Digital Digest January 2005

/:/:/:/:/ THE DIGITAL DIGEST /:/:/:/:/:/ The Monthly Newsletter of DigitalEVE Japan. Promoting women's digital lifestyles by offering a supportive community and programs tuned to women using IT in their workplace and in their everyday lives. http://www.digitalevejapan.org

FROM THE EDITOR

Louise Mackay, English Newsletter Editor.

Dear All, At DigitalEve Japan we are looking forward to 2005 with renewed vigour and hope for many of our members to fulfil a resolution or two - that may include volunteering for a DEva activity. As you may have noticed, in recent issues we have been asking for help in the organisation of our activities. Even if you are a far flung member you can still contribute

as most (if not all) of our activities we organise and manage via email. So if you wish to help with the Newsletter, organising workshops and meetings, web content and delivery, or anything else that springs to mind, we would be very glad to hear from you.

As December has been a busy month for us all we have a shortened version of the newsletter to bring in the Year of the Rooster. In this issue we have our leader report, membership news and media team news.

Happy New Year from the Newsletter team.

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NOTES FROM THE STEERING COMMITTEE

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ROTA LEADER

Leader Report Misao Kajiro Interim leader for December and January

Dear DEvas,

Happy Hew Year!

I hope all of you are fine and I wish you a happy and successful 2005.

Thank you for supporting DigitalEve Japan in 2004.

Our mailing lists will change soon. I do hope the conversion goes smoothly and that the new list is useful for all members.

We are seeking volunteers who can help us grow and meet our goals. You'll enjoy sharing ideas and enthusiasm through many activities. If more of you volunteer to help us, we can organize more and better events and workshops this year.

We have a lot of files such as event reports, handbooks, etc, which were written by former leaders (including other volunteers). If you want to work as a SC member there is a lot of material for you to refer to. It would be great to have you on board!

Personally my studies have kept me very busy, and I'm afraid that I have to work and study even during the New Year's Holiday. I'm really enjoying this course, although it's tough to be working and studying at the same time. However, it's an interesting experience to take on the challenge of learning about a new field.

Thanks and looking forward to hearing from you.

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MEMBERSHIP TEAM NEWS

Misao Kajiro, Membership Coordinator.

Total membership is 547 as of the 27th of December, 2004.

As announced, the DigitalEve Japan Mailing lists will be combined this month. The starting date will be announced on the list.

Once you have joined DigitalEve Japan you'll receive the DigitalEve Japan Newsletter, announcements from the Steering Committee, Q&A by members, and other topics related to this list. DigitalEve Japan does not sell or rent its members' lists to third parties. However, please keep in mind that sometimes people join lists such as DigitalEve Japan through Yahoo!Groups or other public online forums to collect email addresses for their business. We cannot completely protect our mailing list against such abuse. If we find an address which is sending inappropriate messages we will immediately revoke their posting privileges. The list guidelines are intended to keep our mailing list on-topic, friendly, and useful. Please check for more details at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/de-japan/files/

By using a password when subscribing, you are securing your status. If you do not secure your account, others who know your e-mail address can view and modify your subscription choices.

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WEB CONTENT TEAM NEWS

Debra B. Foster, Web Content Coordinator.

Congratulations to our web content coordinator Debbie Foster, who gave birth to a baby boy, Rhys Holden Foster Naylor on December 17th at 2:08 a.m. Best wishes to the Foster family.

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TECH TEAM NEWS

Nothing to report.

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MEDIA TEAM NEWS

Chiharu Kawai, Media Coordinator

Happy New Year! Wherever you are today, I hope you are safe and warm. The other day, I found in my stamp case a couple of American stamps with a picture of a rooster issued in the last year of the rooster. Wow, I was in the U.S. 12 years ago... At that time, if I remember correctly, it was new for the U.S. Postal Service to issue the red Chinese-looking stamp in respect of the Chinese year.

In Year 2004, particularly toward the end, we were struggling to revitalize our activities. We had a hard time recruiting volunteers for workshops, events and others. Fortunately, a couple of open positions have been filled. I hope more positions will be filled this year.

As a media coordinator, I have plenty of good ideas, but I need DEVas to help me implement these ideas.

Let's make DEJ more visible this year!!

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DETAILS OF UPCOMING EVENTS

Our next Meet the DEvas is planned for February, details to be arranged.

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RECENT EVENTS

Nothing to report.

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SUBMISSIONS TO THE NEWSLETTER

Have an announcement to make? An article to submit for consideration? (We can't pay you, but we'll give you a byline.) Please send your submissions in plain text format to newsletter@digitalevejapan.org

The Digital Digest is brought to you by the Newsletter Team: Debra B. Foster, Noriko Hasegawa, Koko Iwata, Misao Kajiro, Louise Mackay, Sugiko Obata and Ailsa Wylie.