Rules of play

Members will practice SALT when posting, commenting, moderating, and sharing on the platform. We Stimulate and Support each other through the messages and discussions, Appreciate each others contributions, Learn from each other and Link to other resources whenever possible, we Transfer what we learn to our own context and share how we transferred it.

We will develop rules of play together in the forum. Participate in the discussion and help us to set rules.

Guidelines and tips

Guide d'utilisation (en français)

Main

The main page summarizes all new activities and changes on the platform. In one glance, you can see what has changed, who are the news members, the new blog and forum postings.

Who to contact? If you have a question regarding the main page, please contact Rituu B Nanda.

Invite

You can invite people to become a member of aidscompetence.ning on the 'invite' page. Please invite those you know, who support the AIDS Competence Process and who share the same belief that communities have the capacity to solve their own issues. When the person has accepted the invitation and filled in his/her profile, the administrators of the platform will approve the new member.

You can also invite people to visit the platform by sending them this link: https://aidscompetence.ning.com/

Who to contact? If you have a question regarding invitations, please contact Marlou.

My page

Every member of aidscompetence.ning has his own page with a blog, a profile, pictures, videos, music, a comment wall, and friends. We are all human. And we want to connect as human beings.

This is your space! Feel free to share what you want others to know about you and your experience with SALT.

You can make this page as 'your home', where people visit you. If you click on 'settings', you can change your profile, the appearance of your page, privacy settings and email settings.
Privacy settings allow you to decide who can see and comment on your page.
Email settings allow you to decide if you want to receive email notifications.

You can modify all elements of your page by clicking on 'Edit'.

Members can send each other private messages. These messages are private: no other person will know their content, including moderators. You will find your messages in 'inbox' and you can send anyone a message via 'sent' (in 'inbox')

If you click on 'friends', you will see and overview of your friends. Use this 'friends list' to develop your personal distribution list of members you may want to write to once in a while.

Who to contact? If you have a question regarding 'your page' please contact Rituu B Nanda.

Members

On this page, you will see an overview of all members of the platform. You can click on someone's picture to visit his/her page. You can search for someone in the 'search' engine.

Who to contact? If case you have a question regarding 'members', please contact Marlou.

Forum

We will use the forum to discuss specific topics that involve a larger group of members. The topics can vary from facilitating the AIDS Competence Process, to local responses, vision and many more.

Any member can add a discussion to the forum. But we encourage you to check first if anyone has posted a similar discussion in the past. You can do this with the search engine. You can use your blog to share your personal stories.

The discussions will be structured around categories. For the moment, categories are: (1) The Constellation: building our community, (2) SALT as our way of thinking and our way of working, (3) Facilitating AIDS Competence, (4) Local Responses to AIDS, malaria and other concerns, (5) Transfer of the Competence Process, (6) Other

We will add more categories over time, so feel free to post message that fall outside these categories.

Who to contact? If you have a question about the forum, please contact Rituu B Nanda

Groups

Members can create their own group, to discuss in their own language or come together as a community of practice.

Every group will choose its own moderator. We encourage the groups to be public so that any member can learn from the interaction within the group.

To become a member of a group, click on '+Join this group' on the page of the group or accept the invitation sent to you be one other member in the 'awaiting approval' section on the right hand-side.

Who to contact? For any questions on groups, please contact Rituu B Nanda

Photos and Videos

Any member can upload photos and videos on aidscompetence.ning. You can add photos via the 'photos' page, on 'my page' or on the 'main page' by clicking on 'add photos'.

If you add photos, we encourage you to upload your photos first on www.flickr.com and than to import them to aidscompetence.ning. In this way, we do not use to much space on the server of the platform. To do this:
(1) Upload your photos to your Flickr account. If you do not have a Flickr account, you can use the Constellation's account (username: aids_competence, password: constellation). Make sure you tag your pictures.
(2) Go to 'Photos' page on aidscompetence.ning and click on 'add photos'
(3) At the bottom of the page, you will see the Flickr logo, click on 'add photos'
(4) Approve the importation of photos
(5) Import photos by choosing the 10 most recent ones or by searching photos with a certain tag in your flickr account

When you have uploaded your pictures, you can add a description and tags (including the place, activity or people on the picture) by clicking on 'edit the photo'.

Please make sure you file your pictures in an album.

You can follow the same steps for adding videos. Please upload your videos to www.youtube.com so that we do not use up all the server space on aidscompetence.ning. Then, copy the embed code on youtube and paste it here.

Who to contact? Any question on photos and videos, please contact Rituu B Nanda

Blogs

On the 'blogs', you will find all blog postings of individual members. You can write on your own blog by
- going to 'My Page' in the blog section
- click on '+Add Blog posting'
- fill in a title, the text and tags

Tags are important because they allow other users to easily find your blog. Please add the name of your country and the practice related to your posting.

When you write on your blog, this will automatically appear in the blogs page.

We encourage all members to share how they apply AIDS Competence in their own context.

Who to contact? In case you have a question, please contact rituu[at]communitylifecompetence.org.