X-Message-Number: 9101 Date: Tue, 03 Feb 98 19:00:39 From: Fred Chamberlain <> Subject: Announcement of "Alcor Phoenix Online" From: Roderick Carder-Russell () Subject: Alcor Phoenix Online I am pleased to announce the release of the Alcor Phoenix Online, beginning this month with Volume 4, Issue 8. The Alcor Phoenix Online is designed to take advantage of Internet communications to reach a broader audience than would typical be possible with hard copy only distribution. By utilizing the World Wide Web in such a way, Alcor can more efficiently and cost effectively provide a high quality experience to its readers that reaches beyond the hard copy version. High resolution pictures, navigation and the ability to augment the issues at any time with a minimum of work will make for a truly spectacular newsletter. With this first online edition, I have retained the hard copy formatting of columns and general layout, making only minor modifications to the graphic design. In the future, I hope that through much brainstorming, experimenting and lots of feedback from readers, the Phoenix Online will transform itself into the most suitable online format possible. There are many design issues to contend with, and I intend to style the Phoenix to the readers' desires. Should I stick with the traditional hardcopy layout, or should I do such things as rework the page numbering and devote entire pages to single columns? Is the three column format difficult to read? Should I include more graphics? These are all questions that need answers, and I intend to respond to your wishes. This first issue is just a prototype, and I need your feedback. I can be reached at I look forward to all of your comments, and I hope that The Alcor Phoenix Online will be a site that you all visit often. Long Life, Roderick A. Carder-Russell ------------ Roderick A. Carder-Russell http://www.shore.net/~rodc/home.html ------------ From: Fred Chamberlain () Subject: Alcor Website Changes Above, you'll find a message from Roderick Carder-Russell about a new dimension in the Alcor Website, on "on-line" version of The Phoenix (Alcor's newsletter, published 8 times a year.) A lot of other changes are coming to the Alcor Website too, and Roderick will be contributing to them heavily. We've discussed Roderick helping me with editing the hard copy version of The Phoenix, as well as transforming the hard copy into webinfo, so with time it may be harder and harder to tell which of us has done what to either. For the time being, you should continue to route letters to the editor to me () and comments on the website to Roderick (). Brian Shock, Alcor's Membership Manager, has basically carried the entire website load in the past. All inquiries for information and postings for orders of materials, surveys, and such will *still* flow through Brian (). Don't forget, also, that as Editor of Cryonics Magazine, Brian is always looking for major articles. I'm in the "short news" end of things, but if you have some lengthy ideas for articles, get in touch with Brian. Back to the on-line version of The Phoenix. You'll find direct links to it (as well as an on-line "bookstore" (in its earliest stages of development), right when you enter the Alcor site at (http://www.alcor.org) Presently, the bookstore features a review of The First Immortal, plus a direct link enabling you to purchase it at a 30% discount through Amazon. (Alcor receives a part of each sale, in addition to your receiving a 30% discount, so you might say that Amazon "donates" 15% of *its* 70%, to Alcor.) The current issue of the "Alcor Phoenix Online" contains full details on Alcor's April, 1998 conference in Scottsdale AZ. It give an account of a recent standby for a heart operation in Palm Springs, CA, as well as new details on Alcor's training program. Credits toward Life Membership in Alcor are available, and details on this is also part of the new online issue of The Phoenix. In months ahead, there will be a continuing stream of such information. A lot of the impetus for upgrading and expanding the site came from comments during the teleconference calls about Life Membership last fall, and we appreciate the emphasis that everyone gave to the importance of Internet outreach. *Last Minute Notice* The Alcor Northern California Group's Training Session is this coming weekend. If you're enrolled for this, be sure you know where to go, at what time - if you don't, call Linda Chamberlain at 1-800-367-2228, right away. We are going to cover a *lot* of ground in a short time, as well as give you an in depth look at what's coming in the way of higher technology for suspensions over the next few years. If you arrive late, you'll either miss things that are on the tests, or fail to get the most complete picture of how what you're doing fits into the overall scheme of cryonics growth and technology development! Fred Chamberlain, CEO/President () Alcor Life Extension Foundation 7895 E. Acoma Dr., Suite 110, Scottsdale AZ 85260-6916 Phone (602) 922-9013 (800) 367-2228 FAX (602) 922-9027 for general requests http://www.alcor.org Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=9101