Greetings, Peggy Shultz has summed up very nicely a number of areas we could address through the list(thanks Peggy!)...for those out there in the lurking mindset read on, for those who want to jump in please do - anytime is a good time. I would like to propose we spend some time, in stages, on the areas Peggy has highlighted as important to the work of Health Promotion. It would work like this - we begin with one topic discuss it for a few days and then summarize and move on to topic two and so on ... I think there are a number of key concepts she has identified. How about the following... Topic One: Establishing Electronic Workplaces and Communities - June 14-19 Topic Two: The Relationship between Literal and Virtual Communities - June 20-25 Topic Three: Ensuring Access and Equity in the On-line World - June 26-30 Peggy has raised many issues for us ... these are the three that stood out for me. We can work in the subheadings as we define the discussion. I would welcome volunteers interested in leading the discussion on any of these topics. I'll get the first one going in a second post after we have a day to let click4hper's comment on the idea. Hopefully this may lead to our achieving... > "to increase the capacity of workers in health promotion to >respond to the new environment" > with a degree of comfort and ease...and raising our sensitivity to: >discussion about the changing world of work for health promoters and >communities. Our role(s) vary by setting, project, virtual or literal...how we choose to define our roles on-line now and in the future will be critical. Please post your response to this suggestion to the list or as email to myself <[log in to unmask]> or my co-facilitator Alison Stirling <[log in to unmask]>. And Peggy...thanks for your thoughtful questions ;-) Liz Rykert <[log in to unmask]> ********************************************************************* Liz Rykert, Coordinator, Growing Up Healthy Downtown, Family Service Association of Metro Toronto; Tel (416) 927-8500; fax (416) 927-8291 ********************************************************************* facilitator: <bright.futures.net>,<guhd.net>, <act.cuts.ont> http://community.web.net/act.cuts.ont; co-owner: <[log in to unmask]> email: <[log in to unmask]> *********************************************************************