Special Issue: Susan Fischer's Challenge, EasyAbs and Donor's Letter

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Subject:  Special Issue: Susan Fischer's Challenge, EasyAbs and Donor's Letter


-------------------------Message 1 ----------------------------------
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:03:00
From:  linguist [[log in to unmask]]
Subject: 4-Hour Challenge from Advisor Susan Fischer!


Dear Subscribers,

LL Advisor Susan Fischer has a challenge for you: 
She has already donated to the LL fund drive; but
she's willing to make a second generous donation
if other LL users will also show their support. 
She challenges 10 new donors to donate $50 each
within the next 4 hours.  The clock is running! 
Can you meet the challenge and multiply your
donation through Susan's generosity?

Donate now at:

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

The LINGUIST Crew


-------------------------Message 2 ----------------------------------
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:32:04
From:  linguist [[log in to unmask]]
Subject: Why I Donate to LINGUIST


Dear Subscribers,


Why do I donate to the Linguist List? Because
I think that the LINGUIST List is an essential
service for the field world-wide. I remember
how difficult it was, when I was on the job
market (and retyping my thesis on my trusty
Smith-Corona), just to make sure I knew about
all the jobs I should be applying for. From
its relatively simple beginnings as a
particularly well-designed listserv, to its
current incarnation as a stupendous repository
of information and resources and a virtually
instant communication system for us all, the
LINGUIST List has established itself as a major
part of the framework that holds our global
community together. I simply can't imagine how
we'd function without it.

About fifteen years ago there was a document
published - I forget by whom - that listed all
the linguistics graduate programs in (I think)
North America, with names of faculty, information
about what degrees were offered, etc. I bought
a copy; it cost maybe twenty dollars, but I
found it useful. When I was on the job market
someone gave me a subscription to University
Affairs, a Canadian publication that was,
at the time, the major place where academic jobs
were advertised. Probably 95% of the information
in the publication was completely useless to me,
and I had to pore over pages of advertisements in
tiny print to find the linguistics jobs (there
were, I think, three in Canada that year). That
subscription cost about $30, and it was over
thirty years ago. In an average week the LINGUIST
List provides me with more information I need,
in a form that's more useful, than both of those
documents ever did.

So I think the LINGUIST List is amazingly good
value for money, even if I make a sizable donation
every year.

Donate to LINGUIST at:
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Elizabeth Cowper
Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of Toronto


-------------------------Message 3 ----------------------------------
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:15:51
From:  linguist [[log in to unmask]]
Subject: Easy: Abs Is Our Latest Facility Released For Conference Organizers

Dear LINGUIST subscribers,

This letter is a report on Linguist's Easy Abs system.
Actually we have launched this system a few months ago.
It is very successful since up to now there are 50 conferences
in our current list.  This system has many features for the
conference organizers. This facility will provide conference
organizers a way to create their abstract submission and
abstract review system. Organizers can customize their abstract
system or use the default pages through our system. After
organizers finish creating abstract system, they can put a
link to their main conference site or send email to their
users about this link. Then the users can click the link and
submit their abstract online. The reviewers of the conferences
can login the abstract system and rate the abstracts online. 
Right now we are also working on our version 2 features after
we got feed back from users.  We will have review match feature
soon, so organizers can assign the abstracts to reviewers by
themselves.

The current sections of our conference customization system are:
1. Customize abstract submission and review system
2. Submit abstracts
3. Rate and review
4. View abstracts
5. Send email to authors or reviewers

Here at LINGUIST, we are excited to provide this free service
for all conferences. We hope that you will take advantage of
our services. LINGUIST is non-profit organization. It always
provides free service for all linguist users in the world.

See EasyAbs at: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/

	 
Please keep us up and running by contributing to our fund drive. 
We can not continue to maintain and improve our system without
your generous donation.

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm


Best Wishes

Easy Abs Team
Lily Zheng
Maria Moreno-Rollins
Ania Kubisz