Community Indicators - Welcome Pages
"Walking" in to a community cold can be hard. Who do I talk to? What do I do? Why are they talking/acting/working this way? One indicator from a community that it is open to new people is the way it welcomes them. Here is an example from Ward Cunninham's original wiki:Welcome Visitors: "Welcome to the WikiWikiWeb, also known as WardsWiki.
This community has been around for a long time. This is the first wiki, created in 1995, and consists of a large number of people. Many people have their first wiki experience here, and we always accept newcomers with valuable contributions. If you haven't used a wiki before, be prepared for a bit of CultureShock. The beauty of Wiki is in the democratic freedom, simplicity, and power it offers."
Categories: community_indicators, welcome, onlinecommunity
posted by Nancy White at 2:34 PM
1 Comments:
Thanks for the "welcome" reminder, Nancy.
I've just started doing this on a routine basis for new members of a corpororate alumni (Cisco) mailing list I help organize. It adds to the list in many ways and makes it clear a bit more who is there and what kind of background they have.
To do this I'm using Yahoo Groups and the tools it has for sending a message to people after they have applied to join the list. I screen applicants and then tidy up their answer to a simple questionaire and send it off to the list. Seems to be working fine.
Ed
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