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Tips & Tricks The webinar will start shortly. The following is a preview to start getting you acquainted with the site.


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The AANAConnect home page

LTC news from around the web.

Links to get you started with

AANAConnect.

Everything you do in AANAConnect

earns you points…and recognition.


Discussion Groups Start talking to your colleagues

Email from AANAConnect looks like this…

These are your navigation links.

To respond, do NOT use the regular “Reply” or “Reply all” feature in your email software.

Send a response to the entire discussion

group.

Send a private response to the

author. Start a new

discussion with a new subject line.

See all posts in that discussion in

chronological order.

See all posts the sender has posted to this discussion group.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or

change your delivery options.

Search the archives to see if your

question has already been answered.

Like Facebook and LinkedIn, you’ll use the embedded links to respond to messages.

The online discussion “digest” is fully integrated with email and looks and functions similarly.

You can do a keyword search to see if your question has already

been answered.

Control how you receive email from the discussion groups by clicking on one of the

“My subscriptions” links.

AANAConnect Home Page

Email

You can switch to plain text if you prefer, but it

does have limited functionality compared

to HTML.

Receive an email each time a message is

posted.

Receive one email each morning with all of the

previous day’s posts consolidated.

Participate via the online discussion board.

Receive a plain text, phone-friendly email.

Be sure to click “save” at the bottom of the page

after making any changes.


Posting a message Ask and answer questions, share advice and more

You can get to the “Post message” interface several different ways:

Click to include an attachment


Resource Libraries A repository of documents shared by your peers


Populated two ways:

1. All attachments shared in the discussion groups end up in its corresponding library

2. Files can be uploaded directly

Fully searchable

Please be careful about sharing any copyrighted or otherwise protected documents

Resource libraries

Quick keyword search

This takes you to the advanced search…

The libraries are found in the “Communities” menu.

…which has many more filtering options.

Click on the file name to see more details.

Take a moment to rate any document you use.

See who uploaded the document, and find out

more about them.

Click on the file name to open and download the

document.


Communities View and manage the groups to which you belong


• Typically, a community consists of a discussion group and a library.

• Join as many as you’d like.

My communities

Click name to see the most recent posts, documents

and information.

Online discussion board.

Resource library – where all attachments are stored.

Use this filter to see communities to which you belong, those you

can join, etc.

You can even create your own

community.

See the community’s members.

Click to join.


My Profile Help other members get to know you

Click here to update your contact information.

Networks are automatically created based on demographic information. Click on

one to see who else is in your network.

Tell other members about yourself.


Privacy Settings Control who is allowed to see what on your profile

To set your privacy preferences, click here.

If you do not wish to have notifications (contact requests,

messages, etc.) forwarded to your

email, click on “No.”

Note: This does not effect the discussion group

emails, and notifications will still be available to you

when you log in to AANAConnect.

Clicking “No” will remove you from

search results. Since AANAConnect is a

private community, we DO NOT

recommend doing this.

You have full control over who is allowed to

see specific information on your profile.

My contacts: Only people on your

contact (or “friend”) list can view this

information.

Members Only: Other AANAC members can view this information.

Public: Anyone, including search

engines, can view this information. This is

helpful if you’d like to use your profile as a

resume.

Nobody: Only you will be able to view the

information.

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