SALMON VOLUNTEERS! is up & running

(See latest update posted Sunday, May 24 at end of this post.)

Whew. It took a week but we finally got the SALMON VOLUNTEERS! web project up and running. We made single webpages for all of our Salmon area RSVP partners: The Sacajawea Center, Steele Memorial Medical Clinic, Hospice of Salmon Valley, Discovery Care Centre, Pioneer Primary School, Salmon Public Library, Rags & Wags Thrift Store, EICAP and the Salmon-Challis National Forest. We are using the existing webpages for the Salmon Valley and South Lemhi Senior Citizens Centers.

Our goal was to get this project up and running BEFORE Memorial Day weekend. We really came down to the wire as it's 3 pm and time to leave the office for the holiday.

We've noticed on our website statistical monitoring software that action has already picked up to the SALMON VOLUNTEERS! webpages. We will put some stats here on the blog at the end of the month.

We had some real nice comments about this project already so we are encouraged to think in terms of spreading the idea to other areas. We've already set up a page called CUSTER VOLUNTEERS! We eventually hope to create similar projects for the other counties: Butte, Clark, Fremont, Teton, Madison, Jefferson and Bonneville.

We will be continually adding stuff to the SALMON VOLUNTEERS! website. We don't intend for a nano-second to let it get stale and languish. We really have high hopes for this project. The classified ad began running May 21 and this it's a perfect way to generate interest using Old School printed newspaper to bring interest to New School cyberspace. Time will tell and we shall see. Have a great Memorial Day weekend.

OK, here's the latest updates--they're GOOD! For starters, we've clawed our way back to the top of the "Google Game." That's right, the SALMON VOLUNTEERS! project now comes in #2 when using the search string: salmon idaho volunteer. That's impressive! Secondly, we checked our website statistics this morning and the SALMON VOLUNTEERS! project is really getting some traffic. In just a few short days it has muscled its way into three of the top four page rankings on the website. Likewise, it's accounting for a whopping 33% of total May page views already. That's VERY impressive! Stay tuned. (9:22 am, May 24)