Shortly after buying a home I became a Board member of the Wildewood Homeowners Association. The position doesn’t pay anything but that didn’t stop me from volunteering; it’s good experience and benefits the community and me.

I immediately went to work when I heard the Association had no online presence. I used WordPress for its flexible plug-in support and the modified the default template to use a custom header. As Secretary/Treasurer I thought creating a website wasn’t enough to fulfill my role on the Board. With my wife’s help we converted approximately 30 pages of Association documents to digital format. The grainy 20^th generation photocopies made my OCR software choke, so with time and effort it was all manually transcribed. Residents can open any document and easily search for keywords.

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