In reponse to my posting about how to use CLICK4HP as a workspace for Health Promotion I made reference to a recent posting and how this virtual workspace can be best used. The author of the posting took minor exception to my use of their posting and sent private mail, which is the proper way to handle such queries, and I posted a private mail response. 2 and 1/2 hours after the query to me, the same query was posted to CLICK4HP. Since part of the dating on postings come from the clock of the sender's machine, and the sender's CPU time seems to be a couple of days out of alignment, I cannot say if there was time to consider my response before posting the query to CLICK4HP. Since it has been posted to CLICK4HP I will try to clip the parts of my private response that are of interest to the general use of this space for health promotion. First, of course, the query about the specific posting was not directed at the individual, it is just that actual public events (postings) make better evidence to illustrate lessons than do made up examples. We all face that little bit of roasting once in a while. It is of little consequence. Second, my posting on "Zone Play" was about best practices, not an opinion on the relevance of the link between health and education - which I agree is extremely important. It certainly does not reflect some ideological bias (against education and health???) Here is what is useful for on-line health promotion, clipped from my private response. ------clip--- < text omitted > ----- CLICK4HP has a readership wider than Ontario and I think it is our obligation to put things in context for them. I had hopes, when I helped found the Toronto FreeNet, that we would get much more activity there at this [local Toronto] level. There, and on the WEB.APC lists on funding cuts in Ontario, are where I would urge wider dialogue on such topics. If we people interested in discussing the education/health issue in Ontario [did so] on the Toronto FreeNet (and there is nothing to prevent that except the absence of volunteer labour) we would be reaching about 60,000 subscribers, most of whom are in Southern Ontario, in contrast to 300+ people signed on to a list dedicated to exploring how the on-line workspace can be used for health promotion. For example, with all the people responsible for the Report, I would think it a good idea to invite each of them to write 200-400 words on their analysis of the link between health and education. We could then set up a "seminar" either on or off CLICK4HP. Each [in turn] could post on a Friday, we could think and discuss for a week, someone else would write up a summary of the discussion. We would take the Report to new heights, inform a larger public, and advance both public understanding for both education and health promotion. I am told that such reports as your[s] in Ontario get read by a couple of hundred people at maximum. We do similar reports at Health Studies here and even with TV and newspaper coverage at release, a couple hundred copies sold is a banner report. Getting to more people with targeted electronic discussion is more effective. This is how I would "work" the workspace. We would be doing health promotion and demonstrating how to use the space at one and the same time. .....disagreements about approach do not always reduce to differences in ideology about the point at issue - unless one buys a version of the post-modern where "point at issue" is a nonsequitur. - clip---< text omitted > -- The purpose is to defend this common space as an important venue for social process, defend it against ideological attack from outside and build it strong from within. We can agree on the path without having to agree on where each foot print should be placed. -------- end of clip --- clips from private mail - Sam Lanfranco <[log in to unmask]> ----------