All you Maya and 3D newbies (and everyone else) are welcome to join the IRC channel for live chats. Sometimes it takes us a while to respond, as most of us who are in there might be idling or working. But, if you wait a bit, we're more than happy to help people out.

You can either click on the link #Simply3DWorld on the home page of this site, or you can join the IRC channel using an IRC client with the following settings:

server: irc.simply3dworld.com
port: 6667
channel: #simply3dworld

Here are some good IRC clients:

Windows:
mIRC
Trillian

OS X:
Snak
Conversation
Fire

(sorry Linux guys, I don't know any for you )