messages
You can check, send, reply messages with other members of the same organization.
Every time you list or search other members and see an envelope symbol
, you can
click to send a message to that person.
When others send you a message, you will see it next time you log on to Gathery
or you can do a "list messages" to see all messages.
In Gathery there is a distinction between "internal mail" and "Internet e-mail". (Please see details below.
Any event could be either an organizational event or a group event. "Organizational events"
are posted and maintained by the "webmaster" or "manager" of
your organization. Each group has its own "group events" which are posted and maintained
by each group administrator.
When you click on "calendar", all organizational events and group events of those
groups you are a member of will be shown. You will not be able to see
groups events of those groups of which you are not a member.
Each group has its own group ballot also. Only members of the group can vote on
group issues.
The contribution data is confidential that only you and the "treasurer" of
this organization can see. Nobody else can see your pledges and contributions.
Not even the "manager" or "webmaster" will know your contributions.
bulletin boards
There is an organization-wise (called group 0) bulletin board and for each group
there is a group bulletin board.
The bulletin board is the place for members to post messages for all other members
to see and respond.
Everybody in the organization can see, post, and reply to messages on the organization bulletin board. If a group is a
public group, or if a group is a private group and of which you are a member,
then you can see, post, and reply to messages on the group bulletin board.
Calendar of events
When you click on "calendar", a calendar of current month will show up.
If there is any event in a day, then a "star" symbol will appear next to the
date. When you click on the star, all events on that date will be listed.
search
You can list all members (30 a time), or search
for a member by entering a partial name (portion of last name or first name).
The following example will show the result of searching of an example organization.
Assuming you are "John K Smith", member ID "JS001", and you have entered "joh" as
the search string:
The red circles are explained below:
frequent contacts
You can maintain a personal copy of your frequent contacts in this organization.
To add to or delete from the frequent contact list you simply enter
the member ID of the person you are interested.
groups
When you click on "group", you will see names of all public groups and
private groups of which you are a member. You can click on the group name to
enter the group.
Once you enter a group (what is a group?), then you can perform the following functions:
vote in organization issues
If the "manager" of you organization has set up a ballot of issues to vote, then
you can vote and view the voting results instantly.
Only full members are qualified to vote. One member has one vote. You can vote
on the same ballot multiple times, but only the most recent vote will be counted.
That is, you can change your mind and re-cast the ballot. The vote is anonymous,
that is nobody, the manager has no exception, will know who voted on what.
update my information
You can update you names, phones, addresses, e-mail, personal web, and
other personal information easily by clicking on "my info".
change my password
You can change your password easily.
You can also set up a "password retrieval" key so that you can automatically
retrieve your password in case you have forgotten it.
make pledges and see contribution history
You can make pledges to the organization on-line. Also you can specify the
specific purpose (the default is "general purpose") of the money when you make a pledge.
Your actual contribution data
will be entered by the "treasurer" of your organization.
You can see your past contributions to this organization easily.
With this feature, at tax time you don't even have to call your organization
to find out how much you have contributed last year. You can come to
Gathery and find out yourself.
set personal privacy preferences
You can set your personal "privacy preferences" to control who (in the same
organization) can see which parts of your personal data. The following five
pieces of information can be controlled separately:
For each part, you can set to show:
Please click here for more details about privacy issues.
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