The eNWI List Serve

April 2005

Tell me about eNWI's list serve
At eNWI we use the National Academic Mailing List Service, Jiscmail All the old and the current communications which eNWI members receive directly into their email are also always accessible via each individual list serve's web page which is maintained on the host provider (therefore for eNWI, on the Jiscmail site). However, list serves can either be open to anyone visiting the main web site to join - or they can be private, open and accessible from the web/via email only to the members. eNWI is exactly this - a private list serve. You need to complete an eNWI Contact Form and be added to our list before you can access the group via the web page or send and receive eNWI email messages. In this way you can be sure that communications which come to you via eNWI come only from people who have responded to all the questions on the eNWI contact form first.

How do I get added to the List Serve?
Everyone who completes the eNWI Contact Form and confirms that they wish to join the list serve on the contact form is added to the eNWI list serve. All the members of the Co-Ordinating Committee and the Regional Representatives are also automatically added to the eNWI list.

What happens then?
Once you have been added:

• you will receive a Welcome email from eNWI/Jiscmail
• you receive an email giving you the web address for the eNWI list serve - where you can find all the old messages in the Archives, where you can change your Settings to whatever set up you prefer - or you can leave the list/re-join as you choose. You can also choose to Post your messages to the list direct from the eNWI list serve web page if you prefer to do this rather than by sending a routine email.
• you will start to receive the messages posted by other eNWI colleagues into your email inbox. Sometimes this will be information from the Co-ordinating Committee about interesting Welsh eHealth opportunities or other developments, sometimes it might be someone seeking a colleague with a similar or special interest, but most of the time it will be your nursing colleagues across Wales sharing ideas, thoughts, experiences and professional issues with you.
• you should remember that the communication content is entirely dependent upon the members willingness to take part and communicate/share in this way.

Will I find loads and loads of unwanted extra email arrives in my inbox? I've already got a huge problem with spam.
eNWI is a very new list serve. At the moment we ae at the very early stage of evolution in Wales. We are still trying to establish the best uses for the list serve. We need you yourselves to start to use it to communicate about things you feel you need to share and discuss - the group themselves then exposes in what way it is most useful to them - therefore the extra communication is welcomed and needed, rather than a passive nuisance. Only the members themselves can really make the list work for them. However, it is always a great way to let others with a similar interest know about something you plan to do or want an opinion on.

Please join in and help us make the eNWI list serve work for nurses in Wales.