Welcome to the ADAVB Blog

Members who have already subscribed to the ADAVB Alert! Service might wonder why we are also offering this weblog news service.

Our aim is to fill a gap that is not addressed by the Newsletter, the Branch website or the ADAVB Alert! emails. There are numerous news events of significance to dentistry, and more narrowly to members of the ADAVB, which come to our attention, but which do not normally rate a mention in the other established communication channels. Examples of these include:

• Key administrative events on the ADAVB Calendar (e.g. subscription renewals);
• News about meetings and seminars attended by ADAVB representatives on behalf of the profession;
• Progress with projects on which the ADAVB is either coordinating or playing a contributory role;
• Information about work being undertaken on members’ behalf, which might otherwise have been “behind the scenes”;
• Release of new research reports by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (amongst others):
• Publication of discussion papers by various Government Departments; and
• Provision of other sundry news that would be out of date if left to appear in the Branch Newsletter.

What this blog will not be, is a vehicle for opinion pieces or personality focused material. As with our other communication systems, we don’t propose to waste your time. Because you can subscribe to the blog as an RSS feed, you can be alerted to changes on the Branch website, and to other key developments as they occur, but ONLY IF YOU ARE INTERESTED. If not, then it is easy to unsubscribe from the feed.

We don’t necessarily expect to update postings daily, but there will be a pretty regular stream of postings, and certainly they will occur more often than weekly. We suggest you set your RSS Feeder to poll for updates 2 or 3 times per week. Your feedback on the style and substance of the contents, along with suggestions on information you would like provided by this means, would be welcome.