Public Service Alliance of Canada BC

PSAC-BC is proud to announce that Guinevere Sanderson is the winner of the Public Services Are Cool giveaway.

Guinevere is a PSAC member who works for Canadian Heritage and is a member of the Green Team there. She was excited to win the zero-emission scooter-style electric bike and plans to use it to commute to work.

Congratulations Guinevere & thanks to everyone who signed our petition, emailed their MP and entered the contest!

update: Gwen just emailed us … Thank you so much for coming down this morning to deliver the certificate. I was so excited that I went to the shop on my lunch and picked it up! I rode it back to work and was able to show it off to the office. I think it’s really really cool and I’m so happy to have won. Thanks again!

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.