September 16, 2005
Greetings To Everyone Here At AdlandPro!
My name is John Sanchez and I was bestowed the title of Goodwill Ambassador I believe because of the work I was doing here with projects like the
Feature of the Week (aka
Person of the Week) and the Welcome Wagon. I get a lot of enjoyment from helping people and from honoring those who work so hard to make this community the great community that it is. I will be here to assist anyone in community with questions they may have about the AdlandPro website. If I can’t answer your questions I will direct you to someone who can.
My mission is to make
AdlandPro the best community on the Net; it may already be number one because I haven’t seen one better yet. In order to make AdlandPro number one and keep it at number one I will need the member’s assistance. I’m looking for people who can assist me with my projects like the
AdlandPro’s Welcome Wagon, and the
AdlandPro’s Happy Place. I already have some people helping me with those projects and others like the
AdlandPro’s Birthday’s of the Week and the Feature of the Week, but sometimes I get behind and could use more help. This is what I need for the individual projects and why I feel these projects are good for the community:
The
AdlandPro’s Happy Place: I need people that would like to post an occasional post about someone in the community who has been a blessing to them. The benefits of this project, besides the obvious one of making the individual feel good, is that it shows the new members and visitors that this community is made up of some really special people. It makes AdlandPro more inviting or enticing. It also motivates others to be active in the community because everyone likes to be recognized for their work and efforts.
The
AdlandPro’s Welcome Wagon: I need a welcoming committee for this project, a group of people who will commit to inviting and welcoming the new members. This project will immediately give new members the sense that this community it like a home away from home. It will encourage them to keep coming back. We need to show the new members that they’re among friends and thus helping them to feel more relaxed and comfortable about posting in the individual forums. We need more participation in the forums and this will help. I would also appreciate it if you would take the time to post something nice to the new members in the comments section of the
AdlandPro’s Welcome Wagon Blog.
The
Birthday’s Of The Week: This weekly forum wishes the members of the community a Happy Birthday on the week of their Birthday. What
Kathy Martin and I need is for more members to take the time to wish those on the Birthday list a happy Birthday. I don’t know about you but it makes me feel special when someone wishes me a Happy Birthday on my Birthday. This project helps to promote a positive atmosphere here at AdlandPro so we ask for your participation in this forum and in the
AdlandPro’s Birthday Blog.
The
Feature Of The Week aka
Person Of The Week: We need for you to continue to show support for the members who are being featured each week and we need for you to nominated individuals worthy of this honor. If you know someone who meets all the
criteria for the Person of the Week then take the time to nominate them. The least you could do is take the time to vote when the poll comes out. We’ve had a better turn out than we thought we would but it could be much better. Please take the time to
nominate and
vote. This project also promotes a positive atmosphere in the community and makes it more attractive for the new members and the visitors.
I hope that all of you can see the benefits in participating in these projects. If you love this community and if you want to make it better than please help me to make these projects a success. Here are some tips to help make AdlandPro a better community:
1. Participate in the projects mentioned above.
2. Each week invite a certain amount of members to be your friend.
3. When inviting a new member offer to help them find their way around the community. Give them a warm welcome.
4. Invite your friends to join the community, give them the URL to the site. Invite those you know would contribute to the positive atmosphere at AdlandPro.
5. Make at least one post a day that is not asking too much. There is nothing more discouraging than posting a forum and only having a hand full of people show up. New members will not stick around if they get a small turn out. Offer to help a new member by directing traffic to their forum; you will make a good friend by doing so. New members have a small friends list and therefore get an even smaller turn out than us who have a large list of friends.
6. When posting be courteous. Do not use statements like, “You are stupid or ignorant if you believe that”. Statements like will get you banned from the forum and will only discourage new members from sticking around. Under no circumstances are you to use foul language; for one thing you will only appear to have no class if you do.
7. Do not post more than one or two links in your post unless the owner of the forum requests more than two. You have space in your signature area for more links so use it wisely. If you have a lot of links you want to advertise than sign up for a webpage like
SearchEstate and place all your links there, then advertise that site in your signature space.
This article is already pretty long so I will stop here, but look for my future article where I will provide you with more ideas on how to help make AdlandPro a better place and on how to make your experience here a nicer and more productive one. Take care everyone and blessing to all of you.
Sincerely,
John R. Sanchez
john@dipetane.net