Dear Members,

Neopoet is your community. As members of this community we are asking for you to volunteer your skills and time so we can move Neopoet forward.

To keep you posted with what the AEC are doing behind the scenes and to keep you all up-to-date, we are working on the following:

Advocates/Greeters/Wading Pool Moderators programme
Chat Programme
AEC Chat sessions
Neopoet Book Committee
AEC Guidelines - review and update

To help with these we need volunteers for the following positions:

Advocates Director & Advocate Team Leader:

We need to find a Director and a Team Leader to drive forward the new Advocates programme.

We have rolled the Greeters (Guide) programme and moderating the new joiner workshop pool (Wading Pool) into one Advocate role.

The role has three main functions:
1. Mentoring & serving as a guide for new members:
We would like to mentor and guide new members so we help new members make the most of Neopoet, understand our community and culture, and, in the long term, contribute and give back.

A guide is the first contact a member will have with Neopoet. A guide welcomes the new member and makes them feel comfortable about joining a site they know nothing about.

We need guides to contact all new members and offer them help and assistance with navigating Neopoet. They will need to be shown how the stream works and how you post a poem and comment. Guides will help explain the community & AEC guidelines are, how our governing structure works, and, in time, direct them to a New Memberworkshop, where they can interact with other new poets as well as mixing with experienced members who will moderate the pool.

2. Moderating the Wading Pool:
This is a new workshop being created for brand new members to Neopoet. This new workshop will have a trial run before we publicly re-launch Neopoet. Barbara (Barbra Writes) will be heading up this workshop. It will be mostly used for new members to get used to Neopoet, they can post and comment in the workshop and be among other new poets as well as having more experienced poets to help answer any questions and to help guide them before they take on the Stream. We are looking for two or three Advocates to work with Barbara.

3. Assisting Members:
Helping new and older members with any issues they have and point them in the right direction. This can involve explaining in detail how Neopoet works, where to find useful information, how to post and comment and make suggestions. Detailed instructions on how the Stream works and how to join a Workshop, how to send a PM and other useful ideas on how to navigate Neopoet.

An Advocate will be the liaison between the members and the AEC and theTrustees.

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Chat Room Moderators:

The Chat team have been working hard to implement the chat room and are ready for volunteers to moderate chat rooms. As soon as the moderators are in place and the schedule done, they will be ready to rock n' roll. Please apply for this position to the Chat Committee or Paul (Director of Chat)

AEC Chat Sessions - Once the Chat is up and running I will post a schedule of times and dates when the AEC will be available to discuss Neopoet.

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Neopoet Book:

We are looking for a team of individuals to join the committee to help create the Neopoet book.

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For further details about these roles, please contact any of the AEC or if a Chat enquiry to the Chat team.

We look forward to working with you,

regards,

Hooded Stranger (Dan) Chair
China Blue (Chrys)
Scribbler (Stan)
Geezer (Guy)
Lou (Lou)