Title: From the Desk of the Webmaster

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Section/SPIG: Community Health Planning and Policy Development

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

I know that your plate has been pretty full this winter, so here is a peek at the Table of Contents for our Web site (with a brief description of each item’s contents):

Chair's Message (a welcome from Paul Meissner)
Leadership Roster (name, term and e-mail 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 looks at events during the APHA Annual Meetings)
Annual Awards (descriptions and nomination forms for Section/Blum/Kimmey awards)
Interesting Web sites (broad listing of planning and CON-related Web sites)

With your help, we will be working on making the Web site more beneficial, entertaining and user-friendly. If you have any suggestions, or things you’d like to see on the Web, please drop me a line. Here are some of the questions we need to answer:

Web site 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 Web site?
Frequency: what would keep you coming back to the CHPPD Web site?

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.

A new concept is under cooperative development called “ePlanner.” Members of CHPPD and the American Health Planning Association are reviewing a broad range of options and opportunities that would establish a strong health planning support mechanism on the Internet. This service could include everything from a planning bibliography to resource materials to specialized websites to interactive planning tools for any type of health service. If you have ideas to offer to this exciting effort, contact Dean Montgomery at <ahpa@aol.com>.

Let me know how you are doing, and how we can help your planning life be better <tpiper@mail.state.mo.us>.