THE TRANSWEB TEAM is composed of people interested in transplantation and donation: transplant patients and their family members and friends, health care providers, organ procurement specialists, donor families, transplantation researchers, and interested members of the general public.
Your participation will ensure that TransWeb continues to grow.
Topic editors are responsible for gathering information on a given topic within TransWeb for the creation of new pages and ensuring that the information TransWeb provides on that topic is as current and complete as possible. As TransWeb grows, so does our need to stay up to date and comprehensive to remain helpful to the transplant community.
This requires a level of commitment and involvement (varying from an hour a week to as much time as you can devote to it). Pages generated by the topic editors are reviewed by the board; the webmaster will facilitate as necessary. Topic editors may want to pair up with HTML wizards or other people from the TW freelancers in order to handle their pages independently.
Topic editors come from all segments of the transplant community (transplant patients and their family members and friends, health care providers, organ procurement specialists, donor families, and interested members of the general public). Let us know if you want to volunteer!
See:
Current topic editors and topics in search
of editors
We're delighted that Ask TransWeb has been so popular. Its continued success depends on having a panel of experts standing by to answer questions in a timely fashion (i.e. within 2 days of receiving the question from the webmaster).
If you have an email address and think you can help out, please let us know. We would like to have several panel members per topic, so that no one is overburdened, and so that if one panel member is unavailable, others cover the same question. Ask TransWeb panel members may also serve as topic editors or contribute to TransWeb in other ways.
If you are interested in serving on the Ask TransWeb Panel, please see the Ask TransWeb Panel guidelines.
To see a list of current and needed Ask TransWeb Panel members, see Ask TransWeb Panel Members.
Interested in helping build TransWeb, but in a less formal role? We'd love to hear from you! Email transweb@umich.edu or call 313-998-7314.
We need the following people who can help on an occasional (or even one-time) basis as volunteers. Regular access to the Web and an email address are recommended but not required in all instances. Efforts will be coordinated through the webmaster.
page reviewers
...people with the specific transplantation or donation expertise
necessary to review pages for accuracy, completeness, etc. prior to
publication.
content contributors
...people who can help by providing the information that TransWeb
lacks (for example, a listing of transplant support groups in New
York or London, or medical illustrations of the liver... the wish
list is endless!)
correspondents
...people with a given special interest who are willing to file
occasional reports and updates (on a topic that experiences change
frequently)
liaisons
...people who will spread the word about TransWeb to others, in an
attempt to interest others in their community or at their institution
in becoming users of and contributors to TransWeb.
HTML wizards
...people who can format Web pages in standard HTML (when given the
plain text) and run pages through WebLint or another HTML checker.
graphics guys & gals
...people with graphics and web design experience who can help us
improve TransWeb's visual appeal.
the big picture people
...people with ideas on material or sections to add, prospective
TransWeb projects, visions of the future of TransWeb, etc.
proofreaders
...people who can spot a misspelling, punctuation error, or missing
apostrophe at 100 paces.
link police
...people who will seek out and report broken or outdated links (as
well as missing pages, etc.) within TransWeb and from TransWeb to the
first page of other sites.
site scouts
...people who will troll the Net for related documents that are
candidates for links from TransWeb
The webmasters ( Eleanor Jones and Fran Kelsen) are responsible for the following:
TransWeb is governed by the TransWeb board, which does long-range planning for the project, takes primary responsibility for fundraising, is responsible for overall site management, and makes final decisions regarding what is placed on the TransWeb site. Members are: Jim Dean, Bob Garypie, Eleanor Jones and Fran Kelsen (who also serve as the webmasters), Alan Leichtman, Bob Merion, and Jeff Punch.
Board members also serve on the Ask TransWeb Panel or contribute to TransWeb in other ways.
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Last modified:
11 May 2000