Southwest Badminton Association - Network Presence

As with any modern organization it is important to develop and maintain a network presence that will allow us to communicate effectively. This page documents the decisions we make regarding a network presence.

• Domain Name
• Web Site
• email
• Social Media
• Artwork

Domain Name

A very basic need is to select a domain name so that email, web and whatnot can then be established.

• October 2014 - collect suggested domain names and then select from them. This tables shows the various suggested names that are available as well as the votes for that name. Names that are not available are crossed off. Note that names used for the other regions now or in the past include: northeastbadminton.net, sbabadminton.org, northwestbadminton.org, midwestbadminton.com, swbabadminton.org. Once we choose a domain name we also need to select a TLD from the normal three (com,net,org).

  Suggested Base Name	Tallied Votes			Notes/Comments
  	com	net	org
  swba-usa
  swbabadminton				old SWBA was swbabadminton.org but it is no longer available
  swbadminton				24OCT: Eugene, Tom, Henry,Kyle,Shannon,Pavan all choose .org so this is done deal- we will use swbadminton.org
  southwestbadminton
  southwestusabadminton
  swba-badminton

Web Site

email

20141021- Stan: We probably should have a generic contact (swba@<our domain>). Should this be aliased to an individual (who?) or should it go to the whole board so that anyone picking it up can respond? Last thing we want is for email to go into the old bit-bucket. Is there any value in having domain-based email for ourselves (e.g. stan@<our domain>)?

20141025- proposal (Stan): once we have domain in place then create generic email accounts for folks to contact us, including board@swbadminton.org, president@swbadminton.org, vicepresident@swbadminton.org, treasurer@swbadminton.org, secretary@swbadminton.org, webmaster@swbadminton.org. These would of course be aliased as needed to point to the correct folks.

Social Media

Artwork

• Oct 2014- of initial importance is a logo. For reference, existing logos for other organizations include the below. Southern Badminton Association (region 3) does not appear to have logo.
  Midwest Badminton Association (region 2)- current
  Northeast Badminton Association (region 1)- current
  USAB- current
  Northwest Badminton Association (region 4) c.a. 2007
  Old SWBA (region 5) , c.a. 2008
  Old region 5, c.a. 2008