Well, I have not added anything here for almost a week. I have been running to catch up on a few things, meetings, site audits, etc...

One of the things I have committed a fair amount of time to is a new process for sharing some of our data here at the school district. I have configured a server that will eventually allow us to post information for general communications. There is a specific type of communication that this system is intended for, but as the system is not ready for kick off, I will have to share the subject later.

By creating systems like this, helping us move away from FAXing and paper delivery, to a more sophisticated PDF, JPG, email, internet based communication, we save a very large amount of paper. As we have been doing business as usual for many years, there is some adjustment to this style of thinking.

Who knows, we may start to create the truly paperless environment computers were supposed to help with over 20 years ago. We all need to focus on minimizing our paper use. An easy example: my email tag says "Save paper, don't print email." I recommend putting this or something similar on your email tag too.

Eventually we will all remind eachother enough times that we will change and ultimately reduce the amount of paper we use.