Document Storage
The BBC Board site is a document warehouse designed to address the following issues:
- The amount of paperwork is too big for a single binder. At the moment there are 181 files on this website.
- Different people have different documents.
- No backup copies. Now everything is backed up on a server in a professional data center.
- New board members don't have any records. Now, everyone is on the same footing.
Additional Functionality
Beyond just a storage place the site provides the following capabilities:
- Documents are organized in logical collections.
- Links and cross-linking provide speed and convenience for you to find the information for which you are looking.
- Links some policies & procedures back to the authorizing minutes including some that are the result of several motions at different times.
- For Special Events it is nice to be able to look at documents and information from previous years for planning purposes.
- There is a seperate "style sheet" (programer talk) for printing. Will not be formated as you see on your monitor but
will make a good printout. Try some print previews to see how it works.
- The Minutes are in a PDF format with optical character recognition. This allows you to do a search on words and phrases.
Limitations
There is a danger in seeing all this information as comprehensive, thus limiting our thinking.
- It is mostly about past actions- not the future.
- It is inward looking- we need to also be outward looking.