Dear Third Goal Authors and Visitors, Today, our site experienced six hours of unexpected down time. Web development is complicated, and an error made by our hosting provider DreamHost caused the site to be inaccessible. Sadly, neither of us discovered the problem in a timely manner. DreamHost sincerely apologies for its error, as do I. We [...]
Why waste 1,000 words when a single photo will do? Today, Third Goal added photographs to its right-hand sidebar (below all of the links). Photos appearing here are pulled directly from the Peace Corps photo pool hosted on flickr.com. The most recently added photos are automatically displayed on Third Goal. Since I just created the [...]
Jason has asked that I submit any ideas about what possible uses Third Goal might incorporate into it to benefit the PC community. The simplest addition would be utilizing the wiki plug-in for Word Press and archiving ideas, stories and projects of Peace Corps Volunteers and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. With the wiki, you could [...]
Laura Vanderkam, a reporter for the DC Examiner, is doing a story on how volunteers are creating new literature about their experiences as they’re happening. She writes: “I’m looking for stories of blogging and the Peace Corps. Can today’s technology lessen the isolation that many volunteers felt in the past? Can blogging (and the feedback [...]
Reiterating what I had said earlier about Third Goal being a great site, I think it is a remarkable step in the right direction for the Peace Corps volunteer community. As it is right now, the volunteer community is loosely joined together through a hodge-podge of inter-related web sites, web groups and unorganized online [...]
