| November 1999 |
Development of a Website for the Recreation Program is identified as a priority initiative by attendees at the Fall 1999 RMSP Meeting. Kathleen Perales is the Principal Investigator, and Susan Shampine is named the RMSP proponent for the effort. |
| March 2000 |
Preliminary Website Working Group meeting is held at WES to begin planning for site development. |
| April 2000 |
Spring 2000 RMSP Meeting participants are presented with the strawman of the site, and add further support for the initiative. |
| July - November 2000 |
Dr. Bonnie F. Bryson is detailed to WES to coordinate initial content development for a prototype Website. |
| August 2000 |
First meeting of the full Working Group to guide Website development is held at Michigan State University.
- Programs for potential content development and posting on the Website were identified. With the focus on in-house audience, recommended that not only Recreation topic areas but also those for Environmental Compliance and Environmental Stewardship be addressed in the initial announcement of the initiative to the field.
- Recommended the site be called the NRM Website instead of Recreation Website.
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| September 2000 |
CECW-ON memorandum to the field announces the initiative and requests that Districts and Divisions identify POCs for programs listed, SMEs for Website topic area content development, and Field Reviewers for the Website. |
| November 2000 |
Fall 2000 RMSP Meeting participants are shown the prototype site. The group prioritizes topic areas for initial content development. |
| January 2001 |
Second meeting of the Working Group is held in Washington, DC:ยท The Website initiative is renamed the NRM Gateway.
- Attendees for the first Content Development Workshop are identified based on review of RMSP prioritization of Recreation topic areas for initial content development.
- Dr. Bonnie Bryson's association with the initiative is defined as that of Recreation Technical Coordinator.
- CECW-ON staff names Dr. Michael A. Loesch as the Environmental Stewardship (ES) Technical Coordinator so that identification of topic areas and SMEs for ES content development can proceed.
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| 2 February 2001 |
CECW-ON memorandum to the field appoints Content SMEs and describes their roles in Recreation topic area content development. The memo also identifies invitees to the first NRM Gateway Content Development Workshop. |
| 20-23 February 2001 |
First NRM Gateway Content Development Workshop for Recreation topic areas is held in Louisville, KY. |
| 16 March 2001 |
CECW-ON memorandum to the field appoints members of the Field Review Group and identifies their roles in reviewing Gateway site development. |
| 10 April 2001 |
NRM Gateway's grand opening coincides with the NRM National Meeting in Portland, OR. |
| July 2001 |
Second NRM Gateway Content Development Workshop for Recreation topic areas held in Louisville, KY. |
| October 2001 |
The NRM Gateway Team is awarded NSPR's William Penn Mott, Jr. Award for Excellence |
| February 2002 |
Third NRM Gateway Content Development Workshop for Recreation topic areas held concurrently with first workshop for Environmental Compliance topics in Louisville, KY. |
| June 2002 |
Second NRM Gateway Content Development Workshop for Environmental Compliance topic areas held in Louisville, KY. |
| August 2002 |
First NRM Gateway Content Development Workshop to develop Goodtime Lake knowledge management component scheduled for Louisville, KY. |
| November 2002 |
Third NRM Gateway Content Development workshop for Environmental Compliance topic areas scheduled for Savannah, GA. |
| 2003 |
Environmental Compliance business area was launched |
| 2004 |
Corps Lakes Visitor Pages were launched to the public |
| 2005 |
2005 Initial Gateway PMP |
| 2005 |
Environmental Stewardship business area made an initial launch |
| 2006 |
Operations Project Manager Gateway section launched |
| 2008 |
Park Ranger CoP Gateway section launched |
| 2008 |
Bryson, B. F., Perales, K., Jackson, R. S., and Dickerson, V (2008) Knowledge Networks: The Social Software Perspective, Chapter Corps of Engineers Natural Resources Management (NRM) Gateway: Communities in Practice, edited by: Miltiadis D. Lytras, University of Patras, Greece; Robert Tennyson, University of Minnesota, USA; Patricia Ordonez de Pablos, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain. IGI Global.
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| 2011 |
Partnership Advisory Committee reorganized and updated Partnership pages |
| May 2011 |
Gateway Team completed Knowledge Management Certification |
| July 2011 |
Partnerships Advisory Committee Workshop |
| November 2012 |
Invasive Species Group Workshop |
| March 2015 |
2015 Updated Gateway PMP |
| August 2016 |
Visitor Assistance topics Workshop, Lake Ouchita, AR |
| 2018 |
Gateway Team realignment after the retirement of Dr. Kathleen Perales. Virginia Dickerson becomes Project Leader. Amanda Palmer becomes the first in the position of Gateway Advocate |
| July 2018 |
ENS Gateway Workshop, Ft. Hamilton, NY |
| 2022 |
Gateway Team develops and launches NRM Community Teams MS-Teams site in coordination with RLAT and the Recreation Strategic Plan - Communications Implementation Team |
| 2023 |
Gateway Team realignment after the retirement of Dr. Bonnie Bryson (as part-time contractor employee with Gateway duties). Amanda Palmer becomes Gateway Technical Coordinator |
