Maintain your web

Groups will come and go, and keeping your web current will be a small maintenance task when you learn about changes.

Stay connected to the groups that are on your web, visit their events.

Suggestions for more ways to connect with your community:

• Subscribe to the newsletters and social media of the groups on your web — it's an easy way to hear about changes, new projects and collaborations.

• Attend local events and fairs from time to time; they are a good way to discover new groups and to hear which ones have wound down.

• Ask the groups themselves to check their listing once in a while and suggest corrections — anyone can suggest changes to a listing, not just your team.

• Share maintenance across your team, so keeping things current doesn't rely on one person.

Let your community help

You don't have to do all the work yourself. Visitors to your web can propose new listings and suggest changes to existing ones, and these come to your team for review:

• Proposed listings appear on your Listings page in a “Pending” state, where you can review and approve them.

• Suggested edits appear against the relevant listing, where you can compare the changes side by side and accept or reject them.

Try to review these regularly — a quick response is encouraging for the people contributing to your web.

Keep listings in good shape

A few features in the admin dashboard help you keep quality up:

• The Listings page highlights listings that are missing an image or have a very short description, so you can see at a glance which ones need attention.

• If a group pauses its activities, you can mark its listing as inactive to hide it from the public web without losing the information.

• You can feature a listing to pin it to the top of the page for a while — useful for highlighting groups with upcoming events or campaigns.