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JISCMail Newsletter - December 2010
National Academic Mailing List Service
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In this Newsletter:
* Welcome
* Spring 2010
* Summer 2010
* Autumn 2010
* Winter 2010
* Helpline Tip
* New Groups
* Operational News
* Subscription Details
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* Welcome *
Welcome to the December 2010 JISCMail Newsletter. This newsletter was
created with our very own newsletter tool. Any subscriber to JISCMail can use our templates to produce professional newsletters. Find out more here: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/subscribers/newsletters.html.
In this issue of the JISCMail newsletter we'll be looking back at 2010
and reviewing the changes that the JISCMail team have made to the
service.
The JISCMail team would like to wish all JISCMail group owners and
subscribers a Happy and Peaceful Christmas and New Year.
* Spring 2010 *
Spring 2010 saw JISCMail have a much needed facelift. A new website was
launched, the JISCMail logo was re-designed and the list management
software (LISTSERV) was upgraded.
The site, www.jiscmail.ac.uk, was designed to be easier to navigate
which included enabling all links to be available on every page. The new
design incorporated a 'My Groups box' which allows subscribers and
owners to view and access which groups they belong to from the JISCMail
homepage. If you are not logged in there is a link to do so.
We upgraded the list software that drives JISCMail to provide extra
functionality such as the newsletters. Any subscriber of JISCMail can create professional
looking newsletters as no coding is required. You can click the
placeholders and fill out your content. This feature is open to both
owners and subscribers. There are 5 easy steps to create a newsletter:
1. Set up a newsletter profile.
2. Choose a template.
3. Define your content.
4. Fine tune your newsletter.
5. Test and send.
For information on professional looking newsletters please see: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/subscribers/newsletters.html
* Summer 2010 *
In the summer of 2010, JISCMail released a calendaring tool to make
announcing events on JISCMail groups more efficient. Make sure your
JISCMail group doesn’t forget your event - send them a meeting notice
and your event will go into their email client’s calendar.
Other benefits include:
• Keep track of your project and its milestones.
• Share events with people using many different mail clients.
• Schedule meetings with people not at your institution.
• A personal calendar you can access anywhere.
• Populate events from your own calendar.
• Display multiple calendars in one view.
READ MORE:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/tools/calendars.html
* Autumn 2010 *
In the Autumn of 2010, we opened our public archives to search engines.
All public information has been made available to search via search
engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. Previously searching across
many public groups was difficult but this is now possible. Although
previously your group names were searchable via search engines, the
additional archive search has improved visibility of public groups and
attracted more members to make valuable contributions to your
discussions. The search can be accessed via any group homepage (https://www.JISCMail.ac.uk/yourgroupname)
or simply search via your favourite search engine such as Google.
Points to note
* Search engines choose what to search and when so we cannot
guarantee when the public archives will be available.
* Postings will not be available to search in real time outside of
JISCmail. We will update our sitemap but the search engines will choose
when to include this information.
* If your group goes from public to private following the release of
search, any messages previously crawled maybe available cached for a
period of time on search engines.
* If you are setting your group to become public from private, any
previous private messages maybe crawled and become searchable. Please
review the content of your groups before making the change and removing
content that is not suitable for public consumption. You may want to
inform your group subscribers of the change in settings.
* Winter 2010 *
Recently we added a new way to contact the support team. Along with our
telephone and e-mail support we now accept queries through our new Web
Helpline. The web helpline provides a user friendly web based interface
for support queries.
The Web Helpline also shows your current and previous correspondence
with our e-mail helpline. If you’ve e-mailed our helpline support in the
past the web helpline will show all of your old queries and the
solutions from the JISCMail team.
Access the web helpline here: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/webhelpline
* Helpline Tip *
If you are going away for an extended Christmas break, and want to
temporarily halt email from a group, change your 'mail status' setting
from MAIL to NOMAIL. To do this send the following command to [log in to unmask]
set * nomail
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and when you return, send:
set * mail
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or
Go to the homepage of your group. Choose 'Subscribe or Unsubscribe' and
tick /untick the 'NOMAIL' checkbox within your subscription options.
* New Groups *
Efficiency
EDIC2012 - The organising committee for Eating Disorders International
Conference 2012.
ESAFETY - The purpose of this group is to act as a national conduit to
support communications surrounding issues relating to eSafety within the
post 16 education sector. Here list members can share best practice, ask
for help and generally promote the safer use of technology within an
educational and social context.
BLE-WEBDEV - This group is for marketing and web developers based in the
Bloomsbury Colleges to provide support and help to each other.
NIRAN-MONITOR - This group is designed to enhance and facilitate
communications between the various operational and management
stakeholders of the Northern Ireland Regional Area Network NIRAN. NIRAN
is an integral part of the UK JANET network for all higher and further
education.
EMPLOYEE-LEARNING - This group is used by members of the Employee
Learning Network, which is facilitated by the Higher Education Academy.
It will be used for discussion, announcements and circulation of Academy
news that is relevant to the community.
CAROLINEMISSION - A mailing group for the discussion of the proposed ESA
Caroline spacecraft mission to a main belt comet.
SHARED-SERVICES - Shared services are the convergence and streamlining
of the sectors or parts of the sectors functions to ensure that they
deliver quality services as effectively and efficiently as possible,
with potential for economies of scale and synergies through multi
function working.
AUA-ASSESSORS - A discussion group for the team of assessors who work on
the AUA Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice higher
education administration and management OUVA
HUMANITIESMATTER - This is a group for members of the Humanities and
Social Sciences Matter group to communicate. At present, all members are
in UK education and research, but it may grow. Its focus is UK education
and research.
LPHESYMPOSIUM - This is intended as a follow up to the successful neuro
Linguisic Programming in Higher Education Symposium held at Bournemouth
in September 2010
CSE-TPWG - The Trans-Pennine Working Group is an international,
democratic membership organisation committed to developing a materialist
critique of capitalism, unconstrained by conventional academic divisions
between subjects.
VIEWS-OPENSIM - This sub-list is for members of the Scottish Virtual
Worlds in Education (VIEWS) mail list. To support those interested in
supporting, developing, promoting and using the OpenSimulator Virtual
World Platform.
UEL-WOMEN-IN-SET - This is a mailing group for all women, both staff and
students, working and studying in the Science, Engineering and
Technology fields at the University of East London. The university has
recently signed up to the Athena Swan charter in November 2010; and this
mailing list will be used to circulate news about initiatives to
implement the charter throughout UEL. It will also be used to notify
members about events related to Women in SET and generally build a
community of practice amongst the women staff and students in SET.
IAG-RSCEM - Information advice and guidance is on the cusp of
significant change. Managers will have to grapple with new
accountabilities and expectations in relation to all age guidance and
financial resources will be squeezed. We will have to find new,
innovative and more cost efficient ways of doing things.
OATS-SIG - This group is for general discussions surrounding open source
assistive technology software and came about through the OATS project.
Learning and Teaching
NATIONAL-LAW-STUDENTS-FORUM - Group for members of the UKCLE-facilitated
National Law Students Forum. The forum is for law student
representatives to share ideas and best practice, with the aim of
becoming more proactively involved in shaping their law learning
experience.
Research
DERN - This group expects to grow rapidly over the following 12 months.
It grew from 6 founding member to 95 since Easter 2010, and has a good
amount of international interest too. The forum is about disabled
people researching anything at all, and also anyone at all researching
issues on disability and we are holding the first Disability Equality
Research Network DERN conference at LSE during Summer 2011.
MASCULINITY-STUDIES - This group is for use by researchers in the field
of masculinity studies accross academic disciplines to post
announcements and generate discussions in this field.
SLUMTOURISM - This mailing group keeps its members informed on what is
happening in research on slum tourism. We send out regular updates both
of academic and more general nature.
FCNETWORK - The main aim of the email discussion group is to enable
dialogue and debate between researchers, artists and curators whose
interest is in museum and exhibition practice influenced by feminism.
* Operational News *
Please note that the JISCMail office will be closed from 25th December
to 3rd January inclusive.
We will be accepting emails into the helpline during this period and
will answer them as soon as possible when we return.
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