Recently, I was involved with a charitable event by leading the web team to drive the website of the organizer. Eventually, we have created the new website with a Blog. We received more than 500 feedbacks in less than two months. It provides a platform for everyone to share pictures, experience, providing feedback, asking questions… Eventually, all these make the content of the website. I doubt how much we can cover if all the contents are from us!

Sadly, I have just received a painful instruction to merge this website with the single, centralized controlled website. Though the intention is good, but would it be something that your visitors really want?

I have heard from the Foundation and in view of all of the infractions to regulations world-wide, the foundation is establishing a single, foundation controlled web-site. They will post a variety of information covering all sanctioned runs and events and put up details to support each run. With this in mind, we need to take down the web-site as is being requested for all countries / cities having events.

It is easier to follow than to change :)

P/s. Apparently, this painful decision was a result of some variety of countries and cities choosing not to follow the guidelines and do not respond to the change requests from the organization.

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