The California-Nevada RegionSection Website

Albert LazzariniExecutive Committee Meeting

28 March 2009

Survey of othersection websites

• Explored other section web sites– Northwest, New York State, New England,

Ohio Region, Prairie, Southeastern, Texas, Four Corners

– All sites have a few common features• Governance, meetings listings

– Most sites have unique features, signatures

• Synthesize a CA-NV www site that represents the best from other sites?

The CA-NV www site

• What do we want?– Easy access to important information– Portal to resources for CA-NV section

members• Faculty, scientists, students, postdocs

• What is needed?

Newsletters

Prizes & Awards

Job Opportunities

Resources

Colleges, Universities & Laboratories represented in the sectionCorporate links

Suggestion Box

Letter from the Chair

Possible additional web site features

• Colleges, Universities & Laboratories represented in the section– Listing of all academic

institutions, laboratories having CA-NV members

• URLs to physics departments

• Corporate links

• Newsletters– Link to archive of all past– Link to latest newsletter

• Prizes & Awards– Announcements of CA-NV

Section awardees• Bonner Prize• APS Fellows

– Create student prizes?• Best senior thesis?• Best PhD thesis?

• Job Opportunities– REUS in region– Internships– Postdoctoral links

• Resources– Links to outreach, physics

educational sites– Student travel support to meetings

• Suggestion box• Letter from the Chair

– As appropriate, needed, letter from the Section Chair to the members of the section

• Hit count ?• Logo?

The CA-NV www site

• Issues & challenges– If we set up a more comprehensive www site, it

will require effort to keep in current, relevant• Following stale, out-of-date, non-existent links leads to

frustration very quickly– Frequent updates

• Monthly? Quarterly?– A dedicated, committed webmaster is required

• Rotating role? Member of Executive Committee?– Web server?

• Located at APS.org?• Located at the home institution of the webmaster?