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From Julia Keefer - the United Nations Hunger Site

In early December last year, Julia Keefer - who is the Editor of "JOE," our WWW Journal of Online Education, affiliated with New York University - forwarded the following message to the WAOE-Views list-serve:

Subject: This is really easy!

The Hunger Site at the UN

This is a really clever web site. All you do is click a button and somewhere in the world some hungry person gets a meal at no cost to you.  (The click doesn't actually deliver the food to them; but it does generate a donation to a food program.)  The food is paid for by corporate sponsors.  All you do is go to the site and click.

You're only allowed one click per day, so try to get there every day and please spread the word to others.
http://www.thehungersite.com


Apologies to those of you who have seen the message already, because you are subscribed to WAOE-Views.  We thought it worth repeating in WEB as a reminder - after the indulgences of the Christmas season for many of us - to take, and keep on taking, just one simple, but very worthwhile step towards alleviating world hunger.

Re WEB once a month ...

There were two responses to the last issue's query whether members would support WEB moving permanently to a monthly publication schedule:

I vote for a once a month newsletter vice every other week. But the possibility of an occassional update "flier" on special occasions would seem to be in order to highlight WAOE conferences or General Membership or Board Meetings.
Mike Warner
(Mike is WAOE's Cyber-Parliamentarian - in other words, our specialist adviser regarding online procedures.)
Please, count my vote - for a solid WEB once a month.
Greetings,
Zbigniew Szczepanczyk
Global Village Schools
Kielce, Poland
Thanks Mike and Zbigniew - and especially good to hear from Zbigniew for the first time in the Bulletin.  We'll do our best to keep WEB as "solid" as possible as it comes out around the end of every month (except December).  In our original planning for an efficient communications system, Mike's call for an occasional flier for special anouncements could have been addressed by using the WAOE-News listserve.  However, not every member is subscribed to WAOE-News, and the service is falling into disuse.  At least for the time being, it seems sensible to use the current list of subscribed or dues-waived members as the basis not only for mailing our WEB, but also for one-off communications about key events. Web Editor