{"id":81,"date":"2012-05-10T01:03:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T05:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intothenetworks.femmetech.org\/?p=81"},"modified":"2012-05-10T02:27:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T06:27:17","slug":"when-you-spell-the-keynotes-name-wrong-and-the-person-who-volunteers-to-fix-it-breaks-the-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intothenetworks.femmetech.org\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"When you spell the keynote’s name wrong and the person who volunteers to fix it breaks the site"},"content":{"rendered":"

It had to happen, especially when you are working your way through school and volunteering and perhaps too tired to pay strict enough attention to detail: someone’s name gets misspelled.<\/p>\n

It’s not right and should be corrected, but it’s especially wrong when it’s one of the KEYNOTES of the conference, and you’ve just launched a major media campaign to alert every homosexual in North America to go to your website and learn about said keynote.<\/p>\n

My main collaborator is a woman who has never used WordPress, she’s bottomlining the Outreach\/Press Release end of the Media team, and she got the email from the Keynote first and alerted me, who was trapped at my desk at work without recourse: what happened next is that she like a total I-can-figure-this-out badass looked up the WP log-ins on the shared Google Doc we have all our log-ins on [agility over security!], navigated to the post where the offending typing occurred, and copied in corrected text.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And somehow, broke the site. <\/p>\n

Not totally destroyed, but all the sidebars were pushed out to the bottom of the posts. I noticed this when I went in a small panic to see if I’d misspelled it anywhere else [I had].<\/p>\n

Pedagogy Theory Question:<\/strong> how do you tell someone their brave first attempt at a new technology kind of broke something?<\/p>\n

My answer:<\/strong> Figure out what they did [somehow copied in extra <div>s though still not sure from where] and decide that explaining over email what happened is less important or agile than letting them feel like they can fix errors on the site quickly and effectively. I opted for a “silent fix.” I feel this is an everyone-wins solution.<\/p>\n

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