United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

www.injurednewborn.com/chatroom.html

10 pm EST - see you there

membername = YournameChildsnameChildsage

francine@injurednewborn.com

I will be on AOL Instant Messenger "MomBu" if you need to reach me while we are in chat.

So since our Wednesday night chats have been going so well and it's proving to be an asset to everyone, a donation was made by someone to get a better working chat room.

Here are some of the changes:

The member name is nice because it's not cut in stone - if your child's age changes, well then just type it in that way. It's long enough to type in the months too...so if you have a 7 month old you can say SallySuzie7mos if you want.

The room can be set up for moderation so that we can have a speaker come and it can be a very organized event with one person at a time given permission to ask a question. This was a BIG plus because I'd like to have a speaker come once a month for different topics.

The maximum allowed in the room is 50 - but gosh if we go above 20 our heads will be spinning anyway.

You can change the color on your own screen and also the text size.

It will be a passworded room - so it can stay as it was intended to be - no on can come in and just read . You will need an entrance key and our entrance process is still secure.

You can make the screen as large as you want - fill the whole monitor up if you wish.

It supports private chatters.

So - let's try it out tonight and see how it goes!

-francine

Louise it is easy- come join us next Wed. night -be brave and we will love seeing you there. Just type in the url and follow the directions-if you can figure out UBPN you can do this too!! Love, Carole

Louise, Carole's right! It's easy and this new chat room is even easier. It's open all the time so just go in there and type - you'll figure everything out in about 30 seconds....ok so you're a bit slow? 40 seconds!!

http://www.injurednewborn.com/chatroom.html

check it out ok?

for the membername you put it in like this
YournameYourchildsnameYourchildsage

so my member name is FrancineMaia3.5

no password at this point

you don't need to put any other information in

The member name is such so that people would know without asking.. who you are, what your child's name is and how old they are, basic information...when we had alias names we had to keep on asking! and it was too confusing.

If you are on the computer after 9 pm, let me know - email me - and I will go into the chatroom and practice with you.

If there is a lot of people in there it goes really fast sometime...but don't be scared of it....you can always just sit back and read for a while and jump in whenever you want to.... there's a line at the bottom where you type in what you want to say and when you hit 'enter' it appears in the chat itself.

let me know when you want to practice ok?

-francine

yes - you sign in every time which is actually a nice thing so that you can change your member name as your child gets older!

the offer is still up - if you want to practice, just let me know... glad you went in there and got to see it though.

-francine