ANNOUNCEMENT: Golden Pages Conference Announcements: relaunch with new functionality

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Dear colleagues,

In order to introduce more convenient means for scholars anywhere in the world, with or without university affiliation, to submit conference announcements, dissertation abstracts, and other links of interest to musicologists, the Golden Pages have moved to

http://goldenpages.jpehs.co.uk

Please update your bookmarks.

The new content management system allows the site's users to submit announcements for conferences using the form at < http://goldenpages.jpehs.co.uk/submitting-conference-details/conference-announcement/ >

You will be asked to provide basic contact details, the title of your conference, and any announcement text (which may now include styled text and hyperlinks: buttons at the top of the text box enable easy formatting and link generation). Once submitted your announcement will be moderated to prevent spam, and should in principle appear on the site within a few days. Both the site's front page and the right-hand pane on every page of the site list the most recently announced conferences, to give greater exposure, and forthcoming conferences will continue to be listed in chronological order by month at < http://goldenpages.jpehs.co.uk/conferences/>,
with an archive of all conferences back to 1991 being retained at < http://goldenpages.jpehs.co.uk/conference-archive/>. Abstracts of doctoral dissertations can be submitted by using a similar form at < http://goldenpages.jpehs.co.uk/golden-pages/184-2/phd-thesis/>.

I'm working on a way for users to be able to modify conference announcements they have already made (for instance to announce programme details or deadline extensions). For now, please simply use the form for submitting a new conference announcement and preface the conference title with the words 'TEXT MODIFICATION', and I'll make the changes manually.

Everything else should be familiar from earlier versions of the site. I hope it continues to be useful and will welcome any suggestions for improvements either to content or functionality. If it's in my power to tinker with the interface, I'll try.

Best wishes,
Paul Harper-Scott
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Dr J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Senior Lecturer
Department of Music
Royal Holloway, University of London
http://jpehs.wordpress.com/
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