Tools Used to Create Our Website

Our CHA-Notes website was created by using the following tools. These are all currently free tools that can be used by creating an account, in our case generally the cambridgehistoricalassociation account.

• Blogger is the service used to create the blog. For this a Google Account which includes Gmail is needed.
• Google Analytics is used to track usage of our website.
• PBwiki is a wiki service where I've created the Cambridge Historical Association Wiki as a wiki that only we can edit and everyone can see. This is where the expanded table of contents are created and stored.
• Scribd is a separate service where documents can be stored. This is where PDFs of the newsletter are stored.
• Picasa is a photo-storage service from Google. Pictures for the blog are automatically stored there in an album associated with the blog.
• Google Alerts is a service that provides regular updates on search topics. It emails new results from searches of blogs, news, or the web to you either once a day, once a week, or as it happens. I have searches for Cambridge Iowa and for historical societies or associations that sometimes have items useful for the web site or as examples.