Park Meadows Blog

Getting Started

1. Start by creating a New Account. Go to the User Login and click on Create Account. You will be asked to fill in your information including your Login and to accept the Terms Of Use. The system will send an email to you with an assigned Password.

Once you have received authorization you can enter your Login and Password to access your account. You can change your password to one that you can remember in the future.

You Now Can Do Any Of The Following:

1. Create Content: In this area you can do any of the following:

- Blog Entry. This is your blog area, you can post anything you want to post complete with a Headline, teaser and body. You can insert pictures, use different fonts and colors and attach documents to the blog posting. A blog is a regularly updated journal or diary made up of individual posts shown in reversed chronological order. A blog is tightly coupled to the author so each user will have his 'own' blog. - Event. An event is a story which can be given a start and end date, thus appearing in the events calendar.

- Forum Topic. This is a subject that you want to use to develop a discussion threat. Perhaps some issue that needs input from others for resolution. Any registered user can create a new topic for discussion in the forums.

- Image. An image (with thumbnail) will be posted to the Photo Gallery. This is ideal for publishing photographs or screenshots of company events, local activities, etc.

2. Create Groups: Groups are isolated in the site and identified by their own domain name and heading. Every group can have it's own blogs and forums, events calendars, photo galleries, etc. To creat a group select Groups and then you can request access to set up a new group from the sponsor. To request this access, select click here and fill out the information to contact the site sponsor. Please include in your message the group/organization's purpose and describe likely subscribers (if any).

Within Groups you can have: 

Public Groups are visible to all visitors to the community website and are listed on the home page. While most of the content in Public Groups should be made visible to everyone, some content can be made visible only to subscribers.

Private Groups are only visible to subscribers. While most of the content in Private Groups is visible only to subscribers, some content can be made visible to everyone visiting the group's site.