Our team continues to drive excellence across web development, SEO, and regional news management. Today’s focus remained on technical site fixes for Aruba projects, high-volume obituary publishing, and team-wide coordination for upcoming tasks.
ZARA
Content Management & Quality Control
- Aruba News Updates: Monitored Diario.aw and Google Alerts for real-time news in Aruba, resulting in 05 published news items.
- Durham Region News: Reviewed insauga.com and published 05 news updates.
- Quality Assurance: Conducted a meeting with Emma to audit obituary posts and provided feedback on necessary corrections.
- Internal Tasks: Created the daily staff summary blog post, re-edited previous posts, and met with Ben for a progress check.
KEVIN
Web Development & Technical Fixes
- Aruba Site Maintenance: Resolved specific site issues for the Aruba project based on Ben’s technical reports.
- Andrew Heartmath Project: Reviewed client documentation and updated website content at andrewheartmath.aawsai.com (Project status: Nearly Complete).
- New Project: Initiated work on judysinger.aawsai.com, setting up credentials and reviewing dev site environments.
- Collaboration: Met with Ben and Milan to discuss task transitions and project status.
EMMA
WordPress Management & Content
- Obituaries Management: Added 13 new obituaries and refined existing entries by removing redundant language elements to improve SEO and readability at canadianobituaries.com.
- Technical Training: Participated in a session with Milan covering:
- Advanced WordPress Header & Footer editing.
- Dynamic Page Management.
- Efficient application of Shortcodes.
- Collaboration: Coordinated with Ben for a daily status update.
JAKE
Regional News & Data Entry
- Obituary Research: Scanned multiple major funeral and obituary platforms including NecroCanada, Le Necrologue, Echovita, and Legacy.com.
- High-Volume Publishing: Successfully posted 34 obituaries (Ontario) and 01 obituary (Durham) to canadianobituaries.com.
- Meeting: Discussed obituary posting workflows and progress with Ben.
