Public Service Alliance of Canada BC

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY - Shareholder Association for Research and Education - Director Of Law and Policy

Closing Date: June 30, 2006, Full time permanent position

SHARE
The Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE) is a national non-profit organization working with institutional investors to promote responsible investment practices. Share engages in research, educational activities, and advocacy and is governed by a board of senior Canadian labour leaders. For more information visit: www.share.ca.

POSITION
SHARE seeks a Director of Law and Policy to lead its programme on law reform, research and policy advocacy related to responsible investment and governance. The Director of Law and Policy reports to the Executive Director. The position is located in Vancouver, BC. Some travel is required.

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As you can see we’ve made some changes to the website!

We’ve updated the engine that runs the site and given psacbc.com a cleaner, more modern look. Other than the look of things, the biggest change you’ll notice is the use of categories (look on the right for Filed Under…) and a vastly improved archive section. Categories allow us to post, or file, articles in multiple virtual locations. There was a lot of information and content on the old website, but at times it was buried several layers deep in the site structure - we hope this new system will make things easier to find.

We’ve also added new features that make it more convenient to access the content of the website: there is an RSS feed (what is RSS?) and you can now subscribe and receive some or all of our updates via email.

Accessibility has also been improved: the new layout reduces our reliance on pdf documents, which some members found hard to access. The new website also validates as XHTML 1.0, which means a better experience for members using alternate web browsers. Have a look at “File > Print Preview” and you’ll see printing pages or articles produces better results, as well.

Last but not least, psacbc.com is easier for the staff to use. At the back-end the posting interface is simpler and produces better html, and the category system means we can concentrate on the content itself and not how it looks or where it should fit into the structure. Wordpress, the engine that runs the site, is extremely flexible - with it we can grow to meet future needs and provide more and better features.

We welcome your feedback … send us an email, or comment on this article and let us know what you think.

Click around and see whats new!

Give us your thoughts on the website …

Are there any other features/topics/sections you’d like to see?
Are you generally able to find the information you are looking for easily?
What do you like/dislike about psacbc.com?
Be as specific or general as you like … send an email to Patrick Bragg, in the Vancouver RO, or leave a comment for this post.

Registering and logging in enables the staff and members to upload content and maintain the website. You do not have to register if you don’t want to.

In the future, there may be sections that require registration (message boards, user submission systems, etc.) but at this point you are not missing out on anything by browsing the site without logging in.

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Information collected on this site will be used to communicate with you regarding Education courses you have signed up for, and distribute the monthly eMailout. We will not sell or trade your email address, or make it available to 3rd parties under any circumstances. Quite frankly we do not even know how to go about doing those things.

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Allow registration - add link somewhere sorted

Implement subscribe to categories via email
http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/12/29/subscribe2-22/ sorted explain the options

Implement the photo gallery
http://www.randombyte.net/blog/projects/falbum/ sorted, used lazyestgallery.

Get the event calendar working - update is due out week of Jan 16th - hack appears to work

?? Main Page (no parent) - NOT show up in pages tab

Page redirect - http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/page-links-to/ ?? sorted

Adhesive doesn’t appear to work - http://redalt.com/wiki/Adhesive sorted

Forms - need EZstatic - http://redalt.com/wiki/EzStatic3 sorted HEalth & Safety conference
Print page - http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/wp-print sorted, and quite nicely I think.

Category visibility plugin is AFU - find one that removes posts from the front page sorted
Theme switcher - make the text larger.

Remove “latest” from all but home page sorted
remove monthly archive from sidebar entirely. sorted
Fix the upper padding in the category list, children tucked in too close to parents below

Add links within site to Contact us bios.

Tools for members.