What is the Shop Talk Message Board?
Message boards are chronological records of people’s discussions about a given topic. At Shop Talk, most of the discussions are about medical supply merchants or medical supply products. The basic idea is that one person makes a message board post in one of the boards. S/he is then responded to by another person who is also interested in the medical supply merchant or product. More people read these posts and add to the collective knowledge of the community. Q: What’s the difference between a chat room and a message board? A: A chat room is a place where you go and engage other people in real-time. Text scrolls upwards on your screen as individuals “talk” to one another. If you find something that someone writes to be compelling, you’ll type in a response and it will appear on the screen for everyone in the room to see. Once you leave a chat room, there is generally no historical record kept of the conversation. Also, the topics in a chat room are wide-ranging and generally not as well
