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place, please join us for our next noontime seminar: A Guide to
Online Forums.”
■ “Please take some time to go through the online tutorials this
week, and feel free to ask any questions.”
■ “The symbol above is our new avatar. For those of you who
are not familiar with the term, an avatar is a small image that
will appear beside any comments we make on the new social
networking site. Our logo is too large to be clear at that size,
so this new image is designed to complement our logo and
represent us online.”
■ “Take a few hours this week to scroll around, post, and play.
We want everyone to be familiar with our online connections.”
■ “After everyone has completed the tutorials, please spend a
little time feeling out the site. In a few weeks, we’ll see where
everyone is, and I’ll be happy to hold a seminar to answer any
questions and take us all to the next level.”
■ “If anyone would like additional training, please let me know.
I’ll be happy to explore further training options.”
■ “Social networking is a fun, exciting, effective way to network
our business, but with so much flash and distraction online, we
have to remember what we’re there for.”
■ “Some client and colleague interactions go off on tangents.
We want to be polite, but we only have so much time. If you
feel you’re being taken off track and fail to see a polite out,
ask for another opinion. Let’s support each other in creating a
page that’s helpful but always focused and polite.”
■ “Where do we draw the line online? When should a post be
deleted or a user blocked? These things are not always clear
and are sometimes best decided by consensus. Let’s keep an
open dialogue.”

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