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Subject-Specific Information
At Best Start, our best resource is our staff.
They not only stay on top of new research and initiatives, but also
keep in close touch with a range of health providers across the
province. Best Start can help answer your information questions
or connect you with others working on similar initiatives.
Contact us at
for more details about how we can help you gather the information
you need.
The Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Promotion Network
About the MNCHP Network
How
do I subscribe to the MNCHP Network?
How
do I unsubscribe to the MNCHP Network?
What's
the difference between the Network, the Bulletins and the listserv?
What
can I post?
Guidelines
for Posting to the Network
Can
I post a request for information to the Network?
Managing
my subscription
About the MNCHP Network
The Best Start Resource Centre established the
MNCHP Network in 2001. Today, we have over 1,000 members, including
practitioners, policy-makers and researchers in public health,
child and family service organizations, media and information
sources and various levels of government. Network members represent
all areas of the province of Ontario, many from outside of Ontario
and even a few international members.
The Network allows professionals from across
diverse sectors and regions to share and receive up-to-date information,
guidance and strategies so they can advance the work they do.
MNCHP-L was created to promote and facilitate
the exchange of information about maternal, newborn and child
health. The Network offers:
 a regular electronic
bulletin, with current news and initiatives, recent research results,
and upcoming events on maternal, newborn and child health issues
a listserv
for Network members to share current information and ideas on
maternal, newborn and child health issues.
The list is moderated by the Best Start Resource
Centre. All postings to the list are screened to ensure that they
meet the guidelines and are relevant to the objectives of the
Network.
How do I subscribe to the MNCHP Network?
The MNCHP-L Network is free to join and open
to anyone with an interest in maternal, newborn and child health
promotion. Members include public health nurses, community health
workers, early childhood educators, midwives, doulas, family physicians,
advocates, activists, researchers, policy makers and individuals
with an interest in learning, sharing and discussing family and
child health promotion.
To subscribe to the MNCHP Network, send an email
to
or fill in the online subscription form at: http://list.web.net/lists/listinfo/mnchp-l
. Once you are subscribed, you will receive a welcome letter with
information about how to manage your subscription, including how
to post to the list, how to access the archives, temporarily stopping
emails (if you are away on vacation, for example) and other features
of the list.
How do I unsubscribe to the MNCHP Network?
To unsubscribe to the MNCHP Network, send an
email to
or fill in the online form at: http://list.web.net/lists/listinfo/mnchp-l
.
What's the difference between the Network,
the Bulletins and the listserv?
The MNCHP Network promotes and facilitates the
sharing of information. To do this, the Best Start Resource Centre
offers an online forum for practitioners, policy makers, researchers
and academics to engage with each other in an electronic listserv
- the list. In addition, Best Start researches, writes and distributes
a regular publication with information on current new, initiatives,
reports and events - the Bulletin.
What can I post?
Network members are invited to:
share current
information about maternal, newborn and child health
share research
results and reports (by including URLs for online access or contact
information for follow up)
announce upcoming
events, workshops, conferences, forums, etc. that would be of
interest to other Network members
participate
in discussions regarding policies, research or developments in
the field.
The MNCHP Network is a moderated list, meaning
that every post that is sent to the list is first reviewed by
the moderator. This protects Network members from receiving extraneous
posts (personal emails sent in error, vacation auto-replies, and
spam) and ensures that posts are relevant to the objectives of
the Network. However, the moderator does not edit posts, so please,
when posting to the Network consider the following guidelines.
Guidelines for Posting to the Network
Be brief - avoid including the
entire original message to which you are responding. A line or
two for reference may be all that is required. Forwarding information
from other sources should also be edited prior to sending to the
Network - cut off surplus information, HTML tags, etc. Some Network
members pay by emails received or by bandwidth and having unnecessary
text can make posts quite long.
Provide alternatives to attachments
- some Network members email programs 'scrub' or remove any attachments.
Sending an attachment with no other content information in the
body of the email will frustrate the receiver and not meet your
goal of sharing information. If possible, provide an alternative
method to receive posters, flyers, etc. If you need assistance
with this, please contact us at
.
Be clear in subject headings -
if you are introducing a new resource, "New Resource"
does not provide enough information to encourage someone to open
your posting, especially if people are receiving many emails in
a day. Try being more specific: New Resource: PPMD Video.
Be clear about location of events
- again, be specific. Instead of "Protest Against Child Care
Cuts", try Muskoka Event: Protest against child care cuts.
Simple formatting is best - posting
emails with colours and different fonts may appear interesting
in your browser, but please remember that not everyone is using
the same email program as you and doesn't necessarily see what
you see. For some members, posts with HTML code, appears as gobbledygook
in plain text and for those who use screen readers, such emails
are impossible to 'read'.
Copyright issues - Canadian copyright
law is quite specific with regard to what can be posted on listservs.
For example, cutting and pasting whole articles from newspapers,
magazines or chapters from books is considered a violation of
copyright laws. A simple way to share important information, without
breaking copyright law, is to provide only a very short quote
preceded by the statement "Taken from Newspaper X",
for example, and then including an URL for others to follow up,
if they wish. Posts submitted to the MNCHP Network moderator that
do not follow this guideline will not be posted.
Can I post a request for information to the Network?
Yes, please do. The Network can be a wealth
of information for the field and we all benefit by sharing information.
When you post a question or request for information, please consider
whether responses should be sent directly to you alone or, if
you think there is wide enough interest, whether responses should
be sent to the Network as a whole. If responses should be sent
only to you, please consider posting a summary of responses in
the future, so that all Network members benefit from your research.
For submissions to the MNCHP Network Bulletin,
please e-mail
.
Posting in French
The MNCHP Network is primarily an English-language
list but members are invited and encouraged to post and dialogue
in French.
Managing my Subscription
Network members can learn more about the list,
manage their subscription and change settings by visiting: http://list.web.net/lists/listinfo/mnchp-l.
You can:
receive a digest
version of the list (receive one large email every so often with
several postings together vs. receiving each individual email
as it is posted)
set vacation
stops
search the
archives (which go back to December 2002).
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