Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

Website
After the tragic crash it was decided to make use of this occasion to improve the
whole layout of the website to make it more attractive and user friendly. Don
Williams with the help of Francois Martin-Vallas has been working very hard on the
design, graphics and software for the new home page of the website The new banner
with the IAAP logo is now in use and the new home page is ready and will be posted
after the next EC meeting in Montreal in February 2009. Once this is up, Don Williams
and Lucian Apostol and the sub-committee will be working on the other pages of the
website.
Don Williams and Angela Connolly worked over August to set up a special obituary
page for Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig. This is the first time that the website has been used
for this purpose and the final result was very satisfactory.
Don Williams has also worked with Joe Cambray and Karen Hodges to set up a special
area on the website dedicated to the China Earthquake Relief Fund and to create the
possibility of making donations through PayPal link.
As time goes on the embers are making more and more use of the website. The
greatest interest shown has been for the various calls for papers: there have been 399
clicks on the English version of the Call for Papers for the Montreal Congress, 293 on
the Italian version, 274 on the German, 266 on the Spanish and 246 on the French,
while 316 members have clicked on the Vilnius Call for Papers and 348 have clicked on
the Chinese Conference.
Don Williams and the sub-committee have also been looking into the possibility of
sending out an e-newsletter each month with information about what’s available or
new or especially valuable at the website. The e-newsletter would include
periodically instructions on acquiring lost or forgotten passwords, on the value of
logging in (you see sections & files that were hidden before), on documents such as
the Newsletter that are available for download. The idea of a e-newsletter that is
attractive and very brief and informative, may be one way to attract more people
into using the website, sooner than they might otherwise do.
Video Technology
Don Williams has been exploring cheaper solutions to video conferencing in order to
facilitate communication among our members.
While Skype doesn’t allow more than 2 people in their video conferencing, there is
now a new application called “ooVoo” (www.oovoo.com) that produces much better
video and can handle a 6 person video conference with 6 different screens. To work
properly at its optimum level it does need the newer “dual core Intel” processor
which most new computers have had for the past 1-2 years. And more system
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