[CTS] New CTS website and email list

[CTS Secretary]

    New CTS website and email list

At the AGM in May, it was announced that the Canadian Theological 
Society would be establishing its own website at a new web address. The 
purpose of the change is to enhance communication with CTS members, and 
to make CTS more visible to the wider academic community. For many years 
the CTS webpages have been hosted by the CCSR <http://www.ccsr.ca/>, and 
we appreciate the opportunity that this represented. However, with our 
pages buried within the CCSR and other society pages, many search 
engines and indexes did not give prominence to the CTS. In addition, the 
CCSR site did not provide many of the technical opportunities available 
on many websites today.

The new domain name of the website is CTS-STC.CA. This is intended to be 
a bilingual address. At this point in time, there is very little French 
material on this website, but we hope that it will be possible to 
increase the francophone participation in the CTS and that a volunteer 
might be found who can translate the existing pages and help us develop 
new content.

In addition to the website, there is another opportunity made possible 
by the new domain name. We now have an email listserv. This is an 
automated email distribution system. This will allow the CTS executive 
to communicate with the list members quickly and effectively.

    * Subscription to the email list is currently open to the public, it
      is not restricted to CTS members
    * This is not a discussion list. The list is intended only for the
      distribution of CTS- and Congress -related announcements. The CTS
      Facebook group <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28534722077>
      is available for some discussion
    * There is a list archive in case you misplace an announcement
    * To avoid spam, the list requires subscribers to reply to a
      "confirmation email" before their subscription is activated
    * The automated list allows subscribers to revise their subscription
      details (email address, name, html or text, etc...)
    * The webmaster can assist with changing subscription details
    * Our existing list of CTS members has been automatically subscribed
      to the new list

To add, edit, or cancel your subscription to the email list, please 
visit http://cts-stc.ca/email-list or email webmaster at cts-stc.ca

Finally, one other feature of the website is the new RSS feed 
<http://cts-stc.ca/feed/>. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a means of 
distributing new website postings, such as this one. By subscribing to 
the RSS feed <http://cts-stc.ca/feed/> with an RSS reader 
<http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/WWW/Feed_Readers/> 
or aggregator <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregator>, you will be 
notified as soon as a new post is added to the CTS website.

If you have any questions, I would be happy to help.

-- 
Nicholas Jesson, Acting Secretary
Canadian Theological Society
secretary at cts-stc.ca

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