Discussion boardThe discussion board is the component of the web site that does not work. It is a non-standards compliant system built in-house by SNB. Think legacy & unwieldy, even if it is free. You can see my previous post on what kind of message you receive when you send a comment. Lisa did not get very good advice on her technology options. She was told by government techies that it would be very complicated to get a web discussion board (aka blog) up and running. She was threatened that she would be responsible for the maintenance of the site if she tried to use an open source alternative - and of course she balked. As you know, she could have had a Blogger.com site up within 20 minutes, or a more robust Drupal site from Tantramar Interactive in short order.

Bottom line - she got bad advice, from staff at NRC as well as SNB.