How to find things on this site

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There are many ways to find information on this site.

Chatbot

The chatbot might be the fastest way to find the information you are interested in.

The chatbot icon is in the bottom-left corner.

Click on it to open a chat window. Then type your question or describe what you are looking for.

The menu is in the left column, or if the window is narrow (on a mobile), look for the menu icon in the upper right.

The menus will take you to special pages or select important posts.

Events and Meetings – selects the active “event” posts. Most events will expire after the event’s date. (see event tag)

Featured Posts – (under Finding Information) selects important featured posts. (see feature tag)

Current News – (under Finding Information) will select current event news posts. News posts could have an expiration date set. The date will likely depend on the relevant interest period: weeks, months, or the end of an election period. (see news tag)

Category or Tag

Clicking on a category or tag name will list all the posts with that category or tag name.

The “active” categories and tags are in the left column. Or, if the window is narrow (on a mobile device), the categories and tags will appear after the menu items.

The post’s categories and tags are listed at the bottom of the post, and they can be clicked on to list related posts.

Search menu

Searches can include keywords, categories, tags, and date ranges.

Archive

If you know the year and/or month of a post, you can filter to show the posts for that year or month.

This is on the Finding Information page.

Latest Posts

The last 100 post titles will be listed. It could be quicker to scroll this list than scrolling through all the posts.

This is on the Finding Information page.

Site Organization

Most of the items on this site are organized as posts rather than pages. The advantages of this style over only pages:

  • Events, books, videos, etc., are single posts, so they can be found in multiple ways.
  • Categories and tags can be used to quickly bring up related posts.
  • Categories and tags also help with training the AI Chat Bot
  • Standard keyword searching can also be used.
  • Custom RSS feeds can be created with the tags.

The posts are in date order. The dates are the date of an article, book, or video that they reference. Articles that are unique to this site will be the “post’s date.” “Organization” posts will be set to the organization’s “founding” date. Event posts are an exception; they will have the date they were added and will expire after the event’s date.