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January 31, 2005
Goodbye Guestbook, Hello Message Board!
It seems like only days ago that the first desktop PC landed on my parent's now obsolete kitchen table. In an ever changing world filled with gigabytes of information, Sigma Chi must ask itself the question of how interactive and advanced it wishes to be. Can it adapt to this Brave New World of Beta and Alpha versions of software? Has this chapter's guestbook become like my parent's kitchen table: old, covered with decade-old dust, and littered with software of a bygone era?
The answer, my faithful web surfers, is a definitive YES. The Iota Sigma Guestbook is old, dusty, dirty and as of January 31st, 2005 at 11:59pm is forever deleted from the Information Super Highway, only to live on in our hearts, minds and twisted senses of humor.
But may February 1st, 2005 be the dawn of a new age in this chapter. An age where brothers can bypass inside jokes, bypass calls to arms against over zealous annotators/webmasters, bypass blather about that time at the Lake when so and so was . . . you get the point. So begins the Age of the Iota Sigma Message Board.
You will find that the message board offers greater opportunities for interaction than did the guest book. The Iota Sigma Message Board Team (i.e. Donny the Codemonkey) has taken the time create preliminary subject areas for discussion. As you will read in the General Discussion area, I am open for suggestions on what to inculde as PERMANENT headings. The areas underneath these headings are completely free to be manipulated by every user of the board. This way, if you want to converse with just your pledge class, you can make a "Spring of 1994" subject area.
All of the board's capabilities are completely explained in the help section available at this address: http://www.messageboard.iotasigma.org/Themes/default/help/index.english.html
The Iota Sigma Message Board Team understands that the first few months here may be tough going. With that said, help is available for free. Realize though that the team is a second semester senior with other things taking priority over questions about such things as "Hey how do I meet chicks on this thing?" or "How do I create my own icon?" The answers are simple: Question the First "Only if you are a Dungeons and Dragons Master will you ever meet a worthwhile chick on the internet." Question the Second: "Click on the PROFILE link, then on the sidebar navigation, click on Forum Profile Information. Insert the link to your picture in the blank space provided to the right."
Happy surfing, and please forward any questions to webmaster@iotasigma.org
Posted by Webmaster at January 31, 2005 10:03 PM