by Steve Mallory
I have several exciting organization highlights to talk about this month!
( First, I want to introduce a new program called Mentor Certification. This is a program
that I have wanted to see reach its potential for several years. I have had the basic
concept in mind but did not know how to correctly implement it. Well, now it’s possible!
Several of our members have already met the primary prerequisite. You must have posted to the message board at least 150 times. The board automatically keeps count and when you reach 150 your board rank becomes the Mentor designation. There is more to it, though, if you want to become a Certified Mentor!
You must go to http://www.strokenetwork.org/support/mentor/, read the Mentor Guidelines and then submit the Certification form, which certifies that you have read the guidelines. The form submittal gives the organization the assurance that you are not only a frequent poster but have read and will hopefully follow these important guidelines, thus being certified. In addition to having your rank upgraded, you will receive a special Certified Mentor avatar that will display below your message board name.
Please help me implement this program so that it will make our organization have the most recognized members!
( The next exciting highlight has to do with StrokeNet web mail. Most of you know that we
just introduced the free email accounts last month. What I envisioned is flooding the
Internet with these types of email addresses. The email address is no longer limited to
your-name@strokesurvivor.net but the address is now available as
( your-name@caregiver.strokesurvivor.net
( your-name@family.strokesurvivor.net
( your-name@friend.strokesurvivor.net
We need to make everyone aware of stroke and what better, and easier, way to do it than to paste our email addresses all over the Internet. This is not just a fly-by-night email service but compares to, or is better, than email similar to the likes of hotmail and yahoo. If you have your personal email on something like Outlook Express, you can have it automatically forwarded. Email me if you want to know how to do this! The login to StrokeNet email is located by clicking on the Members Area button when you go to http://www.strokenetwork.org.
( Several members have asked me about having instant message capabilities in our
community. Did you know that we have it already? If you click on a member’s name on
the message board it will take you to their profile. On the right is where their
communication information is located. Besides being able to email or send them a
private message, all their instant message information is displayed.
( I was recently contacted by a psychogeriatric, researching anthology, for KOPE Associates.
She would like to receive information about stroke recovery. If you are interested, please
email Liz Pearl at lizpearl@sympatico.ca
( The 3rd Annual Golf Tournament fundraiser is scheduled for October 1st!
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