Adding links to the left

Learning my way around this free blog site, I have discovered how to add links to the left side of this page. These links make for quick access to the sources of information that I find useful in the context of AVP volunteer work (and, modestly, think other AVPers might find helpful to know about). Click on a link and you will find yourself looking at that source, whether it is the national AVP-USA web site, the International AVP web site or AVP in another city, state or country.

As a bonus, access from this blog to those sites is faster than typing in the link, let alone finding the link in my extensive pull-down bookmarks.

Help me out. Let me know if there are AVP links that you think should be added, especially in Spanish or Creole or other languages.

Opening up for browsers

A long time ago, I had a free web site for the Alternatives to Violence Project's volunteers in South Florida. But the "free" part went away, with some loss of stored data (largely unmissed now)--yet also with the loss of all the time and energy I had put into it.

There were no funds for a "real" web site--the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) has only minimal funds from its volunteers, who are often digging deep to carry out the workshops in the state prisons, where they bring in whatever supplies are essential and, if allowed, some refreshments.

Then along came blogging, and I read blogs, and was favorably impressed by some--and then Google started hosting "free" blogging. Waiting was... I watched and learned. Now, I want to play, too. I am ready to re-invest some of that time and energy into an Internet presence primarily for the South Florida volunteers (and perhaps-soon-to-become-volunteers) of Miami AVP.