Hi slmann. Here are a few answers that I have or experienced.

We are suppose to have a listing in our CP that show people that have joined our chapter and then we can click on the accept/decline button. I havent had that turned on for me yet but give it time. These guys are pretty busy so I am in no hurry. What I did was went into Member List then Advance Search. From there I set the peramiters (bad spelling) to look for all Alaska FTE memebers. I then copied and paste all of the AK members showed into an excell document and seperated that document alphebeticly (typing that late a night). I then created a welcome letter and sent that out to everyone on the excell document via PM or Email. Yep it took some time. That was 9 months ago. I need to do an update and catch new AK members. Hope that helps. You can also start a thread in the Missouri Section like, "Introduction for New Members". We have that at the top and I get a few per month that sign in there.