Welcome New Members
Get started by reading New Members and FAQs pages. Its important that you understand and maintain the objectives of the website expressed by The Mission. Membership assumes your understanding and agreement to the TOU - Terms of Use and any Disclaimers. posted by The Network or any contributors


This website is in the beta phase of development. This collaboration is a work in progress. Initial members are needed to tweek navigation and contribute content before finalizing design. Your blogs, your discussions, your videos, etc. are the content that will grow this website and community. In this beta phase your suggestions are a necessary part of our growth. The process for efficiently collecting and organizing contributions has to be developed. The participation and suggestions of pioneering members will influence the direction of this network. Your membership and participation is greatly appreciated.


New Members

New members must be approved. Prior to participation new members must understand their TOU agreement. Any area you do not understand entirely should be submitted by email to The Network administration for resolution prior to participation. Participation assumes your understanding and agreement.

Prior to participation New Members are required to read The Mission and FAQs pages. Please submit questions to The Network administration.

The Blogmaster profile has been created to provide Technical Support just for technical issues operating the ning network interface or other web development issues such as malfunctioning buttons and hyperlinks.

Suggestions and questions about The Network's content or policies ( TOU, FAQs, etc.) should be addressed prior to participation. IMPORTANT: Note According to TOU disagreements and disputes must be resolved PRIVATELY.

Profile answers are the first required steps and the most important contribution for new members. Your answers will directly influence The Networks future development. No individual member profile will be used or referenced without their consent. However, cumulative data collected from profile answers may inform The Network's planning and decisions. For example, if there's a high percentage of members checking Anxiety/Depression, we may add a new group dedicated to this topic. Members should consider their friend's profile answers for their choice of salon or blog topics.

New members, as fellow bloggers, The Network is defined by your contributions. You may participate by blogging on your personal My Page. You may start your own discussions in The Salon. You may partipate in Groups or propose new Groups.

Your regular participation and content submission is greatly appreciated for the growth of this community. Remember, choose topics that conform to The Missionand maintain the primary themes, The Disease,The Body, The Mind and The Spirit. Read FAQs and visit these Group pages for details. »
Members should tag their submissions with a minimum of 2 tags. In addition to at least one key word from your topic, you must tag with appropriate theme, 'disease', 'body', 'mind', or 'spirit'. The more specific key words used for tags the greater searchabilty for The Network. Ultimately, objective of this community is to be a hub of information. Read FAQS page for details on tagging content. »

We hope that you not only contributions but make use of the content and information collected and made available on The Network for your personal blogs and websites. We hope that you make meaningful connections with fellow bloggers with common disease healing through sharing about body, mind, and spirit.

ACMLS Twitter account, @lupussurvivors, is dedicated to promoting our website and spreading the word about lupus, fibromyalgia and APS. Specifically, our ACMLS Twitter account will automatically tweet links to our ACMLS network pages for every new post made from our blogs, videos, events, etc.

I suggest every member sign up for their own twitter accounts so they may "follow" our ACMLS tweets on @lupussurvivors,. Twittering also allows you to Follow fellow members that you've befriended. Members can also promote ACMLS by tweeting the link to our homepage.

Use the hashtag #ACMLS within any tweets relative to our network. For example you tweet:

"I just uploaded a batch of pics from local lupus walk #ACMLS."

Adding our networks hashtag allows members to easily share with fellow members, when they search for #ACMLS.

If the word lupus isn't in the text you might want to add #lupus to tweets relavant to anyone in general searching for lupus topics.

Keep blogging and sharing on the network regularly so that we can keep spreading new and relavant material across the Twitterverse, Blogospheres and World Wide Web.

Our community's growth depends on adding new members through your Invites. We hope that your experience on The Network are so enjoyable and beneficial that you will invite others to join. We hope that you will promote The Network on your blogs and websites. Use the customizable Network badges to fit your website, blog or MySpace See right column of Network page. You may reference our community by hyperlinking our URL to your site.

 

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