Goal: To increase the number of people that know about, and can benefit from the web site. To increase the number of subscriptions to the newsletter and the traffic to the discussion areas so that people share more about what they've learned about schizophrenia and support each other to a greater level.

Ideal Team to work on this: The ideal team to work on this effort would be some people who are knowledgeable or interested in the web and able to search around and find the people, newsgroups, etc. that are related to mental illness and schizophrenia - to let them know of our site and newsletter services. Also it would be ideal to have a person with some experience with PR to type up and place press releases with the relevant press.

Estimated Time Commitment: As much as you are willing to commit. At least one hour a week and more if you wish.

We'd like to see more people to link to our web site (any site related to mental illness, schizophrenia, bipolar, etc.) so that their users know of this good resource for information on schizoprhenia. We'd also like to get word out to more students and professors at universities about the web site and about the newsletter, and we'd also like to do a drive to get the message out about the site to psychiatrists.

We are open to ways to "Get the word out" about the web site, newsletter, and discussion areas - but some ideas are:

1. You'll just look up psych professors and psychologists/psychiatrists that are on the web and send them an email telling them about how to subscribe to the newsletter.

2. You find out about newsgroups and discussion areas (at other web sites) that also discuss or provide information on mental illnesses and let people know about our web site and free newsletter services.

3. We periodically publish press releases announcing special events at the web site (such as authors, speaking, etc.)