Well it's over...;-) Alison and I presented the use of electronic venues in a practice presentation at the Canadian Public Health Conference in Vancouver last week.For those on the list who were there please add your impressions as a reply to this topic. For those who may have just joined us...Welcome! At anytime we welcome new participants or lurkers who want to jump in. Post a quick sign on and let us know who you are, how you have been using the internet in your work (or how you would like to!) and let us know what you would like to get out of the list. If you would like a brief summary of where we are at on the list send me email: <[log in to unmask]> and I'll try to bring you up to speed. Right now we are in a discussion about the relationship between the literal and virtual workspaces. You will see this discussion appear under different topics. At the conference people were talking a lot about restructuring and reform in health care. There was a strong emphasis placed on the need to join with other sectors to address and create health public policy. There was a call for more advocacy and social justice work. The use of the internet may become increasingly important as we learn to work across boundaries...professionals, communities of common bond, sectors (public, private, non-profit) and interest (health education social employment housing etc). In our presentation we emphasized to need to work in both the literal and virtual, to have our work in these areas complement each other. The questions we had were good ones...Where will I find the time? What about access? It pointed out the need to continue with the thread of understanding how we transform our work and not to see the use of the technologies as an add on. Throughout the conference delegates were invited to participate in drafting a National (Canada) Statement for Health Promotion. I invite those of you on the list who participated in these sessions to post the outcome of this effort. There were many interesting panels and presentations. Perhaps next time we will see an online summary of the days proceedings posted....next year! So the presentation is over...how are folks feeling about continuing the list? (click4hp)...seems like a good idea to me but then some might argue I have a bias ;-) Liz Rykert co-facilitator <[log in to unmask]>