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This is the
old BARC! website. Go to the new improved
BARC! website for current information
Free Web Page and Email Address
To help promote online collaboration and resource sharing, BARC! is happy to
be able to offer to host a web page for any group that does not have its own
site. We are now also able to provide a free email address.
Free Web Page
How can my group benefit from having a web page?
You can tell the world who you are, what you do and how people can get
involved. It's a bit like being listed in the telephone book. If you aren't
listed, some people will find it hard to believe that you exist. At the very
least, they will find it harder to find you.
There may be people out there right now, wanting to help out but unsure of
what they can do in their area. Many people will go to the web to search for
opportunities and many people will visit BARC!
On the BARC! website we promote events, requests for help, ongoing actions
and campaigns and much more. If you are running an event or seeking a volunteer
(for example), we can link straight from your add, through to your website,
allowing interested people to find out more about who you are and what you
do.
Without the information about your organisation, many potential supporters
who do not already know you will not bother going any further than viewing your
add. With your own web page, you will be able to convince them that you are
worthy of their support!
Once you put it up there, it will stay there, quietly working away and
drawing supporters in to help you reach your goals.
Furthermore, it's free! So, what have you got to lose? Get out there and put
together a page right now and send it to me!
Whew! I worked myself into a lather with that one. Now for a bit more
information...
Who can use this service?
This service is for groups working with, or advocating for, asylum seekers or
refugees in some way. The group must be located in South East Queensland or
Northern New South Wales.
What is provided?
BARC! will provide space for one page for your organisation on the BARC!
server. Your web page will appear on the web, in the same format as we receive
it. The only change will be that at the bottom of the page will be the following
brief note from BARC!:
This page is hosted by the
Brisbane Actionweb for Refugee Collaboration as a free service to groups in South East Queensland and
Northern New South Wales who are working
with, or for, refugees or asylum seekers. The organisation represented on this page is independent of
BARC. The hosting of this page by BARC does not indicate endorsement of the
organisation or the page content. Find out how to put a page up
for your organisation or group.
Your website address will be http://www.barc.org.au/groups/mygroup.html
where 'mygroup' is whatever name you want to give for your group.
BARC reserves the right, in BARC's discretion:
(a) not to publish any particular web page; and (b) to remove at any time any
web page from the BARC server
How do I put my page up?
Email your page as an attached Microsoft Word document to info@barc.org.au
. BARC! will upload the page exactly as it is formatted in Microsoft Word. In
the email, let me know what name you would like to appear as part of the website
address for your group name (keep it down to about ten characters or less).
In future, if you wish to change your page, simply edit your Microsoft Word
document and email the new document to me. This will replace the old page.
Do I need to know HTML?
Not at all. Just send me your page as a Microsoft Word document and I will do
the rest.
Free Email Address
BARC! can provide you with a free email address of the form yourgroup@barc.org.au
that will automatically forward email onto your existing email account. The
benefits of this are that you get a better looking email address and you can
change your email account without having to change your email address.
A better looking email address
Most of the groups in the sector run on the smell of an oily rag
and the blood sweat and tears of their volunteers. So, organisational email
addresses are often with free email providers like Yahoo or Hotmail. But a Yahoo
or Hotmail address does not look very professional for your group (and it is
actually advertising them). An email address of the form yourgroup@barc.org.au
is more meaningful as people come to associate barc with the Brisbane regional
refugee sector. Also, if you have put up a webpage, it will have an address
something like www.barc.org.au/groups/yourgroup
which will fit in with your email address.
Permanent email address
If you have ever changed your email address, you would know that
it is a big effort to tell everyone your new address and make sure they use it.
You may be reluctant to change to a different Internet Service Provider, even if
they offer a better deal, because you will lose your old email address.
Well, a BARC! email address solves this problem because it
provides email forwarding. Simply tell me what address you want your email sent
to and I will set it up for you. When someone sends an email to your BARC! email
address it will be automatically forwarded on to your existing email account. If
your email account changes, simply let me know and I will update the destination
for your forwarded email. Your BARC! email address never changes.
How do I get a BARC! email address
Simply email me with the name of your group, the email username
that you would like (i.e. the bit before the @ symbol) and the address that
email should be forwarded onto.
If I do not know you I will check up with your group before
proceding. In your email program, simply go into the settings (or options) and
change the email address for your account to yourgroup@barc.org.au
(where yourgroup is the email username that you chose). If you are not permitted
to change the email address for your account (this is the case with some
web-based email providers such as Yahoo and Hotmail), then make sure that you
set the reply-to address to be yourgroup@barc.org.au.
To provide feedback on this site, make corrections or for any other
comments,
please email Chris Gibbings admin@barc.org.au
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