September 23, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute
How many times have you joined a new e-mail discussion list only to find that the initial burst of enthusiastic messages slowed to a trickle in a matter of weeks?
Two international organizations, Management Sciences for Health, in Boston, and Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, in Seattle, recently presented a workshop for members of the Population and Health Materials Working Group on how to avoid this problem and the many others that e-mail forums often encounter.
Rather than holding a face-to-face meeting, the workshop, “The Care and Feeding of an Internet Discussion List,” was itself conducted as an eight-week e-mail discussion list.
Archived messages of the virtual workshop, which ended last month, are available on a Web site, along with background materials that the list used to spark discussion.
TO GET THERE: Go to http://erc.msh.org/phmwg.
