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Good Evening Everyone,

I am busily working away at the new (I hope) message boards. I believe I am getting a handle on the idea here and think I have one set up getting ready to go. We have decided that since the promo site is stting at the top of the listings on the other server that we would go ahead and use that site for the message boards. Now, all I have to do is transfer our articles and information over there. I am currently setting up the message boards as I already have all of our group pages backed up and easily transferable. I don't want anyone to go without the message boards and those are what will need to be rebuilt from scratch.

We elected not to go with Multiply as there has been a multitude of problems attempting to get support from them since the notice went out. I set up an admin account over there on the 16th of Feb and oops! forgot my password and I ahve emailed customer service several times but they have not answered me yet. This cannot be good as I cannot get in to do anything if they take the information from here to over there. Nobody else will have access to it but me as the group administrator. It bothers me that I cannot get a response after 5 days so apparently they don't think much of their users. Thus, we based the decision of where we are moving to on that.

We looked into 6 different places very carefully and created a dummy group at each one to see which one would serve our needs the best. If the one we are setting up now turns out to give us problems, I have a second one lined up already to just switch over to easily and it can be up and running in a couple of minutes.

Over the next few months this will be home as information is being transferred from here to there. But I will be adding your user names to the message board list over there. When we are ready to move permanently or a month or so prior to closing you will all receive the link to begin using that as our new home site.

I will be posting the updates of our progress frequently on the board here and everything will be available for your use just like it is now. It will be really hectic while we are in this trasitional stage and I know you will all be struggling along with me. I will do my best to make it as painless as possible.

Please know that I care for each and every one of you very deeply and I will not abandon you. It will be strange and things will be all new to all of us. It will take time to learn the new way of posting and finding our way around. But we will be able to do it together. We can make this an exciting new start for our group and maybe some new members from the other server too!

Love, Summer

thanks so much.I am with ya. Melanie

Great to hear from you sweetie! Been missing everyone a lot! It's strange not being here and doing all the group stuff but not really being in the group.

The pages for the boards are really cool! I like the new set-up, looks super professional. We are moving up in the world guys! It is really easy to use, I am writing you all a tut on how to use it and it will be poosted here and I will see if I can email to you with your temporary password too. You will not have to apply yourselves this time. At Multiply or any other place you would have had to re-register. This one I will move you and you just change your password to one you can remember.

I am getting excited to say that it's going better than I had first expected. I was worried that I would be confused on how to do all of it, it looked so overwhelming at first. Once I started using it, it became really easy after a few minutes. The setting up was the most difficult. Navigation is easy and posting is pretty simple. Once you get over there you will see what I am talking about. I will post the address after I get a few things moved so you can watch the progress.

Posting a picture is going to be a little different than what you're used to but I will write you a tut on how to do it. It will be easy enough after you do it once. I will make sure you know how to do it so you can continue posting your great tags. I just love them! If you want you can print the tuts I write so you have the instructions. Anything that I write a tut on you are welcome to print or share, (anywhere, even in any other groups you may be a member of) as long as you keep the credits intact for copyright purposes.

I am not moving all my groups. I am going to combine them into one. So my graphics group will also be incorporated into this group here. You will be able to access my designs right from our group pages there too! But my main concern at this time is this group. I will get my designs put up after I get this group over there.

Normalee is not going to move her group at all. She is just going to shut it down. She had a chronic pain promo group she started a while ago. But she decided to let it go and not worry about it right now.

I do hope you are faring well. I know the burdens you carry and admire how well you do it all! You are such an inspiration to me. There are several of you guys that give me so much, that is the reason I keep going!!! I know I don't say "Thank you" as often as I should, but I do really thank you and appreciate it.

Take care my dear friend!

Important Announcement The MSN Groups service will close in February 2009. You can move your group to Multiply, MSN’s partner for online groups. Learn More
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