A new / better / easier way to manage our communities

Forum Stuff
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This particularly affects @moderators, @NAHSTIG-council, @NMI-exec, and @HiNZ-fellows.

I’ve noticed that over the last year the chairs / leaders of these groups struggle to find the basic ‘stuff’ that they need. I’m talking:

  1. A list of their members
  2. Member data (including email addresses)
  3. Working out what is public and what is private

To fix this:

What I’ve done is to make access to the Groups much easier. You now get all relevant Group ‘stuff’ via the MESSAGES section of your sidebar.

The key helpful bits are:

  1. All comms for the group in question are now represented as Messages (i.e. off the ‘Forum’ proper), can be interacted with via email, and can include other people simply via adding their email address

  2. Members are clearly visible (and sortable) via the Members tab.

  3. Member data & email addresses are accessible via the Reports tab.

Call to action

Please give this a run and let me know what you think. Be brutal!

As with all things IT, there will be rough edges, but together we can iterate it towards something very helpful.

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Thanks Nathan. Really appreciate you constantly helping to improve systems for us.

Happy new year.

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Hey Nathan and HNY (apparently today is the last day we should say this…haha)
It’s been really easy to change our Exec members using your improvements - thanks so much!! Just hope I’ve done it right - but seems to be good.
thanks again

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