ISSLN+Google+Group

December 2009

The issue of how to maintain an up-to-date email list came up at the last meeting.

Up until now, we could only copy the email list from the last email sent -- which meant emailing everyone every time someone's email needed correcting or someone's name needed adding.

Given that, I took the plunge and set us up as a Google Group called ISSLN (International Schools of Singapore -- Library Network) -- i.e., our own private listserv (much like [|SILCASIA], though a Google group, not a Yahoo one).

When you want to send something to the whole network, just send it to: issln@googlegroups.com

The group homepage/archive can be found at: [|http://groups.google.com.sg/ group/issln]

All of us are already members of the group. It's a private group, so you have to be explicitly added, though others can request membership.

It also means we can upload files to privately share with each other, though **to access the group's files and the archive of all the messages, everyone will have to get themselves a Google account.**

You can control your own group membership settings once you log in via your Google account (including leaving the group).

NB: You -- as a member -- can send something to the whole network using the email address even if you don't have a Google account.

I opted to continue to post the minutes on the public wiki as it's easier to read them there and I don't think there's anything particularly private about them.

Think of the "issln" Google Group as the private face and this "silcsing" wiki as the public face of our network.

-- Katie Day kda@uwcsea.edu.sg