2014 Year-End Report
www.rotation.org
December 2014
January 2015 Board of Director's Meeting
In addition to regular online discussion and Skype meetings, our volunteer Board meets face-to-face once a year to discuss content creation, consider technical improvements, review membership and approve a budget, elect officers, and look at long-range improvements and goals. Questions? Suggestions? Email them to Luanne Payne, our president.
2014 Site Stats
Thank you Google Grants for Helping People Find Our Site!
• Yearly Total Visitors who found us by clicking a Google Adword: 75,962
• Google Grant value of adword links: $115,199
Google donates search engine 'ad links' to us through their non-profit grant program, then estimates the annual value of the links for tax purposes.
2014 Site Contributors
In addition to our 1000+ Supporting Members, we'd like to recognize the following "over and above" financial contributions made to the Rotation.org Fund in 2014:
First Church of Christ, Longmeadow MA
First Presbyterian Church, Ft. Worth TX
First Presbyterian, Jackson TN
First United Methodist, DeFuniak Springs FL
St. Alban's Episcopal, Cape Elizabeth ME
Second Baptist, Edmeston NY
Trinity Lutheran, Moorhead MN
Corinne Avery, Syracuse NY
Kari Matthews, Tulsa OK
Cynthia Merten, Birmingham MI
Cathy Walz, Forest Park,IL
Over and Above Contributions to Rotation.org can be made online through Network For Good's website. These donations often come from church curriculum budgets who appreciate how much we save them each year!
Non-Financial Ways to Help Rotation.org
• Email a photo of your creative workshop or lesson project.
• Post a great lesson idea
• Volunteer to help improve lessons
• Stop by the Member Help Forum and answer someone's question!
• Join the Rotation Lesson "Flash Mob"
2014 Forum Feature & Content Improvements
Our volunteers and part-time editors never sleep! In 2014, we completed a two year project to overhaul our lesson forum structure and prune & improve lesson content. This work continues in 2015 and includes some previously posted Writing Team lesson sets.
In 2014 we were also able to hire a "Lesson Format Editor" to improve the layout & readability of the Advent Forum, and start working in the Holy Week lesson forums.
- Adding summaries, headlines and section dividers
- Putting key concepts, media, and scripture references at the top of lessons.
- Applying "Open Dig Reflect" structure where helpful.
- Checking links and confirming availability of suggested resources.
- Removing old formatting code.
This necessary and technical formatting work was paid for by Supporting Member contributions and overseen by board volunteer Carol Hulbert and Neil MacQueen. Carol has also been at work improving the layout and content of various Writing Team lesson sets.
Also in 2014, a "Holes" Survey identified a number of lesson forums that need additional content. The Board has begun filling those needs, including the implementation of the Lesson Flash Mob concept to fill holes.
Looking ahead: the Board is looking for creative Rotation-writers-for-hire interested in adding new lessons in a number of forums. In addition to all teaching mediums, we are especially looking for writers experienced with science/object lessons and cooking projects.
Working on the Beatitudes
Our Third "Lesson Flash Mob" is looking for creative lesson ideas for teachingThe Beatitudes.
⇒ SIGN UP NOW TO JOIN THE FLASH MOB and post your ideas.
"Flash Mob" is our fun term for "a bunch of us who descend upon on story and post ideas." We're working our way through some lesson forums that need more content.
Automatic Membership Renewal Reminder:
Unless you manually change it, your annual $30 Supporting Membership RENEWS ANNUALLY. To switch to manual renewal, go here.
Annual renewal notification comes via email from Social Strata's "FEEPOD" service, -which is our site provider's transaction service. We have changed our terms of service regarding renewal refunds.
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