What's New at NTRweb.org

8/31/10

• Made several small changes involving Tech-Redi and STAP.

8/27/10

• Added a few testimonials to the What Orgs We Serve Say page. The last of the quotes from our older site.
• Inserted a new pull quote at the bottom of the Home page.
• Added a batch of testimonial quotes to the CCP Classes page.

8/20/10

• Added a word cloud to the top of the Community College of Philadelphia Classes page.
• Added a few testimonials to the What Orgs We Serve Say page.
• Inserted a new pull quote at the bottom of the Home page.

8/19/10

• Removed expired flier from the Community College of Philadelphia Classes page.

8/18/10

• With the addition today of the African-Americans and Politics sections, Stan's Bookmarks is now complete.

8/17/10

• Added Entrepreneurialism section to Stan's Bookmarks.

8/14/10

• Added Personal Economics and Microenterprise sections to Stan's Bookmarks.

8/11/10

• Added Libraries and Databases section to Stan's Bookmarks.

8/2/10

• Added our just-finished Annual Report 2009 to Annual Reports.
• Checked all of Stan's Bookmarks. Found and deleted six broken links.

7/30/10

• Removed the TGIF Sale box from the homepage. (Today is the last day of the sale.)

7/26/10

• Updated the sidebar that appears on every page. Most of the changes were made under "Interactivity".

7/21/10

• Updated Our Staff list.
• Updated Our Board list.

7/15/10

• Tested all Bookmarks other than Stan's. Found two broken links; deleted them.
• Replaced the pull quote on the homepage.

6/29/10

• Added a few paragraphs to What Orgs We Serve Say.
• Pulled a few quotes from What Orgs We Serve Say and inserted them into the homepage pull-quote rotation.
• Pulled a quote from the rotation and put it on the homepage.

6/28/10

• Removed expired Fish Fry announcement from home page.
• Added four sections to Stan's Bookmarks: Civic Networks, Social Work, Fragile Families, and Social Issues.

6/21/10

• Made a correction to the announcements on the home page: removed the Computer Cleaning announcement.

6/17/10

• Stan, our executive director was the starring guest for an hour of radio last night. The show was recorded and converted to an mp3 file that you can now hear. It's linked to our NTR In The News section.
• Added our Thrift Store's new Facebook page to the sidebar that appears on every page.
• Below the Thrift Store Facebook link, added a link to the recent set of photos from one of our Saturday computer cleaning events.

6/14/10

• Added to Stan's Bookmarks the following: Kids' Interests, Science.

6/7/10

• Updated the NTR Staff section of the About Us page.

6/4/10

• Added fliers, for the TGIF Sale and Spring Computer Cleaning events, to the Home page.

6/1/10

• Added another announcement to the Home page.

5/29/10

• Rearranged some of the elements (again) on the Home page. Deleted some.
• Moved and adapted the Paul's NTR Twitter Feed embedment from the Home page to Paul's Bookmarks.

5/28/10

• Added another announcement to the Home page.
• Rearranged some of the elements on the Home page.

5/27/10

• Added two announcements to the Home page. Spent extra effort to make the announcements bring about a pleasing color combination overall.
• Swapped out the pull quote on the home page.

5/12/10

• Removed expired Spring Balloon Sale announcement from homepage.

5/4-5/5/10

• Tested all Bookmarks pages, the biggest being Stan's Bookmarks. One link was found broken and then deleted.

4/29/10

• Added the PDF and HTML versions of our Thrift Store price list.
• Made more changes to the Senior Technology Awareness Program page.

4/28/10

• Made many changes to STAP page, primarily for style and flow. Added some content.
• Posted STAP Fish Fry flier and linked it to the front and STAP pages.

4/27/10

• Added a new post/page. It's about our Senior Technology Awareness Program, led by Wendy Harper.
• In the Annual Reports section, posted our Financial Statements FY 2009 (for the fiscal year ending July 31, 2009).

4/26/10

• Posted the flier about our Balloon Sale.
• Posted an updated Thrift Store flier with price list.

4/24/10

• Posted an announcement on our front page about the May 8 Spring Balloon Sale.
• Don't forget that our front page is now always changing, thanks to the insertion of Paul's Twitter feed.

4/9/10

• In order for the site to seem as up-to-date as it actually is, added a Paul's Twitter widget to the bottom of our main index. Disclaimer: Views expressed or implied are those of whomever wrote them and do not necessarily reflect the views of NTR, its board, or its executive director.

3/30/10

• Added the Spring '10 version of the flier beckoning people to our Community College of Philadelphia workshops.

3/29/10

• Posted our Form 990-EZ for FY 2009 at the top of Annual Reports.

3/25/10

• Updated the Computer Thrift Store flier, including revised store hours.

3/16/10

• Updated the Tech-Redi Good News page to show a new story. Made the link visible on the sidebar that appears on every page.

3/11/10

• Tested all links on our staff members' bookmarks pages. Repaired or deleted whatever was found broken, namely, several links on Stan's Bookmarks. (Broken links are most likely to be found there because the links are so numerous.)

3/10/10

• Added Lorenda Legions, Tech-Redi Program Assistant, to our Staff list.

3/5/10

• Added Susan Guggenheim, ICDL Instructor, and made a couple of other changes, to our Staff list.
• Quoted Inn Dwelling at St Vincent de Paul Church, adding to the collection that underlies the pull-quote box on our Home page.

2/23/10

• Added a new press item (a Temple U blog entry) to NTR In The News.
• Added our financial statements from FY 2009 to Annual Reports.

• Added a new quote to the pull-quote box on our Home page.

2/12/10

• Hid the Tech-Redi Good News link on the sidebar until Tech-Redi submits newer good news for posting. The Good News page itself can still be accessed from the Tech-Redi page.
• Added entries to the What Orgs We Serve Say page; they're quotes from Liberty Resources, Inn Dwelling at St Vincent de Paul Church, Youthbuild/Impact Services Corp, and Horizon House Education Plus.

2/11/10

• Added to Stan's Bookmarks: "Community Partnerships", "Community Responsibility", "Community Capacity Building", "Social and Human Capital", "Community Development", and "Community Computing Support Services".
• Tested every one of Stan's Bookmarks; two were found broken and then repaired.
• Changed the pull quote on the Home page.

2/9/10 Tested bookmarks -- Paul's and Steven's. None broken, all working, no repairs needed.

2/5/10

• Started a new page, What Orgs We Serve Say, with its first few entries "African American Female Entrepreneurs Alliance", "City of Philadelphia Older Adult Centers", "Washington Middle School Girl Power Program".
• Added a pull-quote box to the foot of the Home page, intending to collect a few dozen testimonial quotes, over time, and rotate them in the box; first up, a quote from Washington Middle School Girl Power.
• Made a little HTML color tester and tried systematically and extensively to get the colors and sizes of the pull-quote box into great balance.

1/29/10

• Made and added "Search Tools" and "Subject Guides" to Stan's Bookmarks.
• Added a link to my brand-new NTR-centered Twitter profile, @PaulNTR.
• Posted our 2006 FreeLTT report, in both PDF and DOC formats, to the Annual Reports section.

1/27/10 Added "Directories of Businesses and People" and "News" to Stan's Bookmarks.

1/25/10 Added "Museums" and "Software Sources" to Stan's Bookmarks.

1/22/10

• Posted our latest annual FreeLTT report, in both PDF and DOC formats, to the Annual Reports section. (FreeLTT is the part of our Learning Through Technology program where we give computers away for free, subsidized by donations from private foundations and corporations.)
• Redesigned the Annual Reports section to accomodate multiple formats.
• Made a new page, Tech-Redi Good News, which begins by congratulating a couple of Tech-Redi clients for recent successes.

1/20/10 Posted the latest version of our NTR Computer Thrift Store flier, now separate from the price list.

1/19/10 Updated the PDF version and the HTML version of our Thrift Store price list.

1/9/10 Added "Scholarly Material", "Intellectual Interests", "Anti-Intellectualism", "Web Tools", "Internet", "Vendor Tech Support", "Operating Systems", "Hardware New and Used", and "Mac Info" to Stan's Bookmarks.

1/7/10 Added "Education and Learning", "Cultural Studies at Guelph", "Educational Material", "Community Education", "Adult Literacy", "Technology Centers", "Computer Recycling", "Gardening", and "Computer and Internet How-To Materials" to Stan's Bookmarks.

1/6/10 Repaired a bug affecting multiple pages in Stan's Bookmarks. Tested all the links on Stan's Bookmarks Page 2.

1/4/10 Edited and added six photos to Hacktory Pics.

12/29/09 Put together and posted Hacktory Pics.

12/28/09

• Added "Digital Divide," "Computers at Home," and "Articles of Interest" to Stan's Bookmarks.
• Added Tech-Redi's Facebook address to the Tech-Redi page and to the sidebar that appears on every page. Added NTR's Facebook address to the sidebar.
• Added a Philadelphia Tribune (1/23/09) story link to NTR In The News.
• Made and posted an HTML version of the Computer Labs for Nonprofits flyer.

12/23/09 Added "Foundations" links to Stan's Bookmarks.

12/22/09 For visitors who can't or would rather not download PDF files, added an HTML version of the Thrift Store price list. Also, added a page of content supplied by the Webmaster myself: Paul's Bookmarks.

12/21/09 From photographs by staffer Chuck Voegtle, assembled a photo tour of our Computer Thrift Store, complete with captions intended to simulate what you would hear on a guided tour in person. Also, added five more sections to Stan's Bookmarks.

12/20/09

• Updated the list of Our Board members.
• Seeing how big the Stan's Bookmarks page would be if it weren't split up and systematized, decided to make it easier to browse by opening a Table of Contents to it.

12/19/09 Made and posted another page of links: Steven's Bookmarks were received from hardware manager Steven Feldman.

12/17/09 Began making the NTRweb version of our executive director's eclectic and magnificent collection of links: Stan's Bookmarks. It's a big collection, so expect this page to keep growing for a while.

12/16/09 Did a preliminary fleshing out of the Computer Thrift Store page.

12/13/09 Updated Computer Thrift Store hours and price list.

11/23/09 Added seven items to NTR In The News. Articles dated 2002-2005.

11/19/09 Posted recent changes to our staff. Did a Web search and found out that the keyword work of 10/26 didn't have the desired results; did some more coding to try to improve the situation.

11/11/09 Made changes to the "Contact" section of the Hacktory page.

11/5/09 Added "Mission Statement" to the Hacktory page.

11/4/09 Fixed a small problem on the home page. (In Internet Explorer, a little broken image was appearing above the main headline and an extra, smaller underline below it. Both are gone now.) Updated the Computer Thrift Store price list.

11/3/09 Added "Press" links to the Hacktory page. Shrank the type size and added bullets to all items in the sidebar that appears on every page -- in the hope that the sidebar will now be a little easier to use.

10/26/09 Added search keywords and a description of NTR to the home page and to the Computer Thrift Store page. You can't see them, because they don't get displayed, but hopefully they'll make it easier for search engine users to find this site.

10/20/09 Added a new Program page, Computer Labs for Nonprofits.

10/16/09 Deleted the empty Program page about technology consulting.

10/15/09 Added contact info to the Support page. Gutted and re-wrote the Bring A Computer Ask A Question page.

10/12/09 Added our general email address to the gray box on the Home page.

10/9/09 Made a tiny change to the Home page.

10/7/09 In the sidebar that appears on every page and on the Support page, replaced the current eBay link with the correct link to take you to our eBay store's homepage.

10/5/09 To the Directions section, added directions for the SEPTA "43" bus. Added a number of direct links to transit schedules and stations.

10/2/09 On the home page, replaced the photo and moved the "donations accepted" message from below to above the photo. Made other, smaller changes to that page.

10/1/09 Added a direct "Directions" link to the sidebar that appears on every page. To the Directions section, added a few paragraphs for bus riders. Added a full collection of student testimonials to the bottom of the CCP Classes page.

9/29/09 Updated the hours of operation on our Computer Thrift Store page. Added an "Interactivity" section to the sidebar that appears on every page. It includes a contact-us link and a link to our new blog.

9/28/09 Added blog link to the Hacktory page. Updated the specifications of the computers that attendees of our Community College of Philadelphia classes receive.

9/22/09 Updated our staff listing.

9/4/09 Added a new radio interview (MP3) to NTR in the News.

8/11/09 Posted current hours of operation on the Thrift Store page.

8/4/09 Posted an updated price list to the Thrift Store page.

7/16/09 Beefed up this (What's New) page to include notes-with-links of modifications made before 7/3/09.

7/3/09:  To NTR In The News, added an interview excerpted from the July 3, 2009 episode of Conversations with Shirley Carter, a show on WURD 900 AM. Ms Carter came to NTR and interviewed executive director Stan Pokras.

6/17/09:  Added an explicit "Home" link to the header that appears on every page. Improved the look of the top information of the Contact page. Added a general-contact email address to that page.

6/13/09:  Added a "computer donations" paragraph to site's front page.

6/10/09:  Added the latest price list to the Thrift Store page.

5/29/09:  Added a section for our computer repair service.

5/28/09:  Added the MP3 version of our Life-Net Radio episode about Tech-Redi. Hear it at the Tech-Redi page.

5/27/09:  Revised the "Ways to Give" section of the Support NTR page. Also on that page, revised our "wish list" to consist of one item: laptop donations.

5/26/09:  Added a Temple News article to the NTR in the News section of the About page. Also on that page: Improved the look of the top paragraph and included the latest revision of our mission statement.

5/21/09:  Added a photo to the front page. Added a page for our Community College of Philadelphia classes. Corrected the problem by which clicking on the left-top logo of the site header led to a Not Found page.

5/15/09:  Revised the footer that appears on every page. Repaired the site's Paypal links.

5/14/09:  Added links to our Annual Reports and other financial disclosures. Overhauled the left-column sidebar (of every page) so that every link in that bar now leads you to substantive content.

5/13/09:  Removed a number of dead links in the NTR in the News section. Upgraded the citations to a more serious look. Added the WPVI video of 3/5/09. Added the names and affiliations of our Board of Directors.

5/11/09:  Revised the Tech-Redi program description.

5/4/09:  Added a description of our BACAAQ program. Added some important information to the Support NTR page.

4/28/09:  Added a staff listing. Added a description of the Tech-Redi program.

4/27/09:  Added a description of The Hacktory.

4/22/09:  NTR Chief Clerk Paul Sank, having just stepped forward and offered to take this barely created website and make something of it, looked the site over to see what needed doing -- a lot. He did a little proofreading right away. Made immediate improvements to the Thrift Store page and the Learning Through Technology page.