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Our Website Has Moved
If you're reading this
notice, you have an out-of-date bookmark.
While we have had the TompkinsCortlandScouts.org domain name for many
years, we never really had a place to put the website. The domain was
actually just an alias for some other website. So, every time you
accessed TompkinsCortlandScouts.org, some other address appeared in your
browser's address bar - mostly, home.htva.net/~wb2jwd/,
which is the space my cable company gave me, but sometimes www.bpmlegal.com,
my office website - and if you bookmarked the site, you wound up
bookmarking the actual address, not TompkinsCortlandScouts.org. Worse,
htva.net only gave me 20MB of storage space, total, so we were very
limited in how much we could post on that site.
Thanks to Mark Travis of Pack 197 and Good News Computing, the
Taughannock District Website now has a real home, and oodles of space to
live in (one "oodle" = several gigabytes). And, thanks to a
suggestion from Oliver Habich of Troop 4, we also have a shorter,
easier-to-type domain - TCScouts.org
- two names, the same website.
What this means to you is:
- Old Bookmarks won't be right:
If you have any bookmarks in your browser for any of the pages in
the Taughannock District Website, they probably point to the actual
site of the old page, not the new site. So, you'll need to...
- Change your Bookmarks: At least in Firefox or IE, that means
right-clicking on the bookmark, click on "Properties" and
change the part of the address which says "home.htva.net/~wb2jwd/"
or "www.bpmlegal.com"
to --www.TCScouts.org-- or --www.TompkinsCortlandScouts.org--
(either will work, if you're lazy like me, use the shorter one). The
rest of the address remains the same.
So, "http://home.htva.net/~wb2jwd/announce.htm"
becomes --http://www.TCScouts.org/announce.htm --
- Or, save new bookmarks:
If you don't want to edit your old bookmark, you can always follow
one of these links http://www.TompkinsCortlandScouts.org
or http://www.TCScouts.org
, find the page you want, and save a new bookmark.
- The old website will be taken down
after January 1st, and all of the pages will be set to redirect to
the new server. So if you don't update your bookmarks now, now you
can always follow the forwarding link and save a new bookmark later
on.
Click
Here to Access the New Web Site
Yrs.
in Scouting,
Mike Brown
District Commissioner
Communication Chair:
Jim Graney jgraney@twcny.rr.com
"Taughannock
Announce" - District E-Mail List
All District units should have at least one adult (if not all)
subscribed to the Taughannock
Announce e-mail list. The e-list is used for news and reminders of
District meetings and activities, as well as District and unit requests
and last minute emergency announcements and cancellations. Click on this
link to sign up - you will need to establish a Yahoo.com account, if
you don't have one already, then subscribe to the TaughannockAnnounce
group.
Local Media Contact Information
Has your unit or one of its members done something
newsworthy? Be sure to send a press release to your local newspaper(s)
as soon as possible after the activity - and don't forget the weekly
shoppers!
Cortland County Media
Tompkins County Media
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Ithaca
Journal: see Contact
Us page
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Ithaca Child:
send information c/o Jim Graney jgraney@twcny.rr.com
or call 607-327-1226.
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Ithaca Times
and Finger Lakes Community Papers: see information on Contact
Us page
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Eagle Broadcasting Group (WHCU, WIII (I-100), WNYY,
WQNY, WYXL): Telephone 257-6400 Fax: 257-6497
Contact Us pages for WHCU
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- WQNY
- WYXL
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Time-Warner Cable: Cable 10 Community Access and
News - send information to newstips@news10now.com
or Mail events to: News 10 Now Attn: Community Calendar 815 Erie
Blvd. East Syracuse, NY 13210 You may also submit events using their
online
form.
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Tompkins Weekly Newspaper, send information c/o Jim
Graney jgraney@twcny.rr.com
or call 607-327-1226.
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