The NXT Resource Collection

Calling all NXT Fans...

Okay, the contributors here at The NXT Step need your help. The number of blogs, websites, forums, and more dedicated to the NXT are growing and growing and we're just not able to keep up with everything new that's appearing out there.

We've decided to create an HTML webpage to organize all the NXT resources out there. (We may also make this a downloadable document as well.)

How can you help? Easy. Go to our Forum and look under the General Category (the first section of our forum). Inside there you will see a new category called "NXT Resource Collection". Open the Collection thread and help us build the new webpage.

The rules are simple -

1. Provide us with the URL of an NXT resource that you'd like to add to the collection. Please do not provide URLs that already exist on our blog's homepage; we're already aware of them :)

2. Provide us with a short (3 sentences or less) description of the site if you can.

3. To help us categorize the resources, choose from the following categories that best fits the URL: website, blog, building instructions, programming instructions, forum

4. Please read through the previous posts to avoid submitting a site that's already been added. (Use the Search feature to search for the URL.

5. One URL per post. REPEAT - ONE URL PER POST - if you post 2 or more URLs in a post, the post will be deleted and no credit given.

6. Duplicate posts will be deleted.

7. We will check all URLs for content - as with our blog, content and any URLs provided must be child-friendly and contain no adult-content, adult advertising, etc. We'll use our best judgement when selecting/omitting URLs for the list.

Finally, once the HTML webpage is created, if you'd like your name added to the "Resource Contributor" list, let us know how you'd like your name spelled.

All The NXT Step blog contributors would like to thank you for helping us build this resource.

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