Welcome Wagon

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If you're interested in welcoming new members as they join in the community, please join this group!

Website: http://www.twitter.com/welcome_moms
Members: 99
Latest Activity: Oct 30

Important Guidelines for Welcome Moms

A warm and personal welcome to new members is an important way to keep this place vibrant, healthy and growing.

Guidelines
The best “welcome” comments are warm and personal. I try my best to take the time to visit someone’s blog, review the profile they’ve created, and check out some of their latest “tweets” on twitter. You can figure out if there are interest groups they might like to join and make some suggestions – even suggest people they should consider connecting with!

Most of all, it’s important to keep the welcome warm, personal and fun. A simple “Welcome to the group!” may be all you have time for, but ideally we should try to write welcome comments that show an interest in the individual.

Either way, your help here is much appreciated! Thanks and happy networking!

Sign up for “new twittermom” alerts at http://www.twitter.com/welcome_moms to keep track of new members.

p.s. Multiple welcomes are welcome – so if you see something has already been posted, don’t be afraid to post a second welcome!

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Comment by Julie maloney on September 20, 2008 at 11:30am: This is great, I apprecaited the welcome you gave me and I'd like to pay it forward :)

Comment by Sangeeth Raghunathan on September 19, 2008 at 1:49pm: Great Idea. Kudos! Hope we can all have lotsa fun here!Welcome All! Hope to build a great level of friendship.

Comment by Megan Calhoun on September 18, 2008 at 9:19am: Thanks Cheryl! Great to have you here! The Welcome Wagon is a great way to get to know people and their interests. Have fun!

Comment by Megan Calhoun on September 14, 2008 at 10:30am: Just wanted to say that you guys are the best! Thanks to you, we are welcoming most members within minutes of joining, and it's making a BIG impact on the health of the site and the community. HUGS to all of you! Check out this blog post about Twittermoms by Erin Carrasco. It made me cry! Thanks again!

Comment by Lorna Harris on September 12, 2008 at 10:54am: Hi Megan,

Great idea - will help out as much as possible!

Comment by Megan Calhoun on September 11, 2008 at 3:02pm: Just found this great blog on the importance of welcoming new members. Thought I would pass it along...

http://blog.ning.com/2008/03/the_importance_of_saying_welco.html

Comment by Rachel_L on September 11, 2008 at 8:23am: I'm ready to help!

Comment by Carole-Hippos Toes on September 11, 2008 at 5:45am: I'll be happy to help out Megan. I will do my best but things are kinda crazy with my FT teaching gig and my website launch. :) This is a great community and I'll do my best!

Comment by ConnieFoggles on September 10, 2008 at 8:45pm: I'll be happy to help out. Just like I told you Megan, I just won't be able to start until next week. I'm slammed this week.

Thanks for understanding.

Comment by Megan Calhoun on September 10, 2008 at 8:23am: Awesome! Thanks so much -- it makes a big difference in making people feel comfortable participating, I think. Now if I can just figure out how to get that feed working!!!