Marathon County ARES/RACES

Have you checked out the new Northeast WI. district ARES/RACES website yet? If not, I encourage you to follow this link to check it out!

http://www.ne-wi-aresraces.org/news.php

This is your source for all the events, training and anouncements that are happening in the Northeast District. Would you like to contribute your thoughts or opinions so others in the District might benefit from your expiriences? Just fill out the registration and jump into the FORUM and become an active member to your immediate and surrounding communities!

Hope to hear from you soon!

UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, THE WI NE DISTRICT NET IS CANCELED DUE TO OPERATIONAL ISSUES.

In order to keep the database updated and if you are a Marathon Co. ARES member, it is important that you register on the Membership roster listed in the Main Menu. This roster is secure so you don't have to worry about your personal information being published on the net.

E-Sponder News By Bill Niemuth, KB9ENO, SEC WI, with Contribution from Gary Payne, N9VE, DEC Southeast WI

As reported after the WI ARES/RACES Senior Leadership Conference in April, we have decided to use ESponder for our resource typing and other emergency, disaster and special event needs. Essentially, everything we can use it for, we should use it for. Recently, you have seen several e-mails with training classes being offered to learn about E-Sponder. These classes are valuable, but probably not required for you to use the system. In the very near future, key ARES/RACES members will hold a conference call with Wisconsin Emergency Management personnel to discuss how we can best customize and use the E-Sponder site. We will also assign the appropriate user managers and system administrators. Essentially, all leadership personnel, including assistants, will have some level of administration capability. Generally members, unless assigned by an EC, will have read only access to their designated areas.

As I have said before, E-Sponder is not perfect and I still have questions about its speed and reliability, but it is better than anything we have the resources to create and as taxpayers, we have all bought it. The flexibility of the system is impressive and we can customize it to our liking.

Please try to get into at least one of the training courses, which you can find here.

http://emergencymanagement.wi.gov/section.asp?linkid=841&locid=18.

If you would like to create an E-Sponder account, you can go do so here. http://www.wiesponder.com/ . Remember to remember (good grammar, huh!) your password because you will need it each time you log-in. You will be hearing more about E-Sponder in upcoming articles.