I love the author online suggestion.  It really sounds like an opportunity
to use the medium to support really substanitive conversations.
Karen

On Fri, 4 May 2001 17:07:29 -0400 Pam Kay wrote:

> This sounds great, Beth! In addition to things on your list, I'd
> like to
> see three things not mentioned as yet. One is to link with our
> archive
> website from the FSCP-SIG email list (this list) which can be
> accessed by
> both members and non-members. Another is probably obvious, to link
> to the
> AERA web. At present, I have that set up to go directly to our
> archive
> site. The URL is http://list.uvm.edu/archives/fscp-sig.html, if
> you would
> like to check it out. (I realize that need to make a change to
> that site
> anyway, to reflect our new membership process!)
>
> The third would be to have an "author online" service connected to
> our
> posting of papers. The way that I have seen this done is to
> designate a
> period of time, say 1 month, during which inquiries will be
> forwarded
> (automatically) to the author(s) of the featured "paper of the
> month." The
> questions and their responses are then made available for others
> to view.
>
> I am so glad that you are willing to do this for all of us, Beth!
> Pam
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