Whitney Hess has published the sidebar on Onboarding from the Designing Social Interfaces book by Erin Malone and Christian Crumlish, as a featured article on UX Mag. Whitney's article describes how to use onboarding to get users from sign up, to becoming oriented with your site and actually using it.
http://uxmag.com/design/onboarding-designing-welcoming-first-experiences
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I'm a bit too busy to blog seriously yet, having just gotten back from my vacation. In the meantime, enjoy this help menu I discovered when opening iSquint, an app that I found in my Applications folder, and only launched to see what it was before I AppZapped it.