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Award Requirements
To meet the Quality District Website criteria, candidate District Web-sites must satisfy the following criteria:

  1. Identification (required) - Identify your organization completely, and include telephone numbers and e-mail addresses (where applicable) for key District officials. Also indicate your District's local interrelationships by including:
    • Links to your local Unit and Council home pages (if applicable)
    • Links to your National Organization pages
    • Links to related pages (related Districts located within your area)
    • Indicate physical location (i.e. City, State, Province, County,Country, etc.)

  2. Your Website Must Be Team-Based (required) - Your site must involve all elements of your Organization in the planning, implementation and upkeep of the site or page. In other words, this should NOT be a "one person show." The identification of the Web management team responsible for the site is required. The purpose of which is to facilitate communications with visitors to the Web-site.

  3. District Training Programs (required) - Provide public access to a summary all scheduled training classes and orientation programs that are available to Unit members and leaders. This should include session descriptions, dates, locations, prerequisites, and contact names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers.

  4. Community Service - Tell the visitor about a recent (within the last year) service project undertaken by the District. The idea here is to share how the project was organized, implemented, coordinated... and completed. The service must be rendered to a group or organization external to Scouting or Guiding.

  5. District Membership and Advancement Statistics - Provide visitors with statistics regarding the District's Membership goals and Unit advancements. Also, tell the visitors about the Organization's recent Scout (and/or Scouter) recognitions and awards (within the last six months).

  6. Organizational Communication - Provide transcripts or summaries of District management or Committee meetings, or Council Executive Board meetings (if applicable.)

  7. Resources - Include hyper-linked references to on-line Scouting program resources. This should include leader 'helps' in the areas of advancement requirements, special program requirements, and / or other on-line resources of use to your local Unit Scouting programs. Links to National Scouting or Guiding resources (such as Boys' Life and Scouter magazine (USA) or other program 'helps') is a plus here.

  8. Camping - Provide District-level statistics for camp or outdoor activities, indicating majority Unit participation in the District's Camping and Outdoors Program. Also provide separate pages for District or Council campsites. These pages must include transporatation instructions, cost, availability, history, and program information.

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Important Notes
  1. Organizations that meet at least six of the eight goals above (including the first three which are required), qualify as "Quality District Websites" for 1998. As such, qualifying Websites have earned the right to display the "Quality District Website" Award during the year for which it is awarded.

  2. To maintain this Award status during subsequent years, the District Website must exhibit continuous improvement over time. This will be expressed via inclusion of new and constantly updated informational content.

  3. During the month of December 1998, our Team will visit all Websites that have earned this award for 1998. We will use this opportunity to re-affirm the above criteria, and if warranted, grant the "1999 Quality District Website" award. There is no need to re-up!
 

 

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