First Seder - March 25th - Plainview Jewish Center

A MESSAGE FROM THE WEBMASTER……
Olga Portnoy
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Our new website is not so new anymore, it is four years old. However, the site is changing
on a regular basis: new information comes in, mainly from our publications, Orbit and Hakol,
pictures are regularly sent in by Carol Hauser and Kym Newborn. I also get the “Weekend
Updates”, which come from the PJC Office Secretary, Dorit. Then, I upload them on the website.
Additionally, on our website we have a link to Facebook and to the local Plainview news,
“The Patch” which is updated every second and edited by our friend, Joe Dowd (AKA
“Fiorello” and Pseudolos”). There is also a page that links to other useful Jewish historical
and informational websites, such as the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Theological Seminary, USCJ
and UJA amongst others.
I hope that by now, you have learned to navigate your way around the web and feel
comfortable looking up information and using it as a source of entertainment and backup
information to our different Facebook pages – which are also regularly updated by volunteers
like Kym Newborn, (the great Shofar Master) and Blayne Peltzman, our new and enthusiastic
PJC Sisterhood President.
So you see, I may be the one working the keyboard behind the scenes with the .docs,
.jpegs and .pdfs but it’s a joint effort all around, as is everything that goes on at our Shul.
Some people have asked to volunteer with the “website committee”. The help that I can use
is to just go on the site and send me new suggestions, new “blurbs” or simply a “hey, Olga
there’s something outdated that needs to come off the site”. I am happy to say that most of
the time the site is up-to-date or pretty close.
For those of you who don’t know me, I am a mother of 5 daughters and a grandmother.
I work part time with my husband M Portnoy, CPA, at our Jericho Office. I am also an active
PTA volunteer at Mattlin Middle School and JFK High School. I run pizza sales, Chair
committees, attend endless meetings at both schools and send out communications emails
on a daily basis to hundreds of parents. I am also the backup person at PJC when we send
out the blast emails. And I am on the PJC Sisterhood membership committee this year.
In the near future, I would like to host a workshop for the people that have not mastered
the art of going on the web. If you think you may have an interest in this topic, please email
me at oportnoy@aol.com or admin@plainviewjewishcenter.com or let’s use the old method
of leaving a message at 516-349-1790
In the meantime, it has been my wish for some time to find the following individual:
HELP WANTED AD
A volunteer with technology background, who can take over the Webmaster job at PJC.
Someone who has extra time to dedicate to the beautification and maintenance of the site.
Knowledge of pdfs, docs and jpegs conversion is necessary. Web hosting experience will
make the job easier. Thanks for looking…..approximate amount of hours spent on the upkeep
of the site is at least 4 hours a week, which includes uploading pictures of PJC events.