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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Introduce Yourself</title><link>http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/19.aspx</link><description>Say hello! Let us know who you are and your connection to the nonprofit community. We were all new at one time, so go ahead and tell us about your work. Check out our &lt;a href="http://www.techsoup.org/community/standards"&gt;Community Rules &amp;amp; Standards&lt;/a&gt; for posting guidelines.&lt;br /&gt;Hosted by &lt;a href="http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/user/Profile.aspx?UserID=10085"&gt;Sasha Daucus&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/user/Profile.aspx?UserID=3938"&gt;Chris
Nielsen&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://nielsentech.com"&gt;Nielsen Tech&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/members/MeganKeane/default.aspx"&gt;Megan Keane&lt;/a&gt; of TechSoup Global.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Debug Build: 30619.63)</generator><item><title>How do I use the forums?</title><link>http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/thread/95521.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:37:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">caa7681b-025a-49ce-809f-7435bfe4d232:95521</guid><dc:creator>MeganKeane</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/thread/95521.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=19&amp;PostID=95521</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Having trouble figuring out how to use this message board? Well, we&amp;#39;ve got a new and improved forums platform that we&amp;#39;re excited to offer our users. To help you get started, we recommend that you first check out the new, updated community documents. We would like to take a minute to tell you the highlights of its contents.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techsoup.org/community/participate/index.cfm"&gt;How to Participate &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; details how to use this board.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techsoup.org/community/standards/index.cfm"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Community Rules &amp;amp; Standards&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; provide guidelines for what we consider acceptable behavior in this community.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techsoup.org/community/faq/index.cfm"&gt;Forums FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; explains what to do if you have lost your password, how to fill out your user profile and why you should do it, tagging, RSS and email subscriptions and more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techsoup.org/community/descriptions/index.cfm"&gt;Forum Descriptions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; gives you examples of what types of questions appear in each forum.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techsoup.org/community/star/index.cfm"&gt;How to be a TechSoup Star&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; explains how some users get those glorious icons next to their names, how to become a host of a forum, and other general moderating guidelines and community building tips to help you help us make this a happy and sustainable community.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techsoup.org/community/contactus/index.cfm"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contact Us&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tells you how to contact TechSoup Community staff&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;What are the other links in the Community box?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You will see that there are a few other links in the Community box that don&amp;#39;t have to do with the message boards. These are pages that provide you with information about TechSoup&amp;#39;s other community efforts:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.techsoup.org"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TechSoup Blog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; links to the TechSoup community blog&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techsoup.org/community/events/index.cfm"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Events&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is where you can find a listing of nonprofit technology related events.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techsoup.org/community/surveys/index.cfm"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TechSoup Surveys&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; shows you the results of surveys we&amp;#39;ve conducted on TechSoup&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://recipes.wiki.techsoup.org/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Soup Recipes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; gives you a taste of some real soup recipes submitted by TechSoup members.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techsoup.org/community/facebook/index.cfm"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;offers resources for how to get started with Facebook for your organization and find TechSoup on Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techsoup.org/community/secondlife/index.cfm"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second Life&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; provides information about the &lt;a href="http://npsl.wikispaces.com"&gt;Nonprofit Commons in Second Life&lt;/a&gt;, TechSoup&amp;#39;s community of social benefit organizations doing work in the virtual world of Second Life.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techsoup.org/community/where/index.cfm"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where in the World is TechSoup?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; let&amp;#39;s you know where to connect with TechSoup Global on other online community platforms&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>