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On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 02:40 PM, Charles Roberts wrote:

Is there anywhere, an already prepared set of instructions as to how a new user can navigate the Groups.io User Interface?

Not that I am aware of; there isn't even a set of Old instructions!?

Most of it is (IMHO) pretty much inituitive, although I would admit that not all of it might be. I am curious about how your members managed to work with Yahoo; if they just acquired the knowledge over time then that approach will also work for Groups.io.

There is (IIRC) an old military adage: Time spent on reconnaissance is rarely wasted.

Have you had any specific queries already?

Chris

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 09:40 AM, Charles Roberts wrote:

Is there anywhere, an already prepared set of instructions as to how a new user can navigate the Groups.io User Interface? ?This would be helpful for Owners to send out to members transferring over from Yahoo.

Charles -- The best source I can recommend is the GMF wiki at?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/home?. There is a section for Advice to Group Members, including a Quick-Start Guide. I will be the first to admit that it isn't comprehensive.

Rumor has it that Mark has hired a technical writer to put together a manual of some kind (). If there is a timeline for completion of this document, it has not been shared with us.

Bruce

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 04:46 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:

There is a section for Advice to Group Members, including a Quick-Start Guide. I will be the first to admit that it isn't comprehensive.

Charles: it is worth bearing in mind that producing a "unified" set of instructions might be well - nigh impossible. There might need to be a set for Owners; another set for Moderators, but it would have all sorts of caveats built into it to cover the differing Permissions that moderators can have, and yet another set for Users with a larger set of caveats covering what they can or (sometimes) cannot do depending on all the settings under the owner's control.

And my quotation earlier Time spent on reconnaissance is rarely wasted was an inadvertent misquote; it should have been Time spent on reconnaissance is seldom wasted and it was Erwin Rommel who said it. The underlying sentiment remains unchanged...

Chris

I took my new GIO adventures and wrote them into a group wiki.?For example, a post in today's digest described how to use the database for importing a list of links. So I take things like that and put?it in our group's wiki.?Much of GIO is intuitive and I have found the GMF wiki indespensible.

I feel it really depends on what your group's needs are. Not every group needs complete information on the full gamut of GIO features. I our changing environment, as beta requests are completed and roll out, a manual (except for the basics) becomes less useful.?

I own a personal family group that I created after leaving FB almost 2 years ago. The only instructions that were needed was on posts, logins and digests options.?

I co-own an international sewing group that makes use of wiki for tuturials. So in addition to the above they also needed a wiki how to.?

And under this email address, I moderate a volunteer group on a national level that needs all the above plus how tos on (group required) signature, (GIO vs Group) profiles, (optional) member directory and our files and databases.?