[Nfbmo] A wonderful chance to be included in an online community.

[Magoon Erin]

Hello,

As you know we had a board meeting on Saturday, May 31.  This meeting went very well and I am honored to be on the board.

Among other things, we discussed the opportunity to have what is called a "chat room" on the Internet.

This name, in my opinion, can be misleading.  What people do is gather together and have different sorts of activities, not only chit chat.

For example, there could be planning and discussion about NFB issues, blindness, fund raising, governmental affairs and so on.

It would be a wonderful place to meet with people from other states and get to know them in a relaxed atmosphere.

It is true that in a lot of these rooms people play games, however, they also do a lot of other activities that is good for socializing 

and drawing in other members. An example is if we had people attend a book club, we could also talk to them about the NFB and who knows, 

they might be interested in joining!  And wouldn't that be great!  Another thing that would be very cool is it would give us another 

locale to hold committee and chapter meetings on occasion.  

Finally, the last benefit that I am going to mention is it would allow people to talk to other people who are in the same place in life.

If you are the only blind/visually impaired person in your town of your age or career or whatever, you could talk to people in other 

states who are where you are.

Missouri has the opportunity to join an online community that several other states are collaborating on.  As with everything these days

this wonderful experience will cost us money. For one year it will be $300.  We are not sure if the cost will go down after that or not.  We of course can join for one year, and if we do not wish to participate again we do not have to.

Which brings me to the reason for my email.  The board discussed this investment and although several of us are very interested in it 

we do not feel that the affiliate has the resources to invest at this time.

So, I am writing to see how many people are interested in this idea, and would be willing to give a few dollars to the project.  

If six people committed to $50 that would be enough, if twelve people committed to $25 that would do it as well.

If people are interested in contributing to the cost, or have any questions about how a chat room works in general, please feel free to contact me, and if I do not know that answer to your question I will find out and get back to you.

Thank you for your time and attention. Please help me to make this wonderful opportunity a success.


Feel free to contact me at:

erin.magoon at gmail.com

Call or text me at:

(417) 576-0037

Call me at:

(417) 812-2892

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,

Erin Magoon