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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. 

Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future. 

On the transfer, co-founder Victoria Martin expressed her pleasure to see this work continue under Wits' leadership, knowing that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction. 

As Wits, we honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades and look forward building from that strong base. This includes co-founders Warren Feek (1953-2024) and Victoria Martin as well as La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA), which continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com with links to The CI Global site. We are also eager to forge new partnerships and entertain new ideas as we consider how best to contribute to social and behaviour change in our rapidly evolving environment.

If you are joining the International Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Summit in Panama, please join Wits and CILA on Monday, 22 June, to share your thoughts and suggestion for the relaunch of the Communication Initiative. We will be in Pacifica 5 from 12-1:25 for the Refuel, Reflect, and Renew Lunch Series: The Communication Initiative: celebrating a driving force for Communication for Social Change and the way forward. We will reflect on the legacy of Warren Feek and family in creating the Communication Initiative, consider the contributions of CI over the years and then turn our attention towards the future in this dynamic session. 

If you are unable to join us in Panama, we still want to hear from you. Please contribute your thoughts by following this link: https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026 or reaching out to ci_surveys@commint.com. 

You can also follow the QR Code:

 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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Creating Group News from admin account

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Hi,

Creating new group news from admin account. I tried to upoad an image, that may or may not work. The image itself is not showing in the template, but it does say "image preview" normally when those words appear the image is shown. Will be interesting to see what happens.

Deanna

Step 5 Edited post - done.

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Hi,

I do not know what the difference is between replying and replying and entering a comment (how can you reply without entering a comment, when the latter is compulsory?), so I am doing the only thing I think I can. I am in Admin, Firefox, replying to Anja's comment on Dee's post. I have some notes on what Anja said:
* Now I understand that you can add an image, but it won't be visible in the email, only when the reader goes to the link to view the post online.
* I do not see the "send and approve" option (I only see "save" and "preview"); you likely have a different level of permission than I do, Anja.

Other notes:
* The test message I sent through from my Test account yesterday afternoon never seems to have come in (was never approved? or I never received it?).
* In trying to find that message (in vain), I looked in my Gmail "Promotions" folder, where I happened to find some emails from Dee related to this test. They were in that Gmail folder (automatically) along with advertisements for online shopping offers, etc. - not Spam but sort of distinguished by Gmail as advertising. I also found in there some emails from Chris related to the test. This might happen to others in our network who use Gmail - Dee (if you check your Gmail account) or Julie, did this happen to you? I never ever look in my Promotions folder, so I would not have seen them. (I will look there more often now!)

~ Kier