Welcome to YAP Space 
YAP Space is an area to encourage social networking within our kidney community - a place where Australians and others globally with a connection to CKD, can meet, chat, share and support one another. We hope this may alleviate some of the isolation felt when living with a chronic condition. It is important to share your story - you are not alone.
All YAP Space areas are regularly monitored by health staff with nursing or allied health experience. If you have questions but prefer a private reply - email chatroom@kidney.org.au and a Health Manager will reply confidentially.
- Register now. Email confirms registration. Approval may take a few days.
- Read our Terms of Reference and Rules of Conduct below, to understand your agreed responsibilities.
- See our Privacy Policy re confidential management of your information.
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- Forum Logon to post - have your say on thread subjects, or start a new one
- Chat Logon anytime - registered Yappers only 24 hours a day - spread the word
- Kidney Katz 16 to 25 - connect and choose relevant open channel or 'room'
- General Chatroom - connect to chat with others about anything 'kidney' related
- Health professionals or patients - connect and choose your pre-booked private YAP chatroom - book by email to chatroom@kidney.org.au The room will be made available to your group at a specified time, login to the allocated room and wait to be accepted by the moderator.
- Your Kidney Blog No registration, start blogging now. Click on subject below - enter your blog note in box at bottom of the blog page - tick agreement to upload your comment. Any entry may be moderated if it does not fulfil our Terms of Reference or Rules of Conduct below.
Topics: Bloggers from our 'kidney' community I Transport I Home dialysis I Organ Donation I
Donor Compensation I Early Detection and Prevention
NOTE - Kidney Health Australia reviews material posted on YAP Forum and Your Kidney Blog - personal email or contact information can not be displayed. We encourage free and creative expression, however, as in any environment where people are given this freedom, conflict may arise. If an author uses language or materials that offend the material will not be displayed. Do not post any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive to another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. Treat other people's privacy as you would your own.
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Kidney Community Online - Support Groups and Message Boards
If you use a quality CKD social networking site or health education web page, email us at chatroom@kidney.org.au and we will review it and consider the site for our weblinks.
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BigDandMe Australian Kidney Blog - Greg Collette Melbourne
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National Kidney Foundation USA Topics listed: Transplant athletics, Donor families, Living donors
Transplant recipients, Patient and Family Council, People with kidney disease and their families
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NephKids Online Cyber-Support Group Interactive email group for parents of kids and adolescents with CKD - supporting by associates of National Kidney Foundation USA. Registration required
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Acronyms and abbreviations for chat online - Shortcuts listed below are often used to speed up chat or you can just use symbols to express emotions - see "Smileys" pull-down menu.
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AKA - Also known as
AFK - Away from keyboard
ASL - Age/Sex/Location
BBS - Be back soon/shortly
BFN - Bye for now
BRB - Be right back
BTW - By the way
CYA - See ya
FAQ - Frequently asked questions
FYI - For your information
GW - Good work
IM - Instant message
IMHO - In my humble opinion
IMS - I am sorry
JIC - Just in case
K - Okay
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KIS - Keep it simple
LOL - Laughing out loud
LTNS - Long time no see
LTNT - Long time no talk
NBD - No big deal
NRN - No response necessary
OIC - Oh I see
PLS - Please
ROFL - Rolling on the floor laughing
RYOK - Are you OK?
THX - Thanks
TTYL - Talk to you later
WB - Welcome back
WFM - Works for me
WTG - Way to go
YW - Your welcome
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YAP Space Terms of Reference - outlines important policies and rules
- All sessions are recorded - infringements may be reported to chatroom@kidney.org.au
- Use of YAP Space is agreed by continued acceptance and compliance with our Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct.
- Your continued use of this site constitutes your agreement to any modified Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct.
- Kidney Health Australia may change at any time, the Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct. These changes will appear in the Terms of Use and Rules of Conduct, and available for your perusal.
- The Kidney Health Australia website www.kidney.org.au is provided as a homepage for people living with and/or affected by Kidney disease.
- YAP Space allows Registered Users an opportunity to gain emotional support and share experiences.
Information provided on www.kidney.org.au or offered on YAP Space should not be used in place of consultation with, or advice of, your physician or other healthcare provider
Rules of Conduct - You are expected to observe all Rules of Conduct in any chat session, during both monitored and unmonitored chats and in your postings in YAP Forum.
- Please use good judgment when you chat. YAP Space is not intended as a forum for lay medical advice and we caution you strongly to refrain from doing so. You are expected to observe all guidelines below and your conduct should be guided by common sense, basic etiquette, but especially these Rules of Conduct:
- In any communication or posting always be polite and courteous, introduce yourself upon entering the room.
Respect the opinions and practices of others in the chat room. We ask that you do not argue or openly debate with anyone.
- The use of rude or abusive language, blatantly insensitive remarks, or purposely annoying comments is not acceptable.
- It is strictly forbidden to advertise or promote cures, treatments, or products.
- Do not offer personal health advice to anyone online, or suggest treatment options with them - this is the role of an expert health professional.
- Do not try to obtain personal information from a Yapper - phone numbers and email addresses.
- Chat safely: we strongly encourage you NOT to give your last name, home or email address, phone numbers etc. If you do decide to exchange this information we suggest you use the private message 'whisper' function.
- Never shouting: do not use all capital letters when posting messages. The use of all capital letters in a in a chat room is considered shouting and very poor manners.
- Do not post website addresses (URLs) in a chat session. Our moderators cannot check the appropriateness of all web sites posted while they are monitoring the chat room.
Infringements of the Rules of Conduct may be reported to chatroom@kidney.org.au - if reported for 'bad behaviour' a Yapper may be banned permanently. Kidney Health Australia reserves the right to remove or ban you from the room for violating any of the above guidelines or for any other behavior that is deemed to be inappropriate for our rooms.
Updated 24 June 2009
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