Jay, now that the ARRL Letter is out this may be moot, but I've asked that the second and third stories that are frozen at the top of the Web news crawl (Senate bill and BPL additional authorities) be dropped and the Board meeting story be inserted. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Bellows, John (Dir, Dakota) Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 12:00 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:12809] Re: Web Piece on July Board Meeting Dave: I referred to the link in my original note. The point is what appeared w/o the link was 9 lines and the ARRL diamond. Nothing that would attract attention and even that scrolled off in 4 days. Jay -----Original Message----- From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 4:59 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:12806] Re: Web Piece on July Board Meeting Jay, the story had a lot more than nine lines, and more photos. Check again. http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/07/19/3/?nc=1 You may be thinking of the brief story Rick put up when the meeting got underway. Dave K1ZZ _____ From: Bellows, John (Dir, Dakota) Sent: Sun 7/24/2005 9:02 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:12805] Web Piece on July Board Meeting What are we saying to our members about the importance of ARRL Board Meetings, when the Web Story about the meeting is an unremarkable nine lines (with a link), posted on July 19th and scrolled off just 4 days later? The stories about educators talking to the ISS astronauts and the ARISS repeater had better graphics and more space. For that matter just about every story in the past week was more eye-catching. There was more information about the meeting in Tuck Miller's piece on Pasternak's "Amateur Radio Newsline" and he wasn't even there. I was under the impression that when we pulled the Board minutes for QST that a real effort would be made to keep members apprised of Board activities. If ARRL is truly the National Association of Amateur Radio and we are serious about trying to keep members informed, interested and engaged in nuts and bolts Amateur issues, our Web Page, as well as, QST ought to reflect that belief. 73, Jay, KØQB