New forum

blinkybill · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:40 am Post subject: New forum

Hi all,

I've set up another forum over at http://www.freeforum101.com/saaust/.

I'm not intending to draw away any traffic from this site, but I thought it would be good to have a central place for us Aussies to have, to avoid having our discussions scattered accross different forums.

Anyways, all are welcome, so feel free to jump aboard Smile

SilentStranger · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:00 pm Post subject: Re: New forum

Hi,

BlinkyBill its good to see an Australian forum that is not state/group specific. I might have a look around.... although lately I have not been posting or even lurking on forums (SPW included).

Have you posted on other forums and or newsgroups (although alt.support.social-phobia seems to nothing but spam)

-SS

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blinkybill · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:32 pm Post subject:

Yeah, the newsgroups seem to have quite a low signal-to-noise ratio, so I gave up on them a while ago.

I stumbled accross socialanxietysupport.com recently which also seems to have a few Aussies on. I myself don't post to the forums too much, but they do provide valuable support and I would like to contribute more to these communities.

I hope the forum that I've setup might be able to get off the ground. Having a regional forum allows us to discuss issues from suggested therapists and support resources, to organizing our own meetups, to many other issues I haven't even thought of yet. There seems to be a dearth of regional support groups in Australia, so perhaps the best way is a self-organized model (like Social Anxiety UK).