Welcome Room
The best way to learn your way around our community is to
explore, explore, explore! There’s nothing like good old trial and
error. But there’s nothing wrong with a helping hand, so here’s a
welcome guide to show you around.
TOUR OF THE MAIN PAGE
#1 You already found the Sign-Up / Sign-In box to get here!
#2 Tells you a little about us. You probably clicked the link "Welcome Room" to find this.
#3 Real-time chat box. Click a smiley &/or type in that line. Hit enter.
#4 Google Ads. Sometimes quite humorous. We get a free website because they get to run ads.
#5 (At the top.) This is the TAB bar. Clicking on these choices will take you between the various features of the network. Invite helps you tell friends that you are here. Your profile is at "My Page." The Discussion Forum is a place to join conversation. Check out the various Groups, which have their own comment, discussion and content. You can add Photos, arrange them in albums and get codes to embed slideshows in your profile. We will also set up chat times on occassion, but the chat room is always a bigger version of the front-page chat box.
#6 The Latest Activity box keeps you up-to-date on what was just happening.
#7 The Photo Box plays random photos from the entire community. You could be here!
#1 The current activities and announcements continue down the left of the page.
#2 Members.(middle top) Click "View all" for the community directory & search.
#3 The "created by" box is on every Ning community. They put it there to advertise.
#4 The discussion forum often shows the categories. If there is a special discussion that we are featuring, you will see that here instead.
#5 Apology for the ads. Contact a moderator if you want to donate.
#6 Mission (under "Disclaimer".) This is why we made a community. Groups and discussions will reflect this.
#1 Featured Groups. Click "View All" at the bottom to see the directory of all groups.
#2 List my most recent community blog posts. Add them to "My Page" and they will rotate through here.
#3 Badges and Photo Slideshow player. Get HTML code to put on your other webpages to let your friends know where you are.
#4 When you see a birthday, bomb the person with well-wishes!
#5 Any events you create will be shown here.
#6 Turn on your speakers. there is music playing on the front page. There is a link on the music player to create your own to place on your page or group.
#7 Our Links. Tell Chaplain Nik about your other web associations and a clickable link may appear on our list.
Now what?
Set up your home page.
Click on the "My Page" tab at the top to go to your home page. This is your very own page to customize as you wish. You can even add your own blog! It’s simple to upload photos, customize the layout and colors, add your own captions!
Join a conversation.
There are two places you can post topics and questions to the community.
- Main Forum Discussions Tab: This page is divided into categories for discussions.
- Groups Tab: In Groups such as Simple Missions and Rick's Coffee House you can post discussions according to topic. You can even get some folks together and create your own Group.
Other options
Comments: Comments are separate from message board responses. A comment is a one-on-one message from you to another person. You can comment on another member’s page, picture, blog entry or photo. The comment will appear on that person’s page in the exact place you left it.
Share: The Share button allows you to send an email to your friends and so they can respond to your post and join the discussion:
Friends: Friends To send a community member a friend request, click on the “add as a friend” link, located under their main profile picture on the upper left corner. Once that person accepts your request, you will be friends and you can track each other’s activity on the community!
Photos: You can upload photos either from your homepage, or by clicking the "Photos" tab.
Invite: Allows you to send an invitation via email to a friend who is not yet a community member. Just add your friend’s name and email address and they’ll receive an email from us!
Tags: A tag is a key word. Adding tags to your comments, photos, discussions, etc., allows you to search for other pages with similar tags. You can add tags to any discussion, even ones someone else started!
For Advanced Users: RSS RSS feeds are provided for a variety of different sections of our Community. You can subscribe to feeds for the Main Discussion area, the Latest Activity, or subscribe to a Group feed, for example. You can use these feeds with a variety of RSS reader software and web-based news readers or personalizable homepages (like iGoogle or My Yahoo!) Besides offering RSS feeds for CSCM Community content, you can add RSS feeds to your homepage. Your RSS box on the left vertical bar, under your photos, allows you to enter the URL of your blog or another blog that you like. Your friends can see the titles of the blog entries as well as small excerpts!
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TOUR OF THE MAIN PAGE
#1 You already found the Sign-Up / Sign-In box to get here!
#2 Tells you a little about us. You probably clicked the link "Welcome Room" to find this.
#3 Real-time chat box. Click a smiley &/or type in that line. Hit enter.
#4 Google Ads. Sometimes quite humorous. We get a free website because they get to run ads.
#5 (At the top.) This is the TAB bar. Clicking on these choices will take you between the various features of the network. Invite helps you tell friends that you are here. Your profile is at "My Page." The Discussion Forum is a place to join conversation. Check out the various Groups, which have their own comment, discussion and content. You can add Photos, arrange them in albums and get codes to embed slideshows in your profile. We will also set up chat times on occassion, but the chat room is always a bigger version of the front-page chat box.
#6 The Latest Activity box keeps you up-to-date on what was just happening.
#7 The Photo Box plays random photos from the entire community. You could be here!
#1 The current activities and announcements continue down the left of the page.
#2 Members.(middle top) Click "View all" for the community directory & search.
#3 The "created by" box is on every Ning community. They put it there to advertise.
#4 The discussion forum often shows the categories. If there is a special discussion that we are featuring, you will see that here instead.
#5 Apology for the ads. Contact a moderator if you want to donate.
#6 Mission (under "Disclaimer".) This is why we made a community. Groups and discussions will reflect this.
#1 Featured Groups. Click "View All" at the bottom to see the directory of all groups.
#2 List my most recent community blog posts. Add them to "My Page" and they will rotate through here.
#3 Badges and Photo Slideshow player. Get HTML code to put on your other webpages to let your friends know where you are.
#4 When you see a birthday, bomb the person with well-wishes!
#5 Any events you create will be shown here.
#6 Turn on your speakers. there is music playing on the front page. There is a link on the music player to create your own to place on your page or group.
#7 Our Links. Tell Chaplain Nik about your other web associations and a clickable link may appear on our list.
Now what?
Set up your home page.
Click on the "My Page" tab at the top to go to your home page. This is your very own page to customize as you wish. You can even add your own blog! It’s simple to upload photos, customize the layout and colors, add your own captions!
Join a conversation.
There are two places you can post topics and questions to the community.
- Main Forum Discussions Tab: This page is divided into categories for discussions.
- Groups Tab: In Groups such as Simple Missions and Rick's Coffee House you can post discussions according to topic. You can even get some folks together and create your own Group.
Other options
Comments: Comments are separate from message board responses. A comment is a one-on-one message from you to another person. You can comment on another member’s page, picture, blog entry or photo. The comment will appear on that person’s page in the exact place you left it.
Share: The Share button allows you to send an email to your friends and so they can respond to your post and join the discussion:
Friends: Friends To send a community member a friend request, click on the “add as a friend” link, located under their main profile picture on the upper left corner. Once that person accepts your request, you will be friends and you can track each other’s activity on the community!
Photos: You can upload photos either from your homepage, or by clicking the "Photos" tab.
Invite: Allows you to send an invitation via email to a friend who is not yet a community member. Just add your friend’s name and email address and they’ll receive an email from us!
Tags: A tag is a key word. Adding tags to your comments, photos, discussions, etc., allows you to search for other pages with similar tags. You can add tags to any discussion, even ones someone else started!
For Advanced Users: RSS RSS feeds are provided for a variety of different sections of our Community. You can subscribe to feeds for the Main Discussion area, the Latest Activity, or subscribe to a Group feed, for example. You can use these feeds with a variety of RSS reader software and web-based news readers or personalizable homepages (like iGoogle or My Yahoo!) Besides offering RSS feeds for CSCM Community content, you can add RSS feeds to your homepage. Your RSS box on the left vertical bar, under your photos, allows you to enter the URL of your blog or another blog that you like. Your friends can see the titles of the blog entries as well as small excerpts!
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Faith, Community, Mission
We may live far apart, but we are a community built in, through, and with the indwelling Christ. Our worship is a sacrifice of time, given to know Him intimately. We each serve, minister, and express our Lord Jesus, who is the only Head. Let us be known simply by our love for each other, in anticipation of when every knee will be bent in His Kingdom. And, let us follow the earthly mission Jesus began and passed to His followers to “preach goods news to the poor, proclaim release to the captives, recover sight to the blind, let the oppressed go free, and proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
We are here to support, confront and clarify each other's place as aliens in the world but not of the world. Est: Nov, 2008.
We are here to support, confront and clarify each other's place as aliens in the world but not of the world. Est: Nov, 2008.
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