The Body Soul & Spirit Expo - Terms of Membership

[Chandler Stephon Armstrong]

Terms of Membership

Our terms of membership are still being developed as we have just recently launched. These terms are intended as guide, including acceptable edict to ensure that everyone gets the most from this resource. As a social network, our intention is to create a "culture of mutual support" and provide an environment were we can come together as community to share our mutual journey toward wholeness.

The purpose of this network is to allow you to connect with like-minded people and support each other by sharing our knowledge, and experiences in such away as to foster each others quest in cultivating a happier, healthier, more conscious and successful life. While this network was primarily created for the benefit and use of those that attend, exhibit, and present at our events (The Body Soul & Spirit Expos), we also invite those who, although may not have had the opportunity to join us, support the events, and plan to participate in some capacity in the future.

We ask that you are genuine in all your interactions, and refrain from such practices as indiscriminate spamming of members with commercial offerings. We recommend that you view the profiles of our members, and consider whether you messages and invitations are appropriate. By acting authentically, you will help maintain the integrity of this network, and help avoid creating an environment of overt commercial solicitation.

We realize that many of our member offer services, products and programs that may be of interest to our membership, and many of our other member are also interested in availing themselves of theses offerings. It is our hope that we can establish an acceptable social code of ethics by which promotion of such takes place on this network, based on building relationships. We believe that the act of sharing who you are, what you offer, and your interests will result in natural and organic connections with those who will most benefit from your knowledge and wisdom associated with your offering.

In creating a social network for the Body Soul & Spirit Expo, our intent is to also encourage members to move beyond simply connecting to "network" for their personal gain, and discover a higher form of networking the recognizes that we are all ONE, and that each of us is part of the whole. Unfortunately the term networking has become synonymous with a means of promotion for one's product or service, but it is much more than this! Spiritual or Conscious"networking" embraces the notion of oneness, and honors each person as a part of the whole, and celebrate the life, success and fulfilment of both ourselves and others.

This network is moderated, and spamming other members will not be tolerated, and will result in being banned. If your intention is to join this network solely for the purpose of self-promotion, this is not the intention of this network. If you would like to advertise your offering across our entire network, we will be introducing ethical advertising options when we reach our next phase of development.

Acceptance of Membership: Your acceptance of membership is granted on the good faith that you will conduct yourself in such a way as to ensure the enjoyment of this resource by all members.

Your Profile: Your profile name should be about YOU, and not a company name, organization, or business. If you wish to promote a commercial entitiy, you many include this information in "about me". Profile using improper names will not be published. We will be introducing business profiles in our next phase of development.

Messaging Other Members, Adding Friends: It is our sincere wish that you connect with the people that share your interests, foster your growth, and bring great fulfillment and joy to your life. We ask that you activities here - including but not limited to adding friends that you would like to connect with, sending messages to members, and in all your interactions - you will keep this in mind, and govern your actions accordingly.

Things You CAN do here....

Start a Group: Groups are subject to acceptance by our network moderators, and are intended to create sub-communities within our network of people with similar interests. In this spirit, we ask that you consider the type of groups relevance to the whole (entire membership) and confine your group submissions to general topics that are of interest to all.

Here are some guidelines....

• You may create a group on such subjects as healing modalities, but may not limit it to a specific school, course or organization.
• You may create a group on a general health topic such as "Diet & Nutrition" or "Green Living", but may not create a group for a specific company of product.
• Do NOT post post group descriptions, or discussions that simply primarily link to another site!  If you contribute content, the article or discussion should be posted on THIS site, and not link to your site!  Your personal page and profile already provides a web link to your site! 
  Links to supporting articles or as footnotes, upon the site administrator, are
  permissable.
• By starting a group, you will be responsible for it's moderation. You will be responsible for assuring that the posts are pertinent to the subject.
• You will also be expected to allow all contributions and members that are appropriate, without confining postings to specific products or services.
• You may, however, ban members from your group that contribute posts that may offend other members.

Post Blogs: Blogs are intended to provide our member with an opportunity to share their knowledge and experiences on subject of interest of other members. But their very nature, they are a group effort, and invite other members to participate. Please refrain from posting blogs that are intended as a solicitation for your business, product, service or organizations - or attempting to post promotional links to your site on blogs. We have include an active website link in your profile, by which those who read your blog my find your website. . You blog posts should be something that members can respond and contribute too.

PostPhotos & Videos: Although your photos and videos are part of your personal profile, they also become part of the community library (Blogs and discussions as well). Your videos and postings are accepted by our moderators ONLY IF they are appropriate content! Inappropriate content that does not pertain to this network, or may be offensive will be deleted.

How You can Help Grow Our Network

• Join the FaceBook Fan Page Body Soul & Spirit Expo Social Network Fan Page, and let your friends now that you are a member of this network.
• Build your network by inviting your friends, and Colleagues.
• Place your member Badge on your website, email signature, or on FaceBook to let others know you are a member (follow the link for instructions).

• Emails & Updates:

  By joining the Body Soul & Spirit Expo, you have been asked to indicate if you wish to attend, exhibit, present or keynote at our events. We have also included "other" for those who are not sure how they would like to particpate in the future. As part of joining our community, you also agree to a subscription to our newsletter (sent by email about six times a year), containing updates, as well as notification pertaining to the information provided in your profile. We assume that by joining, that you are interested in our events, and subscription to our newletter and event notification must be accepted as part of your members upon joining.

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