As you know from your own experience, the first step toward preparation is an understanding of the problem. Providing information that will help those in our community who are new to the year 2000 problem gain an understanding of it as quickly as possible is the idea for postings to be catergorized under the "Awareness" heading.

The "Global" Awareness link on the home page leads to the section of the Millennium Salons web site set up as a "Shared Resource" so that individuals and communities nationally and globally can post references (URLs/links) to what they consider to be exceptional year 2000 Awareness information; the idea being to help people become familiar with the phenomena as efficiently as possible. If you have URLs or links that stand out as having had a particular impact on you, use that global link and post them there.

Those URLs or links can also be posted here too, of course. Also, if there are local sources of year 2000 information (the nearest Small Business Administration office, educational, or community service groups working to make people aware?), that information should be posted under this category too. Anything locally that will help people become more aware more quickly.

Another possibilty some in the community might want to consider is writing out and posting your own story of how you became aware, and what's happened as a result. Sometimes hearing our friends and neighbor's experience is the most effective form of communication there is.

-- Bill (billdale@lakesnet.net), January 17, 1999