Join me in a chat session tonight-Guest speaker: Debbie Babin

I have been invited to be the guest speaker in a chat session organized by Quilting Weekly.

Schedule: Monday March 22nd, 2010  8 p.m. CENTRAL TIME ZONE

It is open to the public.  To participate all you have to do is go to Quilting Weekly and sign in as a guest.

Quilting Weekly is a site that is owned and operated by Chris Dahl.  The focus is on traditionally styled quilting.  She offers many things for quilters including a wide variety of courses online.  She has been receiving inquiries about fiber art; how to learn more about it.  This chat session has been set up to address this topic.   I am very pleased to have this opportunity to talk about my favorite subject: Fiber Art.

By the way….a chat session is not actually talking, rather writing to each other in an open chat room.  Everyone who participates sees all of the messages that are posted.  It is real time allowing anyone to submit and contribute to the chat.  I look forward to spending time with everyone this evening.

Directions:

Go to the goodies tab and look for “chat room”, click that and a window opens to allow you to do 1 or 3 things as explained below.

1. Click “guest” and it will show a box with guest(followed by random number) highlight this and type in your name. You will show up in the room as (name)(guest) name will be replaced with the name you type in.
2. Click “sign up” and it takes you to chatroll to set up an account.
3. Type in username and password if you are already a member of chatroll.

Once you log in either as guest or as member you simply type in your conversation in the bottom blue rectangle under the main window and hit enter on the keyboard to send a message.

A few other tips: At the bottom right corner you will see a few icons, here is what they are.

1. Speaker – turns on and off the sound (not actual conversations, rather a popping sound when a new message is posted) which is handy if you are doing multi-tasking and minimize the screen. (just like the chat screen on Face Book)
2. Bulls eye – takes you to the chatroll site
3. Box with arrow – minimizes the chat room so you can browse the web or work elsewhere on the computer.