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Subject: UPDATE ON the Mental Health Humor: Cartoon-a-thon
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:50:36 -0400
From: Chato B. Stewart
Organization: Mental Health humor
Dear Peer, Provider or Caregiver,
Wow, what a great Mental Health Awareness month! This year so many
people are really putting in a lot of effort from the DBSA, NAMI and
many other organizations like Mental Health America and also not to for
get many of our peers and their individual efforts.
The Mental Health Humor Cartoon-A-Thon is a free and fun project to use
humor as a coping skill. Each day during the month I’ve volunteered to
draw one cartoon. Now we have 26 new cartoons for this month to use
humor to bring awareness to many different mental health issues. It’s
meant to use positive humor as a way to cope with our serious disorders.
It has been successful, so far we have had over 22,000 unique visits and
53,000 page views. http://mentalhealthcartoons.com/
I want to thank every one who has come by the site. Please keep visiting
and if you have not see it yet i want to encourage you to stop on by.
Humor is the best medicine when coping with adversity. I welcome you to
use any of the cartoons in your newsletters on on your website or blog.
I ask if you have a blog or website that you add our link to it. I don’t
charge for the use of the cartoons but I do ask that you consider making
a donation to the project if you can.
This month we also are trying to raise funding to take the project to
the public with presentations and workshops. We understand money is
tight, but if you can make a pledge on any amount that will help us a
lot. Or, maybe you have a Laptop in good working order that you could
donate or a Projector so we can use PowerPoint with the presentation. If
so please e-mail me and we will make arrangements to get it to use.
Chato B. Stewart
Andy Alt
Meander
May 28, 2009 at 5:59 pm |
Thanks for your support… I am adding a link to this post on my site. and I’ll SU the post too.
Chato
http://mentalhealthcartoons.com
May 29, 2009 at 5:57 am |
Hi Chato,
Thanks for bringing a smlie to my face with your visual jokes,
I think a sense of humor is essential in this day and age.
My partner and my self (Dawn Pugh) value laughter a great deal and find that “a smile a day helps us work rest and play.”
A word of advice and please take this in the context that it is given…When putting links onto your blog if you have the ability to make them come up in another window then do so, that way it enables people to stay on both sites..
Thanks again
Take care
Regards
GaryGraye.com
June 3, 2009 at 5:13 pm |
Hi, Gary. It looks like I caused some confusion. The post above was a mass email I received from Chato. I’m sure he appreciates your gratitude though. :)
With regard to the links opening in a new window, your suggestion is the way I preferred it for years, but there is a new standard that does away with the “_blank” window attribute, which would cause clicked links to open in a new window while keeping the original open. I could still use the “_blank” attribute, but the standard is moving away from that, in favor of letting visitors decide. Basically, a visitor can right click a link and select open in new window or open in new tab, and he doesn’t have to be forced into the selection by the webmaster.
I hope that clears everything up!
Chato, thank you for the reciprocal link.
June 2, 2009 at 3:10 pm |
Thank you Gary,
and I’ll check that check the links…
Chato