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| ====== My book clubs ====== | ====== My book clubs ====== | ||
| - | + | ===== Getting started ===== | |
| - | Here you can create book clubs with many options and features. | + | The "My book club" box on your profile offers you options to browse/search book clubs for ones that might interest you, or to create your own book club. |
| - | ===== Start ===== | + | |
| - | To start with, you must either join an existing book club or create a new one. You can do that by locating a "My book clubs" widget either on your or other user's profile: | + | |
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| - | Once you have joined any book clubs, it will show the latest 3 book clubs right on the widget. | + | Once you belong to a book clubs, the profile box shows the latest three clubs here. |
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| - | ===== Creating a book club ===== | + | |
| - | * **Step 1:** click the "Create book club" link in the widget or click "List all book clubs" or "Joined book clubs" and click "Create new book club" there | + | |
| - | * **Step 2:** fill out the form: | + | |
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| - | In addition to basic book club information, you can set the book club to be password-protected, invitations-only and if the book club should be visible publicly | + | |
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| - | * **Step 3:** add an item to the book club by clicking the "Add new item" link: | + | |
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| - | which will take you to an item look-up screen where you must locate the item to discuss at the book club and click the "Choose item" icon: | + | |
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| - | To finish adding item, you must add a quick sub-title for the item to discuss and a quick description for it. You can also set a start and end dates for item discussions, but you may also leave them empty. Once an item is selected, users can join the book club and you can set up appointments for the item discussions: | + | |
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| - | **Please note:** | + | If you wish to run your own book club, see [[connections:functionality:bc-running|these instructions on managing a book club]]. |
| - | * once you set up an appointment, book club members will be sent a reminder to //Connections// internal mail as well as user's e-mail 1 day before the appointment | + | |
| - | * once a book club is finished one item, you can add the next one. **Book club will be linked to the latest item added!** | + | |
| ===== Joining a book club ===== | ===== Joining a book club ===== | ||
connections/functionality/bookclubs.txt · Last modified: 2013/04/14 08:10 by georgina
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