Heather Riemer and Kathy Valloch for State Representative
Dynamic content management systems allow the owners of a website to post information on the site by entering plain text into password-protected web forms. They reduce or eliminate the need to know HTML in order to update the websites, and can also do a certain amount of automatic upkeep (i.e., no longer displaying calendar items after the date has passed).
Grassroots Global Justice
The content on this site is drawn almost completely from a database, which allows multiple users to post, edit and comment on four types of items: news items (for basic announcements), calendar items, documents (which allows uploading of files) and web resources (i.e., links to external sites). There is also a system by which any user can create labels to add to items, and the site can be searched by label. The site is also fully bi-lingual (English and Spanish), with every website directions (i.e., menus, "login" messages, etc.) in both languages and with the ability to switch from one language to the other on any page without having to go back to an "English Home" or "Spanish Home" page first (though it is up to each user to provide bilingual content, so not all items are in both languages).
UE Vermont
While most of this site consists of static html pages, there are three areas
which are dynamically generated: the calendar, news, and bargaining. The news function allows news items
and newsletters to be posted to any of three pages (the pages for Local 203
Local 221,
Local 267, and the general
news page).
The calendar posts notices of all items on a
calendar page,
and each item may also be posted on various other pages (the front page, local pages).
Finally, there is a specialized function for posting
bargaining updates.
UE Northeast Region
The news, calendar and documents sections are all dynamically generated.
Friends of Recovery - Vermont
Most of the content on this site is dynamically generated. FOR-VT staff can post upcoming events and "alerts and
updates" to the front page, and can create "regional users" who can post information to the
pages for their various regions (but do not have access to the overall site).
Vermont Workers' Center
This site allows VWC staff and leaders to post action alerts, calendar items, news
archives and to create online petitions.
High Road Vermont
The content on this site is entirely dynamically generated.
United Academics UVM Pay Database
Created an online, searchable database of the (publicly-available) information about salaries at UVM.
United Academics
Programmed an online survey which UA used to consult their members about bargaining
priorities (fall of 2004). Information from completed surveys was automatically stored
in a database; UA leaders were able to view various statistical summaries of the information,
as well as individual survey responses, in a password-protected online environment,
and when survey period was completed, all information was downloaded into an Excel-compatible
format.
Friends of Recovery - Vermont
Programmed two online data collection systems; one to survey individual participants in
recovery centers and one for recovery centers to submit monthly reports to the central network.
In each case, summaries of the information can be viewed online, sorted by center, quarter
or year, and information can be downloaded into an Excel-compatible format.