UMANA unveils new website (06/25/06)

UMANA unveils new website

CHICAGO - The Ukrainian Medical Association of North America (UMANA) unveiled its new, upgraded and bilingual website on June 1. UMANA, the largest Ukrainian American professional association in North America, welcomes visitors, both professionals and the general public, to the new homepage, www.umana.org.

The UMANA board of directors, under the resolve of current President Andrew Iwach M.D., undertook a total revision of UMANA's web presence by incorporating multiple functional elements designed to attract new visitors and to make the site more user friendly.

Under the guidance and input of the Ukrainian Knowledge Internet Portal Consortium Association (UKiP-CA) of Edmonton, the new website was constructed over a period of nearly six months. Input from UMANA members and web design professionals yielded a practical site, incorporating successful elements of the previous site hosted by Brama.

UKiP-CA's general manager, Kim Robinson, was helpful in shepherding the detailed transformation, urging the UMANA leadership to "keep working on the difficult parts because the end product will be well worth the effort."

UMANA's new Internet gateway in the English language is now mirrored in the Ukrainian language; each version is readily accessible at the click of a button. Visitors can easily jump between languages at their convenience, and can use this feature not only for ease of information, but for language learning purposes also.

News of upcoming UMANA events is noted on the home page, and reviews of past activity, including photos, are posted.

Electronic versions of UMANA's popular newsletter, the UMANA News, as well as the unique Journal of the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America (JUMANA), the Likarskyi Visnyk, are available as they are published, in PDF format.

In keeping with UMANA's policy of corporate transparency, the new site includes detailed information on the governance structure of the association, with officers' names and contact information available for the national office as well as all of the active branches throughout the United States and Canada.

One new feature includes the names of active members accessible by navigating a map of North America. This listing of members is designed to assist communication not only among members, but also to allow the public to view member health professionals in their local areas, as well as by their practice specialty.

UMANA welcomes input and participation of the viewing public as its goal is to strive to develop the site to be most productive and interesting to our members, Ukrainians worldwide and all Internet visitors.

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