Mailtalk new Calendaring tool - 13/07/2010

Mailtalk is pleased to announce the release of our new calendaring tool.

You can organise, add and share events with your colleagues even if they are not registered to use Mailtalk. Our calendaring invitations work on many different mail clients and can be accessed via any Mailtalk online group or remotely via CALDav.

Benefits include:

• Announcing events to your Mailtalk group.
• Keep track of your project and their milestones.
• Share events with people using many different mail clients.
• Schedule meetings with people not at your institution.
• A personal calendar you can access anywhere.
• Populate events from your own calendar.
• Display multiple calendars in one view.

You can access the calendar directly here: http://www.mailtalk.ac.uk/cgi-bin/calendar.cgi

We have a help page here to get you started: http://www.mailtalk.ac.uk/tools/calendars.html.

If you have any queries please email: helpline@mailtalk.ac.uk

Mailtalk new website and new logo - 06/07/2010

Mailtalk has launched a brand new website and re-designed logo today. The site, www.mailtalk.ac.uk, was designed to be easier to navigate, taking into account all relevant feedback from our customers, and we hope you find this more intuitive.

We have made major improvements to the websites navigation which includes enabling all links to be available on every page. The homepage allows you to minimise any of the boxes if you do not wish to view their content.

This innovative new design incorporates a 'My Groups box' which allows subscribers and owners to view and access which groups they belong to from the Mailtalk homepage. If you are not logged in there is a link to do so.

Mailtalk has various collaborative tools such as Surveys, Make a Meeting and Newsletters which were not previously displayed on the homepage. To show the range of features we have to offer, we have included links to further information.

The website has been fully Accessibility checked, and we are excited to incorporate the JISC TechDis toolbar which provides a range of productivity and accessibility tools which helps users customise the way they view and interact with web pages. Features include a text to speech function, spell checking and dictionary facilities, and a feature for gathering referencing information within a web page. It also provides simple ways to adjust the magnification or font used on web pages.

We now publish our latest news items on our homepage so you can quickly see any new developments or important information on the operation of the service.