The P2Rx web group met on a conference call, April 7, 2005.  Andy Bray (NEWMOA), Terry Huss (WRRC), Tyler Rubach (GLRPPR), Thomas Vinson-Peng (Zerowaste), Prabin Kanel, Neena Naidu (P2RIC), Laura Estes (Peaks), Peter Johnsen (WRPPN), Crispin Stutzman (PPRC), Scott Butner (Battelle), and Jean Waters (P2Rx) were present on the call.

Centers are reminded to complete their program directory updates, "e-mail this link" button, and to add the "TM" symbol to P2Rx and Topic Hubs, the first time they're used on a page, and capitalize "Topic Hubs" thereafter.

Center	Monthly link checks complete?	Updated topic hubs from central registry?
NEWMOA	No	Don’t know
WRRC	Don’t know	Don’t know
GLRPPR	Yes	Yes
Zerowaste	No	Yes
P2RIC	Yes	Yes
Peaks to Prairies	Half finished	Thinks so
WRPPN	No	Yes
PPRC	yes	Yes

Bugzilla report:  a bug has been reported that some Topic Hub links revert back to University of Texas at El Paso, the old Region 6 P2Rx center.  Terry has been assigned that bug and he will get together with Thomas to fix it. 

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When trying to track web usage on our sites, Andy said he can select content groups which allow you to select which files or directories to lump together.  Andy has small biz version of Webtrends. Terry has already looked at his.  Tyler has looked at GLRPPR. The committee will provide general rules to the group plus list specific examples of problems from Center’s sites.

Andy and Crispin will work on making the link to the bibliography more prominent.  Ellen Lincoln (P2Rx office) can provide a graphic if needed.

Andy and Neena will present their link-checking procedure.  We can all see how it differs from what we do and each try to improve our work.

Usability testing – we need to try and get representative users.  Crispin may be able to provide some people to do usability testing.  Scott doesn’t have any firm takers yet. 

Maybe we could program a news box that is subject-specific.  Subjects could be funding, tribal, mercury, and everything else.  Java script is used to put the box on the page dynamically.  Usually the java script is stored on the server so it’s just a link.  You’d have to have a different java script for each topic or could encode the script in the page and have a user-specific parameter.  An example is headwaters news from University of Montana. 

There was discussion of PPRC’s measurement aggregation tool. Have you done anything with it? Andy - no, Terry – no, Tyler – no, Thomas – yes, Prabin – yes, Laura – no, Pete – no.

Thomas commented that the current database structure is flat file, better to have a look-up table because next year they’ll want something different.  If we get NEIEN funding, we’ll obviously be able to do more than if no additional funding is received.

Program directory – expertise section includes some duplicates.  Crispin, Andy and Laura have done some work on this in the past, they could make some suggestions.  At one web call we talked about adding the word, “other” but Prabin prefers having a controlled vocabulary.  They will come up with a proposal and see how the group reacts.