LowellDeeds

We activated two new features on the website today. One is a bulletin board that allows users to post comments on various topics. We hope that many of you will take advantage of this opportunity to share your thoughts with other registry users. The other feature is a chat room. We intend to use this in two ways: we'll do regularly scheduled chat sessions (I'm tentatively scheduled for Friday's at 3 P.M.) where I will be available online for live dialog with anyone who cares to join in. The second use for the chat room will be for special meetings that arise as needed. Both the bulletin board and the chat room are experimental - we think they will prove quite useful (much like this blog has), but we're not sure exactly how to best employ them. That's one of the reasons we're using free software and services for all of these things. The ads might be a bit annoying, but we're not spending a dime of our budget obtaining these capabilities. Of course, once we've developed a track record with these features, perhaps will invest some money in improved software. Until then, please join us and try out the chat room and the bulletin board.