Over the years, the J. Kyle Braid Leadership Foundation has maintained a fairly high degree of presence on the world wide web. The two main websites representing J. Kyle Braid to this point are JKBRanch at www.jkbranch.org and JKB Schools at www.jkbschools.com.
One can learn everything that one needs to know about the J. Kyle Braid Leadership foundation by visiting jkbranch.org, including the upcoming schedule for this year's alumni trips to the ranch and flight schedule information.
On the other hand, JKB Schools was created to allow for individual school sponsors to input JKB related stories and photos. The earliest version of the site seemed to work fairly well and there was a good deal of participation from member schools using this site.The concept was to pre-enter all the existing JKB Sponsors usernames and passwords into the system and identify each sponsor with their JKB Sponsor schools. Then, when one of these sponsors logged in to write an article, the site 'knew' which school to attach them to and a link to each school would reveal if that school had any recent articles. The biggest problem with this site is that it's hard to know which schools are actively inputing articles and photos.
Enter www.jkbnews.org to the rescue. First, this site is special in that it uses an open source content management system called Drupal to manage news article content! Open source is another phrase for 'free computer software' but even more exciting than the fact that the softwared is free is the fact that Drupal can do almost anything imagineable and new functionality is being coded almost daily by a large team of Drupal programmers who, in many cases work for companies that pay them to develope open source Drupal code! What this all means is that the J. Kyle Braid Leadership Foundation can capitalize on a very professionallly developed website presence at a fraction of the cost of either www.jkbranch.org or www.jkbschools.com - and this site really works well!
So now, anyone can register for a jkbnews.org website login and automatically begin to publish their own personal stories about how J. Kyle Braid Leadership Foundation has impacted their lives! For more info on writing stories, click here.
