Re: Request for Advice - Contributing to an OS when you can't be there

2000-08-04 Thread Beverly McCarthy
om: Meg Salter To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Date: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 4:17 PM Subject: Request for Advice - Contributing to an OS when you can't be there First of all - hello to all! I believe this is my first time speaking up with this group, though I have been followin

Re: Request for Advice - Contributing to an OS when you can't be there

2000-08-03 Thread Audrey Coward
Meg Salter wrote: > First of all - hello to all! I believe this is my first time speaking > up with this group, though I have been following the conversations > avidly for some months.Your spirit and words are a real inspiration, > and often a good laugh too! Here's the situation. I am a member

Re: Request for Advice - Contributing to an OS when you can't be there

2000-08-03 Thread Barbara E. Sliter
My experience is that people put their time and energy into their priorities. These change over time and it is often hard to acknowledge that what was once important, isn't as important now. For example, if I am struggling financially, I probably don't have a lot of free time and energy to dev

Re: Request for Advice - Contributing to an OS when you can't be there

2000-08-03 Thread Maggie Shreve
Meg, Your situation sounds painfully familiar. I'm co-chair of the Chicago OD Network and work with other regionals at our national conference. We've heard or experienced similar problems all across the nation. While everything you want to do sounds great, there may be other pieces missing that

Re: Request for Advice - Contributing to an OS when you can't be there

2000-08-03 Thread Eddie Palmer
Dear Meg, One of the simplest and most effective we've used is to have a Community or Talking Wall where people/groups can poster really colourful and effective posters with messages - if theyr'e good, people read them! Eddie Palmer Open Futures Edinburgh * *

Request for Advice - Contributing to an OS when you can't be there

2000-08-02 Thread Meg Salter
First of all - hello to all! I believe this is my first time speaking up with this group, though I have been following the conversations avidly for some months.Your spirit and words are a real inspiration, and often a good laugh too! Here's the situation. I am a member of a local professional gr