ICN Site Help: Community Collaboration - Conversations

COMMUNITY COLLABORATION

Conversations

Conversations is an organized message board capability for the purpose of sharing knowledge and experiences, learning from other members' experiences, and pose questions to your peers about issues and challenges encountered in your practice. Conversations are organized under categories relevant to the profession. Conversations are organized by topic category and by date - newest to oldest. These posts and replies are threaded.

To participate in Conversations, members need a valid login.

To access Conversations:

    Login » My Activities : Conversations

    OR Login » Participate : Conversations

To start a conversation:

    1. Type in your content.
    2. Select a topic to post it under.
    3. Click on Post
Your post will appear on the list of conversations sorted by date or underthe topic that you pave selected if a user chose this under "Browse Topics".

To reply to a post:

    1. Identify the conversation post that you want to reply to and click on "Reply".
    2. Type your reply in the space provided. Maximum number of characters is 1000, including spaces and special characters.
    3. Submit. Replies to conversation posts are marked "comments". Conversations are threaded.

Find conversations in a particular topic of interest by clicking on the desired topic and all conversations under this will be displayed. You can reply to any conversation as above.

You can:

  • "Reply" to your posts in the event that you want to follow up or chime in on the thread.
  • "Remove" your post as needed. This is irreversible.