CBF quietly — very quietly — launched a new Web site on Nov. 9, 2007. We purposely didn’t launch it with much fanfare because we have come to believe that the Web site is not something we create and walk away from. If our experience during the past three years with our current site has taught us anything it’s that this is a garden that must be tended daily.
So rather than make you believe that we had a finished product, we wanted to make needed changes, continue our work, solicit feedback and input and innovate as we moved forward.
What we’d like to know two months into this is simply, do you like the new site better?
Can you find what you are looking for more easily?
What suggestions would you make to help us improve the site?
What’s missing that you always need or what do you always need that you can’t seem to remember how to find?
What do you like about the new site?
What don’t you like?
See, there’s lots we’d like to know. Please feel free to be as brutally honest as you are comfortable doing in a public forum. We hope you know that our intent is to better serve the Fellowship movement and be a better face to the public.
Thanks for taking time to respond!
While I appreciate and anticipate using the “reply” opportunity afforded, I haven’t noticed a difference between the Home and Welcome to CBF’s Online Community tabs. So that could be confusing as visitors try to gain understanding of the structure. Additionally it is not easy to ascertain what has changed since last visit. The less frequent one visits, the more important it becomes. Stated differently, the more redundant reading one does to get updated, the less apt they are to continue getting the updates. At a minimum adding date of posts in Recent Posts and Recent Fellowship News would help. The goal should be to provide readers new information without unintentionally clicking to postings they have previously read
It is possible readers will evolve “favorite” authors/posters over time. So having a way of looking at posts by selectable author name could be useful.
Oooops, I think I miss-read the focus of the originating post as addressing this site whereas in fact it was likely addressing:
http://www.thefellowship.info/home
After a quick tour around the above, I don’t recall encountering a link or pointer to this site.
I should mention clicking on the “Tell Us What You Think” link does bring you here.
I notice the last monthly article by Daniel Vestal is dated August?
Seems like a lot more available information for us all; love the photos of missionaries! I had a very hard time finding information on Chaplaincy Services; first page may benefit from a more detailed contents list of different departments within CBF.