New:
visit the HVT&C Forum, including the HVT&C Virtual Carpool.

For those who didn't make the March meeting, we had a wonderful program. Minda Zetlin spoke about her new book "Telecommuting for Dummies", including what telecommuting is, what type of person is most effective as a telecommuter and how to set-up a "telecommuting plan" and sell it to your company or manager. Several people, including Minda, came to the meeting in their bathrobes and PJ's. A great way to break up "cabin fever"....

Minda also brought some real "telecommuters" with her to the program, Kathi Vian and Howard Bornstein, who both "telecommute from Woodstock to their California jobs at "Institute for the Future". Both Kathi and Howard have joined HVT&C and have some great ideas for future programs.

As a special treat at the March meeting, Bill Pfleging, Minda's husband, spoke about his experience with managing telecomuters. Bill will be presenting at our April 9th meeting on Virtual Communities look at our Forums, which Bill set-up).

New small business members include Robert Derwa of Derwae Associates, who specializes in business communications.
Welcome aboard all new members.

New Board Members: After the meeting, Bill Pfleging and Mark Tourtellot were elected as new Board members.
Mark is our new websmaster and did a great job in revising and updating our new HVT&C website (check it out, its wonderful..) Mark is also directing our "Wired for Wireless" project, whereby we are attempting to facilitate wiring venues in the area for high-speed wireless access. We are currently looking for grants to help finance same (note: with our new non-profit status, we are eligible to get grants; anyone with grant writing experience or interest, please contact me).

We are sorry to lose Michael Kilpatrick of Oxclove, who resigned from the Board. Mike, the former President/CEO of Webwerker, was a co-founder of the HVT&C and helped to launch us over the past 2 years. Thank you Michael for your years of dedicated service.

Other New HVT&C Pilot Projects:
Through our virtual community link, we have recently launched a Virtual Ride Board to help facilitate carpooling in the HV. With gas prices pushing $2 per gallon, and traffic and mass transit worse then ever, we are hoping to help reduce oil consumption and pollution and save our local environment. Its a also a good way to meet fellow HVT&C'ers. We are looking for a sponsor to help publicize the service and to upgrade the software and site.

Upcoming Calendar (monthly meetings):
April 9th: Bill Pfleging (Billsville.com) on Virtual Communities
May 14th: Special Panel on "New Technology in the Recording Studio"