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Greeting your guildmates is one small step toward founding, fostering and maintaining good relationships. Saying "Hello" or "Good Morning" makes people feel personally welcomed and acknowledged. The word "personally" is the operative word there. A relationship-building greeting needs to be more than just a recognition of the person's presence, it ought to be sincere and personal rather than general.
Often it's only those who say "Hi" who get a greeting in response. These guildies tend to be well-known and well-liked because they are seen as friendly. Why? Merely because they take the time to greet their fellow guildmates. You can start new friendships and build upon existing ones simply by taking the time to say hello. It's a simple concept, but you might be surprised how effective it is in practice.
"The Greeting" is an excellent time to use (and learn) a person's real name. Saying "Good morning, George" conveys a significantly more intimate greeting than simply "Good morning". This can be difficult if your guild does not actively support the use of given names over character names. IVV uses a simple method that ensures you never have to slight someone by misremembering their name (see suggestions below), but even if your guild isn't prepared to take that step you can utilize tools already in Warcraft to achieve the same result.
If you don't already have it active, turn on your Guild Member Alert, located in your Interface options under Social. This may create some mild chat spam, but it means you'll be able to keep tabs on your guildies and interact with them in more meaningful ways than you would if you only noticed them when they happened to talk in Guild Chat.
Talk to your officers about adding a person's real-life name in the Public Note section of their character profile (accessible via Guild in the Social tab).
You can create your own notes by means of your Friends List. Click the small "note" icon to the left of each Friend's name and add his or her real name and any other pertinent information in the space provided. This will give you a quick-check reference for remembering the names of your guildmates. The only downsides compared with #2 are that you have to fill up your Friends list with guildmates (not such a bad thing, really) and you have to be willing to ask the player his or her name before you can add it to the note.
Often it's only those who say "Hi" who get a greeting in response. These guildies tend to be well-known and well-liked because they are seen as friendly. Why? Merely because they take the time to greet their fellow guildmates. You can start new friendships and build upon existing ones simply by taking the time to say hello. It's a simple concept, but you might be surprised how effective it is in practice.
"The Greeting" is an excellent time to use (and learn) a person's real name. Saying "Good morning, George" conveys a significantly more intimate greeting than simply "Good morning". This can be difficult if your guild does not actively support the use of given names over character names. IVV uses a simple method that ensures you never have to slight someone by misremembering their name (see suggestions below), but even if your guild isn't prepared to take that step you can utilize tools already in Warcraft to achieve the same result.
If you don't already have it active, turn on your Guild Member Alert, located in your Interface options under Social. This may create some mild chat spam, but it means you'll be able to keep tabs on your guildies and interact with them in more meaningful ways than you would if you only noticed them when they happened to talk in Guild Chat.
Talk to your officers about adding a person's real-life name in the Public Note section of their character profile (accessible via Guild in the Social tab).
You can create your own notes by means of your Friends List. Click the small "note" icon to the left of each Friend's name and add his or her real name and any other pertinent information in the space provided. This will give you a quick-check reference for remembering the names of your guildmates. The only downsides compared with #2 are that you have to fill up your Friends list with guildmates (not such a bad thing, really) and you have to be willing to ask the player his or her name before you can add it to the note.
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Jon Blevins is an officer of In Vino Veritas. He's a pastor, husband, gamer and gourmet coffee lover.
He lives in Minnesota, the state that elected a pro-wrestler governor.
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