Best Practices of Swimming Web Masters

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Best Practices of Swimming Web Masters

• Communications Committee

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2004 Convention

• Privacy is still a big issue (NO IDs or other
  personal information)
• TM Cleaning by clubs.  (How to enforce)
• Electronic Registration
• Top 10 Lists
• Officials List and cert level (sorts possible)
• Job Postings, and Jobs Wanted
• PayPal.com

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2004 Convention (cont.)

• eCommerce solutions for payment.
• Schedule and Results links on Home Page (Current
  subset)
• Mapquest Links to facilities or post directions
  to pools.
• OpenOffice
• Pdf995.com
• Seniors and colleges they go to.  (Sollicit from
  web OptIn)
• Paid or Volunteer Webmaster (50 of each).
• Real Time Results

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2004 Convention (cont.)

• Remote  Administrator
• Database Management Session
• Roles (Webmaster, Registration, Times management
  people)
• How to get out of Maintenance and get into
  Enhancements

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2005 Best Practices

• Forms/database for automated updates from other
  LSC positions
• RSS Feeds consumer for (USA Swimming and Swimming
  World) see www.fgcswim.org
• RSS Feed publisher see www.csi.org
• RSS Feed Publisher soon for club schedules
  cgbdswimming.org

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2005 Best Practices

• Online Meet Entries centralcalswim.org plus other
  commercial athletic event companies (Hy-Tek, Swim
  Connection).
• Request more RSS feeds from USA Swimming
• Registered or not information
• LSC News
• Meet Schedule/Information/ Events for TM
• Meet Results

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2005 Best Practices

• Marketing or Swimming
• Club Contacts
• Publish web address in flyers and other material
  to hand out or mail
• Publish officials list, trainers list
• Links to USA Swimming
• Governance (By-Laws, Minutes)
• Coaches List (Active)
• Webmasters Listserv
• Pre LSC Meeting Reports for upcoming Meetings
• Forms
• Job Postings

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2005 Best Practices

• Harvest from other web sites
• Athlete Section
• Record progression (Historic)
• Recognition/Achievement Pages
• TopN Reports
• Open Water, Seasonal, Disability news and other
  reports
• History past Olympians, hall of fame
• Budget/ Proposed Budget Financials

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2005 Best practices

• Attendee list and notes will be posted to
  www.csi.org/LSCWebmasters/
• Advanced session will be in Imperial E at 130 PM
• Main Topic will be on Privacy and what you need
  to do or not worry about.
• Secondary Topic will be on Coding Tricks