actually skype might work better for those of us who have trouble typing/reading fast. We do not have to do video. Just voice for now and see what happens? What does everyone think? I feel like we need a structure though. will try to find out how support groups are run.

I don't know about you others but for the last 2 months, I have had a chat room bar at the bottom of my NT screen. Is there a way to establish a specific chat room using that chat system ?

Personally, I think the time limitations of a chat room limits the number of participants. Starting a topic in the main forum provides a greater opportunity for participation. The responses may come a bit slower but from a wider range of perspectives.

Social chat is a different issue. I just created a Public Chat Room labelled PCS and TBI.

Feel free to use it as a gathering place.

Tell us if you can see the PCS and TBI chat room.

I have been in a bunch of support groups for different things. There are different ways of doing them. One is to have a theme for the night and then each person speaks and then others reply and the next person speaks and others reply etc. That is a commonly used one and the topic is usually set by the moderators but in this case maybe one can share Their idea for the week. I have to find out what Skype is lol I hope I have it I haven't been in a house a lot of years and have fallen behind on technology lol

Skype requires a lot of bandwidth. Many may not have adequate bandwidth. I know I don't.

mark I like your ideas. Thanks for setting up that room too

Thanks MarkNeil for the info re: support group. I think, having a topic then having one person speak to which others would respond is great.

Thanks Mark for letting us know. Chatroom it is!

I think we should set up a time as I would like to have more people participate(I just checked the chatroom no one was there :( ), and I can see people losing interest quick if we leave it up to chance. I think having a structure(set time/topic/taking turns, etc) will help the quality of the meet.

Personally, I cannot go to social gatherings due to PCS, so weekends work better for me, when I do not have docs appointments.

I'm nut much if a party animal anymore either lol. so anu time is pretty much good for me I just have to find the chat room I didn't see it. and somebody please do the next word in the puzzle :)

I haven't got a clue how to set up and use Skype. I don't do well with new things.

I think it might be the case that a new chat room disappears when its creator leaves. Accordingly, I don't know if it's possible to establish a standing, separate TBI chat room.

chat room info thread on our Community & Forum Feedback section --
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread204829.html

How to find chatrooms & chat toolbar -
The chat tool bar is at the bottom of NT screen pages- it might be a full length bar across the bottom - or it could be minimized and all that shows is the little bubble Icon at the bottom of your screen. click that to expand the toolbar.

The right side is for IM messaging and the left side is the chatrooms and games.