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On Wednesday, April 11 at 12 pm CT (10 am PT, 11 pm MT, 1 pm ET), we will host our third Mentor & Moderator Teleconference.
Signup for the meeting and you will receive an email reminder a day and an hour before the event.
How to join the meeting
- Call 1 866-365-4406
- Enter the Access Code: 2931995 follow by #.
- Click here to join the meeting at the appointed hour and see the shared screen.
- Enter your first name.
- Click submit.
Proposed Agenda - suggestions welcome
1. Roll Call and Meet the new Mentors - 10 minutes
2. Brainstorm the June Mentor Meetup agenda - 30 minutes
- June 11-12 we're hosting the 2nd Annual Mentor Meetup in Rochester.
- Start sharing your ideas about the program, what you want to learn and do, etc.
3. New stuff and ideas: Show and tell - 10 minutes
- What's new on Connect? What's coming?
4. Tips and Tricks Exchange - 10 minutes
- Open discussion
- Share your new and noteworthy
- What resource, tool or support would like to have to help you in your role as a Mentor?
I encourage you to start the conversation here to help focus our discussion during the teleconference.
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Under the Tips & Tricks category -- My favorite tool if you are using a Windows computer is Notepad - a great, simple text editor that I keep handy to cut and paste information from multiple sources and combine it into one source for pasting else where. I created a shortcut on the bottom Taskbar so that it's available when ever I need it...just have to click on it to open. I also have a links.txt file that I keep all my favorite Connect links and information in one place. When I'm in Connect I will generally have this open and can copy and paste from it.
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2 Reactions@johnbishop I wish I could understand this better. I tend to keep everything in a word document, but that means opening Word and finding the right page. This looks easier, I just can't picture how it is done, not how you can sort it by categories, etc. I probably need a "Notepad for Dummies" book.
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2 ReactionsUnder the What resource, tool or support would you like to have to help you in your role as a Mentor category:
Thinking outside the box a little - sometimes I struggle when responding to a first time post or new discussion and I want to tag other members which begs the question who to tag. It's time consuming to search and not always easy to find. I think what would help me is if the Member directory for the Group/Discussion could be sorted in various ways - most/least active members, newest/oldest member posts, others? Otherwise my method is to try and find a post within the discussion that was directed to a first time poster. I think copy, paste and modify to fit the new welcome to Connect post I'm adding. Thoughts anyone? How do you do it?
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4 ReactionsI am currently using it mostly as a 'note pad' to jot notes for easy copy/paste during a session. I am interested in learning how to use it to my advantage by making it useful for all of my log on - log off sessions.
I recently told that Word document is better to use, but like Teresa, I get lost opening and searching.
I have bits and pieces saved in word and in notepad. I can't decide which way to go.
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3 ReactionsYou can use Word or Notepad. Word gives you better formatting - bold, italics, large, small fonts, etc. - but none of that transfers into a Connect Post. Notepad is plain vanilla text and one other side use for me is that I will copy text from a web page into Notepad specifically because it strips all the Word and Web formatting stuff out. You can make it more readable in Word so that is a plus.
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2 Reactions@johnbishop What are your thoughts about Google Docs and I think they have a "notepad" feature also. I have been using the docs and spreadsheets for some time because I got tired of paying MS for something Google lets me use freely and they are incredibly easy to share. I am kinda jumping in the middle of the discussion and my response may not be relevant, but I would still like your opinion because you know more about this stuff.
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3 Reactions@johnbishop I like where you are going with this. Rosemary
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3 Reactions@johnbishop I also like this thought. Would it be possible to have the most/least active by page/group?
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2 ReactionsI am interested in hearing if others keep any kind of record or list of members in groups they follow.
And if you do, How are you doing it? Word? Notepad? Spreadsheet?
What information? Do you update/how?
My purpose is that I have had a good response from transplant members when I send a "Thinking of you" note prior to an appointment. Or a "Happy Transplantiversary" on their special day. And also to know who has which organ so I can more easily connect similar patients.
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3 Reactions@rosemarya I keep contacts for my two main groups in a word document. When a new member comes along, I do a copy of their @name and put it in the word doc. I have one page in Word for NET contacts and PD contacts. I still like the Notepad idea because I feel it is more convenient to get to.
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