Using the Online Forum

[Mike Farley]

If anyone is unsure of how to use the forum and get the best from it, I am willing to host a small informal session to take people through the forum and its features. For reasons of space, I can only accommodate 4 or 5 people at a time, but if there is sufficient interest I can always hold more than such meeting.

[davidc]

I'm willing to help out with this too, either informally before/after a club meeting (I'll bring my laptop) or happy to invite people over to mine for a demo. And cake.

[Nina]

I'm willing to help out with this too, either informally before/after a club meeting (I'll bring my laptop) or happy to invite people over to mine for a demo. And cake.

Can I just sign up for the cake David?

[davidc]

Absolutely, I'll stick something in the calendar

[Tina]

I'd be interested in learning more about the forum particularly posting photos. And cake of course!

[davidc]

I'd been thinking about a quick "how to" for photo posting, I'll put something up this afternoon.

[Mike Farley]

I'd been thinking about a quick "how to" for photo posting, I'll put something up this afternoon.

It might be worthwhile to set up a number of "how to's" and make them stickies in the General forum for things which people might not otherwise find. Some suggestions:

• Creating a signature
• Using the BB code tags (which are not particularly intuitive)
• Using PM's
• Checking for unread messages
• Adding an avatar
• Subscribing to threads and forums
• Control panel settings besides those listed above

There might be other things as well which we will find as people start using the forum. We can set up a thread to solicit feedback and see how people are getting on with the forum at the start of a meeting in two or three weeks time.

[davidc]

I've completed the "how to post images" sticky and placed a copy in the Image Critique and Photo Sharing sections. I'll start work on another topic covering the items above now.