Whensday update 4: When new members join our community we celebrate them
November 21st 2007 by Megan Bayliss in Child Abuse
Welcome to the the new members at Imaginif’s Child Protection community at MyBlogLog this week:
Guardian Angel at What parents should realize.
louise at My Journey to Eliminate Debt
shane_vanderhart at Serve our Youth Network News.
Welcome to each of you. Thanks for joining our child protection community; Imaginif, no child abuse. You have all been stumbled and given the green thumbs up. Take some time to get to know each other. Support the other members of our community and watch the benefits of child protection like mindedness grow.
And your fellow members of Child Protection community at MyBlogLog? They are a great and friendly bunch. Drop in and visit them. You can easily see who your community supports are by checking their avatars at Faces of Child Protection at Imaginif’s MyBlogLog Community, Whensday Update 2 and Whensday Update 3.
Child Protection community Blogging Buddy: As a member of our community you are going to be randomly ascribed a blogging buddy. Similar to Secret Santa, you may voluntarily enact random acts of kindness and increase blog Karma to your community blogging buddy by making that person a part of your blogging day - a message on MyBlogLog, a comment, a link, a stumble - you will find a way to let your community blogging buddy know that someone is thinking of them and is helping to ensure that their commitment to child protection has not gone unnoticed. Whereas Secret Santa lasts for the holiday season, Child Protection Community Blogging Buddy will last for the cyber life span of yourself and blogging buddy. If one buddy stops blogging, no worries, we’ll just do buddy adjustment.
To build community, a two way process of interaction is required from participants (all of us). To develop a community means to build active and sustainable communities based on social justice and mutual respect (no cyber bullying, hate, racist, sexual harassment, spam or derogatory comments). It is about changing power structures to remove the barriers that prevent people from participating in the issues that affect their lives. Child protection and child safety is faced with many structural and personal barriers. It is time to remove them by supporting those who publicly stand up for the safety of our kids. It is time to make child protection serious business. It is time to have child protection blogging buddies.
Expect a private message in your MyBlogLog where you will be ascribed another community member to watch out for, to encourage and to support. A data base matches names randomly. Matches for new members will be made monthly so that brand new members are less likely to guess who they may be matched with.
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November 21st, 2007 at 10:40 am
Hi Megan! I am happy to join your community and it’s my honor to join such amazing cruzade against child. Definitely, I will support you all the way….thanks for inviting me and hope you continue visiting my blogs….
November 21st, 2007 at 10:53 am
Guardian you are most welcome. I try to visit all members blogs at least once a week and stumble their articles when I do visit. This is my way of repaying contributions to child protection.
You’ll get a weekly mybloglog message from me letting you know who the new members are and once I have you matched with a blogging buddy, I’ll send you a private message at mybloglog. It’s a voluntary process but I do see many matched pairs supporting each other. It always makes me smile.