Hand Tool Chat Tonight 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.
William Duffield, on the Cohansey
>Some suggestions to make the chat more productive:
Hand Tool Chat suggestions:
Turn on your heartbeat. This will keep you from getting logged off automatically if you aren't writing. To turn in on, click on the icon with the hammer and click the heartbeat checkbox.
When you respond to a question, or a comment, it helps if you start your response with the person's name, especially if multiple subthreads are in progress.
Try to keep the number of active threads down to about three subjects at a time. Otherwise, it is difficult for some people to keep up with everything that is going on. If you haven't seen any activity on a particular subject in a three or four minutes, feel free to start off on a new subject.
If you have something in particular you need help with, just post a response to this Chat announcement. If you don't see a chat announcement, feel free to post a new message on the Handtool Forum, asking for a discussion in the chatroom.
In general, I will only post proposed chat topics on the Handtool Forum if I have something I need to discuss or if someone has asked me to bring up a subject. Otherwise, I'll let the participants decide what is relevant to them that particular evening.