Welcome to the group!

[Andy Welfle]

Friends,

Hello! I think we are all registered for the Google Group, "NextGen Digest".

Here's some ways you can use this group:

An Email Listserv

If you don't know what a listserv is, it is an email address that,  

when members send a message to it, it distributes it amongst the  

other members. In our case, the email address to do so is  

nextge...@googlegroups.com. Send an email to this address,  

like I am doing now, and it will email everyone on the list. Reply to  

that message, and it will email you reply to everyone. It's a simple  

way to have email dialogs with the group without having to login to a  

message board. The downside is it can clog up your inbox quickly.

You can also read these emails under "Discussions" at the group site.

A forum to create and edit text

  Check out the "Pages" tab to create pages. After you are done, you  

can publish the page for other members to see, and edit. Also, you  

can see what others have written and edit that yourself. You can then  

see previously saved versions for comparison.

Upload files and documents to share

Finally, you can use this group hub to upload files to share. Say you  

have a PDF to show the group, because it relates to a topic, or a discussion point during the next meeting.  

Upload it to the site (under the "Files" tab), and then email the  

group about it. Or we can just see it when we login next.

If anyone has any questions about how to use this, email or call me.  

I am far from an expert, but I can probably help you figure it out.

Also, Lettie, would you invite some of the other people who have shown interest in the group? You can tell them to go to this web address to join:

http://groups.google.com/group/nextgendigest?hl=en

My contact info is below. Ciao! 

Andy Welfle

Managing Director

Fort Wayne Dance Collective

437 E. Berry St.

Fort Wayne, IN 46802

260.424.6574 (office)

260.710.2793 (cell)

an...@fwdc.org

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[hav...@yahoo.com]

Wow, Andy! You're on it!
To all the subscribers, may I suggest creating a filter in your own
inbox to send all emails from this domain to their own file? You'll
want to do that sooner than later. Those of you with experience in
listservs may wish to note that in your first posts so others know who
to ask for guidance.

Katey Wilks will host us at the FW Children's Choir's new home on the
IPFW campus- I hear amazing things about their facilities, so we're
likely to draw a new crowd~

Thanks to everyone's eagerness to open the group up. This listserv
will help you do that- be as involved as you want to be and make
decisions on the group's direction! I will keep the Blog going for at
least the next month, posting links in here as well. Will let traffic
flow determine how we communicate best (really expect this to blow the
top off the blog's numbers)! We'll see!

Andy, I aim to send the rest of the traffic over today! Here goes~


Looking forward to evolving with you!!

> a...@fwdc.org