"World's Largest Medical Missions Conference Opens"

From The Christian Post (11/9/07):

"The world’s largest medical missions conference opened Thursday, welcoming an estimated 3,000 people interested in ministering through medicine.

Christians from throughout the world converged in Louisville, Ky., for the 12th Global Missions Health Conference to network, train and strategize on how to better carry out the Great Commission and recruit the next generation of healthcare missionaries."

Read on...

A Few New Features

A few new features have been added to allow more up-to-date fellowship content. On the frontpage you'll notice the Fellowships Calendar, a single calendar integrating schedules from a variety of fellowships. If you hop over to the Fellowships page, one subtle improvement is the enablement of javascript content in the main content area. What this means is that fellowships can add dynamic content, such as more calendars, slideshows, etc, right in their group's area.

If your fellowship has a Google calendar, I'd be happy to add it to the Fellowships Calendar. I can also add other javascript content to your area on the Fellowships page as well as any other updates for your group. A note has been added on the Resources page about how to keep your group's info up-to-date.

Thanks for your contribution to the website!

Welcome to the New CCF Website

Yes! Refreshed! The CCF website has undergone a complete overhaul ahead of the upcoming school year. My hope is that the website combines the familiar structure of the old site, plus new features to make it even easier to get acquainted with the fellowships here at UCSF!

A couple highlights from the new site:

• Fellowship Browser: Right on the homepage you can browse through the various fellowships. Find out what day of the week they meet, learn their vision, and click the link to more info on the Fellowships page! If you lead a fellowship, you can add your fellowship, too.
  
• Blog and Discussion Feeds: CCF has both the blog you're reading now and a Google Group that you can browser and post to. The latest posts are fed right onto the CCF site.
  
• CCF FAQ: Always wonder what CCF is? Now you can get the scoop on the About page.
• CCF Fellowship Leaders Google Group: Leading a fellowship can at times be isolation. Over the next year I hope that leaders from different fellowships at UCSF can meet and begin to encourage one another. One way to keep in touch is via an online, private community group for leaders.
  
• Faster website loading, easier navigation: My hope is that the site is quicker to navigate through and easier to find what you're looking for.

As usual, I appreciate any and all feedback on the website and how I can make it more useful to you and your ministry!

Website Beta Status Update

A week ago we announced the launch of our CCF website beta sneakpeak, where you could watch the progress of our website overhaul. Not much was there to start with, but we've done considerable work to the front page over the past few days. You can take a peak for yourself at http://www.ucsf.edu/ccf/beta.

A few highlights:

• Fellowships Catalog: Since CCF is about fellowships, we wanted to put a fellowships catalog right in the front page. More tabs will be added to provide a quick, encapsulated view of each fellowship on campus.
• Tabbed Page Nav: We've taken advantage of AJAX scripts to provide a tabbed-style navigation that brings you straight to the content of each page, without having to reload the whole page. The hope is that navigation among pages will be quick and seamless. Right now it's just the front page, but please keep your eyes peeled for more content to come.
  
• Sidebar Sidekick: After playing around with different sidebar implementations, we're trying out a simpler interface. The new feed runs from a script utilizing the Google AJAX API to allow in-page feed refreshes. In other words, you can update the feed without having to reload the whole page!

There's still lots of work left. If you have any suggestions/comments, we would love to hear them!

New CCF Website Beta

The CCF website is getting an extreme makeover! You can watch the progress at our beta page. Our goal is to make it more usable by all UCSF fellowships, both for gathering and posting new content. Any feedback is appreciated!

-David

Veritas Forum coming to UCSF

Veritas Forum, an event-based organization promoting speaker forums on controversial science and religious issues throughout the nation, is coming to UCSF in the upcoming school year. Veritas started at Harvard in 1992 and has held events at institutions ranging from Columbia and MIT to CalPoly and UC Berkeley. Mostly focusing on undergrads, Veritas is beginning to branch out to the grad community with UCSF.

The topic this year is, "Suffering: Where is God in all of this?" A panel of guest speakers will share from their perspectives on suffering, followed by an open discussion from the audience. Plans are in the works for a cafe outreach afterward.

All are invited to attend the planning process this Winter and Spring. CMDA is hosting the event and has scheduled planning meetings for 2/28 (S-163) and 3/6 (Nursetaria). Please contact Jen Min if you have any questions.