Forums and Mailing Lists Overview
Written by David Farmer
This FAQ item gives an overview of the site forums and compares them with mailing lists which are also available on the nswagtc.org.au domain. Both of these technologies allow members to interact each other while at different locations and at different hours of the day.
The NSWAGTC is developing forums on its site to facilitate interaction between its members and as a more collaborative way of responding to the range of inquiries that come to the assn.
The NSWAGTC Forums are principally focused towards financial members of the association, though there is a Welcome Mat forum open to all registered members (and a read-only Announcements forum open to any visitor). There are also some administrative forums restricted to committee members and others they invite to participate.
The main forums are divided according to a range of topics of interest to parents and educators of gifted children. There are also forums for many of the NSWAGTC support groups. You will need to be logged in as a user with financial member access rights to see the range of forums currently in place. You can find more information about obtaining financial member access.
It is also possible to have a mailing list set up on the nswagtc.org.au domain to provide similar functionality to traditional discussion mailing list or Google or Yahoo group.
Some differences between the two:
- Forum posts are permanently available to financial members while the archive option on a mailing list can be turned off.
- A post to the forum will automatically advise the designated "forum moderators" (can be more than one) and others that have posted/subscribed to that specific topic, while a post to the email list will go to all list subscribers.
This Help/FAQ item is designed to help community members. If you think it can be improved, please contact the webmaster.
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