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Get Connected: NCRVE CyberSpace Update

by David Carlson

NCRVE has a variety of electronic services available to the public. Highlights of the past few months include: a redesign of the Events Calendar to allow users to submit event information online and more publications available on the World Wide Web. For titles of items added to the Web in the last few months, see Products Online in the pullout section of this CenterWork. Our electronic services are already used by thousands of people--for information on how you can join in, keep reading! (Note: electronic addresses given below are enclosed in <angle brackets> to set them off from the text. Do not include the brackets when typing the addresses on your computer.)

Self-serve Events Calendar

The calendar of vocational education events at now accepts events announcements online using interactive forms. Submit your event for inclusion in the calendar by visiting <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CalendarPage.html>.

Keep up with the NCRVE Website

Would you like to get a short email message whenever new publications and features become available on the National Center for Research in Vocational Education Website?

If so, send an email message to ncrve-www-announce@ncrve.berkeley.edu, and put the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line of the message. About 380 people were on the list at the end of May.

VOCNET and DISSMN8

VOCNET, NCRVE's listserv discussion group for all voc ed topics, currently has about 1,680 subscribers, up 1 percent from April 1. Approximately 230 items were posted in April-May. VOCNET archives are available on the AskERIC website, at <http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/vocnet.html>.

DISSMN8, NCRVE's listserv discussion group for educational dissemination-related topics, now boasts 172 subscribers, down 9 percent from April 1.

How to Connect to NCRVE Electronic Services

World Wide Web--Point your WWW browser to <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/>.

VOCNET--To subscribe, send a one-line email message to listserv@cmsa.berkeley.edu that says:

subscribe vocnet yourfirstname yourlastname

For example, Carl Perkins would send the message

subscribe vocnet Carl Perkins

Once you have subscribed, you may post items to VOCNET by sending email to vocnet@cmsa.berkeley.edu. Your message will be distributed by email to all subscribers. VOCNET also exists as the Netnews newsgroup bit.listserv.vocnet.

DISSMN8--To subscribe, send a one-line email message to listserv@cmsa.berkeley.edu that says:

subscribe dissmn8 yourfirstname yourlastname

For example, Carl Perkins would send the message

subscribe dissmn8 Carl Perkins

Once you have subscribed, you may post items to DISSMN8 by sending email to dissmn8@cmsa.berkeley.edu. Your message will be distributed by email to all subscribers.

NCRVE-WWW-Announce--To subscribe, send an email message to ncrve-www-announce@ncrve.berkeley.edu that contains the word subscribe in the subject line.

AskNCRVE--If you have a question about a vocational education-related issue, send email to AskNCRVE@ncrve.berkeley.edu.

If you have questions or suggestions regarding NCRVE's electronic services, contact me at NCRVE by email (dcarlson@uclink.berkeley.edu) or by phone (800-(old phone deleted)).

David Carlson manages electronic communications for NCRVE's Dissemination Program.

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