As a notice, the site may be unavail­able for a few hours tonight (or only par­tially func­tional). Thank you for your patience.

If you haven’t already noticed, there are a cou­ple changes going on with the site, and the GAA in gen­eral. I’ve added a new tab on the top nav­i­ga­tion bar that will have all of the min­utes from our var­i­ous meet­ings. The side bar has two new links as well. One if for the dig­i­tal ver­sion of our GAA hand­book for new mem­bers, and the other is a link to our weekly agenda for our gen­eral meetings.

We have lots of other great things planned to make the web site bet­ter, and to get more infor­ma­tion out in the open for the pub­lic and our mem­bers. Bran­don is work­ing on chang­ing the theme of the web­site around to be more like a site and less like a blog, and hopes to have it done by the end of the semes­ter. And I will be work­ing on assem­bling sev­eral doc­u­ments on how to uti­lize all of our ser­vices to make it eas­ier to stay in touch, and up to date, with the GAA

A lot of work has been put into the cur­rent GAA web site, and there are still more fea­tures planned for the future. As a look back, you visit the GAA web site that existed before the cur­rent one. Click on the image below to jump to the old web site.

Now, even though it looks out-dated, there are a few fea­tures that the old site has that will be imple­mented on the new site. For example:

• Cur­rent Mem­bers: it would be great for orga­ni­za­tions to be able to see our cur­rent mem­bers. We will imple­ment this in the very near future, along with a GAA Alumni list (show­ing past mem­bers, and hope­fully, what they’re doing now).
• Photo Gal­leries: cur­rently, our site is lack­ing an actual photo gallery. We do have a Flickr account, but it is lack­ing updates. Speak­ing of, if any­one has any pho­tos they’d liked to share, please email the photo group.
• Indus­try Resources: this is actu­ally awe­some, and we def­i­nitely will be bring­ing these to you before the end of 2009. We plan to have links to indus­try lead­ers, schol­ar­ships, resume builders, and job sites.

Sure we’ve come a long way, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improve­ment. Keep an eye on the site for the numer­ous fea­tures we have planned!

P.S. Make sure you take a look at the video on the bot­tom of the About Us page from the old web site!

Update: Thanks to GAA/FSU alum­nus Brad Bitzer on point­ing out these even older ver­sions of the web site:

• GAA Old
• GAA New.Old

If you would like to check up on the GAA while you’re on the go, you can now view the web site on your mobile devices. If you have an iPhone/iPod Touch, Black­berry, Palm Pre, or Android-based phone, you’ll be able to view the opti­mized mobile web site. From here, you’ll be able to see all recent posts, access the con­tact page, read about the GAA, and access GAA Ser­vice infor­ma­tion (how to con­nect with cal­en­dar, mail, and docs).

For screen shots, view the gallery below; or, you can nav­i­gate to this web site on your mobile device!

If you have any ques­tions regard­ing this fea­ture, please feel free to con­tact our Com­mis­sioner at Large.

After some seri­ous pro­gram­ming, I was able to build a plu­gin for the GAA web site that will allow mem­bers to login using their GAA email address and pass­word. To do this, go to the GAA Web Site login page, enter your GAA email address and pass­word, and hit login. There is no need to reg­is­ter for a new account or any­thing of that sort. This account will be bound to your GAA email, so if you update your pass­word in Gmail, your pass­word will auto­mat­i­cally be updated on the web site.

Please take the time to do this, update your pro­file, and add any addi­tional infor­ma­tion you like. We will be tak­ing advan­tage of this over this next school year, so it will be impor­tant to have this setup. Thank you!

If you haven’t noticed, the GAA web site has been going under some major revi­sions. We have been hard at work opti­miz­ing the site to bring you more rel­e­vant con­tent regard­ing our orga­ni­za­tion, our school, and our indus­try. Please be patient as we con­tinue to make this huge updates, and be sure to check back often to see all of the excit­ing changes.

As a teaser, here are some of the fea­tures we plan on offering:

• Links to rel­e­vant indus­try web sites and blogs
• An online archive of any Talk Casts that we do
• Even­tu­ally, we hope to be bring­ing a (pos­si­bly) weekly Pod­cast, tak­ing input from you for topics
• And of course, much more!