Hi William G. Oates ! Please look into improving the City Council information and communications on the web at http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil a. Council stenographic machine output needs to be made available. b. Transcription of Council stenographic machine output needs to be made available c. Closed captioning for Council webcasts needs to be made available for people with hearing loss. d. The current Council minutes on the web are too edited, too abbreviated, too ambiguous for most people to understand more clearly what really happened in the public meetings of the City Council, what really were the transactions, proceedings of the City Council. e. Plain ASCII text is needed for Council email communications that could be made more compatible for computer users of Linux, more compatible for Mac computer users. f. Plain ASCII text is needed for Council Committees' email communications that could be made more compatible for Linux users, more compatible for Mac users. g. A better method of routine updating for Council information and Council communications is needed. The excellent efforts of MIS Department's web team's Raj Pareek appear to be foiled at every bureaucratic turn ! Reference http://cityofboston.gov/mis/ > On the heels of several new and exciting technology initiatives > that are making the City of Boston more efficient and user > friendly for residents, visitors, and businesses, > Mayor Thomas M. Menino today announced the appointment of > William G. Oates as the City's Chief Information Officer http://www.law.suffolk.edu/about/news/pressarticle.cfm?Id=202 List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance