1. NEW INTERACTIVE FEATURES
NACCED WEBSITE
NEW INTERACTIVE FEATURES
I am happy today to share with you the new interactive features of the NACCED website. This work was done in collaboration with NACCED staff, yourmembership.com and the Website Working Group. If you were a part of the website working group, please stand. Let’s give them a round of applause for their efforts.
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Brian Cramer, Tarrant County, TX
Chair of Website Working Group
September 19, 2011

2. NACCED HOMEPAGE
The scrolling bar will show upcoming events and recent NACCED news
The calendar will show upcoming events
Links to pages describing how to use various aspects of the website will be available here
Note: Download the helpful User’s Guide
NACCED’s home page has a new look.
Push space bar to advance. The scrolling bar at the top will show upcoming events and recent NACCED news.
Push space bar to advance. The most recent news and alerts will be posted here.
Push space bar to advance. A new feature to the website is the Project and Member Spotlights. These spotlights highlight member projects and members themselves to help us get to know one another better. We encourage people to fill out the application and introduce a staff person or highlight a project. Thank you to Pima County, AZ and Morgan Chee from Travis County, TX for being the first to try out this new feature.
Push space bar to advance. The How Do I Section provides links to pages describing how to use various aspects of the website. I encourage you to download the helpful User’s Guide which will be updated as more features are added to the website.
Push space bar to advance. You will also find a calendar which provides a list of upcoming events including conference calls, meetings, and training.
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The most recent news and alerts will be posted here
NEW Project and Member Spotlights

3. CALENDAR Email the event details to a friend
Export this event to your calendar
Details regarding the date, time and place
Click on event for more details
Calendar events are located on the right hand side of the website.
Push space bar to advance. To access the calendar, click on the event for more details.
Push space bar to advance. You will find details regarding the date, time and place. You may also find links to pertinent documents for the event.
Push space bar to advance. For Microsoft Outlook Users, you can export the event to your calendar.
Push space bar to advance. You can also the event to a colleague to ensure their attendance or awareness of the event.
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4. MEMBERS ONLY Another way to access interactive committee pages
Discuss topics or post important information
Push space bar to advance. To access the members only section, look on the menu on the left side of the webpage. Click on Members Only tab to see the menu of services restricted to current NACCED members. Some of the features you will find include
Push on Space bar to advance. links to interactive committee pages
Push space bar to advance. General forums to discuss topics or post important information.
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Click the “Star” on any of these pages to save them as a favorite, and it will be saved in your member profile for quick reference.
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Receive technical assistance
Search and subscribe to job openings and post your resume or a job

5. FORUMS PAGE Receive updates when a new post is added
Post a Reply: Add a comment to the discussion
discussion to a friend
Forums are a tool to interact with members regarding a variety of topics. We hope this becomes one of the strongest features of the new website.
Push space bar to advance. Go to the forums page, select a forum
Push space bar to advance. Select a topic within the forum.
Push space bar to advance. To add a comment to the discussion, select post a reply.
Push space bar to advance. You can choose to receive updates when a new post is added.
Push space bar to advance. And you can the discussion to a friend so they can be informed of the interaction.
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6. MEMBER PROFILE
Opportunity to link to your website and social networking sites
Affiliated Committees
One of the other new features of the website is member profiles. Similar to LinkedIn or Facebook, each member can create a member profile that includes a picture, contact information, and connections. From this page, you can access your wall (where people can post comments), your feeds (where you can stay up to date with the committee and connection activity) and your bio (where people can find out more about you).
Push space bar to advance. The member profile will also identify your affiliated committees.
Push space bar to advance. Links you would like to share with others.
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Links you would like to share with others

7. MANAGING YOUR MEMBER PROFILE
Edit information and manage preferences on your member profile
Share important files with others
Add links and personalize your profile
Join groups/committees to receive updates
To Manage Your member profile, make sure you are signed into the website. Then select manage profile under the My Profile section on the right side of the page.
Push the space bar to advance. Here you can, edit and manage preferences on your member profile.
Push space bar to advance. Add links and personalize your profile.
Push space bar to advance. Share important files with others.
Push space bar to advance. Maintain your relationships within NACCED by establishing connections.
Push space bar to advance. And join groups or committees to receive updates and become more involved with everyday NACCED activities and decision making processes.
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Maintain your relationships within NACCED by establishing connections

8. GROUPS=COMMITTEES Group- specific forums
Group-specific events will be listed here
Join Groups or Committees to become more involved in everyday NACCED activities and decision-making processes
The terms groups and committees are used interchangeably on the website. Anytime a committee or group is mentioned, a link to the interactive committee pages will be available. To get to the groups page, select groups under my profile.
Push space bar to advance. Select the group you want to see.
Push space bar to advance. On the committee page you will find a variety of committee specific materials including
Push space bar to advance. Committee specific forums
Push space bar to advance . And Committee specific events.
Push space bar to advance. At the top of the page, you will find Groups Pages where links to materials such as agendas and notes will be posted,
Push space bar to advance. The Directory and Features where members in the group will be listed,
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To fully participate in any specific committee interactive webpage, you must join the group.
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Materials will be posted here
Members in the group will be listed here
Gain membership in the group here

9. CONNECTIONS Keep your contacts organized with categories
Send private messages or view their profile to comment on a specific post
Note: Instant messaging is possible when other users are online at the same time
Finally, Connections are another new attribute of the website they can be likened to a connection on LinkedIn or a friend on Facebook. Make connections to include people that you would like to be able to , instant message, or share links with. You can request a connection with any NACCED member, an will be sent to that person to request they accept the connection. A confirmation will be sent when the connection is accepted.
Push space bar to advance. The connections page also allows you to organize your connections into different groups to ease communication or to identify frequent contacts.
Push space bar to advance. You can send private messages or view profiles as well as comment on a specific post or instant message a connection.
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10. QUESTIONS?
Computers and user guides will be set up in the hospitality suite for those who would like to receive assistance with their member profile!
With all of the new features of the NACCED website, I know that many of you may want more hands-on training. Computers and user guides will be set up in the hospitality suite for those who would like to receive assistance with learning more about the new features. In addition, NACCED plans on holding a series of webinars in the coming months to introduce and encourage use of the interactive components of the site.
Also, please note that the website is a work in progress and updates will be made as time allows. If you have any suggestions or feedback about the website, Heather Williams at the NACCED Office.
Thank you for your time, and we hope you find the improvements to the website useful and hope to see you interacting on the site soon.