The Brooks Quimby Debate Council has brought its website into the 21st century at batesdebate.org. The new website adds a number of new features to improve communication between the Brooks Quimby Debate Council, the Bates Community and Brooks Quimby Alumni, including commenting and up-to-the minute team news.
Among the new features are a News area where the team posts the latest results and photos from tournaments, community events and other happenings. The team intends to put content online as soon as possible to make more information about the team available more quickly.

"The layout looks fantastic and it seems very intuitive and easy to use," said Jared Levy '09, a current member of the team.

The new Public Debates portion of the site not only helps the team better publicize its public debates in the Bates Community, but also allows users to comment and join the debate. Current Bates students, Brooks Quimby debaters and Brooks Quimby alumni will all be able to comment at launch.

This newsletter, the Point of Information, will also go online. At launch, the site features the three latest issues of the Point of Information, with the goal of putting more back issues online in the future.

Brooks Quimby Debate's new website also allows current team members to create and personalize their own user profiles. Debate members' profiles also feature convenient links to content each member has published to the site, and articles mentioning that member of the team.

In the future, the web team hopes to add additional interactive features, in particular features to permit Brooks Quimby alumni to submit their debate stories and keep in touch with the team.

The new website launched as a beta in December, and goes online officially this week. Brooks Quimby Debate's new 21st century website embraces new technology to bring the team closer to the Bates Community and Brooks Quimby alumni.