Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Vol 12 No. 8
Editorial
LAN 2: I:bddred8
We have increased the capacity of three of our websites to 150
megabyte each. Disk usage is as follows:
www.bdcublessings.net.au with 24 megabyte used and 126
megabyte available.
www.bddronline.net.au with 44 megabyte used and 106 megabyte
available.
www.buyresolved.com.au with 55 megabyte used and 95
megabyte available.
www.bdcu.org.au has 1 gigabyte capacity with 59 megabyte used
and 941 megabyte available.
www.bsbonline.com.au has 100 megabyte space with 51
megabyte used and 49 megabyte available.
The websites are managed on the operational level by five web
masters who have been developed from our Members.
This team has no evident chairman to integrate ideas, often quite
new, because of their recent technical development.
From time to time, our founder acts as defacto chairman to
establish the sequence of elements discussed and integrate
Members who work independently. Some of the conflicts on
opposing viewpoints are resolved on the basis of his own
knowledge and experience, or if he has no reference point,
through his ability to sense the emergence of a more ‘correct’
approach.
He calls for the qualities of alertness, calmness and objectivity
and for a knack of learning theory and projecting it into practice.
The team is multi-skilled so the loss of one Member through
retirement, resignation, promotion, or death does not expose our
organisation to too much risk.
Perhaps the greatest misuse of service departments is summed
up in the words of ‘efficient inefficiency’.
When managers establish service departments looking more to
their cost savings rather than to the efficiency of the entire
enterprise, a highly ‘efficient’ service may do an inefficient job of
servicing.
Too many committees, sapping the time and energy of managers
and their staff are often blamed on over-organisation rather than
on poor organisation (particularly when committees make
decisions, better made by individuals).
The setting up of our websites’ team, changed the whole
organisational thinking of our Centre for the better.
We now have measurability output from our site meters that
counts the visitors to each site and page.
The cost saving this year, in terms of printing and postage costs
is estimated to be between $60,000 and $80,000 Australian
dollars per annum.
Our total cost outlay over the year for web hosting services is less
than $2,000 per annum. Our cost benefit factor is between 30:1
and 40:1.
For these reasons, we plan to open more web sites.
ABC analysis divides on-hand inventory into three classifications
based on annual dollar volume. ABC analysis is an inventory
application that is known as the Pareto Principle.
The Pareto Principle states that there are a critical few, and a
trivial many. The idea is to focus on the critical few and not the
trivial many.
This year we will analyse in more detail the various elements of
our various websites via cycle counting.
When we have completed this step by step analysis of the content
of our websites, we will be at an insight position to describe what
elements appear critical and what appear trivial.
We may be able to find instances of items that are uninteresting,
tedious and unduly restrictive. We could then tie useful
groupings together horizontally and vertically through authority
relations and information systems by hypertext.
This is the next stage of how we plan to refine our Internet service
to others. We cannot afford the cost of a regular survey at
present.
May all our readers be well and happy.
Anita M. and John D. Hughes
Editors