Shaping Our Lives networking website
About this site: users of this site
Depending whether you are a general web user, a Friend or Member of this website, you will see different amounts of information. As well as these three different types of user, members and friends will also have main contacts and editors.
What all of these can see and do is explained below.
- General web user
- Friends (from non-service user controlled organisations)
- Members (from service user controlled organisations)
- Main contacts
- Editors
General web use
Anybody who has access to the Internet can browse the this website. They can see all the areas that are reached by clicking on the buttons to the left.
They will only be able to see information that Friends and Members have said can be seen by anyone.
Notice to individuals: If you know or want to advertise an event on this website please feel free to forward it to Eamon our website administrator at eamon@shapingourlives.org.uk.
Friends
Friends are organisations that
have signed up to join the network, but are not user
controlled organisations. Friends
can see all the information that public users can
see and all the information
for friends only, but not information
that members only want
to share with other members.
As well as this extra information, friends can add events and news items to noticeboard, and can update their contact details. This is done in the Friends and members area.
To see this extra information Friends must click on the Members and friends login link and type in their username and password.
Once logged-in, users will see all the areas they have access to.
The initial development work to set up the networking website was generously funded by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). In order to maintain and continue to develop the website we are seeking donations from ‘Friends’ who wish to join the site and use the noticeboard. We have decided against a formal scale of charges because we recognise that Friends will be from a diverse group of organisations and a ‘one size fits all’ approach would not be appropriate. However, we do need to ensure that Shaping Our Lives work in this area is supported financially, so please get in touch with Jenny Willis at Shaping Our Lives to discuss an appropriate contribution.
Members
Members, people who are members of user
controlled organisations can see everything on this
site. As with Friends, this information
is on the same pages that everyone uses - but there
is more to see.
Members use the Members and friends login link and will be able to use the Members area to add information to this website.
Members can also access the user controlled organisation area - where they can find and send messages to other members. Other features are planned for this area later.
- Click here to find out what we mean by user controlled organisations.
Main contacts
Every member organisation will have a main contact. This person will receive messages from the website administrator. Main contacts, like other contacts, can change their own details, but not their organisation's details.
Editors
Every member organisation will have an Editor. Editors can change their organisations details, and add, update or delete contacts for their organisation.
Editors can also use the Member and friends login link like other members.