<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi Everyone:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We would like to encourage benchmark participants to use the CIG website. The Plone software that we use was specifically chosen so that the community can effectively collaborate using editable web pages. <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#030303">For example, recent postings on cig-short on benchmarking contained vital information that should go here:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DA"><BR style=""></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.geodynamics.org:8080/cig/workinggroups/eq/workarea/benchmarks/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000EB">http://www.geodynamics.org:8080/cig/workinggroups/eq/workarea/benchmarks/</FONT></A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Brad Aagaard can give you use access to the site so that you can the edit pages that we have established for the short-time scale tectonics community. Once you get use access, you can log in and edit material already available there, and add new pages or files. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here's how:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Getting Use Access</DIV><DIV>-----------------</DIV><DIV>- If you are already a member (e.g., can log in to CIG) and have use access, skip to "Log in" below. </DIV><DIV>- If you are already a member but need use access, send e-mail to Brad Aagaard <<A href="mailto:baagaard@usgs.gov">baagaard@usgs.gov</A>>, tell him your CIG username, and request use access. Then start at "Log in" below.</DIV><DIV>- If you are not a member, proceed to the next step, "Get a CIG Account."</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Get a CIG Account</DIV><DIV>-----------------</DIV><DIV>It's free and easy to get an account:</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>1. At <A href="http://www.geodynamics.org">http://www.geodynamics.org</A>/ in the upper right, click "join"</DIV><DIV> 2. Enter your personal information and click "register"</DIV><DIV> 3. Your password is emailed to you</DIV><DIV> 4. Now you can e-mail Brad Aagaard <<A href="mailto:baagaard@usgs.gov">baagaard@usgs.gov</A>>, tell him your CIG username, and request use access.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Log in</DIV><DIV>-----------------</DIV><DIV>Once you have use access set up, log in:</DIV><DIV> 1. At <A href="http://www.geodynamics.org">http://www.geodynamics.org</A>/ in the upper right, click "log in"</DIV><DIV> 2. Enter username and password and click "log in"</DIV><DIV> 3. Now you're ready to add or edit files.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Editing Files</DIV><DIV>----------------</DIV><DIV>Navigate to the page you wish to edit and click the "edit" tab above the text area. For example,</DIV><DIV> 1. Go to <A href="http://www.geodynamics.org:8080/cig/workinggroups/eq/workarea/benchmarks/">http://www.geodynamics.org:8080/cig/workinggroups/eq/workarea/benchmarks/</A></DIV><DIV> 2. Let's say you want to edit the description page for Reverse-slip (no gravity). Click the link "Description"</DIV><DIV> 3. Click the "edit" tab above the text. An editable form displays.</DIV><DIV> 4. Make your changes or add paragraphs. Some pages use HTML and some use Structured Text. A cheat sheet for Structured Text is found at <A href="http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/structured-text-cheatsheet">http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/structured-text-cheatsheet</A></DIV><DIV> 5. When finished, click the "save" button at bottom of page</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Adding Pages</DIV><DIV>-----------------</DIV><DIV>Navigate to the page or section of the website where you wish to add files, and click "contents" to start the process. As an example, here's what you'd do to add a description page on Landers-Hector Mine:</DIV><DIV> 1. Go to <A href="http://www.geodynamics.org:8080/cig/workinggroups/eq/workarea/benchmarks/">http://www.geodynamics.org:8080/cig/workinggroups/eq/workarea/benchmarks/</A></DIV><DIV> 2. Click "contents" tab</DIV><DIV> 3. At next screen, click "Add new item" button</DIV><DIV> 4. Click "add" next to "Document" to add a web page. </DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>(If you have a ready-made file, e.g., a PDF or JPG image, you can click "add" next to "File" and upload that file.)</DIV><DIV> 5. Enter your text in the empty form input areas. When finished, click the "save" button at the bottom of the page</DIV><DIV> 6. Edit the page "Benchmarks" (see Editing Files above) to add a link to the web page or file you just created/uploaded.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you need any help, I'm here to assist you. E-mail me at <A href="mailto:sue@geodynamics.org">sue@geodynamics.org</A>.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Sue Kientz</DIV><DIV>---------------------------------------</DIV><DIV>CIG Technical Writer/Webmaster</DIV><DIV>E-mail: <A href="mailto:sue@geodynamics.org">sue@geodynamics.org</A></DIV><DIV>Phone: 626-395-1694</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.geodynamics.org">http://www.geodynamics.org</A></DIV><DIV><I>Metaphors Be With You</I></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>