Okay, if you
followed alone with Part One of Intro to MyRWA, you are now signed up for
MyRWA, and subscribed to all the chapter mailing lists (remember, they're not
forums!) This week, we'll be exploring what else you can do on the MyRWA site.
Once you sign in
to MyRWA, you will need to go to the Connect menu. It is the same thing you did
to find your chapter information. Pick Communities off that menu.
The Communities
Home page will have a list of gray buttons on the left side -- what you see
will depend on your status. My page looks like this:
You may not have
all those buttons. At the very least, you will have RWA Community Forums, RWA
University, and RWR. Some of you will have PRO Community as well. If you are a
member of more than one chapter that is currently on MyRWA, you will have the
Chapters button. And if you are a chapter officer or webmaster, you will have
the Private Committees and Boards button. We're not going to worry about those
last two -- they're pretty self-explanatory.
We'll start with
the PRO Community. If you press that button, you will find yourself here:
I do recommend
that you subscribe to the PRO.org list if you are eligible to do so. In
addition to industry information, there are free classes offered specifically
for PRO members. Free is good, right?
And in keeping
with the free is good thread, on the Communities page, you will also find a
link to RWA University. Through RWA University, you will find more free classes
that are open to any RWA member. There are also archives of past classes and a
lot of resources on this page on just about any aspect of publishing you might
need. I highly suggest you explore this page extensively!!!
One more free
thing -- on the Communities page, you will find a link to RWR. Yes, that's the
magazine that you get in your mailbox every month. Why access it online? In a
word -- archives. There are electronic copies of RWR available dating back to
2008.
There is one more
button -- the RWA Community Forums (again, NOT Forums. Mailing lists.) Under
that heading, you'll find several optional lists that offer good information,
but may not be of interest to everyone. You would subscribe to these the same
way you would any other mailing list.
That brings us to
the end of this part of the Intro to MyRWA series. In the next and final
session, we'll go over the social networking aspects of the new platform, how
to turn that OFF if you so desire, and how to do basic things like update your
profile and pay your dues online.
See you next time!
Elizabeth Schechter is a stay-at-home mom who lives in Central Florida with her husband and son. Her first novel, Princes of Air,was published in 2011 by Circlet Press, and her second, a steampunk novel entitled House of the Sable Locks, is forthcoming.
Elizabeth can be found online at http://easchechter.wordpress.com/ 
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