Social Current Standards

The accreditation standards, published as something an organization can actually navigate instead of a document it has to scroll.

Public reference Built for my employer

Who uses it

Organizations in active accreditation cycles across the United States and Canada, plus the coordinators who work with them. It is a public site now linked from the main Social Current website, with nothing to sign into — which also means there is no account count to quote, and I would rather say that than estimate one.

How long it took

Three days, including the rounds with the marketing team, whose input changed it before it went out.

Still maintained

Yes — maintained alongside the annual standards revision, so the published text stays in step with the standards themselves.

Where it runs

standards.social-current.org

The problem it solves

Organizations being accredited are measured against a long set of written standards. Those standards were published in a form that was hard to move around in, so people could not reliably find the section that applied to them. That produced complaints from the organizations using it, and it produced workarounds inside the office — coordinators keeping their own notes and shortcuts because the official source was slower than doing it themselves.

How it works

The full text of the standards is held in a structured form rather than as one long document, so each section is a thing the site can point at directly.
A reader searches or moves through the sections, and lands on the specific standard rather than on a page they then have to scan.
It is a public site with nothing to sign into, because the people who need it are outside the organization.

How it is kept safe

It went through the organization's own information technology and marketing review before launch, and is linked from the main Social Current site.
It holds no personal information and has no accounts, so there is nothing in it that could be exposed.

What this is built with

Each part, and what it does, in plain terms.

Hosting

Where the site actually runs. These run on Cloudflare, the same service that carries traffic for a large share of the web, so pages load from whichever of its locations is nearest the reader.

A web page people use

The site itself, the screens people click through. It opens in an ordinary browser, so there is nothing for anyone to install.

An index built in advance so a large reference can be used quickly. It finds an entry from a partial word instead of making someone scroll.