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Simply click on the activity, with which you would like us to help you. Managing your groups Increasing your membership, for example: inviting members Approving subscribers Removing members Set the rules for your group Add/change a moderator Change from eMail/WWW mode Advertising your group Removing messages Deleting a group Managing your Community top As the moderator, you can manage your group through the "My domeus" page, by clicking on your group and then on the "manage" tab. Here you can make the following changes: Under "Info", you can find out the number of new members subscribed and new messages sent to your group. Under "Members", you can add or remove members. Under "Edit", you can change the personal profiles of the members. Under "Requests", you will find the requests of new members wishing to join your group. Place a tick in the "accept" or "reject" box, and click on "update" to confirm your decision. Under "Settings", you can determine the rules for your group. Here you can decide if your group is closed or open to the public, if you would like messages moderated by a member of the group, who has the right to post messages, etc. Under "Description", you can change the title, homepage description, and welcome message to new members for your group, etc. Increasing your membership top If you would like to add more members to your group, click on your group and then on the "manage" button. Click on the "members" tab to proceed. Here you will find two possible ways to increased the membership of your group: 1. Click on "Invite Members" - this will open a window in which you can enter the eMail addresses of people whom you would like to invite to join your group. They will then be sent a welcome message, which contains a username and password for our system. Invited members must reply to this invitational eMail, in order to join. 2. You can also add new members directly to your group, by clicking on the "add Members" option. Again, enter the eMail address of new members in the window provided, and they will be sent an message (containing their username and password) welcoming them to your group. Added eMail addresses automatically become members of your group; however if they do not wish to be members, they can unsubscribe simply by replying to the welcome message. It is important, therefore, to only directly add the eMail addresses of people whom you are certain would like to become a member of your group. Approving new subscribers top If a group is closed, people interested in subscribing to your group can send an eMail request to the moderator, requesting membership. As the moderator, you can approve the membership of new subscribers by changing the settings as follows: Under "My domeus", click on your group and then click on the "manage" tab. Then click on "requests". Here you will find a list of users who would like to become members of your group. Simply tick on the appropriate option ("accept" or "reject") and then click "update" to confirm your choice. Deleting a member top As the moderator, you have the right to remove members from your group: Under "My domeus", click on your group and then click on the "manage" tab. Click on the "members" tab. A list of your current members will appear. You can find a particular member using the "search" function. Tick the "delete" box located at the end of the member's name and address in order to remove them from your group. Confirm your decision by clicking on "update". Determining the rules for your group top As the moderator, you can determine the settings for your group, so that they best suit your needs. Click on "My domeus", and then click on the group whose settings you would like to change. Choose the "manage" tab. Click on the "settings" tab, which will have appeared under the previous tabs. You will now be able to change the settings to best suit the needs of your group. Remember to "update" in order to save any changes. Add or change the moderators of a group top Moderators are members of a group who act as administrators and are allowed to determine settings for the group (for example, they can decide who is allowed to post messages, how messages are sent, the security of the group, etc.). The owner of the group (the individual who initially created it) is automatically a moderator, even if a group is completely unmoderated. He or she is therefore the primary moderator of the group. If you would like to give a current member of your group moderator status, please proceed as follows: Under "My domeus", click on your group and then click on the "manage" tab. Under the "manage" section, choose the "members" tab. Find the eMail address of the member whom you would like to make into a moderator, and click on the "edit" button next to the name. A new window will appear, in which you will find a field called "Moderator". Tick the box indicating that this member should be allowed to act as a moderator, and click "update" to save your changes. Change from eMail/WWW mode top There are two way in which your members can access messages sent to your group: via eMail or online via the web. Click on "My domeus" After the name of the group to which you are a member, you can choose the way in which you would like to receive your message from this group: - WWW You read your messages online at the webpage of the group. - EMail You receive your messages as eMails into your Inbox. Advertising your group top Here are a few ideas for increasing web awareness of your group: Allow your group to be open to the public - More people will be able to find your group, if it is recognised by a well-known search engine. Eventually, your group will accumulate a quantity of information on a specific topic, which will also help search engines to recognise your group and to direct other web surfers to it. Register your group at a search engine - Register the homepage of your community at a search engine, under the heading eMail-List and/or Mailing lists; recommended search engines include: Yahoo!, Lycos and Google. You can also register the homepage of your community by its topic and contents. Allow visitors to contact you about your group via your personal homepage. Moderators will find the HTML coding for registration boxes on the "forum" page of the "manage" section. Simply copy the HMTL coding of the box you like, and place it on your private homepage. Tell family and friends about your mailing list. Many people now have their own personal eMail addresses and would be pleased to become a member of your group. Be active, and collect the eMail addresses from friends and acquaintances, whom you haven't seen in a long time, and create a group just for them. Write to other newsgroups and mailing lists, inviting them to subscribe to your group. Be careful, as such invitations can sometimes be intrepreted as Spam by these groups. You can also contact the members of other groups directly, if you know that they might be interested in your group. Work with your current members to spread the word about your group. Remind your members, from time to time, that they are welcome to invite others to join the group. Contact organisations which could be interested in your group and your topics of discussion. Activities to avoid: top Do not buy mailing lists containing eMail addresses, as such lists are usually illegally obtained, and highly frowned upon. Sending eMails to such list will only cause you aggrievation and will promote very little interest in your group. Do not invite too many people to a new group. If a group does not have many contributions yet, invite a few interested individuals, and start a conversation which could interest others. Once such a discussion is underway, it is usually easier to encourage the interest of other possible subscribers. Removing messages top Each moderator can delete messages in the archive of the group's website. Under "My domeus", click on your group and then click on the "messages" tab. All the messages stored in the archive will be listed for the moderator. Tick the box next to those messages which you would like to delete from the archive. Click "update" in order to save changes. Deleting your group top Only the owner is allowed to dissolve a group. Click on "My domeus". Tick the box labeled "delete" next to the group you would like to dissolve. Click "update" in order to save changes.