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Exchange News: How to Modify or Stop Your Listing

We’ve created this short video tutorial on how to modify, stop or remove your listings from the SaltSpringCommunity.com Exchange. Enjoy!

List News: The Words of Our Community as Art

Wordles are a tool for generating “word clouds” from content within SaltSpringCommunity.com and from the SaltSpringCommunity.com List. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear most frequently. You can see some interesting rhythms in language that the community here on the island are using to describe what we’re interested in, what is happening, what [...]

CFSI Radio – Video Interview of SaltSpringCommunity.com Founders

Watch the full video interview of SaltSpringCommunity.com founders Suzanne Little and Christopher Roy as they talk with John Bateman on CFSI Radio about SaltSpringCommunity.com, the SaltSpringCommunity.com List, the ins and outs of moderating the list and Tom Hooper’s hair.
Part One

Part Two

List Stories: The Case of the Rubber Chickens

The thing about the Salt Spring Community Email List is that you just never know when it might come in handy. It’s a love-hate relationship, really. With a different “like new” queen-size bed listed almost everyday, I’ve gotten to wonder what everyone on this island is sleeping on. And when you live in a 400-sq-foot [...]

Managing Email: Writing a Good Subject Line

Help your fellow mailing list subscriber. Write a clear, short and understandable subject line.
Writing a good subject line improves the chances of your message getting read and helps all list members quickly scan what is, or isn’t, of interest to them so that they don’t have to open each message.
How do I write a good [...]

Managing Email: Creating Filters and Rules

One of the best ways to manage large volumes of email from our list is to create emails filters or rules in your email software or service. Using these methods you can move email out of your inbox to specific folder so that your inbox doesn’t get clogged up with mail from our list. This [...]