New BSA Best Practices Web Portal

I would like to relate to you the creation of the new BSA Best Practices Web
Portal. This project was developed under the leadership of Bob Sadock, the Vice
President for Marketing of the Northeast Region and his Marketing Committee with
the important support of Darin Kinn of the National office.

The portal is an extremely important breakthrough and represents the new way of
thinking on behalf of the BSA. In the past, "Best Practices" were handed down
at Roundtables and meetings first in the form of stacks of paper and then on CD.
There was no way for anyone to really say "we tried that but found a better
alternative" or that "we tried it and it worked but don't forget to . . . ."The
new system will allow ordinary red jacket Scouters of every level of the program
to place their best practices on this new portal for the purpose of sharing and
to allowing others to comment and help not only refine the concept but also to
rate it, similar to the way product websites allow consumer ratings. The portal
will allow you to link to your program, put in key words to assist in searching,
link to unit, Council, Area, and Regional committees, and to Journey to
Excellence milestones.

Most importantly, this is open to any registered Scouter and is not a web site
that is filtered.

Consider it in Beta mode now, but you can test it out.

You can get to the BSA Best Practices Web Portal via http://www.myscouting.org (see
left panel once logged in)