Family Bulletin Board

All Clan Members are invited to participate.

In case you have forgotten that our Grand Family Reunion happens every three years. I am sure, the time is here for everyone to hear again our life story, meet cousins, aunts, uncles or other extended families from Visayas, Luzon, Mindanao and those from overseas.  Now, is maybe the best time to start collecting ideas, inform and encourage our immediate clan member to participate in this forum. Please invite everyone, we always hope that each reunion is going to be better and bigger than the last or let us pray together about it! 

As we are all scattered to almost four corners of the world, we are having a Family bulletin board to serve us an online discussion site for upcoming general events. It’s also called a ‘board’ or ‘forums’.  It has several categories, consisting of forums, topics, and individual posts. The content is created by family members who are users of the site. Your support in this effort is highly encouraged to share your ideas to a variety of different topics.

Understand how  it is structured: 

The bulletin board as a whole contains various categories (broad subject areas), which themselves contain forums (more specific subject areas) which contain topics (conversations or discussions) which are made up of individual posts (where a user writes something).

Our Family home page has a list of categories and forums, with basic statistics for each – including the number of topics and posts, and which member posted the most recent message. This can be replaced with an activity stream which shows a stream of the latest posts, photos. and other items shared.

Teach Yourself How to Navigate around: 

When you click on a forum’s name, you are taken to the list of topics it contains. A topic is a conversation between members or guests. Each topic starts out as a single post and grows as replies and comments are added by different users.

To start a new topic simply click on the + New Topic button (you may need the right permissions to do this).

Threads can be ordered in many different ways. The default is to have the topic with the most recent activity at the top. But you can easily change this ordering, for example, to have the topic with the most posts at the top. Simply click on Filter menu at the top right of the topic list. The Filter menu will provide you with the options you need to sort the current page.

Learn how topics are read: 

To read a topic, click on its title. Each post in a topic is created by a member or a guest. You’ll see some brief information about the member who created the topic to the left of post message.

To post a reply to an existing topic, click on the Post Reply button. If this button does not appear, it could mean that you are not logged in as a member, or that you do not have permission to reply, or that the topic has been closed to new replies.

There will also be a Reply box at the bottom of the page. This is where you can quickly enter a reply as well. If you click the Quote link on any reply, the content of that post will automatically be added to the Reply box for you. Clicking Quote on multiple posts allows you to multi-quote those posts in a single reply.

[Source adapted from a help forum at vbulletin.com]