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Events and Calendars

Events and Calendars

We are so happy to be able to announce the release of a Events on the Network. This new functionality allows users to create events or respond to invitations to events. These then appear on a calendar for the forum, group, or person where this event announcement resides.

The “event” allows you to describe the event, give details about the location, to send invitations and to collect responses. An event might announce your local section’s monthly meeting or outreach event or conference that might be of interest to your division’s members.

If you are at the National Meeting, you can use “Events” to plan a meetup, i.e. a gathering of colleagues at a set place.  It’s a great way to catch up with old friends, or  to meet others who have similar interests or who have attended similar sessions.  You could even try to find partners for dinner or running or sight-seeing.  The possibilities are there.

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Creating an event is easy – Go to the create button at the top of the page and select Create an event.  If you are invited to an event, you should see notifications under “Actions”.  Finally, check out the Upcoming Events box on the home page for other events users are setting up. events_widget.png

As always, if you have questions or issues please ask. And we would love to hear what you think of this functionality and how you plan to use it.

Christine

Comments
Previous Community Member

Hi Christine,

The ACS Network 3.0 really has a performance problem. It is almost unusable with the huge delays.

Getting the ACS Network to operate more snappy like LinkedIn needs to be a very high priority.

Thanks, -Graham-

Graham,

Could you give us more details? Browser, OS, and how you are connecting to the Network, as well as what you are trying to do when you see this performance issue.

Since performance has been an issue in the past, we do keep any eye on it. I regularly access the Network with a variety of computer, devices, browsers, and platforms and haven't seen any performance issues. This isn't to say you haven't seen any, but I need to understand more about your experience.

Thanks,

Christine

Previous Community Member

Sorry for the delayed response. Replying to email doesn't seem to be adding to discussions.

I'm using IE and Firefox on XP. I access Facebook, LinkedIn, Hotmail, Gmail, etc. with good performance. It's only the ACS Network that has been so very slow.

I'll do some Group work now and see how the performance is doing.

-Graham-

Previous Community Member

The ACS Network is much better today. I uploaded 2 files to my CINF Fundraising group. I had to back out to add a Catagory though. It's Sunday, which might help. I'll be adding more stuff to the group mid-week and report back. -Graham-

Hi Christine,

It appears that the default time zone for creating events is currently set up for Eastern Time. Is there a way to change it to Central Time or another time zone?

Thanks,

Josh

Yes. change your time zone in your preferences. You can find a link to preferences in the pulldown next to your name or on your profile/bio page.

Christine

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