[Rhodes22-list] The Website and The List

[Peter Nyberg]

A while back, Mike Weisner made mention of tentative plans to update the Rhodes Boat Owners Website (Rhodes22.org <http://rhodes22.org/>).  He asked if anyone would be interested in helping, and I replied that I would be though I haven’t used my limited web development skills in many years.  Nothing else has happened since that I know of, which is fine since I tend to be pretty busy in warmer weather.  That exchange resulted in a stray thought or two about what could be done with the website, but I had no concrete ideas until today.

Some of my YouTube videos generate a comment or two.  Recently there was a comment that mentioned the email list, referring to it as a ‘forum’.  Late yesterday another comment appeared from someone who said they were a ‘wanna be Rhodie’ asking where is this forum that was mentioned.  They mentioned that they had found a group on Google that seemed dead, but nothing active.

Naturally, I pointed this person to the page on our website that describes the email list, and hopefully they will decide to sign on and join our community.  But, the incident stirred a small thought in my head.

This email list is the backbone of our community.  The website is but a small appendage.   But, if you search the web for things related to ‘Rhodes 22’, you’ll likely find Rhodes22.org <http://rhodes22.org/>, but you won’t find the list itself.  Therefor, it seems to me that the most important thing the website can do is promote the list.  If the ‘wanna be Rhodie’ found my YouTube video, and found a defunct Google group, I think it’s a pretty safe bet that they found Rhodes22.org <http://rhodes22.org/>, yet didn’t penetrate deep enough to find the list.

There really isn’t anything more to my idea than that.  The home page should prominently feature an invitation to join the list. 

Easy for me to say…

Peter Nyberg
Coventry, CT
s/v Silverheels (1988/2016}