Welcome to the OptiBoard Community Newsletter for November 2002!

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Today's Date is: 11-08-2002. This newsletter covers activity activity since 10-01-2002.
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A belated but very big congratulations to one of our Moderators, Harry Jilson (aka hcjilson), who was recently voted Optician of the Year by the Opticians Association of Massachusetts. Be sure to pass along your congratulations to Harry in this thread:

http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5597

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OPTIBOARD SPONSORED FORUMS!
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Do you realize that only two companies have the foresight and generosity to support OptiBoard and it's members by becoming sponsors? These fine companies are:

- Transitions, the developer of the most popular and advanced photochromic lenses in the world today, and
- Live Eyewear, the rapidly growing supplier of innovative and quality sunwear products.

Please show your support for OptiBoard and these sponsors by visiting these forums and learning more about the products and services offered by these fine companies.

o Smart Lens Technology by Transitions Optical
http://www.optiboard.com/forums/foru...?s=&forumid=28

o Sunwear Selling Solution by Live Eyewear
http://www.optiboard.com/forums/foru...?s=&forumid=29

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OPTIBOARD FEATURED MEMBER OF THE MONTH
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This month's featured member is:

JRS

JR has been a very active member since almost the beginning. He is one of the more knowledgaeble and helpful members on OptiBoard, often jumping in to help folks who are researching optical information. According to one of the Moderators, "JR sometimes doesn't say a lot to impress you with his knowledge, but tends to hit the nail on the head right away."

Congratulations JR, and thanks for being a valuable member of the OptiBoard Community!

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HOT TOPICS
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Title: "TIPS ON DISPENSING" (posted 05-31-2001 by harry a saake)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=1034

Title: "Let's Improve OptiBoard!" (posted 07-09-2002 by Steve Machol)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5026

Title: "Lets be serious about OPTICAL TRADE EXHIBITIONS" (posted 10-26-2002 by Chris Ryser)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5776

Title: "Is the country better off since the 2000 election?" (posted 11-04-2002 by Steve Machol)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5841

Title: "Trivex. Are you using it?" (posted 10-31-2002 by HarryC)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5813

Title: "Polycarbonate vs. Trivex (NEW THREAD - edited by Moderator)" (posted 10-30-2002 by Pete Hanlin)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5807

Title: "The Transitions Challenge" (posted 03-10-2002 by Jo)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=4165

Title: "Ran into a term I dunno--can somone help please" (posted 05-24-2002 by LauraH)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=4732

Title: "Research on tinting on a new lens material" (posted 10-30-2002 by Chris Ryser)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5822

Title: "Eyewear Abuse" (posted 09-04-2001 by optigoddess)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=2578

Title: "Highest quality wholesale lab, regardless of cost???" (posted 09-22-2002 by icare)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5537

Title: "Progressive Lens Design: Where do we go from here?" (posted 04-15-2002 by Steve Machol)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=4446

Title: "AR Care" (posted 05-31-2001 by chip anderson)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5731

Title: "Want to really be patriotic? Here's your chance!" (posted 11-04-2002 by Pete Hanlin)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5839

Title: "Product Review Forum - Ideas and Suggestions" (posted 10-03-2002 by Steve Machol)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5616

Title: "Looking for Error Stories..." (posted 10-05-2002 by Pete Hanlin)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5631

Title: "Sean and Mullo-Time for the Halloween Avatar Wars to Begin!" (posted 10-16-2002 by Cindy Hamlin)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5709

Title: "Strange Facts!" (posted 07-31-2002 by Sean)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5183

Title: "Which forums do you want to see added?" (posted 09-18-2002 by Steve Machol)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5509

Title: "Harrassment from Optical retail corporate management" (posted 10-30-2002 by OptiBiz)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5810

Title: "Advantages of Licenses" (posted 05-21-2002 by chip anderson)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=4708

Title: "Credit for AR lenses" (posted 10-02-2002 by LENNY)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5607

Title: "???hippa???" (posted 10-17-2002 by Johns)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5718

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CHRISTMAS AT THE OPTIBOARD ONLINE STORE
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Just a quick reminder that the OptiBoard Online Store is still open for business and that we've now added some Christmas items to the store. You can check it out here:

http://www.cafeshops.com/optiboard/

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OPTIBOARD STATISTICS
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We had the following activity in October:

o New members: 93 (1,883 current total*)
o New message threads: 231 (5,625 current total)
o New posts: 1,958 (43,139 current total)
o Total hits: 864,048
o Total unique visits: 11,290
o Total Kb downloaded in October: 2.465 gigabytes of information!

* Some obsolete memberships were removed last month.
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Once again, thanks to all of you for your support and for helping make OptiBoard truly the 'Premier Online Community of Eyecare Professionals Worldwide!'

Steve Machol
OptiBoard Administrator
smachol@optiboard.com