Google Account Problems

Merging my old Blogger account and Yahoo! username with Google and Gmail has been a problem. If you anticipate doing this I suggest tackling it on a day when you have nothing else to do and a lot of patience. Never fear! All your blogs are still there. The transition just takes time and repetitions.

And remember to write down the username-password combination that eventually works.

Good luck!

Mary Rack - Still the owner, still here ready to work with you.

Progress - yes - slowly

I now have two "students" which is a lot better than none.

Also I have created a blog for our Branch. It's pretty primitive at the moment, but, after three days hard work, I have learned how to make multiple links in the same category "clickable" and they work. Quite a feat for me. So far I have received two raving, excited e-mails and two "good job" e-mails out of our 50 members (many don't have e-mail addresses so I couldn't send them the good news). Not too bad.

I would love to hear how others are doing. Please comment or write a post.

Jo Turner

Pay Equity e cards

As the Initiative Director for AAUW of MI, my responsibility is to encourage branches to do mision related programming and projects.

I recently sent a number of pay equity e cards. I was confident I could do it so I went to my branch board with it. I didn't see much enthusiasm. They weren't comfortable with the Association website.

This afternoon I worked with two who are now comfortable.

Thursday a.m. another.

I'm thinking about writing out the steps and sending them in the body of an email.

Jean Jokipii

Progress???

I'm feeling discourage with my branch. I announced the mentoring program and my personal services to our board of 12, and then to our membership at our general meeting in January. No response at all. Then I e-mailed all members who had e-mails and got one response who may be interested in February when she has time. The next thing I'm going to try is e-mailing the members occasionally with interesting news and include a link or two and see what happens.

What have you done? What luck have you had? Do you have any suggestions? I'd love to hear from you. Jo Turner

Mentoring Branch Members

I have a limited amount of time to spend mentoring our branch members. What I need to do is to get some volunteers that I can work with who will be willing to pass on their knowledge to other members.
What I want our branch members to learn is ---
1. How to open and print e-mails (our newsletters).
2. How to send and forward e-mails.
3. How to access aauw.org and understand all that it offers.
4. How to use the two minute activist.
5. How to put the aauw.org URL on their favorites list for easy access.
6. How to access and use pdf files.
I think I can accomplish this and it will certainly help our branch members to be more effective.