German masters kick USA butts — in Web presence
Germany’s version of USATF has a new, improved home page. And a nice portion is devoted to “Senioren” — or masters track. Unlike the USATF Masters maze, the German site is clean, well-organized and full of groovy content. Especially helpful is a site map and search function. For the heck of it, I typed in “Senioren,” and found a mess of files, including this German masters records PDF. All in about 10 seconds. Don’t bother looking for a search function at usatf.org. They don’t have one. (I’ve been nagging USATF webmaster Keith Lively for years, but no dice.) Anyway, at least we have a model for our own official masters home page — should we ever get one. Check out the Germans’ news archive for masters track. God I want that for USATF.
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Amen on the search function. I tried to find some information about level 1 coaching schools. Ended up emailing questions because it was so hard to navigate around the site.
USATF has little interest in making their website user friendly. That it should be useful – never mind user friendly for masters – not in my lifetime. Have you checked out the “Miss Manners” page on the “professionalism” page on the National Outdoor Championship website – thanks to the Finishline Pundit blog – what a bunch of nonsense – right up there with the pledge we all have to sign that we will not cover-up or otherwise “deface” the logo on the mandated USATF uniform top we have to wear for the WMA or other international meets. They are so busy with this sort of junk – how can they possibly have time for such things as making the over-all website user friendly never mind the masters pages.
Is there an English translator button you hit when you go to the German site? …Because if there’s not and it’s not like the German I heard growing up on “Hogan’s Hero’s” I will not be able to understand, “Notink!”…”NOTINK!” :~)
Many sites, including usatf.org, can be searched using Google. Just use the “site” tag to restrict searching to the website of interest. For example, to find information at USATF’s site about Level 1 Coaching Schools, Google the following:
level 1 coaching schools site:www.usatf.org. This kind of search might not find information that is very recent or that requires user interaction for access.
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