19 Oct 2012. Well, finally, the long road led to this, a blog site, where we can post what we do in our Bohol Local Development Foundation or BLDF, for short. Most of the materials were taken from files that used to be with the the website www.poverty.cafe.org which we were not able to maintain over the years.
The management staff conveniently forgot the expiration date for the website and so it was gone after around six years in existence. In three of those years, we could not update it; we just kept renewing the fee for the use of the domain. It took us quite a while to decide to have this blog inside.
The problem was how to retrieve the materials from the old website. The former Webmaster, Arnold Seloterio who is based in Singapore, was quite a big help. He remembered he was keeping digital files of articles in the old poverty cafe in his home and requested his brother, Topher, to look for them. In less than a week, Topher was able to send those digital files.
It was Natnat Hinay, the PDMS IT Specialist, who assisted us with technical details about setting up the blog and retrieving articles from the files that Topher Seloterio sent us.
Now it's here, the blog. Hope we can maintain it for a cheaper way to reach out to our trustees, volunteers and project-based staff.
It's probably one way to keep the faith, as Doracie Nantes says, to keep up with what Thelma Cruz refers to as "walang kamatayang development work."
The only downside is that this is another task that an old man will do. But, I guess, the new technologies will make it easier for an old guy like me to reach out.
Another record of our passage to keep. Let's move on.
The management staff conveniently forgot the expiration date for the website and so it was gone after around six years in existence. In three of those years, we could not update it; we just kept renewing the fee for the use of the domain. It took us quite a while to decide to have this blog inside.
The problem was how to retrieve the materials from the old website. The former Webmaster, Arnold Seloterio who is based in Singapore, was quite a big help. He remembered he was keeping digital files of articles in the old poverty cafe in his home and requested his brother, Topher, to look for them. In less than a week, Topher was able to send those digital files.
It was Natnat Hinay, the PDMS IT Specialist, who assisted us with technical details about setting up the blog and retrieving articles from the files that Topher Seloterio sent us.
Now it's here, the blog. Hope we can maintain it for a cheaper way to reach out to our trustees, volunteers and project-based staff.
It's probably one way to keep the faith, as Doracie Nantes says, to keep up with what Thelma Cruz refers to as "walang kamatayang development work."
The only downside is that this is another task that an old man will do. But, I guess, the new technologies will make it easier for an old guy like me to reach out.
Another record of our passage to keep. Let's move on.
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