Help Wanted: Simple web updates

[yesthattom]

An organization working on domestic partnership/same sex marriage/glbt rights in New Jersey needs a volunteer that can snag annoucements (which will be emailed to you) and add them to a web site. The web site exists and has a good framework in place, you just need to add the new messages. Minimal HTML experience needed. Will train.

Comments

[dmk.livejournal.com]

I'm interested, and more than capable. Have they considered installing something like Movable Type so they can post their own updates? I'm a friend of dglenn; drop me a line through LJ with the organization's contact info. Thanks!

feh

[khatru.livejournal.com]

For once I'm reading here, and I miss this by hours. Tom, if dmk doesn't work out, ping me? I'm certainly trainable...

[(Anonymous)]

Can the website be updated remotely? i.e. does the volunteer need to be local?

[ex-mommabear187.livejournal.com]

my wife could volunteer for something like that. email me. trish@bsdunix.net and I'll have her email you :)

I don't understand

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Are the updates being collected by this organization, or some script or national group? If they're being collected manually and localy, why do they need a separate volunteer to update the web page?

Not that more volunteers is a bad thing, and this might draw someone in, so maybe I should shut up, but bad process irks me.

Re: I don't understand

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

If I could automate it I would have already.

Maybe I'm not the only one who diesn't understand

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

That's what my question was predicated on. The posting can't be automated. The question is: Is the sending of the information to the volunteer automated? In other words, is it any more work to hand this off to a new volunteer than it is for the e-mail-sender to post the web updates?