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<\/p>\nWelcome Centers are great for guiding members through the features offered on your social network and for making them feel at home.\u00a0A well-placed\u00a0text box on your main page\u00a0can become a highly visible and extremely useful\u00a0Welcome Center for new members. The Indoor Music Festivals community uses a Welcome Center on their home page to greet new members.<\/p>\n
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Here’s a breakdown of what you might want to include in your social network’s Welcome Center:<\/p>\n
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This is a great option for people who want to increase the visibility of the “Report an Issue” button in the footer of their social network.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome Centers are great for guiding members through the features offered on your social network and for making them feel at home.\u00a0A well-placed\u00a0text box on your main page\u00a0can become a highly visible and extremely useful\u00a0Welcome Center for new members. The Indoor Music Festivals community uses a Welcome Center on their home page to greet new members.<\/p>\n
Here’s a breakdown of what you might want to include in your social network’s Welcome Center:<\/p>\n
Introduce Yourself!: Create an “Introductions” discussion in the forum. Then invite new members to introduce themselves by replying to that discussion thread.\u00a0An “Introductions”\u00a0discussion can instantly become a great place to greet new members and find out who\u00a0shares your interests.
\nGet Started: Show some ways new members can contribute right off the bat. Promote your most popular features, and give a little guidance about\u00a0the best ways to\u00a0use them.
\nTerms of Use: If you’ve created\u00a0Community Guidelines<\/a>, link members there from the Welcome Center. You can also refer members to the\u00a0Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0for all social networks on the Ning Platform.
\nLink to administrator profile pages: Introduce yourself and the administrators of your social network in the Welcome Center. One quick way to do that is to add an HTML section and just add a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[25,28,26,32,312],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n