Congratulations and happy birthday to all of us - this health promotion
listserv is officially ten years old today!

In April 1996 Liz Rykert, Alison Stirling & Sam Lanfranco invited people
around the world to join in the new listserv on 'health promotion on the
Internet'.

If you go back to the CLICK4HP listserv archives at http://www.click4hp.ca
and down near the bottom of the page, check April 1996 you would find
Liz Rykert's welcome message to the 'early birds':

 "We would like to extend a warm welcome to this new list for discussing
the use of computer mediated communication (CMC) and Health Promotion.
Discussion will officially begin on May 1, 1996 when the list-serv is
activated. The listserv was conceived as a lead in to a workshop to be
held at the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) Conference in
Vancouver, BC on July 3, 1996. However, as there seems to be considerable
interest in this area; we anticipate the use of the list-serv for
discussion beyond what could possiblly be accomplished in a session at a
conference. As we all venture out to explore our capacity to work
together, without the barriers of time and place, we will need to rely on
each other for the implications this new venue holds both in the literal
and virtual realms."

By May 1 1996, we had 225 subscribers to CLICK4HP, with a flurry of
introductions and questions, ideas and resources exchanged within the very
first week. We have continued to grow and change with the years, reaching
a sustained subscriber base of more than 1000 people in late 2002.
Some other statistics of interest:
Subscribers May 1, 2006  1153
Total number of postings over 10 years – 10,163
Average #postings/month  85	(smallest # 5 or 31, largest 202).

On a regular basis we've had discussions about the meaning of health
promotion, of the determinants of health, of population health and issues
of  behavioural change orientation or socio-environmental approaches to
health. Some of these early discussions were compiled, edited for
formatting and put on a separate web page. For those interested in
historical debates on health promotion, you might want to see:
September 1996 "What is Real Health Promotion?"  discussion about the
nature and definition of HP http://www.web.net/~stirling/c4hpreal.htm
Feb-Mar 1997 "Using the Online Environment for Health Promotion"
discussion about technology's impact on the way we work, the structure of
our work and the communities we work with 
http://www.web.net/~stirling/hponline.htm

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Our first discussion on the uses of computers (and the Internet) for
health promotion was led off by list facilitator [extraordinaire!] Liz
Rykert, and it still holds true today - here it is, slightly adapted for
2006, with hopes that you will join in a renewed discussion of the same
issues:

"What are your lessons learned to date with respect to incorporating the
Internet in your work?

You may want to take one aspect - training, facilitating, on-line
mediation, creating on-line culture/atmosphere, mentoring, connectivity
planning and design in health promotion, etc., - and roll out your
observations in small bites."
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Today, on May 1, 2006, what are YOUR comments and reflections on using the
Internet to do health promotion work, and participating in the CLICK4HP
health promotion listserv.


Cheers to all!

Alison Stirling & Sam Lanfranco
co-facilitators CLICK4HP listserv
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