CT Region 3 ARES

Hello all,

I’ll be making several changes over the coming months regarding how we reach and communicate with our members.

First, I’ve started a facebook group for those of you active on that social network.  Just search for Region 3 ARES and you should find us.  We already have 8 or so members active in the group.

Using this service I’m able to increase the way we distribute information – especially if I’m mobile.

Second, some people received test phone calls from our automated calling tree.  This was a small test that we are thinking about improving upon this year.  It truly is impressive, open source technology which means we can modify the program source code and it doesn’t cost us anything!  Preliminary tests worked OK, so we’ll see how future tests go…….

Finally, you’ll notice a category on the left of the page called *calendar test.  I still have to work on a few things (mostly layout and such) but this is indeed functional.  I don’t know about the “widget” on the left of the page that is a whole calendar, but if you click on the page link, you can see the demo.

I’m thinking we’ll keep it on there as a way to organize online all our activities.

Feedback is always welcome.

Happy New Year and I look forward to working with the team for 2010!

Jonathan, KB1KIX

District Emergency Coordinator, Region 3