live as far apart as folks on the IML do.  
> 
> We volunteers communicate about website related
> activity via email on a seperate IML-like message
> board called WebMonsters.  There's been no mention
> of
> work on this area recently that I'm aware
> of.....(webmonsters?  anyone know differently?)
> 
> The general rule is to stake out an area of
> interest/passion, figure out how to make it happen,
> and go do it.  That's what's behind things like the
> movies that you can watch, the Registry, and the
> Scale
> Models section.  Someone decided that it was time
> that
> we had it, got the thing going, and BAM - there's a
> whole new section.
> 
> What is it about our demographic that produces such
> passion and good manners both here and on the club
> website's creative group?  
> 
> > Is there a way to see if the AUTOBiographies in
> the
> > Imperials By Year section have been updated?  
> 
> Kind-of.
> 
> For
> > example: I'm interested in all Imperials but
> > specificaly 64-66. I go into the Imperials By Year
> > section , click on 64, then would have to click on
> > each person in the AUTOBiographies to see if they
> > updated or photos added, etc. Then I do the same
> for
> > 65 and 66. Is there some place that I could see
> that
> > tells you that something has been updated or
> added?
> 
> Not explicitly, no.  There is the WHAT'S NEW
> section. 
> There's also a bar at the bottom of almost every
> page
> on the website that denotes the last time that it
> was
> updated.  Both of these are clues to how "seasoned"
> the information is, but there's no list of such. 
> Skim
> WHATS NEW  once a month is my advice.  
> 
> We have a hard enough time organizing the junk that
> we're already working on, so I'd not expect too much
> on that front, but you never know.
> 
> Amazingly, with at least 700 members on the IML and
> at
> least triple that many that have subscribed and
> subsequently left over the years, there are
> surprisingly few people that have submitted
> AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, much less updated theirs.  Kerry
> Pinkerton has to be the Babe Ruth of that genre  
> 
>
http://www.imperialclub.com/Repair/Interior/Leather/index.htm
> http://www.imperialclub.com/Repair/Body/Painting101/
> http://www.dte.net/57imperial/54saga/index.htm
>
http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1957/Kerrys57saga/explanation.htm
>
http://www.imperialclub.com/Repair/Body/BodyandPaint/index.htm
>
http://www.imperialclub.com/~imperialclub/Yr/1973/Kerrys73saga/index.htm
> http://www.dte.net/57imperial/50saga/index.htm
> 
> but getting more than a paragraph out of most people
> is just murder.  He balances out about 40 other
> people
> that didn't say a word and just sent photos.
> 
> Note that the most that a popular Imperial year
> might
> have is 20 AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, and many years only have
> one or two, so that's an area that's hurting to one
> degree or antother, and it could be an even more
> exciting space than it already is with  a little
> more
> participation from the group.  
> 
> I'd say that we "maybe" get one or two new
> profiles/updates submitted per month (not counting
> the
> ones that I snag for unusual cars that show on ebay
> like the 1942 Limo).
> 
> I've written repeatedly here about taking a photo of
> your car at a local point of interest, writing up a
> small story about it's features, reasons for being
> in
> your family, and so forth, but we get a weak
> response
> on that at best.   I should think that a freebie
> web-page of your car in the Pantheon of Imperial
> Heroes would be attractive, but... 
> 
> You can lead a horse to water, but you can't get him
> to submit/update his car-story all that easily, it
> seems.
> 
> >  
> > How do you come up with the member highlights? Do
> > they contact you or do you look for volunteers? I
> > would love to see more of these.
> 
>
http://imperialclub.com/IML-specific/Spotlight/index.htm
> 
> That was a section that was last run by Leslie
> Ketterhofen, and she's left the volunteer group for
> other pursuits, so there hasn't been a new interview
> for some time now.  
> 
> We have not yet found a new person willing to
> solicit
> interviews with club members and others (and there
> are
> some really interesting folks here - Bob Hoffmeister
> might be one I'd ask first).  
> 
> Doing this would consist of coming up with a
> questionnaire (crib what's already done?), finding
> people, and getting them to respond/submit photos.  
> 
> The other volunteers would definitely be able to
> create the final page once that work was done. 
> We're
> all volunteers, and we each have our areas of
> interest
> and energy levels - this item has languished without
> someone to champion it.  Email proficiency and good
> manners are about the only requirements to do it.
> 
> Anyone want to spend some time to flesh this area
> out?
>  
> Greg? (hey! You asked!!)
> 
> >  
> > As long as I'm asking questions, how about linking
> > the sections that show photos and stories of
> > Imperials that are undergoing restorations and are
> > restored into a RESTORATION ARCHIVE?
> >  
> 
> You'd have to provide more free beer and pizza than
> you could afford to get us to do that.  Thinking
> about
> the electronic logistics alone makes my brain swim,
> but if someone can think up a way to pull it off and
> wants to get behind doing it, well, this is a CLUB
> and
> we're always happy to get people involved and
> 
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