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| Mon, 03-17-2008 - 4:07pm |
Would U like 2 participate in a board chat?? (if we had a chat room available!)
- Yes
- Maybe
- No
You will be able to change your vote.


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It hasn't been around in almost a year huh - ???
I want us to get our own chat room that we can have a "formal" chat weekly and then that we can go into any time we want and just chat with other members!!
We used to have chat, but there were only a couple of participants most of the time so we cancelled it. I think in order to restart it, the CLs would need to have some commitment from the members here (a good response to this thread should do it) and someone to volunteer as a chat CL. The chat CL gets to pick the time, date (if available), and frequency of the chats.
I enjoyed visiting the chats and would participate occasionally if we were to get it back.
Any volunteers??
dyk I want to know who voted no! ;-)
What are the requirements to be a chat cl ? Do we have to have
I miss our chats.
A long time ago, we had discussed having alternating times for chat.
I was chat cl for a year and it really never went very well. I did my best for awhile to get interest - but it was usually me, Cathy, Karen and one other person. Some nights I would sit and stare at an empty room for an hour waiting for someone to show up. Then if no one showed up and I left early iVillage would get mad at me. (I was a volunteer, not paid, and I do have better things to do than sit around an hour if NO ONE is there - I'd wait over 30min most of the time)
What really killed it was when iVillage removed the link from the top of the board. I complained about it a few times, but it didn't fit with their new "board redesign", so all chat links were removed and they said that was that. Our board moves so fast that posting reminder just got buried unless I bumped it like 5 times a day - again, not always something I had time to do!
It would be nice if we actually had participation - but in the past even though people SAY they want it, in my year of experience, things come up, they forget, etc. Time zones were always an issue too - what worked for the east coasters didn't work for the west coasters.
Oh - and I had a lot of technical difficulties too, a lot of us would get randomly logged out 4 or 5 times during chat and have to keep coming back in. For a lot of people it gets to not be worth it and they just leave.
belizesig1
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I was one of the no votes - for two reasons:
#1 my bad prior experience with it, tried really hard and got burned in many ways
#2 I would probably never happen to be online at the right time. My computer time is "whenever I grab a minute". I never know what I will be doing on the 4th Tuesday at 6pm or the second Monday at 9am. So its not something I could "commit" to doing - even most people who say they would like it in THEORY can't realistically commit to being there on a regular basis!
belizesig1
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I voted "maybe", because although I did try, the chats in the past (with different chat CLs)
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