[Nfb-web] Looking for Affiliate WebSite Assistance

[Michael Hansen]

Gary,

The last thing I want to do is take some income away from someone but I
really appreciate your comments.

While maintaining a web site can be a lot of work from time to time so can
be being a State President or Secretary or Treasure. Those are not paid
positions nor do those people expect to be paid when they are elected. We
certainly take care of necessary expenses when appropriate (postage,
copies, envelopes, occasional transportation, etc....) but we don't pay
them a hourly wage or a salary. Why do some webmasters expect this. Being a
webmaster should be looked upon as a talent (or service) that the
individual can lend to our cause.

Just my 2 cents

Mike
---
Webmaster
NFB of Nebraska

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Gary Wunder via Nfb-web <nfb-web at nfbnet.org
> wrote:

> With all due respect to paid positions, should we pay our state presidents,
> our newsletter editors, are recording secretaries, our treasurers, and the
> rest of the folks who regularly volunteer a significant amount of time?
> There is no excuse for treating anyone badly, be they a webmaster or
> anything else, but most of us bring the talents that we have, and we turn
> them into a donation. At the same time we donate our brains and energy, we
> are actively involved in fundraising to secure those things that we can't
> hope to get free of charge.
>
> In the NFB of Missouri we have hired several webmasters because we believed
> the work to be so time-consuming that it was not reasonable for a volunteer
> to take it on. In one case we hired a webmaster whose primary goal was to
> make our website accessible but who would not pay attention to visual
> criticisms and the suggestion that ones work should be visually observed as
> well as audibly red. The second webmaster we hired decided he would convert
> our website to Word Press. We talked about the absolute necessity of the
> website being accessible both from the perspective of the visiting user and
> the person doing the updating. The person we hired assured us that he had
> read a good bit about making Word Press accessible, and the content he
> generated for us was indeed quite usable. When it came to working with the
> content management system, which was one of our major objectives, he
> realized that making the website accessible was beyond him. He quit. To his
> credit he did not take the second amount of money which was due him on
> completion of that part of the project, but getting qualified people is no
> easy matter.
>
> Before we decide that being a webmaster is necessarily a paid position with
> the NFB, let us consider by what distinction we will divide paid and
> volunteer effort, and once we have established a list of paid positions,
> let
> us figure out how in the world we are going to fund them. The mail campaign
> is slowly dying; reverse mortgages are taking their toll on estates that
> once went to us; telephone solicitation is frowned upon and ever more
> difficult. I'm sure that if we all put our minds to tackling this problem,
> we can come up with a solution.
>
>
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-- 
Mike Hansen