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If the information in the database can be moved to the Web site in the form of an online directory, you might be able to make information flow the other way. For example, if members could edit their own entries online to update the database, you wouldn't have to do all the editing yourself, and it would help make the information in the directory more accurate.

If you stored email addresses in the database, you could use them to send email to members who haven't updated their entries in a while. The messages could show members the current contents of their entries, ask them to review it, and indicate how to make any needed modifications using the facilities provided on the Web site.

A database might help you make the Web site more useful in ways not even related to the membership list. The League publishes a newsletter, Chronicles of U.S. Past, that has a children's section in each issue containing a history-based quiz. Some of the recent issues have focused on biographical facts about U.S. presidents. The Web site could have a children's section, too, where the quizzes are put online. Perhaps this section could even be made interactive by putting the information from which quizzes are drawn in the database and having the Web server query the database for questions to present to visitors.
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