GETTING  ACQUAINTED WITH THE WIKI . . .

 If you want to browse  the WIKI, go to http://www.pbwiki.com and log in:

• If you do not have an account, sign up and give your name, e-mail, and a self-assigned password. Then go to http://followership2.pbwiki.com
• If you want to avoid user sign-in, try going to the url directly. You can probably get there just the same though they may ask you if you want to upgrade your wiki. Just move your cursor over "Not Right Now. Take me to my WIKI" about halfway down the screen on the right.

   

This is a gathering place for the Followership Learning Community. When you see a posting that interests you on the front (home) page, it will often be continued in the sidebar, either as a separate page or as part of a collective topical page. Sometimes, you may need to scroll down a topical page to locate the rest of that posting.

If you want to ask questions or converse with others interested in followership, go to the Followership Forum (front page, upper left-hand side) or subscribe to our list here.This will bring you to an archives page, where you may join, leave or temporarily suspend  your membership in the list.

• If you wish to consolidate the number of e-mails you receive, sign up for the digest mode. This will bar you from receiving attachments, but attachments should not be placed on the list in any case.
• If you wish to converse privately with someone posting on the forum, do so by responding directly to their e-mail rather than to the forum itself.

Also, make sure the messages you post do not contain a record of previous postings as these clog up the forum and make them difficult to read.

If you want to participate in the Followership Exchange and receive full editing privileges, just send an e-mail to one or both of the administrators:

• Elisabeth Higgins Null

   

•  Ira Chaleff

If you want to post information on the front page,click the edit button at the top of the page. If you see a lot of HTML source code and don't want to deal with it, select "Point and Click" mode in the upper right-hand corner. In order to post your own information or to edit others, you need to be using Microsoft Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. If you don't have either of these browsers, download one of them. Firefox is free.

Post most information under the double lines towards the top of the front page. That's where the rolling information on our central panel begins.

• If you are posting a link to a published article, scroll further down the page to "Published Articles" and post it there at the top of that section.
• If you want feedback for an unpublished article or a discussion point, put it under the double lines (as you would other notices) and request the help you are seeking. Don't worry about pushing other information down below yours.

Each posting has a life cycle, and putting new information at the top of every section will keep people coming back to see what new material has been added. Courtesy suggests that you post just a few sentences or brief abstract with your front-page entry and then print the fuller contents on a new or pre-existing topical page on the WIKI to which readers can link directly (see below). New or topical pages can also be accessed via the sidebar.

In most cases, a published article's full title conveys all the front-page information necessary. Please do not post the full text of published materials without copyright permission. We abide by fair use policies, and in most cases a link will suffice.

If you want to create a new page,push the New Page button on the Front Page. This will elicit some questions from PB WIKI. The first asks you to name your page. Choose something short enough to fit easily into the sidebar. You can also choose a template.  In either case, a new page will appear that, in its saved, final form, will display many of the design features of the front page, including the sidebar. In "point and click" editing mode, it will display a text editor similar to basic word-processing software. Editing in "classic mode" will give you the option of working in html. You can work with this text editor  in either mode for every WIKI page. 

Most of the features are self-explanatory. You can incorporate photos, lines, tables, bulleted lists, and a number of insert plug-ins are worth exploring. A small choice of fonts (the front page choice is Times New Roman) and font sizes are also available. One important feature is the little globe in the top line of commands. If you select a portion of text and then click the global icon, a page will open indicating the pages and the type of information you can link to: a url, a WIKI page, even an e-mail.

Example:

Lets go to "Welcome To The Followership Learning Community" on the front page (home page) above the double line. Click "Read More" at the bottom of the text. Doing so will take you to a full posting with the same headline. Note that the creator of this posting shortened the actual page title to fit it into the sidebar. The full text was posted on this new page so that it could stand on its own even if the front page introduction were to disappear. The repeated material was changed to italic and the type color was changed so that those entering from the front page could tell what portion of the material is redundant.

If you want to add new pages or post to collective, topical pages in the sidebar, just click "sidebar" and then click the edit button. The sidebar resembles a basic table of contents to which you will be adding when you post. The sidebar disappears when you are editing any page but reappears when that page is saved. It is your navigation tool.

Editing the sidebar is much like editing any other part of the site.

• If you create pages under "Past and Present Postings" please place them in alphabetical order. We anticipate these categories being populated, expanded or modified as the community grows.
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• If you have fairly short entries to add to a page, choose one of the pre-existing topical pages listed on the sidebar, putting the most recent postings at the top of that page. Next, link to that same pre-existing page with a "read more" or "continue" link from whatever information you posted on the front page. Your front-page notice will not link  to your own exact, continued entry but to the full page on which it is contained. 

You will be able to link to any page from any other page within the WIKI by using the sidebar. If you make the sidebar disappear from one page, it will disappear on all pages, eliminating a principle means of tracking what has been contributed to the Followership Exchange and robbing viewers of a major means of orientating themselves to the site. Avoid doing this.

If you would like to create a profile on PBWIKI go to my.pbwiki.com to create an account. Under "Please Log In," there is a place for those with no accounts to create one. This will allow you to manage your settings, create new WIKIS of your own, and reveal yourself to any others both inside and outside of our community who have accounts at PBWIKI.

If you need help, first check FAQ (found under the sidebar) where, we hope, Learning Community members will post the technical problems they have encountered as well as their solutions.

If you need further help, explore the help resources at PB WIKI: http://followership2.pbwiki.com/help.php.

If your questions still can't be answered, try more PB WIKI'S more customized help:

http://pbwiki.com/help.php?wiki=followership2

or contact Elisabeth Higgins Null, one of your WIKI administrators, to see what we can do next.

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