Last summer, to mark its fifth anniversary of publication, the Philadelphia Jewish Voice moved from a monthly electronic magazine format to an electronic newspaper format. The new format makes it easier for us to provide more up-to-date content as new feature articles appear on our website on a daily basis. For the ease of readers familiar with our magazine format, we continue to send reminder emails periodically with the "look and feel" of our old format including hyperlinks to some of our recent articles. The new format also provides a community calendar listing events open to Delaware Valley Jewish Community, and a "shared items" link to interesting articles we have found around the web.
The new format is interactive and makes it easy for our reader to participate in the discussion:
- Organizations can promote their events in our calendar,
- Readers can post comments on what they have read, and
- Authors can submit their own writing online.
Here are some suggestions to help you get the most out of the Philadelphia Jewish Voice.
How To Read The Philadelphia Jewish Voice
Once or twice a month: If you like our old format, look out for our periodic emails. The email should be familiar to our long-time readers. In each section (News and Opinion, Israel, Networking Central, The Kosher Table, Raising a Mensch, Living Judaism, Teen Voice, and Around Our Community), the latest feature articles are listed. Click on the titles of the articles which interest you to read the full stories. If you received these instructions by email from the Philadelphia Jewish Voice then you are all set, since you are obviously already on our mailing list. If this email was forwarded to you by a thoughtful friend, or if you need to update your email address, then go to www.pjvoice.com/subscribe.htm for a free subscription to our mailing list.
Every day or two: The latest articles can be seen on the front page of our website blog.pjvoice.com. The articles are listed from newest to oldest, so "bookmark" our website and be sure to visit it regularly to see our latest feature articles. Some articles are too long to appear completely on the front page. To "jump" to the rest of the article, click on the words "There's More..." which you will find at the bottom of the introduction to that article.
As News Breaks: If you are familiar with RSS Feeds (for example
Google Reader), then you can be alerted whenever new content appears on our
website. You provide a variety of feeds so that you can be alerted whenever an
article appears on the front page, whenever your favorite author posts
something, whenever an article appears on a subject of interest to you, whenever
the our newsletter is emailed out, or whenever someone posts a comment on any
article (or on an article of your choice). Look for the RSS icon
or
contact us
for more details.
Away From Your Computer: The Philadelphia Jewish Voice is only available
online, but you can print a copy of the articles to read at your leisure. Click
on "Print Friendly View"
at the bottom of any
article to display a version of the article better formatted for printing. Now
you can read the Philadelphia Jewish Voice on Shabbat, on the shore, while
travelling wherever you go!
To Read More: If you have read everything on the Philadelphia Jewish Voice and can't wait for more, check out the list of "Shared Items" on the top right of our front page. It contains a list of the latest links to interesting articles we have found around the internet. (Feel free to bring your favorite links to our attention.)
How To Contribute To The Philadelphia Jewish Voice
In order to participate in the interactive features of our website, you will need to register by clicking on "Make a New Account" on the top left of our website. Choose a "username" by which you will be known on our website, enter your email address, set your password, "copy the security code" which appears on the screen, and then click "ok". (Note: Subscribing to the mailing list does not register you for the website, and registering for the website does not subscribe you to the mailing list. You probably should do both!)
When you enter your username and password, you will be logged in and you can contribute to the conversation in a number of ways.
- Post a comment. Click on "Post a Comment" at the end of any article, or click on "Reply" after someone else's comment in order to respond to their comment. A box will appear for the subject of your comment and a larger box will appear for the comment itself. When you are done, click "Preview" and if everything looks correct, then click "Post".
- Post an event: The Community Calendar is on the left side of our website. Click on "Add Event" to submit your organization's event in the Community Calendar. Be sure to enter the address, city, state and zip code, and click on the box next to "Attach Google Maps to event" so that a map will be automatically generated providing the reader with information on how to get to your event. When your event is posted, you can click on it if you need to edit (or even cancel) your event. (If you have many similar events which you would like to post, please contact us for details on the best way to do this.)
- Submit an article. If you have an idea you would like to share in a
feature article, click on "Submit
Article" in the "Menu" on the top left of our
website. Four boxes will appear:
- You must provide a short title for your article in the box marked "Title".
- The next box "Tags" is for optional keywords which are used to categorize your article (your last name, names of people and organizations mentioned in your article, the name of the section of our appear in which you hope your article will appear, etc.).
- The introduction to your article (one or two paragraphs) go in the box marked "Main Text".
- The rest of the article (if any) goes in last box marked "Extended Text".
Other ways to contribute to the Philadelphia Jewish Voice.
- Donate: Make a tax-deductible donation by clicking on "Donate" or mailing a check to Eric Smolen, Treasurer, The Philadelphia Jewish Voice, 327 Pembroke Road, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004.
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Show your support:
Request an "I read the
Philadelphia Jewish Voice" bumper stickers for your car, and show off
your support for our work.
- Spread the Word: Encourage your friends to read the Philadelphia Jewish
Voice by forwarding links to articles on our website. Click on "Send as Email"
at the bottom of any
article. - Give us feedback: Send your complaints, praise, suggestions and corrections to me at publisher@pjvoice.com or any of our section editors, board members or contributing writers.
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Work for us: Do you know a college student or other talented writer
interested in earning money while contributing to the discussion of issues of
interest to our community? The Philadelphia Jewish Voice is taking applications
for an intern. Applicants should send a letter of motivation and resume to
publisher@pjvoice.com. We would also like
them to submit a sample piece of writing online by registering at
blog.pjvoice.com
and clicking on "Submit Article."
Thank you.
Yours,
Dan Loeb
Publisher
The Philadelphia Jewish Voice