Before I go any further, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Stuart, and I am a recent member of Group 133 in Somerville, MA. Even though I’m still fairly new to the area, it has been a great experience over the last few months to get to know this dedicated group of individuals, to the point where I’ve even offered to donate a fair share of my time helping out the local organization. With my roots in the land of Wellstone and Mondale, I find it very gratifying to help out an organization like Amnesty International at the grassroots level - and it’s my belief that the greatest strength of AI is its ability to network at the local level. If you have any interest at all in human rights advocacy and activism, I would strongly suggest you attend at least one meeting. With that said, let me throw out a quick update as to what we’re doing on the organizational end of the group.
Not only are we looking forward to a great summer after the successful Get on the Bus from last month, we are also looking forward to several new improvements to our presence on the web! Within the next month or so we will have a brand new website at http://www.amnesty133.org, with deeper integration into our blogs (http://blog.amnesty133.org/ and http://getonthebustonyc.blogspot.com/). I am in the process of migrating the Get on the Bus blog from the blogger platform to a new subdomain, like I’ve done with the “everyday” Amnesty133 blog. We won’t be getting rid of out wordpress.com or blogger.com blogs, they will just be simultaneously updated in conjunction with the blogs hosted under our own domain name. This is a huge improvement and will give us the ability to integrate the blogs into the new website design, when finally finished. I’m hesitant to give a deadline, but I’m hoping it will be completed before mid-July.
To appease everyone’s curiosity, I will include the obligatory screenshot:
Fourth draft of design concept (click for full-size)
Please drop some comments with suggestions for improvements, criticism for my lack of color-coordination, and general encouragement. And come to a meeting! June 9th, 7:00pm at the regional office in Davis Square!
Also, please consider dropping by our local action for Troy Davis next Tuesday in Davis Square (also at amnesty133.org). Tuesday, May 19, 5:30-7:00pm.
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