From: "richard seltzer" <seltzer@samizdat.com>
Subject:  Chat reminder: No chat Aug. 16;  wrap-up/summary of chat services Aug. 23
Date: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:49 AM

There will be no chat today, Aug. 16.

For Thursdays in July and August, we have been focusing on the needs of
Global Learn Day, testing out online discussion capabilities that they need
for their
upcoming event -- for instance, using PalTalk and telephone. The tests and
the discussion have been useful to those interested in distance education or
the use of online interaction tools in business.




Next Thursday, Aug. 23, Bob Zwick will lead us in a wrap-up summary of the
chat services we have explored. We can review what we have looked at and
discuss how to use these services in a site that plugs them into an existing
teaching page like Bob's Web Teacher page at
http://www.cottagemicro.com/webshare/ Bob will  also demonstrate some of the
little add-on features that he is using.

The following week, on Wednesday August 29, I'll do a full-blown
presentation at HorizonLive about techniques to help you be found by people
using search engines (how to increase your traffic; major design mistakes to
avoid; and workarounds when corporate branding and design guidelines prevent
you from doing it right). That's a long-time favorite topic of mine; and
this will be an opportunity to see how HorizonLive works in lecture mode
(slides and voice). I also hope/plan to post an archive of that presentation
at my Web site, as a demo of how those archives work. The day after, I plan
to hold a regular Thursday chat session on the same topic at my usual chat
site, so people will have opportunities to ask questions.

Please let me know your suggestions for guests and topics for Thursdays this
fall and winter. I'm looking for interesting and innovative business models,
products, and services.

We meet on Thursdays from noon to 1 PM Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4).

Transcripts of past chat sessions are available at
http://www.samizdat.com/chat.html

Please send email with your follow-on questions and comments, suggestions
for other voice chat apps for us to experiment with and for other future
topics, and requests to receive email reminders about upcoming sessions.

Best wishes.

Richard

Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com, www.samizdat.com
Internet marketing consultant www.samizdat.com/consult.html
Ebook at Mighty Words -- Take Charge of Your Web Site
Coming soon from Wiley -- Web Business Bootcamp
Online discussion http://webworkzone.com/bootcamp
Audio of three Internet business speeches www.samizdat.com/internet
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