• Each participant will introduce him or herself and describe briefly the projects they or their Chapter, Group, or Team is working on. 

• You’re a Sierra Club team and you need to get work done. An office sure would be helpful - a place to store your stuff, meet and greet, make plans, welcome visitors to join you in accomplishing your goals.
• Enter the Activist Network online community. A virtual office for Sierra Club teams. Online tools that let you do almost everything you can in a physical office:
  • Upload documents and photos
  • Post blogs
  • Message all your team members at once
  • Collaboratively brainstorm, create, and edit documents (e.g. factsheets, workplans, agendas, minutes, etc.)
  • Keep a private space for internal team strategies
  • Recruit new members, perform outreach
  • Create events and invite your colleagues

• You are probably already in our system - most Sierra Club folks are. How can you tell if you’re logged in already? In the upper right hand corner of this page it should say My Dashboard | Logout if you are logged in. If it says Login | Join Activist Network, you are not logged in.
• If you know your user name and password, go directly to the login page. If not, type your email into the box on this page, then click “Check email address.” and follow the instructions on the next page. If the password request tool does not work, please send Sophie an email and she will send you a new password.

• Teams are for collecting and communicating with members.
• The layout is the same on all Team pages, the differences will be the information you fill in about your team. It’s laid out sort of like a newspaper, with three columns.
• Left-hand column
  • Team photo
  • Tools
  • Team members
• Center column
  • Team summary & description
  • Projects
  • How volunteers can help
  • Comment wall
• Right-hand column
  • Docent
  • Events
  • Blog
• To join, click the orange “JOIN this team” button on the left-hand side under the team photo.

5. Projects

• Projects are the second main type of page you can create on the Activist Network.
• Projects are focused on a particular goal, and can be more temporary.
  • Distinguishing feature is the collaboration space. This is where your team can collaborate on documents like factsheets, agendas, and workplans.
  • To edit collaboration spaces, click the yellow “Edit Collaboration Space” button at the top, then the page will become editable by WYSWIG. (What’s WYSWIG?)
  • You can add images and videos, insert links, and change text size and font.
  • Be sure to click “Save” when you’re finished editing!

• For someone to be able to edit any part of a team or project page (beyond Collaboration Space or adding comments), they must be empowered as an administrator. Only the person who created the team OR another administrator can make this change.
• Empower other administrators through the team or project dashboard. Click “EDIT this page” on the tools menu or “edit” next to the team/project name on your personal dashboard.
• Once you arrive on the team/project dashboard, click either Manage Members for teams or Manage Collaborators for projects. Check the box next to “Team/Project Administrator?”

• You are also welcome to post questions on the comment wall below!