We’re about to update the Message Center in both Site Administration and the Members Only Area. Read about the improvements and the launch schedule here.

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Recently, one of our clubs asked if it was possible to display committee reports on the Committees page. We thought the idea was a good one, so it’s been added as a new feature to all Standard packages.

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Member Administration is at the core of the ContentManager site. Member information flows to many other sections of the web site including the Message Center, roster, officer list, and committee listings.

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The subject of what type of documents can be uploaded to your Web site has come up a few times recently. While you can upload Word documents to your website, there are better options.

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Have you ever sent a message to other members of your club and wished that you’d be able to have everyone copied on the email be involved in the discussion that followed? With the new Discussion feature that was added several months ago, this is now possible. You can send an email, then let everyone who received the email participate in the follow up emails.

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Recently, we received an email from a club that asked a question that went something like this: Can we create tabs on our site with pages dedicated to each of our K-family groups? Each page may include information on officers, activities, pictures and calendar, kind of a mini-version of ours. Our K-family includes two Builders clubs, three Key clubs, one Circle K and one Aktion club.

While you can’t create menu tabs for that many clubs, you can include the information for each club on your site, let them post news, photos and calendar items and show their officers and other information. You could even let the advisor for each club create a blog which could then be managed by the president of each club. Read on to see how to accomplish this.

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The Members Only Area of your website is a password protected area where only members can access pages. Within the Members Only Area, you can update your personal information, communicate with other members via email and view information posted for members. If your club has activated this feature, you may also register your service project hours. You may also register for a free blog in the Members Only Area.

Display of Information

You control the display of your personal data using a set of “Member Display Preferences.” Once you set your Member Display Preferences, other members will have access to view the information you have authorized them to view. For detailed instructions about how to change your personal information or adjust what information is shown, see our post, Members Only Area - Your Member Profile, or all of our posts in the Member Features category.

Communicating with Other Members

The Message Center, a tool that you can use to send emails to other members, is only available to current members. Using the Message Center , you can:

• Send emails from any computer
• Create personalized email groups
• Schedule emails for future delivery
• Include attachments

For detailed instructions about all features available in our Message Center, see our Message Center category .

Other Features

• Online signup for service projects that use our service project scheduling module
• Report service project hours worked
• View news for members
• View other members resource documents
• Create online club discussions

Use this link to view the next segment of these instructions, Members Only Area - Your Member Profile.

The Members Only area offers you two ways to manage your committee participation.
•    Member Profile – Committees
•    Resources – Committees
Both of these sections let you manage your participation by checking or unchecking boxes.  Please note that you may request to join or quit a committee, however, your request is not final until approved.  This chapter covers the features of the Resources – Committees section, not club procedures.

Member Profile – Managing Committee Participation
•    Click My Profile in Member Options
•    View the listing of all club committees and check or uncheck the boxes for each committee you would like to join or resign from.
Resource – Managing Committee Participation
•    Click Resources in Member Options
•    View a listing of all club committees, including member-only committees by clicking on the Committees link in Resources.
•    Request to join or quit a committee by checking or unchecking the corresponding checkbox.
•    View other members of a committee by rolling your mouse over the View Members link

You may choose to show your personal information, including significant dates, your spouse and a short biographical sketch and some personal information. This information will only be available to other members. These instructions assume that you have already logged into Members Only and have clicked on the Update My Profile link.

• Click the edit link in the Biographical and Personal section of your profile
• Change the information in the drop down fields and/or type information into the text fields.
• Click the Update My Info button to submit your changes.
• View your changes in the Biographical and Personal section of your profile

If you would like your personal information to show in the roster, select the “show in the roster” checkbox.

By default, member names display in the member listing, which is available only to members. If your club is using a Standard package (or Division package), members who are elected to an office may choose to display their names or to have their names not viewable by the public. These instructions assume that you have already logged into Members Only and have clicked on the Update My Profile link.

Your Name and How it Displays

• Click the edit link in the Name section of your profile
• Change the information for your name
• Click the Update My Info button to submit your changes.
• You may also edit your Kiwanis International membership number in this form
• View your changes in the Name section of your profile

If you would like your name to show on the Officers page (Standard and Division packages only) if you are elected to an office or are a board member, select the “show on Officers page” checkbox.

Your Address and How it Displays

• Click the edit link in the Address section of your profile
• Change the information for your address
• Click the Update My Info button to submit your changes.
• View your changes in the Address section of your profile

If you would like your address to show in the member roster, select the “show in the roster” checkbox.