[SmartBlondeGPhB]

Most decisions on our page were made by myself and our webmaster. We got comments from people (Exec Board, my mom, etc) before we officially posted it, but most people only said "looks great" so that didn't get us very far. Our VP of Programming probably said it best a few months ago when she said "I know we're in good hands with Gigi (our webmaster). But Gamma Phi Int'l has guidelines (and award structure as well) and our goal was to get the award so we just followed those. Plus we have to follow the guidelines to have our site linked to IHs. And since we use this as a recruitment tool, we needed it linked to their site.

Gamma Phi has a rule that no names/photos can be on the sites without approval of the women. We tried to get written approval and it was confusing, a pain, and didn't get us much. So now we just say on our annual dues form, "if you don't want your information/picture posted check here". We have yet to get any complaints. The only info we put are the names of our charter members and the names/info of our officers and they choose what info they want published.

I know that a number of collegiate chapters list the names of all members by class.

And how to deal with alumnae deciding..........I'm sorry I don't know an appropiate answer to that one. If it was me, I'd probably tell them right where to go. BUT, that's not appropriate. I usually take the "if you don't like it, then help out with it" approach.

Make the site what you want. You may be limited by space anyway. If the alumnae are willing to help you update it, then you might have something.

Ok, that's probably long enough for all of you........