Help With Your Website

Each semester Gretchen Whitney, a professor at UT, uses her graduate class to work on web pages for nonprofit organizations. The class benefits, and nonprofit organizations get their websites off the ground.

This is a copy of the email that Dr. Whitney has sent:

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From: Gretchen Whitney <gwhitney@utk.edu>
Subject: Agencies need a website?

Each semester, graduate students in my Information Network Applications course in the School of Information Sciences at UTK "adopt" a nonprofit agency and create a website for them. It's been an enormously successful part of the overall KORRnet effort. I estimate that these projects have contributed 20-25% of KORRnet's content at this point.  I'm looking for some more agencies that wish this kind of assistance this Fall semester 1999, and Spring semester 2000.

For an agency to participate, they are required to:

• have a nonprofit status
• be located within the KORRnet service area
• have a willingness and interest to have a presence on the Web
• be committed to working with the student and providing the needed information for the site, time for consultations, time for review of work, etc.
• appoint a person to learn basic HTML skills so that the page can be updated.

The agency does not have to have a computer: Agencies can use the KORRnet lab at Knoxville Center for consultations with the student, updating the page, and so forth.

I cannot promise "adoption" to any agency. The students choose the agencies they want to work with from a "projects page."  I can only promise consideration.  But agencies will be put on the "projects page" for the next semester and the next, until they are chosen.

Students have to make their agency decision this semester by September 30, 1999. Next semester's deadline is February 15, 2000.  Pages must be completed and training of the agency for updating the pages must be completed about the middle of December.

This service is offered at no charge to the agency.  We only ask of their time and commitment to making a great agency website!

If you can nominate your agency or another agency, please send

• the name of the agency, 
• the name and phone / email address of the contact person, and 
• a brief description of the activities / purpose of the agency 

to gwhitney@utk.edu.

Note: If you do not yet have an email address, please do one of the following:

• get an account with KORRnet (click here for information)
• fill out this form (click here to fill out a form)

Please feel free to forward this message to other relevant discussion groups.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

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Gretchen Whitney, Ph.D.

School of Information Sciences
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
37996 USA

phone	(423) 974-7919
fax	(423) 974-4967
email	gwhitney@utk.edu
web	http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/
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