Looking for some help

[dtuleya]

I've been doing the birthdays (almost daily) for about a year now and I'd like a little break. Would anyone be willing to take over/help me out. It doesn't have to be permanent, but I'm just getting a little fried.

 

[cinmell]

I can help you out Denise. Thanks for doing it all this time.

 

[Melann]

Denise,

I pm'ed you with some questions, but I would love to help out too here! Seeing my happy birthday post made me smile and I want to lend a hand!

Melissa

 

[nativetxn]

Denise, you have made a lot of people smile by posting happy birthday. I appreciate you very much for doing this.

Thank you Cindy and Melissa for offering to help. What a nice thing to do!

Katholyn

 

[4greatboys]

I can help out too. Maybe if there were several of us on rotating shifts it wouldnt get to be so much for 1 person. Thanks Denise and Kath for doing it and I'd be more than happy to help you guys out.

 

[nativetxn]

Thanks, Deena. What a team y'all are building here

 

[dtuleya]

Thanks for offering to help everyone. Here's a birthday posting primer. This is the way I do it, but I'm sure everyone could figure out the system that works best for them. It's just a little tricky to get started, but then after that it is easy.

I open about 6 windows on internet explorer. I find it goes faster that way. The first four I bring up the Dis's Calendar link. Here's the link for March:

http://130.94.75.33/calendar.php?s=

You can get there by clicking on "Calendar" at the top of any of the Dis Boards.

I then bring up whatever clipart picture I want to use in the 5th window. You do not have to use clipart, it's just my "thing". You can type a message in on the new thread.

In the sixth window, I open up the Birthday forum. Here's the link. http://130.94.75.33/forumdisplay.php?forumid=57

Ok, in the fist window with the current calendar in it, click on today's date. Click on the first name that is shown. This will bring up their profile. You can use your own system, but I usually only post birthdays of people who have posted in the last 6-8 weeks. Some days it will be a few and other days it will be 20 people. Use whatever works for you.

Look where it shows their Last Post to figure this out. I then click on Send __________ a private message! You can also click on their email link. Whichever you prefer. Some people will not have a PM link and others do not like to be contacted by email. You'll find this out when you click on their email link. A message will appear stating this. I usually don't post these members birthdays. You can decide whether you want to or not. After I click on Send _________ a private message! the PM screen will pop up. I then highlight and copy their user name so I don't have to remember how to spell it. I then go to the last window and click on the "New Thread" button. I then type in "Happy Birthday (paste name here)! and the current date (3/1). I then go down and post my birthday message. I always keep "Email notification unchecked so I don't get bombarded by replies to the thread". After I've clicked on "Submit Thread" on the bottom of the page, I go to the link located at the top of the page and copy it.

I then go back to the PM screen for that person and paste in their birthday greeting link with and type in Birthday Thread in the subject line. I make sure that I don't have "Save a Copy" and "Request Read Receipt" unchecked. You don't have to do this, but if you don't you'll have to remember to delete them out of your own PM box or it will fill up quickly.

I then click on calendar and while that is loading move onto the second window and start the process over again. It might seem like it only saves a couple of seconds, but I try to keep the process moving as quickly as possible.

If a member hasn't posted in the last month or so and you aren't posting a greeting, just hit the back button and it will take you to the calendar screen again. Just remember, you can only post a new thread every 49 seconds and a PM every 15 seconds.

I'm sure that I haven't explained this in the easiest way possible, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask. Let me know if/when you'd like to start posting them.

Like I said earlier I really enjoy doing them, but I just need a little break.

 

[4greatboys]

Sounds like we need to set up some type of schedule so we are not all posting at the same time. When do you want us to take over Denise?

 

[iluvtink]

Cindy, Deena and Melissa. I'd be happy to help out also. Just let me know when I can help out. I'll take weeks or months or whatever!

Denise, thanks for doing it for this long, and Cinmell and Katholyn, too.

Kim

 

[chell]

I can help fill-in too! I'd probably do better on weekends since I don't get to DIS through the week until 5 or so.

 

[dtuleya]

Originally posted by 4greatboys
Sounds like we need to set up some type of schedule so we are not all posting at the same time. When do you want us to take over Denise?

Thanks so much guys! I knew I could count on you. How about if I finish out the week and someone can start doing it on Saturday. That will give you a couple of days to set a schedule up. Let me know if that works for you.

 

[cinmell]

Sounds good!

 

[cinmell]

Good morning!

So it looks like we have Melann, 4greatboys, iluvtink, chell and myself (I think that's everyone, I hope I didn't miss anybody). What works best for eveyone? Do you have a preference of when you would like to start? Anything works for me.

 

[nativetxn]

It is great to see so many people volunteering to do this, it really is.

It is amazing how much seeing a "happy birthday" on this board can mean to someone.

Now, if we could just convince more people to post birthday greetings to the threads y'all start here

 

[4greatboys]

Originally posted by cinmell
Good morning!

So it looks like we have Melann, 4greatboys, iluvtink, chell and myself (I think that's everyone, I hope I didn't miss anybody). What works best for eveyone? Do you have a preference of when you would like to start? Anything works for me.

Do you want to set up a schedule or would you like for me to? I think a good idea would be to give chell weekends for a month or 2 and the rest of us can rotate by week Mon-Fri if you guys think that sounds good.

 

[Melann]

I like the idea by 4greatboys...perhaps we could post which weeks are available and sign up via a pm or email as to which week or weeks we would like to do!

 

[4greatboys]

Okay I worked out a sch. If you cant do the time just let me know its not a problem changing it. Its just for the rest of March.

March:
Weekends 6/7, 13/14, 20/21, and 27/28--Chell
8-12 Cinmell
15-19 Me
22-26 iluvtink
29-April 2 Melann

When we get a little closer to April and everyone knows their schedules better we can set it up then. I will be glad to do it or if someone else wants to thats fine too!
Just let me know what you guys think

 

[cinmell]

Sounds good to me! Thanks for putting the schedule together, looks good.

 

[chell]

Looks good to me Deena! Thanks for putting a schedule together.

 

[4greatboys]

Slight modification chell cant do the weekend of the 13th & 14th. I will just plan on doing it