Get Ready By Testing Your Computer Speakers

Invisible Illness Week starts 9/14 at 9AM Pacific time in the USA. You will log onto the web site here at Blog Talk Radio.

…and if a program is currently LIVE it will start playing through your speakers.

You can also to listen to the workshops any time at www.blogtalkradio.com/invisibleillnessconf or you can download them from itunes onto your ipod. Just search “invisible illness podcast.”

Now is a great time to make sure your speakers are working!

The only thing that you will need are a pair of speakers connected to your computer! We recommend going to our programs last year that are archived at Blog Talk Radio and clicking on a few programs to see if your speakers are working.

I have logged on to Blog Talk Radio but I am not hearing anything. I can’t get it to work. What do I do?

First, don’t panic. All programs are recorded so it will be there later. Secondly, here is the help section from BlogTalkRadio.com . Make sure your speakers are also plugged in and the volume on your computer is turned up (Start>Control panel> -then look for something that is Audio/Volume, etc)

We have found the support/help at Blog Talk Radio to be very good in helping you find what may be wrong in case you cannot hear the program.

Their blog says

Visit the BlogTalkRadio Help Center – There are two great places to learn more about BlogTalkRadio and how to make it work to your advantage. The first is the BlogTalkRadio Learning Center located on the main BTR site. Included are tutorials, FAQs, screencasts and more, to help make your experience with us as simple as possible. The BlogTalkRadio Help Center, located on the BlogTalkRadio Blog, is a work in progress listing blog posts offering tips and ideas for a positive experience.

Worth noting: Lastly, we have room for 4 callers to call in to the show. You can actually listen to the show this way, but we also want to keep the lines open for callers after the workshop. So you can call to listen, but you may get bumped.

ALSO SEE: FAQ About the Conference | Overview of Conference

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Tweet Something About #iiwk09 Today

Are you on Twitter? We have over 2000 followers of us on http://www.twitter.com/invisibleillwk.

In fact, if you Twitter about your illness you may want to join a group Lisa started Illness Twitters .

But I regress. There are loads of things to tweet about Invisible Illness Week! We have done

• 20 Things to Say to a Chronically Ill Friend
• 20 Things NOT to Say to a Chronically Ill Friend
• 25 Illness Facts in 25 Days
• If Your Friend is Ill Tips (27 of them)
• Friendship Tweets
  

We will also be sending out tweets from our speakers, tweets about the seminar topics for our virtual conference and more.

A fast way of locating tweets about Invisible Illness Week is to search twitter for #iiwk09 which is our hashtag. If you do any tweets on II Week, be sure to put #iiwk09 somewhere in the tweet so people can find it later when they search.

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Change Your Twitter Profile Image ‘Till II Wk

One of our visitors recently said, “Please create a Twibbon so I can help spread the word about II Week.” Well, I headed on over to their web site and we now have a “Twibbon.”

Basically you just click here for the Twibbon site and put in your twitter name and password and it will update your image with our orange balloon logo that says, “Invisible Illness Week.”

If you Twitter, it’s a great way to show your support (and may just bring you loads of new followers too!)

Thanks in advance!

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Blog Tour Kicks Off

Monday, July 27th Lisa kicked off her blog tour! And grateful that doesn’t mean getting in her car and heading out to the highway, but rather, taking a trip around the web, getting to know some of you better!

The schedule for July is below and soon the rest of the dates will be added!

Lisa shares her thoughts about Invisible Illness Week (and other ramblings) including a couple of questions from each blog host. So be sure to visit each blog and leave some comments. Our blog hosts have done us an extra special favor by helping us spread the word about II Week in this way!

We still have some August dates open so apply today!

Are you a reader? II Week is sponsored by Rest Ministries a Christian organization. Not all sites on the blog tour are Christian in nature, but hosts have let us know if they are or or not.  Web sites with Christian content are marked with * below.

• 9/10 (F): Mama Sick
• 9/9 (Th): CHRONICALLY NOT MY(old)SELF *
• 9/8 (W):
• 9/7/ (Tu):
• 9/6 (M):
• 9/4 (F): My Daily Life *
• 9/3 (Th): This Year’s Masterpiece
• 9/2 (W): How to Cope with Pain
• 9/1 (Tu):
• 8/31 (M)
• 8/28 (F):
• 8/27 (Th):
• 8/ 26 (W): Delicious Health’s Blog
• 8/25 (Tu): Harvesting Hope from Heartache *
• 8/24 (M): Somebody Heal Me: The Musings of a Chronic Migraineur
• 8/21 (F):
• 8/20 (Th): This *Crazy Miracle* Called Life *
• 8/19 (W) : Having a Unique Family *
• 8/18 (Tu): ArthriticJoints.com Blog
• 8/17 (M): Health-E Inspiration
• 8/14 (F) : Tidings *
• 8/13 (Th): Eve Carver Callis’s Page*
• 8/6: Parkinson’s Journey*
• 8/4: Giving and Loving*
• 8/3: Getting Closer to Myself
• 7/31: My Life The Good, The Bad, & The Blonde Moments*
• 7/30: Missy’s Page*
• 7/29: Living-4 Hours at a Time*
• 7/28: Jodie’s Blog*
• 7/27: Novel Patient

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