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Hi Ken......

"The Code Of Conduct says we can't send messages to people without their permission, so I don't see how we're supposed to offer advice to nominees thru messages here."

I have noted that people are questioning the issue of sending private messages, especially to those who are not on their "contact list" and it is one that should be clarified or at the very least talked about.

When I see this " you can't send messages without their permission" I take it to mean that you can't send them advertisements ( unsolicited advertising) or mail that would be harassing or any other negative form of communications.

There are many social communities that have the feature of sending a message and there have also been many discussions regarding it ( especially on LinkedIn)

This is how I personally look at the situation - If I have noted that a person has been looking at my profile, it says to me that they are curious about who I am or what I am doing. I do not feel it intrusive nor going against any code to introduce myself and say Hi, thanks for your interest and is there anything that you can answer or help the person with.... If it is of mutual benefit to become contacts, then this is great. If the person is not interested, that again ( to me is O.K).

I feel that common sense needs to be used in this style of discussion and a large amount of social etiquette used.

Just my 2 cents thought on the matter.....

P.S. dang...did I put this in the right forum?

Here common sense is the guide.

In addition, the user also agrees not to:

• contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted

When you are contacting a person using PM for the first time you don't know if the person doesn't want to be contacted or not. So if you want to make sure that they are not feeling offended, your first contact could be asking them if they would be interested in receiving certain info from you.

This is usually practice which is required in some countries by law.

If you are contacting a person to inform them about some activity in community or just to get in touch with them, there is little chances that such person would be feeling receiving unsolicited messages from you. They are here so they should expect to be engaged in some way in activity here.

In addition users have tools which allow them to block intruding person from further communication. They have option to hide their profile entirely from anybody here and they have option to block notifications from certain users or for certain features or disable all notifications entirely.

Bogdan

Thank Jim, Diane and Bogdan!

and now I will thank Ken, Jim and Bogdan and anyone else for that matter who brought up one heck of a good topic that needed clarifying... and now we know! whew I am glad that got settled......

Simply incredible that you need explaining what a simple

statements reads and how so many can get the wording confused.

This is the perfect reason why I put up a template newsletter that everyone can use to send to new friends that you get, inviting them to the voting Forum with a prewritten design. Your welcome message to the new friends and new account holders is your first impression to that person and is perfectly legal in all aspects of messaging and emails. It was simple, straight forward, and because one person stated:

The Code Of Conduct says we can't send messages to people without their permission, so I don't see how we're supposed to offer advice to nominees thru messages here.

It started the confusion..

The main point I was talking is that if you are going to make suggestions then put forth a layout, a plan of action,

documents with your suggestion, and do something not just talk about it. When the talk of the new tab, did you noticed who help put it together With showcasing the last POTW and the banner? When the new page was needed did you notice that a plan of action was then worked on and put up for approval? If you have an idea then work it out with something usable and not just talk on the walls.

Just like this training and coaching thing.

Fine and dandy but where was the training module?

This would be a simple procedure and with ideas and helpful hints where all of you fine vote getting machines,

could use your experience and what worked for you so all new members can have a resource to get started if they wanted. Where is the layout for this and what Webpage is being put together so all can have say, and helpful hints and a Central Webpage put together with everything needed so no one was to take any time and do it every time? Again, just talk and no plain of action.

The next item would be slow down a little. Take the time to read what someone say's and try to get the full meaning before jumping to just blasting away. Like the code, how many went back and read it several times to completely understand it? We all, and I mean all, are not always clear what the other is trying to say, as one main reason is not taking one subject and staying with it with out throwing other topics in it so the only part that is read is not the main subject.

I am cover many with this message as some ideas are good, just where is the work going into it?

I will say this again, every new member, new friend, and new account holders needs a welcome message send by YOU with a email template that can be used by all, that is no offensive, none promotional, and approved by management.

I sure hope my speilling is OK!

No pun intended, not one of my strong points.

Oh Ya, grammar could be a little off too.

The new tab on login is good work with the POTW, and the other tabs too. The New Voting page is looking pretty good but I see some improvements that it could use. We have made a statement and now things are looking good.

Now lets get to some real work when you are ready.

I shall rest for now, but at anytime if you need something worked on

or help with please let me know. I will help where I can, and good day to you all.