ListServe+Options

Goal is to find a way to aggregate and better manage communications among faculty, staff and students.

 The current listserves are:

SPA@LISTSERV.vt.edu, which goes to UAP undergrads in Blacksburg - PUA and EPP students (Diane Zahm is the list manager) guapa@listserv.vt.edu, which goes to grads in Blacksburg (Dustin Akers is the list manager) pgg@listserve.vt.edu, which goes to all PPG grads in Blacksburg and Alexandria (Krystal Wright is the list manager) CASPA@LISTSERV.vt.edu, which goes to all CASPA members in Alexandria (Joe Schilling is the list manager) SPA@listserv.vt.edu, which goes to SPIA people (Krystal Wright is the list manager) UAP@listserv.vt.edu, which goes to MURP and PGG students in Alexandria (Myriam Lechuga is the list manager) UAP-FACULTY@listserv.vt.edu, which goes to all UAP faculty (**NAME** is the list manager) UAP_Masters@listserv.vt.edu, which goes to MURP students in Blacksburg (Sandy Graham maintains) UAP_NCR_STUDENTS@LISTSERV.vt.edu, which goes to current MURP and PGG students for Alexandria (Myriam Lechuga is the list manager)

Current Status 12/8/2010 Cullen has created a draft flowchart

11/24/2010 Cullen is working on the visual for the information flow Beth and Cullen will meet week of Nov 28 to discuss the Scholar site

11/17/2010 Two Scholar sites have been created Beth updated the information flow chart

10/19/10 In progress Beth and Cullen met on Wednesday 10/13 to discuss

10/12/10 Sandy is working on creating the Scholar site and the email account

10/6/10 We will create a Wiki on Scholar to support this Beth will contact Sandy if she does not currently have the ability to create the site in Scholar, so that her privileges can be turned on if need be Beth will also work with Sandy to establish a common email (UAPNews@vt.edu) for people to send in news to

10/5/2010 Three options have been identified

Option 1 with listserve
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Continue using a listserve that is email based (such as LSoft)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Consider making the list two-way so that anyone can post to it, just remind people periodically that information should be relevant to planning or VT/UAP
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No cost if we use University listserve, cost if we use LSoft option outside of VT

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Option 2 with blogs as interface
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create a blog where people can post information via email address
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It would be good to have three different email addresses (can't sort by tagging only, at least I can't find a way to do this now).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Alexandria
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blacksburg
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Burn the RSS feed from each of the three channels
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subscribers can log in and select the topics for information they want to receive
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Add current emails as subscribers via email to a newsletter
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The newsletter pulls in the feeds for what's been subscribed to
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They will receive an email with links to the information types they have selected. We can set the frequency to "automatic" as soon as something is posted or daily, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cost ranges is $13.95 per month for 500-999 subscribers, see @http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?newsletter/pricing

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Option 3 with Facebook at interface
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have people post the news on a Facebook group using Pixelpipe or another service. We could use CASPA for student events, alumni group for current news and a third group (to be created) for administrative announcements.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Burn the RSS feeds from the groups using Yahoo Pipes or another service
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Add current emails as subscribers via email to a newsletter
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The newsletter pulls in the feeds for what's been subscribed to.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They will receive an email with links to the information types they have selected. We can set the frequency to "automatic" as soon as something is posted or daily, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cost ranges is $13.95 per month for 500-999 subscribers, see @http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?newsletter/pricing