Still haven't got Dolphin set up yet, and I think I like the idea cause that means I can focus a little tomorrow at looking over some other site software packages. I'm really hoping to find something that is more like a cross between art site and social networking site and easy to make look like FA, out of the box, more than the work it seems it would take to make Dolphin look right. Still may end up doin Dolphin, but I'm gonna shop around tomorrow before we go live with anything.

I'm very excited about the resounding positive responses I've been getting from people about wanting to take part in being members on the site and participate on working side by side with me managing on the Admin team.

I spoke at some length with one of my most positive and enthusiastic leads today and boy am I excited about having him on my staff. We got a little bit more talking to do, but I think by tomorrow or Monday I will be officially naming him as my first staff member, and I think everyone is going to be as pleasantly amazed and excited as I am... or at least they better be. LOL.

I'm hoping to discuss things with a few more people who have responded to me sounding excited about being staff to. If you are them or someone who has yet to express interest in helping with the site at a administrative level please Please take some initiative and set aside a nice chunk of time and send me a shout out on gtalk or MSN so I can feel ya out and figure out a place for you on the team.

gtalk = barqythebiter
MSN = barqythebiter[at]hotmail.com

I mean it, butt right in and state your enthusiasm to me, otherwise you have to understand I'm trying to keep up with all the private notes and emails I'm getting and tend to technical matters concerning getting a physical site up and running.

I love hearing that you want to have a part in making this happen, I really do, but if you're someone who I'm gonna have on my team, I need some more dynamic communication other than pm's and emails. So I can discuss things with you in real time and gage your response and feelings.

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Before I go I would like to ask that suggestions and concerns be sent to me in PM or email, or better yet discussed in chat. I have no problems hashing out details and answering question, or even a good healthy debate, and there will be a special place for those things when we get the site up and running, but for now extended discussions don't really fair well muddling up status reports and what we are limited to here.

On the other paw, if 3 of you and or just my to be announced first staff member says so, I'll open a journal or two especially for the purpose of airing concerns or mentioning suggestions, sort of like a mini forum to last us till we can get those things going on the site.

Thanks so much for your understanding concerning this.