We've got great customers, and we'd like you to meet some of them!

We are starting something new and exciting here at Groupee. Each month we will choose a community to spotlight. As a spotlighted community, you would be invited to host a chat session in our Groupee Nation chat room. We would like you (as the guest host) to take this opportunity to discuss your community. We are particularly interested in how your community got started, what it's about, challenges your community has faced, and how you overcame them. As the guest host, we strongly encourage you to invite the members of your community (and anyone else you would like) to the chat. This is a chance to promote your community and its members, to tell other communities what you are all about. Not only is this a great opportunity for the Spotlighted community, it's also a great chance for other communities to chat with some of the key players associated with a successful community. There is sure to be a lot of fabulous tips, tricks, and firsthand accounts of what it takes to run a successful community.

Congratulations to our Inaugural Spotlight Community!

Community: http://youngwizards.net
About the Administrator: Diane Duane is presently best known for her continuing "Young Wizards" series of young adult fantasy novels about a pair of New York-based teenage wizards. Make sure to mark May 3rd on your calendars to chat with Diane and members of her community. Find out what makes their community so successful.
Date: 3 May 2006
Time: 1pm-2pm PDT

Thanks to everyone who attended the Diane Duane spotlight interview or read the transcript. For those of you who missed it, the transcript is posted here:

http://community.groupee.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/86810289763/m/34410240863

Check out our next Spotlight Community!

Community: http://CinCHouse.com

FROM SIMON & SCHUSTER, PUBLISHER OF "MARRIED TO THE MILITARY:"

Whether you're dating, engaged, or married to an active military servicemember or reservist — or you've just signed up yourself — you may feel as if you've somehow married the United States military! While there are plenty of orientation books for him, there are almost no handy, user-friendly resources for you. Meredith Leyva, a military wife and founder of CinCHouse.com, the Internet's largest community for military wives, girlfriends, and women in uniform, details everything you need to know to manage day-to-day issues and get on with the adventure of military life. From relocation to deployment, protocol to finances, and career to kids, Leyva offers time-tested advice about:

• Keeping your love life together during deployments

• Relocating yourself and your family around the world

• Maintaining your own career when you're expected to move every three years

• Understanding what pay and benefits you're entitled to — and how to maximize them

• Translating those odd acronyms and jargon

Written by a seasoned military wife, this smart and savvy guide will help you take control at every point of your servicemember's career — from filing marriage papers as newlyweds to choosing prenatal and child care when you start a family to figuring out his pension when he's ready to retire.


Date: 31 May 2006
Time: 1pm-2pm PDT

See you there!

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Paul Gude,

Thanks to everyone who showed up to today's chat with Meredith Leyva of CinCHouse.com.

Unfortunately, I was having some issues with my computer and was unable to sit in on the chat. Meredith has graciously agreed to return as a guest, most likely in September.

Stay tuned for more information!

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About the Administrator: Meredith Leyva, author, military wife, and founder of CinCHouse.com, the Internet's largest community for military wives, girlfriends, and women in uniform.

Just curious, who stated that it was the largest community for the above mentioned groups?

That was taken from a press release about Meredith by Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Meredith's book.

Thanks for pointing that out. I've put in the entire release and given them credit.