Information Technology
News -
Sherry Heinze
A lot of people
at the conference and the Annual Meeting brought up ideas and questions
about the Avanta website, the Satir Registry, and different ways to
communicate using the internet. I am delighted to see so much interest, and
so many people willing to share ideas.
Because I am new to the Board and the Board functional directorship roles
are new as well, I am going to need a little time to investigate
possibilities. Next year's budget is due very soon and the funding for
Information Technology for next year is very limited. So I will be looking
for ways to provide the best service we can for the least cost. All ideas
will be looked in to as time permits, and suggestions are welcome. We will
need to do fundraising for any project, as I think you all know. We will
need more volunteer involvement than ever, with the limited budget we have
for 2007. If you know of minimal cost technology we can use to spread
information, please let me know.
Karla Lang offered to collect information from the institute and use a
newsgroup to pass it on between the institutes, and Steven Buckbee set the
newsgroup up for her. I expect that the institutes will have been contacted
and a liaison for each institute will have signed up by the time you read
this. Both the Avanta website
http://www.avanta.net/Events/Events.htm and the Satirworks newsgroup
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/satirworks/ Calendar show scheduled events
as the information is entered. Karla has agreed to collect information for
the list of events, post it on Satirworks and pass it on to me for the
Avanta website as well.
A lot of information is already available on the Avanta website; I think you
will be pleasantly surprised to see how much. I was delighted to find links
to so many groups using Virginia's work. The "For Members" link
http://www.avanta.net/Membership/MembersOnly.htm allows members to find
information on other members. As the information on upcoming events reaches
us, it is added to the Events and Workshops page
http://www.avanta.net/Events/Events.htm. The new Functional Directors
are available from the Get Connected page
http://www.avanta.net/GetConnected/get-connected.html. Take a look
around. There is enough activity on the Avanta site that if you goggle
"Virginia Satir: we are the first (of 137,000) entries. Discussions continue
on several Satir related newsgroups (www.yahoo.com,
select group and search on Satir). Join us and stay involved between
conference.