Blue Mountain Owners Association News

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Wellness Seminar July 10 at WLCC

Please note that this seminar is open to all of the WL Community and their guests, Saturday, July 10, 10AM at WLCC.

Please click the image for a large view.

Filed Under: General Association Business

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Introduction: Our Online News Board

This online platform will be for announcements, Association news or business which are more fluid in nature than websites normally convey.

Discussion and comments on Association issues are enabled here. We encourage you to post your thoughts, and hope to promote community, cooperation, and a wide range of ideas.

In the interest of limiting input to Blue Mountain Members, a registration process will need to be in place. However, no one will need to register to simply stay informed.

If you are viewing this on the main page, simply scroll down, or click here for the home page, or just use the links below to familiarize yourself with the registration process, and a variety of methods to stay automatically updated.

FAQ's: Auto Updates & Registration to Post Comments
Comments Policy

Filed Under: General Association Business

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

FAQ's & Registration

Who Will be Able to View Topics Here?
Items posted here are publicly viewable. No one needs to register to simply stay informed, and the organization stands to gain added promotional value in this way as well.

How Can I Post Comments on a Topic Here?
In order to post comments however, members must be registered and sign in. Only registered users who are also members of Blue Mountain Owners Association may post comments and discussion. This will limit input to appropriate persons.

How Do I Register?
There are two methods. Method # 1 is done "in house". Method # 2 uses an online identity that you either posses or create. This may offer benefits for some members.

Method One
The "in house" method.

1) Determine the following information:
*Pick a screen name for yourself; you will sign any comments with this name.
*Your BMOA Billing Number.

2) Please send that information to the following email address:
*Info@BlueMountainOwnersAssociation.com

3) Now you are ready to post comments in the following way:
A) At the bottom of every notice there is a hyperlink for "comments", click it and the notice will reopen with an empty box for you to enter your thoughts.
B) In the "Select Profile" menu, choose "Anonymous" as your identity, and type your comment.
C) You must however, "sign" your comments with the screen name and BMOA number from step one above.
D) When you are done, you may "Preview" or simply hit "Post Comment".
E) For anti spam purposes you will be asked to type the letters in the box. Then hit Post Comments again.
F) All comments are then auto emailed to the moderator who will:
i) Confirm your membership via the screen name and number.
ii) He or she will then delete your number.
iii) Determine that your comment conforms to our Comments Policy, which can be read here.
iv) Publish your comment with screen name only.

4) You may if you wish, include your email address, etc, in your comment if you are soliciting further information or input. You do so however at your own risk. Please read "Your Responsibilities" near the end of this posting.

Method Two
The "online ID method", a bit longer than Method # 1.

1) You will need to possess or create an account from one of some specific online services. This is the same as setting up an email account, but has certain advantages in doing so. The most pertinent BMOA benefit is the ability to be auto updated as new comments are added to a discussion by simply checking a box.

2) Create an account, if you do not have one, with any of the following venues: Google, AIM, OpenID, Live Journal, WordPress, or TypePad. Just as when you set up an email account, you will choose your own unique user name and password.

Editor's Opinion: If you do not have one of the accounts noted above, Google is probably the easiest and most versatile choice for your wider web experience. They offer many free products and services that may be useful to you in the future such as Gmail, web albums, slide shows, voice applications for conferencing, and too many others to name.

Some of you may already have an account on AIM, while OpenID is for users who may want to comment on a number of different blogs with a single identity. The rest of the ID services are more narrow in scope to my knowledge.

3) Please forward only the following information:
*Your User Name from the account you created, NOT your password.
*Your BMOA Billing Number.

4) To the following email address:
*Info@BlueMountainOwnersAssociation.com

5) Now you are ready to post comments in the following way:
A) At the bottom of every notice there is a hyperlink for "comments", click it and the notice will reopen with an empty box for you to enter your thoughts.
B) In the "Select Profile" menu, choose your online identity service, log in if you need to, and type your comment.
C) When you are done, you may "Preview" or simply hit "Post Comment".
D) For anti spam purposes, you will be asked to type the letters in the box, then hit Post Comments again.
D) All comments are auto emailed to the moderator who will:
i) Confirm your membership via the online identity you used.
ii) Determine that your comment conforms to our Comments Policy, which can be read here.
iii) Publish your comment.

6) You may if you wish, include your email address, etc, if in your comment you are soliciting further information or input. You do so however at your own risk. Please read "Your Responsibilities" near the end of this posting.

Comments will be "moderated", that is to say:
When you post a comment on a topic, it will not be published immediately. Comments are automatically forwarded to the moderator who will then:
1) Verify your BMOA membership as outlined above in Method 1 or 2.
2) Determine that the comment conforms to our comments policy, which can be read here.
3) Publish your comment.

Your Responsibilities
1) Protect your user name, BMOA number, and passwords. If your computer is shared, learn how to delete the browser cache, in Internet Explorer, or in Firefox. Mac users, this may help.

2) Read the BMOA Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, as well as the policies of the third party service that you used to register under Method # 2.

3) Read the comments policy here, or scroll down if you are on the main page.

Auto Update Features
There are a number of methods for members to stay updated. These auto updates are listed in the left hand sidebar and include automated emails, saving to a homepage, or subscriptions in a number of popular feed readers. They are repeated here for your convenience:
Add To My AOL
Add To My Yahoo!
Add To My MSN
Add To My Google
Subscribe in a Reader
Subscribe by Email
XML Feed
Filed Under: General Association Business

General Business

Items relating to The Association as a whole will be filed here.

BMOA Website

General Wolf Laurel News
07/08/10: Wellness Seminar at WLCC July 10

Administrative Items
07/14/09: BMOA News: A Short Introduction
07/08/09: FAQ's - Auto Updates - Registration for Comments
07/07/09: Policy for Posting Comments
07/08/09: Open Thread

Comments Policy

We encourage your voice. Remember that you must be registered in order to post comments.

We are notified by robot when a comment is posted.

Comments will be "moderated" for publication or rejection, based upon; 1) Verification of BMOA membership as outlined in the FAQ's, and 2) The comments policy noted below.

Comments Policy

1) In the interest of efficiency, please keep comments on the topic at hand.

2) For free form discussions, we may have an "Open Thread". Hopefully it will be used to genreate discussion and ideas. The Open Thread will be quickly available from The Announcements page on the BMOA website for members who are so inclined.

3) Outbound links to other sources can add to a discussion, however please and needless to say, no purely commercial, pornographic, or other non contributory outbound links.

4) No libelous or profane language, screen names, and so forth will be allowed.

5) Please make the moderator's job easy if a difference of opinion should arise in a discussion. Err on the side of courtesy and caution when posting comments. For example, ad hominem and similar remarks should be avoided at all times. On topic and civil are the by words.

6) The decision to publish or reject a comment is solely that of the moderator. His or her decision is final. In lieu of any appeals process, simply restate your comment according to this policy.

7) These policies may be amended at any time as events might warrant.

Filed Under: General Association Business

Open Thread

An "Open Thread" is vernacular for a posting with no special topics. It is a location for free form discussion and ideas.

Remember, you must be registered in order to post comments, and please remember our comments policy.

The latest open thread will always be accessible from the Announcements page of the BMOA website. From time to time, open threads will be summarized and re-presented by the editor of the news board.

Thanks in advance for your participation, contributions, and cooperation.

Filed Under: General Association Business