What's New at NTRweb.org

To stay on top of everything here at NTRweb, do two simple things: (1) Periodically check this page. (2) Keep checking for announcement boxes on the home page.

  • 5/22/13
  • 5/15/13
  • 5/10/13
  • 5/9/13
  • 5/8/13
  • 4/19/13
    • Updated the Staff list.
  • 4/18/13
    • Made the Computer Thrift Store easier for you to get to. You can now type just ntrweb.org/cts. (Capitalization doesn't matter. You could type NTRweb.org/CTS if you want.)
  • 4/13/13
    • Modified some headings on the IA Training page.
    • Tried to further improve the arrangement of links in the sidebar that appears on every page.
  • 4/12/13
    • Repaired misdirected Thrift Store link on the Bring A Computer Ask A Question page.
    • Hid the Sale link on the Home page until another sales event gets planned.
    • Tried to improve the arrangement of links in the sidebar that appears on every page.
  • 4/5/13
  • 3/30/13
    • Expanded the IA Training page yet further: It now shows information about the workshops all the way back to February 9 so you can see what it's all about.
  • 3/28/13
    • Expanded the format of IA Training page announcements. The announcements will remain on the page in reverse chronological order, supplemented by whatever debriefing information emerges from the IA email list.
  • 3/22/13
    • Added a new page: IA Training tells about our Information Advocacy Training workshops every Saturday.
  • 2/26/13
  • 2/16/13
  • 2/13/13
    • Added a notice about President's Day to our Home page.
    • Updated the Sale! page to show this week's specials.
  • 2/4/13
    • Updated the printable flier (PDF) and the specifications on the CCP Classes page.
  • 1/29/13
  • 1/25/13
  • 1/17/13
    • Changed the Sale! page to show our Martin Luther King Day sales event.
  • 1/15/13
    • Updated the Sale! page.
  • 1/12/13
    • Changed the Sale! page to show our Jan 14-18 sales event.
    • Enhanced the MLK Day announcement on the Home page.
  • 1/10/13
  • 1/7/13
    • Updated Staff list. Added last-updated dates to Staff and Board lists.
  • 1/5/13
    • On the Thrift Store page, added a note describing our new Sale! page, a permanent location for all our sales event information.
  • 1/3/13
  • 1/2/2013
    • Added publication dates of each issue to the Other Networks Newsletter Archive index.
    • Added our new, colorful and informative newspaper ad to the top of the Computer Thrift Store page.
    • Added the ad to near the top of the Home page in order that people who respond to the ad will know they've come to the right site.
    • Replaced the former Thrift Store box on the home page with new content, "Free Computer and Internet Access".
    • Added a new member to our Board list.
  • 12/21/12
    • Added a new page, the Other Networks Newsletter Archive. Other Networks was produced in the 1980s by NTR, which was then known as the Public Interest Media Project.
  • 12/20/12
  • 12/19/12
    • Added a new page, Sale!. It will change to reflect whatever sales event the Thrift Store is running now or has run recently. Right now, it shows our 2012 end-of-year Holiday Sale.
  • 12/17/12
    • Overhauled our Directions page, repairing expired links and improving the words.
  • 12/7/12
    • Updated and better focused(*) the word cloud of student testimonials (2008-2012) on the CCP classes page. (* Removed neutral words like "computer", "instructor", "presentation", which occur frequently but don't carry much of the students' meaning.)
  • 12/6/12
    • Updated the "What Other Attendees Have Written About This" section of the CCP classes page. Added 18 comments.
  • 11/28/12
    • Made a small but significant change to Volunteer Opportunities: From now on, if you'd like to volunteer here, we ask you first to call for an appointment for an interview with our volunteer coordinator.
  • 11/12/12
    • Added two recent items, a Generocity article and a YouTube video, to the NTR in the News section.
  • 11/7/12
  • 11/5/12
    • Deleted a few videos and rotated the Everything For Everybody brochure on the Information Advocacy page.
  • 11/1/12
    • Updated our Staff list.
  • 10/29/12
  • 10/8/12
    • Unlinked The Hacktory page. The Hacktory is no longer a project of NTR.
  • 9/27/12
    • Checked every link in Paul's Bookmarks. One had an apparently temporary problem. Four links added.
  • 9/13/12
  • 9/10/12
    • Minor modification to our Directions page to account for the fact that the former Paul Green School of Rock Music building is being converted to apartments.
  • 8/27/12
  • 8/22/12
  • 8/8/12
    • On the home page, posted an announcement box about our next Scavenger Hunt and Pizza Party.
  • 8/2/12
    • Updated our Thrift Store's computer price list. Many of the prices have been lowered!
  • 7/30/12
  • 7/13/12
  • 7/12/12
    • Updated our list of Board members.
  • 7/9/12
  • 7/6/12
    • On the Information Advocates Meeting 6-30-2012 page, posted a link to meeting notes, photos, and video by Baba Bob Shipman.
  • 6/29/12
  • 6/26/12
    • Updated the flier that tells about our Community College of Philadelphia classes.
    • Updated the Special Computers Now Available page. Renamed it to Special Computers Under $100.
    • Added late-breaking information about how attending this Saturday's Information Advocates meeting could win you a free notebook computer.
  • 6/21/12
  • 6/20/12
  • 6/18/12
    • Updated the social media links in the sidebar that appears on every page.
    • Updated the top sections of Paul's Bookmarks.
  • 6/7/12
    • Added financial statements and Form 990 from latest fiscal year (2011) to the Annual Reports section.
  • 6/2/12
    • To the Information Advocacy page, added seven videos of the May 25 conference. You can now view most of the morning plenary, including some or all of every speaker.
    • Also added a link to a large set of Conference photos.
  • 5/31/12
  • 5/29/12
    • Added two more Conference documents to the Information Advocacy page.
    • Removed the Memorial Day Sale announcement from the Home page.
  • 5/26/12
    • Moved the Information Advocacy promo box from the Home page to the Information Advocacy page, converting the
      box's information to a historical format.
  • 5/23/12
    • Posted a new version of the press release including new details about the I.A. conference.
  • 5/18/12
    • Posted an updated Flier #1 (pdf) about our upcoming Information AdvocacySM conference.
    • Posted a press release about the conference.
    • Recently we made a number of new fliers for half a dozen or so of our programs. Five or six of those fliers now appear on the site under the various applicable headings.
  • 5/17/12
    • Added a page of details about our upcoming Information AdvocacySM conference.
  • 5/16/12
  • 5/15/12
    • Added some colorful filler to the big empty space next to the lower sidebar on the Home page.
  • 5/10/12
    • Posted an announcement on the Home page about our Mother's Day Sale.
    • Updated the hours of operation on the Thrift Store page and on the Thrift Store FAQ page.
  • 5/8/12
    • On the Home page, added two fliers about our upcoming Information Advocacy conference. They have the same info, but we decided we like both styles, so you have a selection as to which you want to print and pass along, post, or distribute.
  • 4/26/12
    • The site re-design has been postponed until an unknown future date. Removed the re-design notice from Home page.
    • Where the re-design notice was, added a small announcement about NTR's upcoming citywide Information Advocacy conference.
  • 3/14/12
    • Special Note:The content of this website has now been copied into the new design we're waiting for. We're hoping and aiming for a successful launch of the new look at this same address NTRweb.org on March 22. Please "send us good vibes"!
  • 2/27/12
    • Posted a newer and more informative Thrift Store flier created for bulletin boards at CCP.
  • 2/7/12
  • 1/31/12
  • 1/17/12
    • Modified the Home page with the aim of getting its visual elements better spaced and aligned.
  • 1/16/12
  • 1/10/12
    • To the NTR in the News section, added a newly re-discovered blast from the past, the article, "Stan Pokras Communication Minister (2003)".
    • Added a new page, Bio: Stan Pokras, accessible via a "Bio" link next to Stan's name on the Staff list.
  • 1/9/12
    • Checked every link in Stan's Bookmarks. Four were found broken, of which two were deleted and two repaired.
  • 1/7/12
    • Updated our Staff list.
    • Added our Donor Choice number with United Way logo to the bottom of the sidebar that appears on every page.
    • Checked every link in Paul's Bookmarks and Steven's Bookmarks. One failed and was repaired. One was added.
  • 12/21/11
    • Made multiple modifications to the Financial Support section in order to correct several problems and generally to make it easier for you to give.
    • Beefed up the Volunteer section. There was very little information previously.
    • Updated our Staff list.
    • Removed the job posting, since we're no longer advertising the opening.
  • 12/9/11
  • 12/8/11
  • 12/7/11
  • 11/28/11
  • 11/23/11
    • To the NTR in the News section, added a video, "A Tour of Nonprofit Technology Resources (2006)".
    • Checked every link in Stan's Bookmarks. Twelve were found broken; eleven of those were then deleted, and one repaired.
    • Added credit to first page of Computer Thrift Store Photo Tour, a collaboration of Paul Sank and the late Chuck Voegtle.
  • 11/4/11
    • To the Kids Bookshelf page, added a prominent note of thanks to a couple of apparently anonymous donors.
  • 11/1/11
    • Made our mission statement more prominent. There's a link to it on the Home page now, too.
    • Made a small but important change to our Staff and Board list. (The board has a new president.)
    • Added a vital announcement to our Help-Tech page.
    • Added important information to the "How to Help These Kids" section of the Kids Bookshelf page.
  • 10/25/11
  • 10/19/11
  • 9/19/11
  • 9/7/11
    • Added a notation to "NTR's Blog" in the sidebar that appears on every page. The notation, "new article" with a date, indicates when the latest full article by NTR's reporting staff was posted.
  • 8/22/11
    • Removed references to our Blowout Sale, which ended Saturday.
    • Updated Staff list.
  • [If there were room, this history would still go back to the site's beginnings in early 2009.]
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