The SAR World Website

[Robert Bradley]

As you may have noticed, whilst this forum is up and running, the actual public website at the domain http://www.sarworld.org is not.

The idea of the SAR World website is that it is / should become one all encompassing "SAR World" community drawing in all the disciplines, from around the world. Ambitious stuff, eh? Obviously we are starting small, and as such a lot will be UK based and a lot based around the search we know. Hopefully, that will not last too long and we can start drawing in others to our "community".

The question is what sort of website should we have? What should be on it?

Some ideas so far include;

World-wide SAR directory
SAR Training Diary
SAR Volunteers Recruitment Page(s)
SAR Presentations / Papers / Articles

But if I, and the others (who are actually doing far more work than me on the website!) come up with all the ideas; it's not really a community.

So here's your chance. What would you like the SAR World website to be?

(And, possibly more importantly, what are you willing to do to help?)

[Sam]

How about development in new kit and tools, or sources for them?

I guess you wouldn't want to show allegiance to one company or other, but a list of those recommended by us (the forum members) with examples could work?

Sam

[n.james1]

Many SAR charities have been able to individually obtain discount for equipment from local companies. As one Larger group we can, maybe be able to approach larger internatonal companies for discount on equipment, supplies etc.

[Daryl]

How about top tips and handy hints, especially with regard to maintenance of kit, and maybe a Q and A Page?

[Robert Bradley]

Do we need different sections on the website?

We already have lowland search, mountain rescue and lifeboat team members on here. Do we need different parts of the website to reflect each activity? Likewise do we need different sections on the forum for each?

[kpmaher]

I dont know how had or easy it wold be. But what about a RSS feed to the forum. I have just started to use the feeds on Robs website and it is a great feature to keep you informed on all new posts.

[admin]

Hi KP,

We should have the RSS feed up and running in the next couple of days

Admin

[admin]

I dont know how had or easy it wold be. But what about a RSS feed to the forum. I have just started to use the feeds on Robs website and it is a great feature to keep you informed on all new posts.

Hi there,

RSS feeds are now enabled. It's a bit rough and ready but let us know what you think.

Admin

[kpmaher]

Hi KP,

We should have the RSS feed up and running in the next couple of days

Admin

This was the fastest couple of days I have ever heard of. Works brillantly!

Many thanks

[admin]

You can thank the snow, I had a whole load of meetings cancelled.

Admin

[admin]

Do we need different sections on the website?

We already have lowland search, mountain rescue and lifeboat team members on here. Do we need different parts of the website to reflect each activity? Likewise do we need different sections on the forum for each?

That is indeed the question, what do our members want?

[admin]

How about development in new kit and tools, or sources for them?

I guess you wouldn't want to show allegiance to one company or other, but a list of those recommended by us (the forum members) with examples could work?

Sam

That would be good, once the post count starts to ramp up we can create this.

[kpmaher]

Do we need different sections on the website?

We already have lowland search, mountain rescue and lifeboat team members on here. Do we need different parts of the website to reflect each activity? Likewise do we need different sections on the forum for each?

That is indeed the question, what do our members want?

If we were to have seperate areas . it is very probable each member will stick to there own area and not take notice of what is going on in others. But if it was to have say types of SAR (water, heights...) you can then look at these if you were interested in a specility rather than your teams activity.