Welcome to the OptiBoard Community Newsletter for February 2002!

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Today's Date is: 02-10-2003. This newsletter covers activity activity since 01-01-2003.
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Copngratualtions to Jeff Trail who won:

OPTIBOARD MEMBER OF THE YEAR for 2002!

While Jeff may have won the vote count, the truth is all of the nominees were excellent and were chosen as previous M.O.M.s for their excellent contributions to the OptiBioard Community. Congratualtions and thanks to all of you!


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OPTIBOARD MEETING AT VISION EXPO EAST
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Live Eyewear, one of the terrific sponsors of OptiBoard, is again allowing OptiBoarders to meet at their booth during Vision Expo East. The date and tuime for this meeting is set for Saturday, March 22 at 1:00 EST. We hope you everyone at VEE will be able to make it.


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OPTIBOARD SPONSORED FORUMS!
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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 member and contributor to OptiBoard for many years. He is very knowledgeable and helpful on lens and lab issues. According to one of the Moderators, "JR doesn't say a lot to impress you with his knowledgebut but tends to hit the nail on the head right away and subtlely letting you know he HAS the knowledge."

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: "The 'new' VSP??" (posted 01-22-2003 by Jana Lewis)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=6319

Title: "OptiBoard Member of the Year Contest!" (posted 12-08-2002 by Steve Machol)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=6048

Title: "Armani" (posted 11-21-2002 by Mikol)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5954

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

Title: "Another Hornets Nest...............Optical Trade Magazines" (posted 11-10-2002 by Chris Ryser)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5887

Title: "Welcome!" (posted 01-26-2003 by Steve Machol)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=6349

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

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

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

Title: "Wisdom To Start The Day,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,," (posted 11-07-2002 by Chris Ryser)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5855

Title: "Opticians and VSP" (posted 08-16-2002 by Johns)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5309

Title: "Need help picking patternless edger?" (posted 12-06-2002 by aaron)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=6037

Title: "All Of You Should Know.............................." (posted 12-22-2002 by Chris Ryser)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=6134

Title: "Optical Tech Support Rep - Telecommute" (posted 11-07-2002 by liane)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=5856

Title: "Super Bowl Predictions" (posted 01-20-2003 by EyeManFla)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=6301

Title: "Snow!" (posted 12-05-2002 by Night Train)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=6030

Title: "Newbie From Texas" (posted 01-17-2003 by Jana Lewis)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=6280

Title: "I won optimember of the year..no car?" (posted 02-03-2003 by Jeff Trail)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=6450

Title: "Alice, who are you really?" (posted 01-30-2003 by Optical Plumber)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=6409

Title: "tinkering with polarization" (posted 01-08-2003 by Jeff Trail)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=6219

Title: "New York,New York" (posted 01-13-2003 by harry a saake)
o http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=6244


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OPTIBOARD STATISTICS
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We had the following activity in January:

o New members: 130 (2,097 current total*)
o New message threads: 248 (6,229 current total)
o New posts: 1,890 (47,993 current total)
o Total hits: 904,836
o Total unique visits: 11,587
o Total Kb downloaded in January: 2,259,974 KileBytes 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