Welcome

Welcome to the first newsletter from the Mountains for Active Diabetics website. If you do not wish to receive these newsletters please visit http://diabetic.friendsinhighplaces.org, enter your email address in the box at the bottom left and select 'unsubscribe'. Once unsubscribed, your email address will not be recorded (unless you are a registered user of the site).

What's New at the Site

Well, the website is still quite new, but it is getting a steady trickle of visitors. We are starting to appear in the first page of Google search results (the site automatically alerts Google to new content). A few users have realised how simple it is to post blog articles - keep them coming!

New sources of diabetes and outdoor news are popping up all the time, and the MAD site automatically links to them using a clever technology called RSS (Really Simple Syndication). This means that we have daily-changing links to topical stuff. You can use the same technology to put our headlines on your browser. If you are using Firefox, just drag the small square orange icon from the foot of the front page to your bookmarks toolbar. Internet Explorer 7 has a news feeds sidebar in which you can subscribe to our RSS feed.

Jeff Mazer has fully mastered the challenge of submitting content to the site with a beautifully engineered pitch for the MADiDEA 2007 meet near his home town of Bozeman, Montana. That event is coming up very soon, and promises to be tremendous fun for those who can make it. Look to the end of the web site's front page and you'll find an account by David Panofsky of the 2005 conference in Colorado. David has also posted some glorious photos in a story about his recent trip the the Emerald Isle.

Suggestions Please

What do you want the MAD website to do? Please let me know via the suggestions box - it's a link in the menu on the left hand side of the front page. Thanks!

Old Site - Final Call

Having successfully migrated to the 'new' site, I need to take the 'old' site off line to free up space on the server. If you had posted content at mad.friendsinhighplaces.org, and you want me to migrate it across to diabetic.friendsinhighplaces.org, please let me know before the end of August. Thanks!

Andy Reynolds
MAD Webmaster