[UCIMC-Tech] [Imc-bookkeeper] Website/listserv links

Thu Jan 20 15:55:45 CST 2011

Hi Elizabeth:
I can sit down with you and do this. Do you have time tomorrow after 2:00,
this weekend, or next week?

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Elizabeth Simpson <elizacorps at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hi folks-
>
> Boring question: I needed to change the address that I receive different
> lists from, and when I went to the website to find out where there are a few
> problems...
>
> First, when you go to the groups list, it says 'click here to join' but
> when you click the link, it just brings you to the GIGANTIC list of chambana
> lists, and who knows which to go to, because there are a zillion. If I try
> to workaround (which we shouldn't expect of people) and type in what look
> like MIGHT be right (e.g. for finance it ends with /imc-space) I get the
> space list, but I was looking for finance, so it would be/is confusing
> whether or not I'm on the finance/bookeeper list or the space list and what
> the difference is.
>
> Personally, I know that I can talk to Ritzo about this to solve my own
> issue, but publicly, the links should direct to someplace that is actually
> correct for a person to join.
>
> Finally, there are a number of lists that are currently dormant. This
> doesn't mean they should be dismantled/erased, because we want them, but
> there should be a 'DORMANT' next to them so that folks don't think they
> should be getting responses when they won't. I know for sure that staffing
> and artists aren't active. I suspect outreach isn't, and am not sure if tech
> or web are active (e.g. that anyone uses those lists).
>
> If someone with the lists knowledge and web access wants to sit down with
> me I could hack through and update it next week?
>
> -elizaBeth
>
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> --- On *Thu, 1/13/11, Danielle Chynoweth <danielle at prometheusradio.org>*wrote:
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> From: Danielle Chynoweth <danielle at prometheusradio.org>
> Subject: [Imc-bookkeeper] Fwd: 2011 Application Now Open for New Media
> Women Entrepreneurs Grants
> To: "Bookkeeperlist" <imc-bookkeeper at lists.chambana.net>, "Carly Nix" <
> nix.carly at gmail.com>, "Safiya Umoja Noble" <safiyanoble at gmail.com>, "Lori
> Patterson" <lori at ojctech.com>, "Meadow Jones" <meadow.jones at gmail.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 2:55 PM
>
> http://www.newmediawomen.org/site/proposal_guidelines/
>
> *J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and the McCormick
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>
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