About This Week’s Workshops

Monday is officially the first day of National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week. In past years we have featured a 5-day virtual conference with special guests who help us learn to live better lives even though we also deal with the day to day struggles of an unpredictable chronic illness.

This year we will be featuring some of these exceptional workshops. Each day we will provide links to 3 or 4 podcasts we think you would enjoy. We hope that you find the information valuable and helpful and please feel fre to share it with a friend,on your favorite social network, or even in your own blog (you can actually get the embed code at blogtalkradio.com)

You can find them all podcasts here on Blog Talk Radio or, if you use itunes, enter “invisible illness” under “podcasts” and then download them to a music player to listen to anytime. >More instructions here

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Listen to Invisible Illness Week Workshops Any Time for Encouragement

Did you happen to make some of our podcast seminars during National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week? We had some amazing guests as our panelists who contributed to a successful week of inspiration, information, and education.

One of my favorite emails from of listener that I just received this weekend says:

“I listened to the broadcast on Monday. I cried through the whole thing. I listened to it a few more times because I missed too much (crying). I felt so validated for the first time in 5 years. It doesn’t matter that my disease is a 1 in 200,000 what was discussed was common to all. I have no idea the hours of labor you put into the week or the finances or the physical cost to your body that such an undertaking had but I know it had to be great. I just want you to know that your labors made a difference. . . Just learning that what I feel is common to all who suffer with chronic illness made me realize that though I sometimes feel like I am isolated God is right there with me every step.”

Wow. Tears came to my eyes as I read her entire email (this is just a portion above) and then I printed it out and read it to my husband.

To all of you who helped me make this week possible, thank you.

Now. . . head on over to Invisible Illness Week podcasts at Blog Talk Radio to get some more encouragement. You may even find an episoide from 2008 or 2009 that strikes a chord with you too! You can also find our Invisible Illness Week programs in the Apple itunes store for free if you want to download them to your ipod.

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Invisible Illness Week Online Virtual Conference Registration Now Open

You don’t even have to get out of bed for this virtual conference!

Will you be attending at least one Invisible Illness Awareness Week Workshop?

Here are the details about the seminars of Invisible Illness Week:

• This year, 2010, we will have one seminar each day, 90 minutes long, with guest experts on panels
• M-F, September 13-17
• They will be held online, for free
• 10:30 AM Pacific time, USA
• Go to www.blogtalkradio.com/invisibleillnessconf at the time of the conference and the program will play out of your computer speakers
• If you miss it you can listen to it later, and within a few days they are also imported into itunes if you listen to podcasts on an ipod.

Here is a time zone converter.

Register below. It’s free. We basically just need your name and email, but if you’d like to share anything with us (including a web site address if you blog about your illness), we’d love to get to know you better. Leave any comments in the “bio” section if you’d like.

If the form does not work for some reason, just email us “yes, I am coming/listening in!”

http://invisibleillness.eventbrite.com

Are on Facebook?

If so, be sure to RSVP there too . Why? It helps us spread the word by popping up the little Facebook ad in the right hand column. Plus, we have a better idea of how many listeners to expect.

Remember, you can listen to all of the programs from your computer. They will be broadcast via Blog Talk Radio. If for some reason you can’t get it working, within moments of the program being complete, you can listen to it archived at Blog Talk Radio and later on itunes.

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Invisible Illness Week Seminars on iTunes

Visit ITunes and download the Invisible Illness Week seminars for free on your ipod.

Now you can listen to them on your MP3 player, ipod, etc. Great while going for a walk or when you are stuck in bed.

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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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