Changing with the Times

For years I maintained a website for Spiritual Singles of the DC area. I started working for them as an independent contractor back in 1998. At the time I was still single and attended some of their events. My work for them took a few hours a week back then and included producing a monthly calendar of events which was mailed out. (Yes, I had another job to pay my bills.) I created a basic website for them and eventually the organization decided to save postage and distribute the calendar via email and the web, so every month I revised the calendar page online.

Recently the organization needed to save even more money and one way was to eliminate my monthly re-posting of the calendar in HTML and instead find a way for the organization's leader to post the calendar online himself. A member suggested the Meet-up website as a vehicle for this and it seems to be working out well.

I'm glad to see that Spiritual Singles has found ways to stay afloat in these financially-challenging times. Yes, I'm "out of a job" but it was a very minor job for I had gotten pretty adept at posting their page and could do it in just an hour a month.

In just two weeks, a hundred people signed up for their new site: Spiritual Singles of the DC Area. Congratulations to Jeff and the other volunteers on utilizing the web to stretch their resources. They are good people and I wish them well.