Stroke Network Highlights

by Steve Mallory

I would like to begin by covering a few highlights from last month. These are important issues and I think that our new members should be told about them. We average about 150 –200 new members per month so everyone should be constantly reminded.

Remember to enter the stroke support area through the Members Area button on the homepage, http://www.strokenetwork.org. If you haven’t already, visit the Members Map and enter, or view, where other members are from. Place a pin on your location. Maybe, you will find another member in your neck of the woods and can become local friends, as well as cyberbuddies.

Have you been to the bio web page? Go to the message board and click on Gallery. Choose the Bio forum and click on the picture of the person you want to read about. While you are there, why don’t you post a photograph? Add your bio or a family picture. Instructions for adding a picture are on the main message board or if you need help email them to Lin or myself. Our email addresses are listed on this newsletter.

We will be offering free email accounts in the next day or so. This free email account is similar in quality to hotmail! In some ways, even better quality! The email features are awesome, you can forward email from your regular email account, and it has auto-responders, powerful message rules and spam filtering system, and much much more. I am critical of most software but this looks fantastic!

To start with we will be offering email addresses, like yourname@strokesurvivor.net. This is the perfect way for members to tell everyone that they survived a stroke and now are part of our community. In the near future, caregivers can also choose the email address, yourname@strokecaregivers.net. This email is so cool! To create an account go to the message board, login and click on My Controls.

I need to recognize two staff members who are performing special tasks to keep this organization great! I would like to recognize all staff but I think these staff members are doing something special. First, Jean Riva, is organizing the message board and putting the posts in order. Message board management is a major task and Jean has been busy making sure that all posts are in the appropriate forums so members can make better sense of where to find certain types of discussions.

I also want to recognize Jean Kirshenbaum. Jean was instrumental with getting the article about the organization published on the national Business Wire. Her normal task is to screen the Newsfeed articles and to write a monthly newsletter featured article. Thanks to both Jeans.

The Stroke Network, Inc.

P.O. Box 492 Abingdon, Maryland 21009