Starting a Chapter Discussion

Every Chapter has its own discussion board. A discussion board is very much like a cork bulletin board: you can post announcements, upcoming chapter meeting dates, discuss chapter business, and share clinical information -- whatever interests your chapter members and would benefit from being available publically for comment.

Because only chapter officers have access to email all chapter members at once, discussions are chapter members' only means to post information widely to other members.

All chapter members can post to the discussion board; chapter officers have special privileges to moderate discussions. Only chapter members can view and participate in chapter group discussions.

To see all Chapter discussions click on the gray Discussions Tab, and it will bring you to your Chapter's discussion board homepage.

You can also view the most recent discussions on the Overview tab, which is the page that you land on when you first come to your Chapter site. The Overview page will list the five Latest Discussion Posts on your Chapter discussion board and any recent comments.

Start a Discussion in Your Chapter Group
To start a discussion in your Chapter group, look for the Start a Discussion box located on every page of your Chapter group site in the right-hand column.

Starting a group discussion

Enter a topic title in the Start a Discussion box.

Be sure to create a title that is descriptive and makes it easy for group members to understand the topic of your discussion without having to read the entire post -- you will get more responses this way.

Once you've written your title, click Create, and you will be taken to a page to expand on your topic.

Writing a Discussion

You can add images and links to your post. Or add a document to the discussion post by using the Add Attachments box below the message composition box.

When you're done with your post, click Save, and your discussion will now be posted to your group.

Discussion in a group

Your new discussion post will also be sent via email to all group members who have subscribed to the discussion board's listserv.

A direct link to your post will be available in the My Discussions section of My Network.

Starting a Discussion via Listserv
You can also start a new discussion by sending an email to your group's listserv email address. More on that here.

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