Greetings Fellow Facilitators!

We're very proud to announce the beta launch of FActivities.com. Yes! And we're announcing this to you, our R&D team first. I'm not sure that means anything really, but hey, it is true <g>. We're anticipating an official launch sometime within the next 3-6 months depending on how quickly we can build the database. Here are the major features we'd like you to have a look at, think about, and act on.

1. We've put together some incentives for exercise authors, like yourselves, to submit exercises to our database. Here's what we've got so far. Please tell us what you think of these incentives. Any changes? Additions? Do these move you to submit your exercises?

- You retain copyright to your material for your own use elsewhere. Copyright to your material will simply be shared with Factivities.com.

- Every exercise you submit will contain your bio, including any contact info and website links you desire. Your exercise will be exposed to thousands of facilitators and trainers helping to effortlessly spread the word about your work.

- The Factivities.com site will be advertised weekly in our Master Facilitator Journal going to over 9,000 readers (and a plan to build this to over 25,000). When this site is officially launched, we will vigorously market it through all of our FacilitatorU.com sites.

- Free database access if you submit 3 or more exercises.

• Submit 3 exercise or more and get full database access for 6 months.
• Submit 5 exercises or more and get full database access for one year.
• Submit 10 or more exercises and get free lifetime membership to database.

- Submitting your exercises will help build this database, making it a better tool for your own use as a facilitator.

2. We've put together copyright and usage notices for site users of the exercises. And we've put together our submission guidelines here. How do these look to you? Are we missing anything? Off base anywhere?

3. We've developed an exercise input form that allows you, yes I mean YOU, to come to the site and input your exercise. Then a webpage is generated and posted on the site for us to review prior to approval. It's very slick and should really help us build this site fast. Thank you Jopa at ezezine.com for this development. Please check it out here.

4. We've put up a "site search engine" that lets you search for exercises based on keywords, outcome, category, etc. Please give it a whirl and let us know what you think of it. Do you like the summaries returned for each exercise? Will you find this particular info useful when searching for exercises? Does any of the info need to change? Understand we only have about 10 exercises in there right now so don't be surprised if your search request doesn't return anything. Just give it another try. You can also just click through each category and review exercise summaries manually as well. This is probably all we really need in the short term, but when we have a thousand exercises in the system, the search engine should come in real handy.

5. Please submit any originally developed exercises that you have and pass the word to other facilitators and invite them to do the same. We really appreciate your support on this!

6. Finally, let us know what you think of the site overall. Particularly if you see something that you'd like to see changed.

As always, thanks for your help! And if you're new to the R&D team and would like to review past memos, feel free to peruse the Archives.

Thanks very much for your support!

Warmest regards,

Steve Davis 1.760.375.7384 1.877.768.9016 (fax) steve@FacilitatorU.com; www.FacilitatorU.com Virtual Facilitation Training and Resources......Just in Time, situation-based tools, providing what you need, when you need it.

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