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Community Network Tidbits

By Miena Hall, Bolingbrook, Illinois and
Ann Marie Lindquist, Lexington, MA

Sue Ann Kendall's instructions for using the Community Network (CN) can be found on the Leader password-protected pages at www.llli.org

The web pages are listed under the left sidebar heading "Resources/Leader Pages/Online Communications" at:
http://www.llli.org/leaderpages/onlinecomm.html?m=0,3,6

Or go directly to the Community Network Page:
http://www.llli.org/leaderpages/cn.html

At the top of the page, you will see 3 links:

1. A "Sign Up!" page to walk you through your first login in.
2. A "Preview" of the CN with screen snapshots instructing how to navigate from the Welcome page to the various CN discussions, libraries, and wiki notepads.
3. A general "User's Guide" explaining the CN in greater detail.

Have you heard from Leaders who are signed into the CN, but are NOT receiving CN mailings regularly? It could be that the CN messages are being sent to the Leader's spam folder. This can be fixed by changing the options for the email's spam filter to route emails from "&&&@community.llli.org" directly to your inbox. (Here &&& corresponds to the mailing name of a discussion.)

Another possible reason for not receiving CN email is that the Leader’s email address is not verified. If you look on any participant list for a Discussion, each Leader will have an envelope next to her name. If the envelope is faded, it means CN does not have a valid email address for her.

To correct this situation, the Leader clicks on Email Settings on the upper right hand corner of the screen. This will show what email address(es) she is using. If she has changed her email address or wants to add a new one, she should add it under “Add New Email Address,” then follow the directions to verify that email address (this may involve having a message sent to her email account). Then she should check the list of her Discussions on that same page and choose a verified email address for each Discussion. It is possible that only one or two of her Discussions will show unverified email addresses, so she may not need to change them all. She can also make changes by clicking on “My Membership Settings” next to the name of each Discussion.