Steve Wilson posted on October 05, 2009 13:57
We've Added To Our Site
Today we've opened up our site to include a new home page (Our blog was our home page), a searchable calendar, and a searchable database of online documents. Please take a look, send us any comments you have, and be sure to share our URL with other operators, TA providers, and those who are invoved with small water supplies in some way.
Using Our Site
Please give the calendar and document search a try. What you will find is that we have included information from every type of organization imaginable (almost) and in each case, there are links back to the original information, as well as the organization hosting the document or event. Check out the video tutorial, for a quick tour.
Working For Operators
Lately, have you looked on the web for documents on a particular topic or from a specific state, trying to find just one item or fact that you need? The explosion of the internet is making that harder and harder to do because so many websites have related information that show up in searches.
Our goal is to help small water supply operators. What's the best thing for them? We know they have little time to use the internet, we know they struggle to stay ahead of their responsibilities, so the best thing for them is to have access to information in an easy to find, and easy to understand form. That's what we are trying to provide. We are putting everything we can find in one place so the operator doesn't have to spend the time trying to look through several web pages to find what they need. We are trying to do that for them. We've done the legwork for them.
Playing No Favorites
If an organization has free resources or does state approved training that benefits small water supply operators, we plan to put it on our website. SmallWaterSupply.org doesn't host documents and doesn't do training, we give operators quick and easy access to everyone else's documents and training, sending them directly to the source. We are helping operators get to the resources these organizations have.
Missing Links
Some of the links we plan to include on the home page are still under construction. We decided to include them, though not currently linkable, just to let you know what we are planning for the short term. We are creating more video tutorials to help explain the document and event search. Believe it or not, there are some tips that will help you streamline the way you use these features.
The Quick Links give you an idea of the things we are working on too. We plan to have a page listing the online training available around the country, and we are developing a contact list for TA providers that work with tribal water systems. Our email list is informal at the moment, but eventually, anyone will be able to sign up via that link. So stay tuned. We felt that our site already has benefit for operators, so we decided to go ahead and launch what we have. But, we are committed to adding more features, and working with the industry to continue to improve what resources we can offer.
Thanks for visiting our site.