Dear Colleagues and Qwriting Users,<br><br><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
On Tuesday, January 15th, 2013, we will be bringing the Qwriting server down for a maintenance and upgrade session that will take approximately 48 hours to complete (Thursday, January 17, 2013).  <b>So, you will not be able to access Qwriting from Tuesday morning to Thursday morning</b>.  We are very sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.</div>
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The key changes that we will implement are:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<ol><li style="margin-left:15px">Migrating all the Qwriting blogs to a new server hosted at Queens College and</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Switching the site address from *<a href="http://qwriting.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">qwriting.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to *<a href="http://qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">qwriting.qc.cuny.edu</a>.  To clarify, from Thursday morning on, if your blog URL looked like &quot;<a href="http://mysitename.qwriting.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">mysitename.qwriting.org</a>&quot; it will now look like &quot;<a href="http://mysitename.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">mysitename.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu</a>&quot;.</li>
</ol><div>All of your posts, pages and themes should remain the same.  Further, anyone who tries to get to your site at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mysitename.qwriting.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">mysitename.qwriting.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>will be redirected to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mysitename.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">mysitename.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>without having to do anything.  This means that if you posted your site URL in an email or on a website, etc., you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>will not<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>need to change it immediately.  That can be done at your leisure.</div>
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Once Qwriting becomes available again, if you have any issues with your blog(s), please send us an email at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:qwritinghelp@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">qwritinghelp@gmail.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with your site URL and a detailed description of the issue and we will try to get back to you as soon as possible.</div>
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Thank you for your patience!</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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Best,</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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The Qwriting Team</div>via<br>Rob Garfield<div>Instructional Technologist</div><div>Queens College Center for Teaching and Learning</div><div>319 Razran Hall</div><div>james dot garfield at qc dot cuny dot edu</div><div><br>
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