How to Use This Site
The AIC Co-owners Web site is designed to facilitate communication
among AIC co-owners. The site enables you to upload and delete documents,
join mailing lists, create and participate in topic forums, and
update your co-owner profile. It also gives you easy access to Job
Opportunities, the AIC event calendar, Inside AIC newsletter and
dozens of other valuable resources for consultants involved in Appreciative
Inquiry.
Add Document
Co-owners may upload documents to specific pages
in the Co-owner site under the appropriate topic. A topic is a title
inside a gray rectangle, such as "Meeting Minutes" or
"Protocols and Stories".
To upload a document:
- Go to the page where you want to upload a document, for example
"Assembly of the Whole" under Inquiry Clusters.
- Find the topic where you want to upload the document and click
on Add Document.
- A pop-up window will appear with two fields. Enter the Document
Title (as you would like it to appear on the web page) in the
document title field.
- Then click Browse and select the document from your computer
that you want to upload.
- After you have selected the document on your computer, the document
file name will appear in the Browse field. Click on Upload
and the document will be uploaded to the web site. Depending on
the size of the file you are uploading and your internet connection
speed, it may take one to several minutes for the file to upload.
- When the upload is complete, a message will appear telling you
that the upload was successful. Close the pop-up window and then
refresh the page to see the document title and link to your document.
Delete Document
To delete a document that you have uploaded, follow these steps:
- Click on Delete Document on the
right side of the topic bar over the document that you want to
delete.
- A pop-up window will appear with a drop-down list of all of
the documents under that Title.
- Select the document you want to delete and click Delete.
- Close the pop-up window and refresh the page to see the changes.
Add New Topic
If the appropriate topic is not on the page where you want to upload
a document, send an email to help@aiconsulting.org
with the Topic Title and the page where you want it
to appear. The topic will be added within one work day and you will
receive an email telling you that the topic was added.
Mailing Lists
Aiconsulting.org will sponsor multiple mailing lists
(sometimes called List Servs). These are group email lists enabling
co-owners to send email to many people with one email address. For
example, the address aicowner@aiconsulting.org
will go to every AIC co-owner. Co-owners may chose to receive individual
emails or as a digest (all emails for one day will be grouped into
one long email). Co-owners may not subscribe to the main mailing
list. If you are not receiving email to this list, please send an
email to webmaster@aiconsulting.org and tell the webmaster your
email address. If you change your email, send an email to the webmaster
with your old email and new email addresses.
Click here to see
a list of existing AIC email lists and instructions on how to subscribe
and unsubscribe.
AIC groups may start new mailing lists that are mailed
to a select list of people. To start a new mailing list please fill
out the form below. When the mailing list is ready you will receive
an email with instructions on how co-owners may self-subscribe.
Aiconsulting.org Email Address
If you want an aiconsulting.org email address you can request either
a Pop Email address (main email is someone@aiconsulting.org) or
a forwarding email address (someone@aiconsulting.org forwards to
another email, like someone@aol.com). All aiconsulting.org email
addresses that were created on the old web site should still work.
If you have a Pop email address, you will have to reconfigure outlook
to send and receive email. If you don't have one, but would like
one, send an email to help@aiconsulting.org
with your request.
Here are instructions for configuring your email with Outlook
and Eudora.
Please contact the webmaster
if you are having problems with aiconsulting.org email, or wish
to add an aiconsulting.org email account.
You can also access your Pop Email online by going to mail.aiconsulting.org:8001.
Log in with your user name and password and follow the online directions.
Forums
AIC Co-owners may want to communicate through online
Discussion Groups, also called Forums. To start a Forum and link
it to a particular page, fill out the form on the Topic
Forum Home Page.
Updating Co-owner
Profiles
Each co-owner may update their individual profiles.
This information is displayed on the external web site when a visitor
clicks on Find
an AIC Consultant. To update your co-owner profile:
- Click on Co-Owner Profile in the menu bar on the top of this
page.
- Enter your username and password (default: lastname and zip
code) and click "Find my Info". A summary version of
your profile will appear.
- Confirm that this is the correct profile and click "click
here to update this record".
- Your full profile will appear. You may change information in
any field and also change your login and password. If you change
the login or password, be sure to write it down so you can remember
it the next time your want to edit the profile.
- When your edits are complete, click "Update Information."
If you forget your username and password, send an
email to help@aiconsulting.org
and request that the webmaster send it to you.
Calendar
The calendar utility can be viewed by day, week,
month or year. There are two versions of the calendar: external
and co-owners. The external version is visible from the public website.
You cannot update this version. The co-owner's view is viewable
by clicking Calendar from the co-owner's home page. The calendar
opens in the month view. You will see icons on the lower right of
each calendar view. Put your mouse over the icon to see its function,
or click key for a description of each icon.
To add an event:
- Open the calendar from the co-owner's space.
- Click the icon with the + sign (insert entry). The insert entry
will come up.
- Insert a Title in the Title field. This is what will show up
on the month view.
- Select the entry type from the pulldown menu (Meeting, Workshop,
Conference, Appointment)
- Check "public" if you want the event to appear on
the external calendar. Don't check "public" if it is
a co-owner only event.
- Add a description. People will see this description when they
click on the event.
- Select the Begin and End date and time.
- Click the "Add Entry" button
To change an event:
- Enter the calendar from the Co-owners space.
- Click on the event that you want to change. The detail view
will come up.
- From the detail view, click the icon on the bottom right. It
has a curved arrow and the words "update entry" appear
when you pass your mouse over the icon.
- The Update entry screen will come up. Make your changes and
then click the "Update Entry" button.
To delete an event:
- Enter the calendar from the Co-owners space.
- Click on the event that you want to delete. The detail view
will come up.
- On the detail view click the icon on the lower right with a
minus - sign. A message will appear asking if you want to delete
the entry. Click OK.
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