Webmaster Report - April 2026
Trusted ServantSince the last Assembly, I’ve completed a large amount of general website maintenance and updates. From what I remembered to log, I’ve added roughly 70 events and made well over 100 updates to meetings and group listings, plus a large inactive-meeting cleanup (~50 listings); organized and posted GSC agenda materials; have supported State Convention registrations; and continued building out district pages. The intended baseline layout for district pages includes a button linking to your District’s meetings, a contact form, plus dynamic sections for latest posts and upcoming events. I do have a backlog of district updates that I’m actively working through.
I attended WCRAASC virtually and have also attended Lincoln Intergroup, Omaha Technology Committee, and State Convention Committee meetings.
We did experience a brief site outage in March. I believe this lasted less than 24 hours and appears to have been caused by a temporary conflict between a plugin and our site’s theme.
I’ve continued cleaning up and standardizing meeting list data between our list and the Lincoln and Omaha intergroups. This has been a significant effort, and I appreciate the help I’ve received so far. Lincoln Intergroup and Central Office sites now link to filtered views of our Area 41 meeting list instead of hosting duplicate lists, so we should not see any further conflicts regarding Lincoln area meeting data in the Meeting Guide App. Omaha meeting list QC working towards conversion into a shared feed is still in progress. I invite continued quality assistance from all DCMs—if it helps, I can generate printed reports of your district’s meetings from the area list.
Thank you to everyone helping improve the meeting list data and website content. Without your content, our website would be a hollow skeleton. Your content and data carry the message by helping Nebraska alcoholics find meetings, fellowship, and service opportunities.
I’m still working through some requests from the January Assembly, where I had jotted down hand-written notes. Going forward, it would help me greatly if verbal requests are also emailed to me at webmaster@area41.org, so I can better track them and resolve in the order received when possible. I am still working through all emails and notes in my possession but also invite a friendly nudge if you are still waiting on me for something!
I also want to briefly speak to an anonymity concern.
I was recently asked to post a newsletter that included two members’ last names within email addresses. That put me in an uncomfortable position.
Our Website Guidelines state that newsletters posted online must be anonymity protected, and that content in both public and restricted sections of the site should be anonymity protected. Our Area documentation indicates that the Newsletter service position will “remove last names” from the newsletter, but does not specifically define how to handle last names contained within an email address. I was informed that this lack of specificity falls outside of the Technology and Communications committee’s scope within the Website Guidelines to determine the content of the website. Therefore, I will submit an agenda item to help clarify what Area considers an anonymity break in digital documents. I welcome a fresh Area conscience on this, so we can move forward with clear and consistent guidance.
In love and service,
Sarah R.
