My Nomination to Become Moderator.

Hello,

I know you are asking yourself "Who is this guy?"

My name is Dwain Slaven and I am from a small town north of Tampa, Florida USA.

This will be informal as I am a quiet blue jeans kind of guy.

When I saw my name on the list of pundits I was surprised and admittedly wondered what I possibly had to offer in that regard. As I thought more about it I decided to draw upon my life experiences dealing with people and offer my service as one of your moderators, a job I know I can do well.

I don't profess to be a web wizard nor do I have an impressive technical background. I am not here to sell you anything, host your websites or design the coolest logo ever on the web. I have no agenda nor ulterior motives. I am here to serve the community.

I started at Boonex as a beginner, a complete novice to the world of Dolphin, Ray and Orca.

I am especially aware of how difficult it can be for some one like myself to fit in with expertzzzz and webmasters who tire easily of hearing the same questions over and over. I have a good understanding of the frustration people who are considering purchasing community software feel when they realize they are in over their head, but driven by the desire to have the perfect social networking community or dating site uniquely their very own.

I have recent experience as admin of a forum dedicated to Philippine Tourism with 15,000 members.

I am in the surveillance systems buisness and have owned and managed a company with 25 employees for many years. At present I am semi retired and deligate authority to my valued employees.

I enjoy gardening and photography and I write content. I hope to one day retire and spend my days exploring and writing about and photographing my adventures,

I am a volunteer.

I have experience as a guardian ad litem for the county court system, I have taught anger management classes for the county and councelled spouse abuse victims at the local women's shelter.

I have managed little league baseball.

Each year I am involved building shelter for the poorest of the poor in the Philippines with Gawad Kalinga which is very similar to Habitat for Humanity.

In my opinion a moderator should be some one who is level headed, fair minded, decisive, logical and calm.

Some one not prone to emotional outbursts or predjudicial thinking. Some one even tempered, tolerant, yet firm with a positive can do attitude. A good moderator should be low key and passive, totaly invisible to  members until needed and whenever possible fix problems unnoticed.

My goal will be to make every one feel welcome, an equal and valuable part of this thing we call Unity.

If called I will be proud to serve the community to the best of my abilities.