Comments on: New Place to talk

By: twosilly

twosilly — Tue, 01 May 2007 03:33:00 +0000

there are no silly questions !! Ask away… a host of people will give their thoughts and suggestions….
Sitting here waiting !

Denise

By: khristle

khristle — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:50:09 +0000

Hey Joy, it’s Crystal… of Brian and Crystal. I didn’t know you had WLS - you look awesome! Congrats on your WL.

The Q&A session - are you talking virtual? If you opened a thread for Q&A’s, I think that would be great! Personally, I wouldn’t be up for finding a babysitter and arranging transportation to actually go somewhere, but it would still be nice to have a couple of my silly little questions answered.

By: alisings

alisings — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:05:59 +0000

Yeah Dan!!! So glad to hear this. I hope you don’t mind but I’m going to copy and paste this onto our Yahoo board so everyone will get the message. Thank you!!!

By: dan

dan — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:23:18 +0000

It really seems that everyone wants an open and free message board system to post to and the ability to create their own topics, similar to what you had with the Yahoo groups. So I implemented a message board system, which will allow you to do just that. It’s quite powerful in that you can see who’s on line and you have the ability to private chat between users. It support emotioncons and avatars (character images that distinguishes a user). It does require setting up a new username and password as it’s database is not linked with the blogging database so you will need to re-register within the message board web page to post. Once done you will never have to do this again. It’s easily bookmarked from any of the puget sound surgical website pages at the bottom called message boards. Once on the message board it has an extensive FAQ’s page that can help you use the new system. The only draw back with the message board system is that it doesn’t automatically notify you once an update or posting has been made so you will need to come back often to see if new postings have been made.

Dan

By: joyousoccasion

joyousoccasion — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:02:15 +0000

Thanks for the welcome! I, too, hope others come here. I will be checking in at least once per day. Also, I will start reminding people that this blog exists when the come into the clinic.

Oh - I don’t mind seeing the same people over and over again, either. I’ll see a couple of you at tonight’s seminar, right?

Joy

By: alisings

alisings — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:26:27 +0000

HI JOY! It was good to see you at the seminar last night and I for one, would find it very helpful to have a nurse available here to answer questions or just post helpful hints from time to time. The staff of PSSC has always been very helpful to us and I think it’s great that you guys actually read our emails (and now our blogs!). Thanks for offering to help… :0) Allison

P.S. I hope others start coming over here soon or all you’ll see are the same people posting over and over and over and over and o….. :0) A.

By: alisings

alisings — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:19:19 +0000

From what Dan posted here, it seems I’m still a little confused about what we’re to use this blog for. Aren’t we here to try to help, encourage and support others who are going through the same experiences? When I’m searching a site for informaton I want to find the most honest and helpful info out there and would hope to find the experiences of others in like situations on the sites I search. We have a a whole range of experiences, good and bad, that people need to see when they are searching for answers. If only editors can post and the only replies are pertaining to those posts, not everyone will be represented. Sorry…that’s just the way I feel. I know that we all want a good representation for PSSC - it’s the best out there in my opinion! But others need to know WHY we feel that way…
:0) Allison

By: dan

dan — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:00:11 +0000

From the number of posts there seems to be a little misunderstanding as to what a blog does and how it is to serve. First of all, a blog is not a pure message board. Even though it allows for comments and messages it does not allow the free posting of topics from non-editors. The blog has been provided as a means to add relevant, informative and up-to-date content to the website for the people it serves, however, the moderator or editor has to post the discussion first from which people can respond, contribute, add-to or comment. For those of you who wish to become editors you can contact Denise or Tico and then they can relay the information to me the (silent administrator) and I’ll set you up. (A trust factor must be established first before free reign is assigned to anyone as it reflects upon the character of this website).

An editor can then post their own discussions, upload and post images, movies, etc.

For a complete manual of how to use wordpress you can read from the wordpress website.

Thank you.

Dan

By: joyousoccasion

joyousoccasion — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:29:56 +0000

Hi all! This is Joy from the clinic. I just wanted to pop in and introduce myself and pose a question. Are there people out there who would be interested in having a quesiton and answer session with me or the doctors?
I also was at the seminar last night - it was a great group. I was glad to be a part of the group sharing the excitement and positives of weight loss surgery. If you don’t know me - I had bypass surgery last March. Anyway, let me know if you think a Q&A would be a good thing.

By: alisings

alisings — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:21:24 +0000

Okay, I THINK I might be understanding this. We “leave a reply” to post?? Oh, brother! I’ll get it yet… :0) Allison