Title: From the Desk of the Webmaster

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Section/SPIG: Community Health Planning and Policy Development

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by Tom Piper

Have you visited our CHPPD website yet? www.ahpanet.org/CHPPD.html.

I asked this question in the last issue. Did you see the Table of Contents for our website (with a brief description of each item's contents):

- Chair's Message (a welcome from Paul Meissner)
- Leadership Roster (name, term and email for every section position and committee)
- CHPPD Member Manual (the comprehensive and definitive section purpose and structure)
- Funding and Job Opportunities (a look at public health possibilities)
Fellowships and Internships (listing with timely information and application forms)
- CHPPD Irreverent Guide (a fun look at our own specialties)
Annual Meeting Activities (backward/forward look at APHA annual meetings events)
- Annual Awards (descriptions and nomination forms for Section/Blum/Kimmey awards)
- Interesting Websites (broad listing of planning and CON-related websites)

We continue to work on making the website more beneficial, entertaining and user-friendly. We need your suggestions, or things you'd like to see on the web, please drop me a line at any. Here are some of the questions we need to answer:

- Website value: what can it do for you or anyone else?
- Features: should anything be added to the list above?
- Opportunities: would you like to contribute to the website?
- Frequency: what would keep you coming back to the CHPPD website?

This is a dynamic opportunity to network with other planners, and learn more about health planning. You can even link with our sister organization, the American Health Planning Association, www.ahpanet.org, for yet another dimension.

Let me know how you are doing, and how we can help your planning life be better <macquest@mchsi.com>.