The CW Listserv is an un-moderated list on which any Consulting Women member can post e-mails to the group.  Consulting Women will remain a closed list-serv, so only members will be eligible to post e-mails to the list and reply to posted e-mails.  With the way we have it set up, when you reply to an e-mail sent through the list-serv by hitting REPLY, your response will go directly to the person who posted the e-mail. 

The purpose of the Consulting Women list-serv:

• To circulate information about upcoming events, meetings, trainings, etc. that will be of interest to other consultants
• To share project, client, and job opportunities
• To provide a means for asking questions related to management and development, event venues, client relationships, etc. and receive feedback from other consultants
• To share a resource that is useful for other consultants

We recognize that it is important to be considerate of others’ inboxes.  Some have expressed dissatisfaction with the number of e-mails already going over the list-serv, while others have expressed a desire to see the list-serv utilized more frequently.  So that we can give options and allow you to find a happy medium, we’ve come up with a set of posting guidelines and headings for the subject line of e-mails sent to the CW list.  It is our intention that by using these headings, you can scan the subject line, learn what is contained in the e-mail without having to read it, and opt to disregard e-mails you have no interest in reading and read only the e-mails of interest to you.

Headings for subject lines of e-mails:

EVENT - announcements, meetings, events, trainings, fundraisers

JOB - projects, jobs, clients looking for someone to do work, work that can be subcontracted, collaboration opportunities

QUESTION - Can you recommend a good tax attorney?  Do you know of any free meeting spaces in Georgetown?, etc.

SUMMARY - a summary of responses to the questions you post

And if there is something that does not quite fit into the above categories, you can indicate: 

OFF TOPIC – and members will chose whether or not to immediately delete

Posting Guidelines:

• Only post information if it falls under one of the categories above.
• Do not send chain letters, SPAM, or other unnecessary e-mails to the list.
• When asking a QUESTION of the list, we ask that you post a SUMMARY of your responses so that all may share the resources.
• Try not to send e-mail attachments over the list as they increase the risk of viruses and crowd mailboxes because of their size.
• Regulate how frequently you are posting to the list-serv.  A good litmus test for whether or not you’re spamming - have I posted more than 2-3 times this month?