Spreading Be Welcome

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What kind of things can I do to spread BeWelcome? This article shows some easy examples to spread BeWelcome. Please, have also a short look into our general Promotion guidelines.

Spread the word

say "be welcome!" instead of saying "you're welcome" (when speaking English, as a reply to "thank you")

Comment from Sitarane: That's going way too far!

leave some flyers in your school, university, mensa, gym ...
get a BeWelcome poster and put it on your wall or in your office
spread with some BeWelcome stickers!
wear some BeWelcome t-shirts
If you are in an internet cafe put bewelcome.org as startpage (Fabzgy did that on many computers)

Link to www.bewelcome.org

The easiest and most effective way is a link to BeWelcome. There are several options availible.

use buttons and banners on your website
if you participate on a forum or bulletin board on the web, put your BeWelcome profile link http://www.bewelcome.org/member/YourUsername in your signature or as your avatar
include your profile link to your favorite instant messanger (MSN, ICQ, AIM ...)
put a link in your e-mail signature
use a BeWelcome wallpaper on your desktop
upload some materials like buttons, banners, stickers, flyers, posters

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social bookmark

If you use one of the following social bookmark sites than tag/share them with tags like www.bewelcome.org, hospitality network, cultural exchange, travel, cheap travel, cheap accommodation .... On some of these sites you are also able to vote for a shared bewelcome.org bookmark. If you find a entry vote.

(bookmark BeWelcome via this del.icio.us link! saved by 55 people)

(bookmark BeWelcome via this Mister Wong link! saved by 4 people)

add your social bookmark site (vote/add/save tags for Bewelcome.org bookmark entries )

Invite friends

We have to get ready an out of the box messaging function. Simply follow this link link

Blogs

If you are a blogger and support BeWelcome than leave an entry in our list of bloggers This will be the link for BeWelcome to the blogosphere.
If you see an blog article about other hospitality exchange networks (like HC, CS) leave a comment about BeWelcome as an alternative.
actively search for HC, BW blogs worldwide and add comments (like above)
If you are a blogger trackback to our own blogs posts about BeWelcome (if post is related)

Wikis

Edit other wikis such as Wikitravel, etc.
Edit Wikipedia entries relating to BeWelcome. Put info and links about BW in as many articles as possible, but please try to stick to quote and refer to quite officially published media.
Translate the wikipedia article in your language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeWelcome

Social Networking

join us on twitter http://twitter.com/bewelcome
spread the word about BW and "like" our Facebook-site
Join the BeWelcome Group on Facebook
Create BW groups on other social networking websites

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