 Hello, Katesel members. In this short video, I demonstrate three ways to post to the Katesel message boards. In addition, I'll show you how to tag your social media posts with your groups, hashtag, and how to search for a member in the Katesel member menu. Method one, log in to www.katesel.org with your username and your password. After you log in to www.katesel.org, scroll down the page till you see the member menu, below which you will see six icons. Go to the communication icon and from the drop-down menu, select message boards. Now you will see a list of all the message boards grouped by category. Board Council, Board of Directors, Chapters, Interest Groups, and Levels. A blue checkmark indicates subscription to a particular group. When you subscribe or opt into a message board, you will get a notification of a member's posts on that message board. Notifications go to the email address that is entered into your profile, which you can change at any time. You can see that I have opted into a lot of message boards. For the most part, there's no limit to how many you can opt into. For each message board, to the right of the group name and link, the number of different topics or threads is displayed. And next to it is the number of total posts. And in the far right column is the date, time, and name of the most recent post. The numbers reveal that some groups are more active than others. A member can access any message board. In this example, I'll access the Catesal CC, or Community College Level Message Board, simply by clicking on the link associated with the group name. On this page, you can see the 15 most recent threads or topics posted at the time this video was made. Since this is a very active group, there are at this time five pages of message topics. Suppose you want to respond to the topic directed at self placement and share with the group how your college is conducting placement into a credit ESL program. Simply click the topic link. Then click reply to topic. Then enter your reply. You have the option to format your text response, add links, images, and attachments. When you're finished, click post. Now to start a new topic on the previous page where it reads message board topics, click add topic. Enter a new topic name, enter your text in the message body. And when you're finished, click post. Now let's talk about method to log into Catesal.org as before. And this time from the communication drop down menu at the top right under the Catesal mass head, select message boards. On this page, you will see a shortcut list to most, but not all message boards. Here are the levels, the interest groups and the chapters. If you are on the Catesal board of directors, because that changes every year, you can't use this shortcut. You must log in through the member menu. That is method one. Now before I explain method three, I want to show you that we have a systematic naming system. Here are the councils, the chapter council, interest group council or Catesal IGC, and the level chair council or Catesal LCC. Here are the chapters, Bay Area chapter or Catesal BA, Capital Area chapter or Catesal CA, Los Padres or Catesal LP, Orange County or Catesal OC and so on. Here are the interest groups CSUELLEICMWNNLEIOTPTERWTELLTEWNTOP. And here are the levels adult CC, CUIP and K12. Note that the email address for each one uses this nickname in front of at Catesal.org. For example, teaching of pronunciation is Catesaltop. That's the nickname. And the email is Catesaltop at Catesal.org. Also, when you post about your group to social media, add a hashtag or number symbol before the nickname. Now let's go on to method three. All of our message boards are email enabled. That means you do not need to log into the website. You simply use your normal email client and address your message to your group by using the nickname before at Catesal.org. For example, if I address a message to Catesaltop at Catesal.org, all members who have opted into the teaching of pronunciation interest group receive the message. When the message is sent and received, the topic title is preceded by the message board name. In this example, all members opted into teaching of pronunciation interest group received Donna Britton's message entitled top related sessions at the 2020 State Conference. This message also appears online in the website views as described in method one and method two of accessing the message boards. At the bottom of every message board email is a statement identifying the group in this case, Catesaltop and an option to unsubscribe. Next is an important message. Please take note of this to reply to everyone in the group. Click reply. No matter what name appears in the recipient list, your reply will be sent to everyone on the message board. However, if you want to reply to a specific person, say the sender only, you need to click forward and enter the email address of that specific member or members. Now, what if you don't have that member's address in your contact list? How can you find it? To find an email address of a member, you log in to Catesal.org and then you scroll down to the member menu and under members click member name search and enter all or part of a name of that member. In this example, I'm entering Buick. After I click search, the member's name and email comes up. I can copy and paste the email address into my email recipient list. Now you know three ways to post to the Catesal message boards. In addition, you know how to tag your social media posts with your group's hashtag and how to search for a member in the Catesal member menu. I wish you much success communicating with a Catesal membership.