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<h2>New CTS website and email list</h2>
<p>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 <a
title="Canadian Corporation for the Study of Religion"
href="http://www.ccsr.ca/" target="_blank">CCSR</a>,
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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<ul>
<li> Subscription to the email list is currently open to the public,
it is not restricted to CTS members</li>
<li>This is not a discussion list. The list is intended only for the
distribution of CTS- and Congress -related announcements. The <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28534722077"
target="_blank">CTS Facebook group</a> is available for some discussion</li>
<li>There is a list archive in case you misplace an announcement</li>
<li>To avoid spam, the list requires subscribers to reply to a
“confirmation email” before their subscription is activated</li>
<li>The automated list allows subscribers to revise their
subscription details (email address, name, html or text, etc…)</li>
<li>The webmaster can assist with changing subscription details</li>
<li>Our existing list of CTS members has been automatically
subscribed to the new list</li>
</ul>
<p>To add, edit, or cancel your subscription to the email list, please
visit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cts-stc.ca/email-list">http://cts-stc.ca/email-list</a> or email <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:webmaster@cts-stc.ca">webmaster@cts-stc.ca</a><br>
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<p>Finally, one other feature of the website is the new <a
href="http://cts-stc.ca/feed/" target="_blank">RSS feed</a>. RSS
(Really Simple Syndication) is a means of distributing new website
postings, such as this one. By subscribing to the <a
href="http://cts-stc.ca/feed/" target="_blank">RSS feed</a> with an <a
href="http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/WWW/Feed_Readers/"
target="_blank">RSS reader</a> or <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregator" target="_blank">aggregator</a>,
you will be notified as soon as a new post is added to the CTS website.</p>
<p>If you have any questions, I would be happy to help.<br>
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Nicholas Jesson, Acting Secretary
Canadian Theological Society
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:secretary@cts-stc.ca">secretary@cts-stc.ca</a>
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