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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi all,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Grateful thanks to Ricardo who has ignited the NCD wiki for us all to use at </FONT><A HREF="http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/NCD/WebHome"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/NCD/WebHome</FONT></U></A></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have started to populate the pages and I hope that everyone will find it useful as a document source and development tool. I have uploaded a few files, which can be seen as attachments at the bottom of the main page. Please feel free to upload your own presentations or other documents too.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The first major discussion area is the upcoming NCD 2007 Workshop, for which there is a separate page that we can use to develop the agenda, travel information, delegate list etc. Please take a look and use this as the practice page for editing.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I found the system to be very easy to use - the link to "Three easy steps" is at the top of the main NCD page. There is much useful documentation available via this link, of which the text formatting rules at </FONT><A HREF="http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TextFormattingRules"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TextFormattingRules</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> is probably the most useful.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Once you have registered: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - click on the EDIT tab at the top the page you wish to edit</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> - click on the ATTACH button at the bottom of the page to attach a file.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Have fun,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Neil</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-------</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Neil Thomson</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Head of Data & Digital Systems</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 5294, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Fax: +44 (0)20 7942 5559, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Email: n.thomson@nhm.ac.uk</FONT>
<BR><A HREF="http://www.nhm.ac.uk"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.nhm.ac.uk</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT>
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