{"id":1192,"date":"2019-06-20T18:11:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T08:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2024-09-16T15:31:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T05:31:32","slug":"keeping-up-to-date-with-the-bbgg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Keeping up to date with the BBGG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There have been a number of reports that BBGG emails are not getting through to some BBGG members.&nbsp; Reasons include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Out of date contact details<br>&#8211; Company IT policy changes<br>&#8211; Firewalls &amp; SPAM filters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some things you can do to help ensure BBGG contact is maintained, and to receive messages about BBGG events and the upcoming Bowen Basin Symposium:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Update your contact details on the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">BBGG website<\/a>, especially when your employment status changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Discuss BBGG events in your team meetings and encourage your peers to either confirm their details on the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">BBGG website<\/a>,\u00a0sign-up to the BBGG if they are not already members, or check their junk mail filters to ensure BBGG emails\/emails from admin@bbgg.com.au are not being blocked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Check your junk mail regularly and stop BBGG emails being blocked by your email client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4.  Confirm that your company&#8217;s firewall\/SPAM filters are allowing &#8220;MailChimp&#8221; emails into your inbox.  MailChimp is used to distribute bulk emails easily, however, it <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"spoofs (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/techterms.com\/definition\/spoofing\" target=\"_blank\">spoofs<\/a> the admin@bbgg.com.au email address.  SPAM filter look for spoofing and if it&#8217;s recognised, it will prevent the email from even getting to your junk mail.  They may even prevent general emails coming from admin@bbgg.com.au.  You will need to discuss this with your IT department if you believe this is occurring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Check in on the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">BBGG website<\/a> for updates every once in a while.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Make contact with the <a href=\"mailto:admin@bbgg.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BBGG Secretary<\/a> if you&#8217;re not receiving updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a number of reports that BBGG emails are not getting through to some BBGG members.&nbsp; Reasons include: &#8211; Out of date contact details&#8211; Company IT policy changes&#8211; Firewalls &amp; SPAM filters There are some things you can do to help ensure BBGG contact is maintained, and to receive messages about BBGG events &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/?p=1192\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keeping up to date with the BBGG<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1604,"featured_media":1228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbggnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1636,"href":"https:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}