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The Leadership Team of the PPD/TMS Peer Network, sponsor of the TMS Wiki
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TMS Discussion Threads
The following is a list of links to some of the better discussions from our old forum. However, we encourage you tovisit our new foruminstead.
- Fear of Walking: "My biggest problem is walking. I developed a fear of it and, depending on how stressed I feel, I start getting tired and dragging the foot after 10 to 20 minutes. At it's worst I look quite disabled which makes it worse as I feel people notice it."
- The physical side of TMS: "Sometimes when I read the post on TMS forums I feel quite depressed by the amount of self-denigration that seems to accompany the TMS diagnosis. I don't know whether it was there before the diagnosis or not but in some cases it seems to make it worse!"
- Could OCD be one of Sarno’s TMS equivalents: "There is no 'magic cure' for either TMS or OCD - they are both defenses employed by the unconscious mind to avoid something that feels frightening, painful or overwhelming. Each person will need to work through those feelings and issues in their own way."
- Why do we argue with our brain?: "Absolutely, there are no clear lines between our mind and body; our body and mind are indivisible and it is perfectly appropriate that emotions trigger physical responses, just as physical sensations stir emotional reactions."
- Struggle through chronic RSI pain: "I truly believe that it was the mentals gains that helped reduce the actual pain. I stopped seeing myself as injured, my mind was overjoyed, and my body responded. I think there is something to be said about our bodies being affected by our emotions."
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| ForestForTreesTMS | Posting the mission statement | 1 | Sep 27 2009, 3:05 PM EDT by ForestForTreesTMS | ||
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Thread started: Sep 26 2009, 7:16 PM EDT
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In early July, Flutterby suggested that we make some sort of mission statement for the wiki. She has experience with nonprofits and had previously mentioned that they were very important, so I drafted one and posted it on the [tmswiki] mailing list. HilaryN read it and wrote that it "Looks OK to me" and Flutterby read it and said that "I thought what you wrote all made very good sense." Since I also like the mission statement and since no one has objected to it, I'm posting it now, so that I can link to it when I describe the fact that we are creating a nonprofit to organize TMS activists and run the wiki. Since most people just see us running the wiki, I think that it is important to show that we identified organizing lay activists as a core mission of the wiki a while ago.
Anyway, anyone reading this, may want to look at the following thread first, which explains one of the reasons why the mission statement says what it does: http://tmswiki.wetpaint.com/thread/3320690/Successful+wikis+tend+to+be+very+large Here is the mission statement: http://tmswiki.wetpaint.com/page/Mission+Statement With so incredibly much going on with the wiki at this point and since we've already discussed the mission statement, now might not be the best time to start a discussion about redesigning the mission statement--such discussions tend to take an awful lot of time and an awful lot of energy from a lot of people (many people must weigh in). I just wanted to let people know that it is up. |
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| ForestForTreesTMS | Successful wikis tend to be very large | 0 | Sep 26 2009, 6:28 PM EDT by ForestForTreesTMS | ||
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Thread started: Sep 26 2009, 6:28 PM EDT
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[This post is adapted from an email to the [tmswiki] mailing list. It is included here to help explain why providing information that isn't available elsewhere is a core part of the mission statement:
http://tmswiki.wetpaint.com/page/Mission+Statement It's just here for reference at this point.] Before I started the wiki, I did a lot of research about how wikis were run, so I could learn what wikis are good at. What I found was that wikis are good at organizing and making available large amounts of information. In some sense, the "many hands make light work" approach of wikis is very good at making huge websites. For example, if the English Wikipedia were printed out like Britannica, it's 3 million articles would fill over 1000 encyclopedia volumes (incomparison, the Encyclopedia Britannica is only 32 volumes). This allows Wikipedia to have information that Britannica would never have. A second wiki to look at would be WikiTravel, one of Time Magazine's 50 best websites of 2008. It has over 40,000 articles. A third class of wiki would be the fan run wikis. They are all incredibly detailed and very successful compendiums of huge amounts of information. Some examples would be the World of Warcraft Wiki (70,000 articles) and the Star Wars Wiki (65,000 articles). All of these highly successful wikis are successful because they make available information that is not available anywhere else. Put another way, they are BIG. Successful wikis don't have professional marketers, graphic designers, user experience designers, or similar professionals. They tend to do remarkably well at handling marketing, graphic design, user experience, etc., despite this, but what they are good at--their sine qua non--is making available information that is not available anywhere else by organizing the labor of "many hands." They are not tiny websites. On the contrary, they tend to be huge. |
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