What is the SPIG Email List?
The SPIG email list is an Internet gathering comprising mainly individuals teaching at smaller journalism programs around the country, although participation is open to anyone wishing to join in and/or lurk. Many of the participants also are members of the Small Programs Interest Group of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The list is hosted at Simpson College.
How do I join?
Subscribing to the list is simple. Send an email to the following address:
spig@mysimpson.onmicrosoft.com
Leave the subject line blank. Click "off" any automatic sig line you append to your emails. Then write in the body of the message:
subscribe spig
That should do it. If you don't receive a confirmation message back within a few minutes, drop a line to Brian Steffen, the list administrator, at brian.steffen@simpson.edu.
How do I participate?
Once you're subscribed, you'll receive a copy of every posting by the dozens of people who are members of the list. You may respond to existing posts or start new ones. To do so, send your post to the following address:
spig@mysimpson.onmicrosoft.com
Although we've had no flame wars to date on our list, it's always a good idea to remind participants that we're a friendly group of journalism educators always on the lookout for better ways to do our jobs. Feel free to agree or disagree with anyone - just keep the discourse level up high. We like each other.
What do we talk about on SPIG?
Anything the list members want to discuss. We've had no threads about favorite recipes yet, but list members are welcome to contribute anything that they think other list members would want to know.
The SPIG list is not edited by the administrator or anyone else. Once you post, your words will be transmitted around the list within a few seconds.
How do I officially join SPIG?
There's no charge to subscribe to this list, of course. SPIG, however, is always on the lookout for new members as a means of improving its service to small journalism programs around the country. You can become an official member of the group by checking off the SPIG option the next time you register or re-register as a member of AEJMC. It's a mere $12 for the year.
Brian Steffen, Simpson College, email list manager