austraLasia 1172

BIS goes blogging - and takes up RSS

CHENNAI: 26th June 2005 --  It's been a while....a whole week in fact, and thanks for the many best wishes.  I did not realise how many people were interested in someone else's retreat!  But the wishes and the prayers were well received.  Thank you.
    And so much has happened inbetween.  BIS, Bosconet Information Services, or at least the Chennai branch, has now gone RSS, and indeed has gone one step further and opened up a blog.  This indeed is the cutting edge in IT these days and it is good that there is a growing Salesian presence where many of our young people happen to be.  At this stage, austraLasia and BIS, two of the English language regular Salesian news sservicesm, are RSS enabled.  To be precise, the BIS effort has begun with Chennai.  Understand that BIS, Bosco Information Services, is an all-India affair, with each of the provinces contributing.  But it is also a coordinated enterprise, so if one goes RSS, we expect the others to follow suit shortly. 
    To make it easy for you, if you already have an RSS reader in place, the address is http://www.donboscoindia.com/english/rss/chennainews.xml Cut and paste that into your RSS reader and you will receive BIS news the easy way from there on.  The Donboscoindia Blog is, I think, by invitation, but given that it is, to my knowledge, the very first Salesian blog, then you may be interested in taking part, if only to learn a little about this interactive process.  Contact Fr PT Joseph at ptjoseph@donboscochennai.org and ask him for an invitation to join the blog.
     austraLasia also has a heap of new subscribers - and several 'old' ones who were dropped off the list and wondered why they were not receiving it still.  Sometimes addresses go wrong for reasons known only to cyberspace, and after about ten tries, I put them into a 'problem' folder until someone gets in touch and asks what is happening.
    The next austraLasia will contain some news from Vietnam.  It comes only rarely, and usually anonymously.  But we are happy to publish it - anonymously!

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