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Page Contents DAWN
Ontario - Women with DisAbilities (WWD)
ISSUES Discussion E-List
FAQs
Here are our various DAWN Ontario listservs (electronic mailing lists):
The ISSUES discussion e-list averages a volume of monthly posts ranging from 200 to 300 posts (10 a day). Members utilize this listserv as a mechanism for sharing information on social and economic justice issues, current news items, as well as issues of common interest and concern to our sector. We also have members participating from the USA, England, Scotland, India, Israel, Nepal, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Australia. Listserv members must agree to adhere to User Agreement. To
Join DAWN Ontario
WWD ISSUES Discussion List: Follow
this link to JOIN 2.
DAWN
Ontario Women
with DisAbilities (WWD)
Recently we created a support e-list for Women with disAbilities who communicated an interest in the development of a more personal and less overwhelming e-list where members could support and empower one another.
3. DAWN
Ontario Women
with DisAbilities (WWD) Current membership: 102 members (as at Feb. 6, 2006) In July 2002 we created an e-list entitled "Sharing Our Stories". The "SOS" e-list provides a forum where Women with disAbilities meet to share our stories in recognition that we learn and grow from each others' experiences. Here is the description: Sharing
Our Stories: A Place in the Sun: where audacious Women with
disAbilities meet to share our stories. What it was like, what
happened, and what it's like today: that's what we aim to share.
Being a Woman with disAbility makes us neither a saint nor a martyr,
but it does necessarily challenge us to be adaptable. Society
was not initially constructed to include those of us who are not
flawlessly able. It has been our duty to ourselves to find the
back doors and shaded windows of opportunity, scaling walls of
resistance, all just to reach or build a barrier-free place where
the sun shines equally on us all. URL:
http://dawn.thot.net/sos
(website)
Current membership: 119 members (as at Feb. 6, 2006) An online
community of, for and by Women with DisAbilities interested in
Technology. To
Join DAWN Technology E-List:
Follow
this link to JOIN
5.
DAWN
Ontario Women
with DisAbilities (WWD) Current membership: 70 members (as at Feb. 6, 2006) DAWN Ontario Women with DisAbilities: Bridges to Employment Opportunities project team and participants. The listserv has been expanded to accept members from across Canada interested in exchanging employment related information and resources. To
Join DAWN Employment E-List:
Follow
this linkto JOIN
6.
DAWN
Ontario Women
with DisAbilities (WWD) Current membership: 78 members (as at Feb. 6, 2006) This is a
forum to facilitate online consultation with Women with disAbilities. To
Join DAWN
Online Consultation Forum E-List:
Follow
this link to JOIN
Discussion
E-Lists
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About
the DAWN Ontario Women with disAbilities (WWD) Electronic Discussion
E-Lists Our ISSUES listserv, our primary discussion forum, is comprised of 411 participants (as of February 6, 2006) with members representing a diversity of disAbilities and backgrounds from different regions, provinces and countries. We ask that you RESPECT each other... When you give respect you gain respect Please, No Spam and No Advertisements... No vulgar and no obscene language, No deliberate slander toward other members... Simply put, attempt to do no harm and assume GOODWILL. The Listservs were created as an initiative of DAWN Ontario (DisAbled Women's Network Ontario), a progressive, feminist, pro-choice, cross-disability organization working towards access, equity, and full participation of Women with disAbilities through public education, coalition-building, self-advocacy, resource development and information and communication technology. DAWN Ontario
maintains a website at http://dawn.thot.net
to provide information to Women with disAbilities on issues
pertaining to social, economic and environmental justice.
Recognizing the value of online communities, DAWN Ontario is seeking to help build an effective online community of, for and by Women with disAbilities & Allies, including activists, advocates, and self-advocates. Part of our Action Plan for 2001 was to use the Internet to assist in building communities for self-advocates as well as to help develop the technical capacity of women with disAbilities, along with re-developing our website to provide accurate and accessible information that will benefit the diversity of Women with disAbilities that we serve. All our e-lists have restricted membership meaning that members are pre-screened by phone call and email before membership to the list is processed, in an effort to protect the privacy of our members, and as much as possible, screen out potential email harvesters, and people who do not support the values and principles of our network and/or the framework from which we work. Interested members are asked to respond to a series of 5 questions, provide contact information (held in confidence) and agree to adhere to a User Agreement before membership will be processed. The website is published by Barbara Anello. Both the website and the electronic discussion list are maintained by Barbara, as a volunteer and are operated without funding or sponsorship. How do I subscribe and unsubscribe? To the ISSUES DISCUSSION E-LIST
To the SHARING OUR STORIES E-LIST
To the TECHNOLOGY E-LIST
What may I post to the discussion list? Topics that are relevant to the Women with disAbilities Discussion List and pertain to issues of concern to Women with disAbilities. This is fairly broad in scope to allow for an open arena for Women with disabilities, to come together, communicate, share, and disseminate information in a supportive environment. There are some materials that are discouraged for posting to the Women with disAbilities Discussion List. These include:
If in doubt,
please contact the Women
with disAbilities Discussion listserv
manager
Please post to the list in plain text format only. That means no HTML and no rich text format, no fancy text and no backgrounds. It is helpful to all participants if your name and email address is included at the bottom of your posted message. That way, people can reply directly to you if desired. Please do not use a long signature file. Please make sure to indicate the discussion topic in the subject line to your email message. It helps everyone keep track of the original thread of conversation. Avoid copying the entire original message to which you are responding to ensure that posts are not unnecessarily long. If you use the Reply to Sender function to post to the list, please delete the original message, leaving only the section that is relevant to your post. This is in consideration of members who subscribe to the list with digest delivery mode, for members who use voice output software and for those who need to print each email. Please note that attachment files will be rejected by the listserv. To upload a file that will be available to participants, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DAWN-Ontario -- follow the link from the left navigation menu called FILES -- from here, you may upload a file(s). What
is the difference between individual vs.
digest format? If you would
like to receive all of the messages in one long e-mail at the
end of the day, change your subscription to digest delivery
format. How
to do this: Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DAWN-Ontario
To change your delivery options, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DAWN-Ontario -- follow the link from the right hand side of the page below Membership entitled Delivery Options... and change your settings to no email. When you are ready to receive emails again, follow the above step again, and choose the daily email or the digest mode. Alternatively, you may email a request to the Women with disAbilities Discussion list manager to temporarily suspend delivery... Please be certain to mention which of our e-lists you are writing in reference to.
How
do I find archived messages? List
Culture: Personal criticism or attacks in response to any posting are not welcome on our discussion group. We encourage
open expression, kindness and compassion. Since we enjoy
having a safe forum where women can feel free to discuss somewhat
personal issues, it is very important to note that messages
posted to the list may not be posted elsewhere, whether via
email, message boards, websites, or any other form of communication.
Should you see something you feel would benefit others outside
of the list, please contact the author
of the message privately and ask permission before sharing it.
Set your outgoing email preferences to keep lines fewer than 60 characters long. This avoids the annoyance of messages with difficult-to-read broken lines. Do not type in all caps unless you intend to SHOUT. Put a space between paragraphs to make your message easier to read. Posts made with text in one huge long block with no white space for the eyes to rest, rarely get read! If your return
email address does not identify readily who you are, please sign
messages you post to the list. This is a courtesy to other list
members who may wish to respond to you personally. It is also
nice to let people know what part of the country or world you
are from. When responding to an earlier message posted to the list, do not incorporate the whole preceding message in the body of your response. This is especially important for those of us with cognitive difficulties as well as members who receive digest delivery. Excerpt or summarize in a sentence or two the specific points of preceding messages you are responding to. Please consider whether what you want to say may be more appropriately sent to the individual poster.
Instead of forwarding an article or another email you have received, the preferred practice is to copy and paste it (IF possible!) into the body of a new message. This avoids annoying chicken scratch markings on every line >, sometimes double >> or triple >>>. However you send a forward, always fill in your subject line and take the time to say in your message why what you are sending seems relevant. Please identify what publication or source it is from and when possible provide the website address (URL) if the material is published online.. Many email users are overburdened with a high volume of messages. Kindly screen and be selective of what you pass on from other sources. Please check
out any virus warnings you receive before posting information
about them to the list. The
Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) of the US Department
of Energy keeps a record of known hoaxes at http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org.
Please do not post chain-letter-type petitions. Their source is often difficult to ascertain or may have disavowed the effort and their intended recipients are unlikely to get the message or a reliable signature count. However, petitions to print out and circulate for signatures and petitions giving website URLs to sign via email may be legitimate and effective, so use your best judgment in passing them on to the list.
Feedback is always welcome!
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