We are inaugurating a series of online "chat" sessions (a group typing fest) under the sponsorship of two health network sites. We will meet on the last Sunday of the month for the next three months to give it a try.

All sessions will be held twice:

10 am EDT (Eastern U.S. Daylight Time, that’s 3 pm in the U.K., British Summer Time)
and 8 pm EDT (that’s 2 pm in Hawaii, or 10 am on Monday morning in Sydney)

We hope that one of these will be a reasonable hour for everyone.

June 27: 10 am and 8 pm EDT. Gale Lugo and Joyce Graff will be there to share information from the Atlanta meeting, or talk about other topics as the group wishes.
July 25: 10 am and 8 pm EDT
August 29: 10 am and 8 pm EDT
September 26: 10 am and 8 pm EDT

[Editor's update 12/2000: Chats were initially held at Dr. Koop's website, but due to technical difficulties we moved to egroups. Please see the current listings for chats, and the information about the egroups discussions in English, French, German, and Spanish.]

Watch the VHL website for announcement of additional chat sessions. Please submit additional ideas for future chats. Also, please provide your feedback on your experience in these chat sessions. How did it go registering and logging on? Do you have concerns about the registration or logon process? Our intention is to provide a layer of confidentiality, but if it is too hard to deal with, we don’t want people to give up. If you had a frustrating experience for any reason, we need to know that.

How was the session? Did it meet your needs? Would you come to another session? What concerns do you want to share?

If you did not attend a session, what kept you away? Did you forget the date? Were the dates and times inconvenient? Are the sessions too far apart? What suggestions would you make to help you attend another one in the future?

There are other more open sites where we could hold a chat. What would you think of attending a chat session in a place without password access?

Send comments to webmaster@vhl.org

As printed in the VHL Family Forum 7:2, June 1999. For permission to reprint, please contact VHL Family Alliance, info@vhl.org. Further information is available from the VHL Family Alliance, info@vhl.org.

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