YMCA- SECOND INSTALLMENT
Putting the Technology to Work
The YMCA is a huge organization. They are spread throughout the world. There are some in Canada, Mexico and even New Zealand.
But when a person checks out a YMCA on a website the only ones that appear are the bigger organizations like the ones you get to see on TV Commercials. No one gets to see the smaller organizations like Beacon.
I would like Beacon to get some exposure. Their way of getting exposure is by word-of-mouth and flyers. Setting up a weblog on a free easy three-step program like Blogger.com will help them get even more exposure.
Weblogs are known for people to give up-to-date information to the public as said by Leezy. They also archive and catergorize information as Suzanne said. Having a catergorized archive will aloow the public to go back to old post to keep up with the organization.
Having a weblog for Beacon will allow them to tell the public how their organization works. It shows their personal side like Lauren said.They can post information on the trips they have taken and special events that they host in their building like their infamous spectacular Halloween parties. Being able to do this will allow many people to see how they really are and there will be a higher chance of getting more parents to put their kids in the program.
Now if every small YMCA were to have a Weblog set then all YMCA's can see what the other is doing rather than hearing about it through a phone call that will then have to be passed down by word-of-mouth. A weblog is a simple journal that can be shown to the public to help this small organization became more well known.
News Aggregators
News aggregators is a simple program that can be set up on a website such as Bloglines.com. Its goal is to keep a periodical list of sites you had subsscribed to. When you log on to the news aggregator a list will appear of the most up dated post. Each site will have a title or short summary of the post they have made. Being able to see this will help you determine weither if the post is even worth reading. Thus letting you control the noise that goes through. There will also be no need to send double e-mails to make sure that the receiver gets the information.
Having a news aggregator for Beacon will help them avoid a flurry of e-mails but only if every other YMCA has a weblog set up. Then Beacon can subscribe to their sites and keep it in the news aggregator. A lot of time can be saved and it can help them avoid missing important information as people like Melissa regularly do with their e-mails.
These technologies are both set up to bring the organizations closer together and to help avoid noise and redundancy but bringing in the other technologies will help break the organizational heirarchy that exist in this program.
Chains
Beacon has a very simple chain line. Their organization is like the original Organizational Chart. It starts with a president then breaks down from there. But within Beacon there is just a program director, program coordinator, head counselors, counselors, assistant counselors, and then SYEP (who are young teens that are working under a summer youth program)
Everyone can talk to each other but it doesn't happen all the time. Assitant counselors usually ask the head counselors a questiong then if the counselor doesn't know then the head counselor is notified and so on up the chain of commands.
I would like it if they were to be able to connect more with each other and other employees at the other sites that are near by. For this I woulb bring the idea of having a Wikis board.
Having a Wikis board is very similar to a weblogs the only thing is that it allows other people besides the creator to go back and edit certain post. It can be an easier way, as said by Leezy to exhange ideas and it is also the fastest way to network with each other. Being able to edit it can help the big bosses control noise that enters the board such as very inappropriate things that can be said about a certain YMCA site. In this ocassion a phone call can be made to discuss this problem personally.
Having a wikis board will help connect employees who are at the bottom of the barrel to the employees who are on top. It can be used to state any ideas employees have or it can be used as a company diary to help express problems that each employee has.
One main wikis board can be set for a number of YMCA's in the neighborhood or one can be set for each individual organization. But my idea is to get everyone involved so I would like one main wkis board to be set up.
The YMCA is a huge organization. They are spread throughout the world. There are some in Canada, Mexico and even New Zealand.
But when a person checks out a YMCA on a website the only ones that appear are the bigger organizations like the ones you get to see on TV Commercials. No one gets to see the smaller organizations like Beacon.
I would like Beacon to get some exposure. Their way of getting exposure is by word-of-mouth and flyers. Setting up a weblog on a free easy three-step program like Blogger.com will help them get even more exposure.
Weblogs are known for people to give up-to-date information to the public as said by Leezy. They also archive and catergorize information as Suzanne said. Having a catergorized archive will aloow the public to go back to old post to keep up with the organization.
Having a weblog for Beacon will allow them to tell the public how their organization works. It shows their personal side like Lauren said.They can post information on the trips they have taken and special events that they host in their building like their infamous spectacular Halloween parties. Being able to do this will allow many people to see how they really are and there will be a higher chance of getting more parents to put their kids in the program.
Now if every small YMCA were to have a Weblog set then all YMCA's can see what the other is doing rather than hearing about it through a phone call that will then have to be passed down by word-of-mouth. A weblog is a simple journal that can be shown to the public to help this small organization became more well known.
News Aggregators
News aggregators is a simple program that can be set up on a website such as Bloglines.com. Its goal is to keep a periodical list of sites you had subsscribed to. When you log on to the news aggregator a list will appear of the most up dated post. Each site will have a title or short summary of the post they have made. Being able to see this will help you determine weither if the post is even worth reading. Thus letting you control the noise that goes through. There will also be no need to send double e-mails to make sure that the receiver gets the information.
Having a news aggregator for Beacon will help them avoid a flurry of e-mails but only if every other YMCA has a weblog set up. Then Beacon can subscribe to their sites and keep it in the news aggregator. A lot of time can be saved and it can help them avoid missing important information as people like Melissa regularly do with their e-mails.
These technologies are both set up to bring the organizations closer together and to help avoid noise and redundancy but bringing in the other technologies will help break the organizational heirarchy that exist in this program.
Chains
Beacon has a very simple chain line. Their organization is like the original Organizational Chart. It starts with a president then breaks down from there. But within Beacon there is just a program director, program coordinator, head counselors, counselors, assistant counselors, and then SYEP (who are young teens that are working under a summer youth program)
Everyone can talk to each other but it doesn't happen all the time. Assitant counselors usually ask the head counselors a questiong then if the counselor doesn't know then the head counselor is notified and so on up the chain of commands.
I would like it if they were to be able to connect more with each other and other employees at the other sites that are near by. For this I woulb bring the idea of having a Wikis board.
Having a Wikis board is very similar to a weblogs the only thing is that it allows other people besides the creator to go back and edit certain post. It can be an easier way, as said by Leezy to exhange ideas and it is also the fastest way to network with each other. Being able to edit it can help the big bosses control noise that enters the board such as very inappropriate things that can be said about a certain YMCA site. In this ocassion a phone call can be made to discuss this problem personally.
Having a wikis board will help connect employees who are at the bottom of the barrel to the employees who are on top. It can be used to state any ideas employees have or it can be used as a company diary to help express problems that each employee has.
One main wikis board can be set for a number of YMCA's in the neighborhood or one can be set for each individual organization. But my idea is to get everyone involved so I would like one main wkis board to be set up.
posted by Elizabeth @ 1:56 PM
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