SkillSwap.org is an online skillSwap group where people with web design skills, teach other novices in small groups for free. Their slogan is "Wake-up to free newmedia training, by the local webdesign community, for the local webdesign community."

I have been to real life skillSwap meetings and really like the idea of an online one but would like to expand the idea beyond web design.

In honor of the first week back at school for many of us, we would like to propose that you devote one of you journal entries this week to the concept of teaching.

Your journal can be a great place to teach people how to do something. It can be anything from cooking, to drawing, to origami, to plant care, child care, music writing, web coding, video gaming, exercising, to farming and gardening ,etc.

Hope to learn from you soon.

The new quickUpdate box provides you with both a styleBox and an image upload function. It is seriously the fastest way to publish a new journal entry to the web. Try using it instead of your update page next time!

You will still need to use the "write" page to edit your links, upload sounds, explore your image library, change you userPic, update your email, change your password and/or edit and delete old journal entries.

I have added an user email chnage request form to the update page. You can now change your contact email address to something new if desired. However, you must confirm the email address by clicking on the link sent to you via email in order to confirm the new address. If you do change your contact email, you will be automatically prevented from logging in until you confirm a new addr.

Sorry about the major display errors that occurred on Saturday, January 10th. I had made some changes to the site that looked fine on Internet Explorer for PC and had not checked Mac or Mozilla. I think it should all be okay now.

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