The focus of this site is on a free, small, platform-independent
database that I wrote for providing Information and Referral (I&R).
The target audience is I&R Specialists, Social Service Workers,
Care Providers, and Non-profit and Public Sector Managers.
Please Note:
Searches only work with Netscape version 3.0
or higher on Windows or Unix, version 3.04 or higher on Mac.
If you don't have a current browser, there is still plenty to see
on all of the sites. You can get a current browser through my
browser download page.
My Information and Referral Sites:
I spent 11 years working with computers in medical imaging, mostly
doing research in digital signal processing.
After I won the
Java Cup contest
I decided to take a year off to do some volunteer work to
give something back to the internet community, and to ponder my
next career. I've started down a new career path in
Biostatistics,
but I want to leave some record of what I learned while
volunteering with technical assistance to local non-profit
organizations. I've built web sites and pages for some of them.
At my last count, I was maintaining over 5000 web pages that
generate over one million page views per year from over 200,000
distinct users. These are the major sites that I maintain:
The United Way of
Metropolitan Atlanta
I asked around, and the top information and referral service in
Georgia seems to be the
Metro
Atlanta United Way 211 Help Book (799 agencies).
Well (surprise, surprise) it's another nice fit for a JavaScript
database. Actually, most of the work here was writing Perl
scripts to cleanse and reformat their aging AS400 database.
Atlanta's
Community Housing Resource Center (CHRC)
CHRC runs an information and referral hotline using their
Affordable Housing Directory database. I used my
JavaScript database and my Perl scripts to put them online
using their existing, $20/month web hosting service.
Metropolitan Atlanta Council
on Alcohol and Drugs (MACAD)
MACAD runs a (formerly) large information and referral hotline.
I used my JavaScript database to put them online in 1996.
They were a model I&R database for over 4 years, but,
sadly, they decided to move back
to pre-1996 technology without consulting me.
I no longer volunteer with them.
My wife and I maintain a web site for Georgia's
Celebration of Educational Excellence
and we both devote many hours each year to this spectacular event.
My wife, our friend Karen, and I have started the
Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic
at the Emory University School of Law. We're placing interns,
funding a couple of fellows, and doing research to help shape Georgia's
policies with respect to abused and neglected children.
I'm working on the web site design.
Lots and lots of free IT consulting to local non-profits.