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CommunityCentral Update Issue 6

Monday 19 October 2009.
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Please respond to our CommunityCentral user survey

We're inviting you to answer a short survey about CommunityCentral. We want to know how satisfied you are with the site. We'll use your feedback for a formal evaluation and for adding improvements next year and beyond.

Please spend a few moments to answer the multi-choice questions, they don't take long to fill in. We are looking forward to finding out what you think! Click here to open the survey.

Our presentations have been a success!

To those of you who attended one of our recent workshops, thanks for taking time to attend and to learn what CommunityCentral is really about.

We've now run workshops from Auckland down to Invercargill and we've certainly seen a good level of interest. Lots have taken the plunge and signed on as members since we've been out on the road. It's great to have you on board!

We've also been in contact with several new groups interested in trying out what the site has to offer them (see opposite feature on the Generosity Hub).

We appreciate that as busy people we're not all able to quickly find time to learn new things - especially when it comes to new electronic tools!

But if you haven't yet done so, we suggest you sign up to receive a range of sector e-newsletters. We also urge you to consider whether a private workspace or discussion network would be something for you, your organisation and the other groups you work closely with - just to help streamline your online communications.

Remember also that CommunityCentral provides a platform to enable you to better manage and distribute your email newsletters as an alternative to using email software and having to manage your own subscriber lists. Just contact our Web Coordinator to get this set up.

More and more things are happening on CommunityCentral more of the time. We think we've put together a very user friendly tool for community groups and we are always looking for ways to improve it.

We hope to see you there!

New collaborative projects coming on CommunityCentral

Check out this section of the site to find out about the Generosity Hub, CommunityCentral's latest collaborative project which aims to create a better awareness of giving in New Zealand.

Your questions answered

We've received heaps of questions during our travels around the country over the last few weeks. We've posted some of these as FAQs for everyone to read on the site. Go to: http://communitycentral.org.nz/faq

Here's a good example: Why is there a dot in my name when I sign in?

Answer: CommunityCentral has to cater for thousands of people signing up. For the system to be able to recognise each and every member, we need to create unique user name. The simplest way of doing this is to have all names separated with a dot, e.g. "firstname.lastname". So, remember to put a dot between the first and last name of your name and the names of others when signig on and using CommunityCentral.

Help is always at hand!

There's no need to be daunted when using CommunityCentral. We've devised comprehensive user guides and put them on the site to help you make an easy start. These are also available to download as Word documents so you can print them off and have them beside you to refer to as you work. This self-paced learning makes it a lot easier to participate and manage discussion networks and private workspaces. And we're only an email away should you need more direct assistance.

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