<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">We've had a lively and interesting debate on this matter - thank you for all the contributions.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The RSS feed for the CMA-L mailing list is now active and is located here:</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://mailmanrss.commedia.org.uk/cma-l/rss.xml">http://mailmanrss.commedia.org.uk/cma-l/rss.xml</a><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Instructions below as to how to subscribe to an RSS feed using the Firefox browser:</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Subscribe-to-wikiHow-RSS-Feeds-Using-Mozilla-Firefox">http://www.wikihow.com/Subscribe-to-wikiHow-RSS-Feeds-Using-Mozilla-Firefox</a><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Other browsers, such as Chrome, will work a little differently.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">If you set up RSS in your browser then your browser will be updated with notifications of new posts to the list - you might already subscribe to news feeds from the BBC using this method.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The above RSS feed is also piped to the CMA's Facebook account and to Twitter. Indeed here is the last post made to the mailing list which has automatically been published on Twitter:</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://twitter.com/community_media/status/512606610137436160">https://twitter.com/community_media/status/512606610137436160</a><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">In the spirit of 'write once, publish many' the mailing list RSS feed </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">and its contents are also reproduced on the front page of the CMA website.</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I will look into pushing the mailing list to LinkedIn and Google+ using <a href="https://ifttt.com/">IFTTT</a> if that is so desired. You can even convert the RSS feed to <a href="http://www.voicerss.org/">voice</a> you like.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The list of all of our mailing lists and the list guidelines are available here:</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/get-support/cma-email-lists/">http://www.commedia.org.uk/get-support/cma-email-lists/</a><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I suggest that we use the <a href="http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/comradio-l">comradio-l</a> list to publicise community radio programmes and content, as shown by August's posts here:</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/pipermail/comradio-l/2014-August/date.html">http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/pipermail/comradio-l/2014-August/date.html</a><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">So do share programme news and schedules by sending them to <a href="mailto:comradio-l@commedia.org.uk">comradio-l@commedia.org.uk</a> - a</font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">nd we can keep this list, </span><a href="http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">cma-l</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">, for general news and discussion</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">.</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Anybody interested in local and community television should join and post to comtv-l which has been rather quiet of late and could do with animating:</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/comtv-l">http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/comtv-l</a><br></font></div><div><br></div><div>We also have mailing lists for <a href="http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cmascotland-l">Scotland</a> and for <a href="http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/webcast-l">webcasting</a> if anybody wishes to start a discussion there.</div><div><br></div><div>For die-hard fans of forums, I'll investigate how that sort of functionality can be integrated with the mailing list - this is certainly not impossible.</div><div><br></div><div>The cma-l mailing list has existed for possibly 15 years and during that time other fora and bulletin boards have been and gone. This list has consistently remained a dependable and reliable source of information and comment on the community broadcasting sector and we hope, by making some improvements here and there, will remain so for at least another 15 years.</div><div><br></div><div>With best regards</div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Bill</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-- </font></div><div><div dir="ltr">Operations Manager<br>Community Media Association<br><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.commedia.org.uk/</a><br><a href="https://twitter.com/community_media" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/community_media</a><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation</a><br><br>Canstream Internet Radio & Video<br><a href="http://www.canstream.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.canstream.co.uk/</a><br><a href="https://twitter.com/canstream" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/canstream</a></div></div>
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