Commissioners Corner: More Trips from More Places

Roundtable Staff Objectives

Roundtables are a form of commissioner service and supplemental training for volunteers at all levels. The objective of roundtables is to give leaders program ideas; information on policy, events, and training opportunities; and an opportunity to share experiences and enjoy fun and fellowship with other Scouting leaders. The roundtable commissioner and staff demonstrate elements of a model meeting that leaders may use as a pattern for their own meetings. The roundtable experience will inspire, motivate, and enable unit leaders to provide a stronger program for their Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, Webelos and Boy Scouts.

Meeting Times:

Monthly from September to May

The First Thursday night of the month

7 PM - 8 PM

Saint Luke’s United Methodist Church, Danville VA

Monday, February 9, 2009

More Trips from More Places

EveryTrail Newsletter

Dear EveryTrail Member,

We hope you're off to a good start in 2009. EveryTrail certainly had a great start of the year: Traffic in January was up more than 50% from December, which was a record month already. You, the global EveryTrail community, are now creating new trips at a pace never seen before. More than 10,000 public trips and 30,000 photos were uploaded by you all in January. EveryTrail now has over 50,000 public trips from all over the world.

We continue to work on improving the site as fast as we can. Some of the major changes we recently made are "under the hood" in order to make sure the site doesn't break under the strain of all your uploads and clicks. Please continue to use the EveryTrail Forums to report problems and provide suggestions.

New Mobile Apps Available

After launching our iPhone applications last year we are expanding the range of mobile applications this year. In January we launched new EveryTrail applications for Android and Blackberry.

We'll announce a big upgrade to the EveryTrail Windows Mobile application very soon. Please keep an eye on the EveryTrail blog.

The focus of our first generation mobile apps is to make recording and uploading trips as easy as possible. Later this year we'll add new features that will help you find and plan trips.

EveryTrail content as Google Earth Tours

In December we announced that EveryTrail content is available as a network layer in Google Earth. In January we've been working closely with Google to make EveryTrail content available as "Tours" in the latest version of Google Earth. You can download featured EveryTrail Tours from the EveryTrail blog.

Later, we intend to automatically create Tours for each trip. And we are exploring possibilities to enable you to record and create your own tours and upload these alongside your trips. As always, feedback and suggestions are welcome! Please use the forum.

Happy trails,
The EveryTrail Team