AAHA Database Coordinator's Report- September 2002
Dave Aiello writes, "Tony Mariconda asked me to give a status report regarding the Atlantic District Officiating Program Database and the work I've done to support it this summer."
"In the past month, Shane Hanlon and I have collaborated to make some major changes to the database. These have resulted in some immediate, measurable successes in terms of:"
- providing information to returning and prospective officials, and
- providing seminar registration services
Read on for more details....
Dave Aiello continued:
- On-line Registration 2.0
- Tony Mariconda, Scott Perdue, Shane Hanlon, and I met in April.
- Needed the ability to register all officials on-line for local officiating seminars.
- Previously, we had only provided on-line registration to returning officials and it was optional for returning officials to use the on-line method.
- Implementation goal was July 1.
- Actual deployment was July 3.
- As of 08/05, 1142 officials are registered for 2002-2003 seminars.
- Administrative Database 2.0
- Feature requests implemented
- Passwords no longer expire.
- Passwords can be issued quickly and easily to anyone, regardless of their membership in the officiating program.
- Contact information for new officials captured from on-line registration.
- "Returning official" database information displayed on a need-to-know basis.
- No Social Security Numbers
- Use of the system can be monitored.
- Web Publishing System 1.0
- Now managing AAHArefs.org with a state-of-the-art web site management system.
- Allows site administrators to update any web page from anywhere they have access to the Internet.
- Built in search engine.
- "Automatically" generates Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
- System generates logs that show:
- Web page views by article title
- Terms used by users of the search engine
These can be used to determine what content people are looking for that is not already on our web site. Example: People searching for "pay", "rate", and "fees". What are they looking for?
- What's Missing?
- District Fee Payment Processing
- We have the ability to do this differently this season.
- No discussion of how this should be done has taken place.
- My idea:
- check list of registered attendees at each seminar
- check off the people who paid
- click "OK"
- mail the checks to Nancy Hughes
- seminar coordinators themselves could do this
- Issuance of new passwords for administrators
- Meeting / conference call between high level people needs to take place:
- Tony
- Shane
- Dave
- Atlantic League RIC
- NJYHL RIC
- DVHL RIC
- If lists of people are provided and Tony approves, we can issue passwords before Labor Day to all
