Goal: To help keep the dialogue flowing in the discussion groups so as to make the discussions as helpful to people as possible, to keep them focused, to help people find resources on the web site that are relevant to the discussions (by dropping in links to the relevant web pages, to stimulate further discussion, and to generally help people in the discussion area.) We'd like people to specialize, or focus on one discussion area at a time - and get to know how to search out resources on that subject/topic so that they can provide links to valuable resources during conversations (for example if a person asks about a medication in the Medication discussion area, the Discussion group specialist might post the web address (also called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator)) to the discussion so that the person can simply click on the web address to instantly check out the information.
Estimated Time Commitment: It shouldn't require very much time. You'll have to log into the discussion areas and post messages every day or two to help prompt people to respond, respond to questions, further stimulate conversation, etc.. You also may organize chat sessions in your topic if you'd like to also.
The discussion/chat areas have been working really well and we'd like to keep people interested enough to check in every day or two to keep current. Your mission is to help people in the discussion area that you focus on (for example medication, or "Open") and to help maximize the value of these discussion areas to other users.