Not surprisingly, I suppose, I rate the AMA site as substandard.

If we assume that the purpose of having an AMA website is to promote areomodeling, as the bylaws state is the purpose of the AMA, it does a poor job. Some quick examples.

A search engine that was state of the art 15 years ago is not now.
No site map.
Information is not current. Examples. (1) As of a few minutes ago, the picture of the current issue of MA on the main page is not the current issue. If one follows links, it goes to the current issue. (2) Competition information is not updated as frequently as some districts update from the same info. D 8 handled by Bill Lee is always on the leading edge. (3) Club locator is still a poor second to that maintained by Bill Lee on the D 8 site. (4)District sites are not created equal. I think my DVP, Rich Hansen, does as good a job on the EC representing his district as anyone. He also maintains a terrible website. I have felt for a long time that it is HQ's responsibility to make certain that district sites are well done... thus providing the promotion of areomodeling in each district. (5) The members only section sucks. Committee assignments are not updated. Although someone implied that Doug Holland was in some way responsible for not posting the most current audit, I have an e-mail from someone else that accepts responsibility for not posting it with a reason. Unfortunately, I do not have permission to post the e-mail or the reason.

The site is a wonderful repository of information. It is not easy to access, or even find, many historical postings.

This list goes on and on. Many on the EC agree that the site is substandard as does the ED. The question is just how much of AMA resources should be dedicated to it and what is it's actual ability to disseminate information in the interest of advancing modeling.