The Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest Forum is now live! Roslyn from Montreal has been kind enough to offer to help me administrate the forum/discussion board and she’ll be answering a lot of your technical and other questions from that site.
The forum is a place where people can more easily get to know each other and to talk with one another about the chimpanzees at CSNW and related topics – the CCC group asked for it, and we’ve delivered! I think it’s going to be a lot of fun! We’ve created several forum topics to begin with and will see if others seem to naturally develop as people use the board. You must first register to make posts – you’ll see how to do this once you go to the main page.
See you on the forum!! chimpsnw.org/forum
Diana
P.S. – Shelly K. is a moderator on the forum and will be helping with a few things including making sure the board rules are being followed (common sense stuff about being polite – please read the full rules on the forum) and moving messages to more appropriate topics, if need be.
Thanks Diana for setting this up. And thanks to Roslyn and Shelly K for you part. What a wonderful group of people!
this is great! thanks so much Diana for doing this ..
thank you also Roslyn & ShellyK!
Well, you asked for it, CCC’s, and you got it — a place to chat about the Cle Elum Chimps and much more!
A big thank you to Diana for creating the CSNW forums (bulletin board/message board) where it will be much much easier to find who said what to whom and exactly where they said it, too. 😉
Will the blog still be up and running? It’s more user friendly for people who don’t want to sign up for the forum? Just wondering for new people. The forum is great and will be much more manageable. thanks so much!!
Cindy – Yes! We’re going to still keep the blog going and the CSNW staff will still be posting updates on the Cle Elum Seven and happenings at the sanctuary on the blog. The forum is meant to be a little something different – a way for people to connect with each other in an easier way than commenting on blog posts and to share information about other issues that affect primates, how folks are helping CSNW, chatting about the animals we share our lives with, etc. I expect it will evolve over time and it will be driven by those who want to participate.
I’ve made a few of the forum topics public, so they can be read by anyone – you don’t have to register to the forum to see them, but you do if you want to post a comment. Other forum topics are private and only available to those who register for the forum.
Great, this is what Shelly K. wanted for sure, I noticed she deleted her myspace because she was spamed to death when she first signed up! I guess we will see you all there!
Hi there! Just arrived back home – biz trip to Chicago this week – missed all of you and the chimps!! Exhausted and will come back tomorrow to catch up – just had to see the site before I could go to sleep. See ya’ll soon!!
Thanks Diana, I’ve been gone for a week or so and am just getting back into the loop! Did find the link to Dorothy’s tribute in JB’s blog post but I thought I linked to it thru the forum and then it disappeared. Aren’t machines wonderful!!!!
Hey Cindy,
Glad you found the link in JB’s blog post — just wanted to let you know that the link to the tribute to Dorothy at the CSNW forum site (in Diana’s post there) hasn’t disappeared. It’s still there. I replied to you there, telling you where you can find it. 😉