Weekly Update: January 12, 2005

MEMBER ORIENTATION
By Chona Villafuerte-Go NHS Batch 1986
Website Administrator

Welcome once again to NHS Alumni On-line Community Weekly Update. We are happy to have you here with us! We take great pride in our Alma Mater Novaliches High School and are always glad to see new members joining us.

I have received a lot of inquiries the past weeks and thought it might be a lot easier for all of you and also for myself to summarize them and make it known to all of you thru "Membership Orientation".

The following orientation is designed to help you become acquainted with our On-line Community and also help you navigate through our website, but if you still have questions, please do not hesitate to ask and contact us at nhsqcalumni@verizon.net

WEEKLY UPDATE
You will now be able to stay on top of new additions and changes to our On-line Community thru our "Weekly Update" . This feature allows you to monitor any of our Message Board current posts, not just the changes on our On-line Community web site.

We have also added "On Spotlight" featuring our very own members.   If you know of a fellow alumni who   have excelled and is distinguished on his field or profession or maybe a fellow alumni who have overcome certain adversities in life, PLEASE pass this information to us immediately.

Make your extraordinary alumni or NHS student known! Let's celebrate and inspire each other's uniqueness. As one community, we are a part of each other's successes for sharing parts of our lives with each other.

CALENDAR
Our Calendar have been updated few days ago. For internet security and member safety we shall be posting the month "ONLY" of our Registered Member Birthdays and Wedding Anniversaries until further notice. The exact dates of member birthdays and wedding anniversaries will still be available on our Password-protected Individual Class Year Directory. All registered members can post activities, special events, alumni reunion, reunion meetings, etc. by sending us an e-mail at nhsqcalumni@verizon.net or simply POST them on our Message Board under topic EVENTS!

Reminder: we have already posted January Birthday Celebrants on our Message Board, please take a moment and greet our fellow members on their special day. Thank YOU!

FOR NEW MEMBERS
We are delighted that you have joined us and trust that the benefits of membership will meet your expectations. We have entered December Registrations for the 2004 calendar year.

On-line Registered Members (with e-mails only) as of today, should have received a Welcome Letter with assigned username/password for our Password-protected Individual Class Year Directory and a default username/password for our Message Board,  plus all the other information that serves as your key to all of the wonderful services our On-line Community has to offer. Please keep that letter for your future reference and use it often.

As a registered member of NHS Alumni On-line Community, of which we are justifiably proud, we will try to send occasional mailings as well, miscellaneous announcements, and updates..

NHS Message Board
We are pleased to introduce our only interactive site feature, at the moment - NHSA Message Board (also known as bulletin board or forums). Information about our Message board feature is provided below. We really hope that you will visit the board, read the entries and become an active participant! This is just a start of many new features we hope to add on our On-line Community.

Message boards are a place where you can have conversations with other users over an extended period of time. As opposed to chats, where you can "talk" in real time, message boards allow you to post a comment for others to read at their convenience and then reply.
No registration is required to view and read the board entries. However, if you wish to actively participate which we are hoping YOU would, to reply or post a new topic you must be registered to login. And we have good news for YOU, as a registered member of our On-line Community you are automatically registered on our Message Board as well. We have provided you with a default username/password for login thru the welcome letter that you should have received after we process your on-line registration (Please refer to your welcome member letter, for details).

Currently there are fifteen categories. These categories are Forum Announcements, General, News, Events, I'm Looking For, NHS Memories, Teachers and School Administration, In Memoriam, Entertainment World, Around The House, Computer Lab, The Writer's Forum, Talk Show, Greetings and Photo Gallery. We are not limited to these categories, we can add as many as we wish. If you have any ideas please post them in the General category or contact us.

We hope you will enjoy our Message Board and to make this a thriving community we need your active participation.

How do I create a poll?
Creating a poll is easy -- when you post a new topic (or edit the first post of a topic, if you have permission) you should see a Add Poll form below the main posting box. If you cannot see this then you probably do not have rights to create polls. You should enter a title for the poll and then at least two options -- to set an option type in the poll question and click the Add option button. You can also set a time limit for the poll, 0 being an infinite amount. There will be a limit to the number of options you can list, which is set by the Administrator or the Moderator.

FORUM ETIQUETTE
The following are not just rules but also entails common user problems. There are some important issues covered here, ranging from images, to flaming, and other issues, all explained in detail or just noted upon. I will divide this post. More might be added in the future as the need arises.

1. Flaming
2. Posting Spam and Rubbish
3. Images and Direct Linking
-- 3.1 Avatars
4. Trolls & trolling
5. Message Board Moderators
6. Contacting and Private Messaging (PM)
7. End Note


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ON SPOTLIGHT:

"Rachelle Erika Libunao Dancel"
Batch 2005
NHS Supreme Student Government President
 


Novaliches High School Students over the years lead (and in many cases, have also founded) a wide variety of cultural, academic and social organizations that give voice to their aspirations and interests.

This week, “On Spotlight”,
we’re very lucky to meet one of them…  

	Rachelle Erika Libunao Dancel will graduate from Novaliches High School this year 2005, where she is the current NHS Supreme Student Government President, COPE Sr. Peer Educator and The Reservoir-Circulation Editor. NHS has been very fortunate all these years to have a student body with an immense gift for succeeding. We are indeed proud of the hard work Rachelle put forth towards her own academic & leadership success.

She describes herself as being a little bit of everything – “lahat ng nasa gitna ako yoon”. She value friends so much and at times she says “pag may umaaway sa kanila ako pa ang nagiging tagapagtanggol nila”. She loves to meet new people, a positive-thinker as she simply puts it “ I don’t mind my problems, I let my problems mind me”.    From all of us NHS Alumni On-line Community Members, we say "Good Luck Rachelle and More Power to YOU!"

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We would like to thank the following
Message Board Contributors for this week:
Jaime Balanay
Cindy Bautista
Mercedita Bontoc
Benjie Canonoy
Alexander Domingo
Arlene Hipolito
Jaime Macaraeg
Joey Ordonez
Joseph Paras

YOU TRULY KEEP OUR MESSAGE BOARD ALIVE
WITH YOUR POSTS!

More power to ALL of YOU!

 

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